Diving is one of the most popular Olympic sports with spectators.

For example, in the UK the Great Britain Diving Federation was formed in 1992 with the intention of taking over the governance of Diving from the ASA ( Amateur Swimming Association ).

USA Diving sanctions one East-West one and three meter event in the winter time with an Eastern champion and Western champion determined.

In the summer USA Diving sanctions a national event with tower competitions offered.

The first attempt at underwater exploration of the North Pole was made by a Russian firefighter and diver Andrei Rozhkov with a support of Diving Club of Moscow State University on April 22, 1998 but ended in fatality.

The mistake that is often made here is to confuse the human being's understanding of his actions and of physical phenomena with the knowledge possessed by the Diving Being.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly uses the POV shot with a tilt shift focus to imitate the lead protagonist loss of sight in one eye.

There have been many incorrect depictions in comics of two-cylinder twin-hose aqualungs, showing one wide breathing tube coming directly out of each cylinder top with no regulator: see Diving regulator # Twin-hose without visible regulator valve ( fictional ).

Diving weighting systems, ranging from 2 to 15 kilograms, increase density of the scuba diver to compensate for the buoyancy of diving equipment, allowing the diver to fully submerge underwater with ease by obtaining neutral or slightly negative buoyancy.

Scuba Diving is also very popular with a club being located in Donegal Town.

Often confused with " The Visor ," a small overhanging ledge at the summit, the Diving Board is on the shoulder of Half Dome.

The younger Tom does not tinker with motorcycles ; his inventions and adventures extend from the center of the Earth ( in Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster ) to the bottom of the ocean ( in Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter ) to the moon ( in Tom Swift and the Race to Moon ) and, eventually, the outer solar system ( in Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express ).

Diving set by Rouquayrol and Denayrouze with barrel-shaped air tank on the diver's back, depicted here in its surface-supplied configuration.

* 1937: The American Diving Equipment and Salvage Company ( now known as DESCO ) develops a heavy bottom-walking-type diving suit with a self-contained mixed-gas helium and oxygen rebreather.

* Diving with Beaked Whales-A Whale Trackers documentary video.

He followed that with Julian Schnabel's award-winning foreign film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby.

RIT has 24 men's and women's varsity teams including Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field and Wrestling along with Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Cheerleading, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Volleyball.

Title # 7, Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, has several references to the first series including a visit with Mrs. Baggert, who was Tom Sr .' s housekeeper, and other volumes feature a rocket named after the old family retainer Eradicate " Rad " Sampson, a radiation-detector ( the Damonscope ) named after Tom Sr .' s friend Mr. Damon, and a planetoid named in honor of Tom Swift Sr .' s father Barton.

Diving mammals such as whales and seals have muscles with particularly high myoglobin abundance.

During medical school she did active duty training with the Diving Medicine Department at the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit in March 1987.

* " Diving Artillery ", April 1942, Popular Science good article on the basics of dive bombing with illustration and rare photos

Freleng was occasionally the subject of in-jokes in Warner cartoons, with billboards in the background of scenes advertising various products called " Friz " in Canary Row, the " Hotel Friz " in Racketeer Rabbit, and " Frizby the Magician " in High Diving Hare as one of the acts Bugs is pitching.

In the United States divers who continue diving past their college years can compete in Master Diving programs.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

Juergen Hermann also developed the US Navy diving computer ( UDC ) which was based on a 9 tissue model of Dr. Edward D. Thalmann of the Naval Experimental Diving Unit ( NEDU ), Panama City, who developed the US Navy tables.

Diving suits made of rubber were first used in World War II by Italian frogmen who found them indispensable in their use.

The Clearance Diving Teams ( CDT ) of the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ) also act as commando frogmen: they consist of naval personnel who are qualified in diving, demolitions, underwater repairs, and reconnaissance.

These distances are generally beyond the normal range expected of freeswimming recreational scuba divers who are not Drift Diving or employing Dive Propulsion Vehicles.

In the USA candidates who have had PRK can get a blanket waiver for the Special Forces Qualification, Combat Diving Qualification and Military Free Fall courses.

Next comes Diving Officer of the Watch ( DOOW ), the officer or senior enlisted who supervises the Ship's Control Party in safely driving the ship and properly executing casualty procedures.

Laurens ( Larry ) V. Griswold ( September 17, 1905-August 24, 1996 ), known as " The Diving Fool ", was an American gymnast & entertainer who was involved in the early development of the trampoline.

Award-winning films such as My Left Foot and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on books by AAC users Christy Brown and Jean-Dominique Bauby respectively, have brought the lives of those who use AAC to a wider audience.

These operations were to be handled by a dedicated water operations team which included 17 Navy personnel from the RAN ’ s Clearance Diving Teams, who were placed under operational control of the SASR from 4 August 1980 as part of the TAG.

Thalmann further comments that the decision whether to ascend with a diver who is convulsing is tricky, and cites the US Navy Diving Manual again, specifically:

Another noteworthy episode saw Mario Lopez take a teen who wanted to be an Olympic diver on an adventure to meet Olympic Diving Gold Medalist, Greg Louganis.

He was also a RCMP Diver and Diving Instructor who lectured to police officers, firefighters, doctors and others throughout Canada and the U. S. A., on diving techniques, underwater crime scene photography, ice diving procedures and many other topics that are diving related.

Diving boards must have non-skid surfaces ( coco matting takes an awful beating from chlorine and rots quickly, but grit-impregnated paints are excellent ).

Dumpster Diving is also viewed as an effective urban foraging technique.

The DPC logoIn Canada, elite competitive diving is regulated by DPC ( Diving Plongeon Canada ), although the individual provinces also have organizational bodies.

Diving is also popular as a non-competitive activity.

Via their affiliate, Diving Science and Technology ( DSAT ), they also offer various technical diving courses, including decompression diving, trimix diving and gas blending.

Emmanuelle Seigner ( born 22 June 1966 ) is a French actress, former fashion model, and singer, also known as the wife of Academy Award winning Polish director Roman Polanski, and for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ( 2007 ), and Frantic ( 1988 ).

Diving petrels are plankton feeders, taking mostly crustacean prey such as krill, copepods and the amphipod Themisto gaudichaudii, also taking small fish and squid.

Diving species, most especially the shearwaters, are also vulnerable to gillnet fisheries.

Both beaches have a Diving Platform, also manned by lifeguards with a diving board and deep water.

The song was also used in the opening credits of the 2007 film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which used the song to highlight the paralyzing effects of a stroke that felled his fellow Frenchman, Jean-Dominique Bauby.

Kuji Ama also retrieve abalone and other seafood delicacies which can be eaten fresh at a diving demonstration held during the on season at the Kuji Ama Diving Center.

A Clearance Diving Team is also based at Stirling.

* Diving tours are also available off the coast.

Many diver training organizations exist, throughout the world, offering diver training leading to certification: the issuing of a " Diving Certification Card ," also known as a " C-card ," or qualification card.

Barotrauma in Diving Sea Mammals: Whales and dolphins also suffer severely disabling barotrauma when exposed to excessive pressure changes induced by navy sonar, oil industry airguns, explosives, undersea earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Military diving is also officially within the jurisdiction of the Department of Labour, but provided the diving is conducted within the requirements of SA Naval Operations Publication 96 it is deemed to comply with the Diving Regulations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1993.

She also made a major appearance as a speech therapist in Julian Schnabel's 2007 film adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Benoit also executed a Diving headbutt from the top of a ladder onto Kane.

Llanberis is also a centre for outdoor activities including walking, mountaineering, climbing, mountain biking, pony trekking, water sports and Scuba Diving at the Vivian diving centre.

During his tour aboard Henry M. Jackson, Morin qualified as a Diving Medical Officer, and also received his " Dolphins " as a qualified Submarine Medical Officer.

To further frustrate Dodge, Graham also uses the Stingray to institute a pilot program by the Navy for evaluating the feasibility of women serving on submarines, knowing that the diesel boat is unsuitable for mixed-gender living ; Lieutenant Emily Lake ( Lauren Holly ) joins the crew as Diving Officer.

The diving pool is home to Dublin Diving Club and Master's Diving Club but is also used for water-polo matches and tournaments.