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Scuba diving is one of mankind’s most amazing feats. We take the activity for granted these days – like it’s just a leisurely holiday adventure – but the fact that we have created an apparatus that allows humans to breathe underwater for extended amounts of time is simply incredible. Us mere mortals were designed for land, yet we’ve created a piece of equipment that lets us explore beyond the land to the depths of the sea. Yep… amazing. Without scuba diving, a lot of our oceans would have remained unexplored and undiscovered. We would never have been able to unearth incredible history from shipwrecks like the Titanic, or do amazing underwater work like install cables and pipelines. Much of the ocean’s creatures would have remained a mystery to us, and we would have had to enjoy tropical islands from the land only! If you’re curious how mankind managed to create such a piece of equipment that defies science, read on. We’re going to explain how scuba diving works, for the curious, the nervous, and the newbie!
How scuba works: in short
For the lazy, here’s a brief description of how scuba works. Scuba stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, which essentially means a device that has all you need to breathe underwater. A scuba includes metal tanks which hold compressed air (or a special mix of breathing gases), a regulator to reduce the tank air pressure to breathable air, and a hose that carries the breathable air into the diver’s mouth. When a diver exhales, air is released into the water and creates little bubbles. To go scuba diving, you’ll also need other equipment like a dive mask, wetsuit, and buoyancy control device.
How scuba diving works
To understand how scuba diving works, we’ll look at the underwater environment, what equipment you will need, and how our bodies react when underwater. If you’re interested in taking up scuba diving (and who wouldn’t