The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name " Dumpster " for their bins, and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool.

After an incident in Washington state in 1993, most US and other pool builders are reluctant to equip a residential swimming pool with a diving springboard so home diving pools are much less common these days.

The lawyers for the family, Jan Eric Peterson and Fred Zeder, successfully sued the diving board manufacturer, the pool builder, and the National Spa and Pool Institute over the inappropriate depth of the pool.

The standards had changed after the diving board was installed on the non-compliant pool by the homeowner.

The center includes an Olympic size swimming pool containing eight 50-meter lanes, twenty-two lanes, two movable bulkheads, and a diving area equipped with two 1-meter and two 3-meter spring boards, a Warm-water recreational pool, Locker rooms, a whirlpool, a coed sauna, and a family changing room.

However, according to VH1's Behind the Music, Moon broke his tooth diving into the pool, which was empty of water at the time.

The CARI Complex is a public recreation facility located on the campus and includes two hockey rinks ( the MacLauchlan Arena as well as a practice rink ) as well as two 25-metre swimming pools ( a shallow recreational wading pool, and an eight-lane competitive pool with diving boards )..

Hereford's public leisure facilities are managed by a not-for-profit trust called HALO Leisure, which runs the Hereford Leisure Centre ( that includes huge sports halls, gymnasium, squash courts, and an outdoor athletics facility ), and the Hereford Leisure Pool ( which includes a gymnasium, full size swimming pool, leisure pool, diving pool, and learners pool ).

The lido, which had three pools, a diving bay and paddling pool, was demolished in the late 1980s to make way for a supermarket, and to fund the indoor Sedgemoor Splash swimming pool in Mount Street, which opened in 1991.

* University of Calgary Aquatic Centre: Contains an Olympic sized swimming pool with a deep end diving tank featuring two sparging units for the world famous bubble machine which is used for springboard and platform divers, kayakers and general ocean simulated swims.

Facilities include a lighted synthetic multipurpose turf field surrounded by an eight-lane track with a nine-lane straightaway ; Kendall Sports and Dance Complex housing a swimming pool and separate diving well ; gymnasium with basketball, volleyball, and badminton courts ; weight room ; cardiovascular area ; field house with indoor track and tennis courts ; squash courts ; racquetball courts ; and three studios for dance, aerobics, yoga, and other activities ; The Orchards, an 18-hole golf course designed by Donald Ross ( home to the 2004 U. S. Women's Open ); and a 60-stall Equestrian Center with two indoor arenas ( 100 ' x 256 ' and 70 ' x 130 '), an outdoor show ring, permanent fibar dressage arena, outdoor cross-country courses, and a boathouse finished for Spring 2010.

The Cove also has a warm water therapy pool, children's lagoon with slide, two 1 meter diving boards and one 3 meter diving board, and two enclosed water tube slides to include a 150 ft water tube slide.

The Outdoor Water Park consists of two water slides, a drop slide, a diving board, a lazy river, a kiddie pool, a large zero depth activity pool, Flowrider and a lap pool.

Scuba diving for abalone is allowed, and has a rich history in Australia.

( Scuba diving for abalone in the states of New South Wales and Western Australia is illegal ; a free-diving catch limit of two is allowed ).

Abalone may only be taken using breath-hold techniques or shorepicking ; scuba diving for abalone is strictly prohibited.

The demand for ormers is such that they led to the world's first underwater arrest, when Mr. Kempthorne-Leigh of Guernsey was arrested by a police officer in full diving gear when illegally diving for ormers.

Capricornus is also sometimes identified as Pan, the god with a goat's head, who saved himself from the monster Typhon by giving himself a fish's tail and diving into a river.

There is no economic activity ( except for a significant but as yet unquantified charter fishing and diving industry ), and only a staff of three or four people to run the meteorological station on Willis Island ( South Islet ), established in 1921.

The challenges involved in the activity depend on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches, squeezes, and water ( although actual cave diving is a separate sub-specialty undertaken by very few cavers ).

Caving is often undertaken for the enjoyment of the outdoor activity or for physical exercise, as well as original exploration, similar to mountaineering or diving.

This said, caving is not necessarily a high-risk sport ( especially if it does not involve difficult climbs or diving ).

During diving, a muscular action closes the blowholes ( nostrils ), which remain closed until the cetacean next breaks the surface ; when it surfaces, the muscles open the blowholes and warm air is exhaled.

Dumpster diving ( American English ) or bin diving ( British English ) is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the dumpster diver.

In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.

In major diving meets, including the Olympic Games and the World Championships, platform diving is from the 10 meter height.

In these events, the diving is judged both on the quality of execution and the synchronicity – in timing of take-off and entry, height and forward travel.

In synchronised diving events, there is a panel of seven, nine, or eleven judges ; two or three to mark the execution of one diver, two or three to mark the execution of the other, and the remaining three or five to judge the synchronisation.

The score is computed similarly to the scores from other diving events, but has been modified starting with the 2012 London Olympics for the use of the larger judging panels.

The global governing body of diving is FINA, which also governs swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming.

This is frequently a source of political friction as the committees are naturally dominated by swimming officials who do not necessarily share or understand the concerns of the diving community.

In the United States scholastic diving is almost always part of the school's swim team.

The NCAA will separate diving from swimming in special diving competitions after the swim season is completed.

Running with his back to home plate, Smith dove forward, simultaneously catching the ball while parallel to the ground and flying over the diving Ford, avoiding a collision by inches.

The western coast, sheltered and calm, is home to hundreds of tiny, secluded bays which offer some of the best diving and boating in the country.

His impressive range allowed frequent spectacular diving plays, and he often dazzled fans with over-the-shoulder basket catches and robbed opposing hitters of home runs by leaping up and pulling them back into the field of play.

Each island is home to endemic flora and fauna, and provide opportunities for water-based activities such as sunbathing, surfing, snorkeling and scuba diving.

As might be expected with its proximity to the sea, Newhaven is home to a thriving marina: the Newhaven and Seaford Sailing Club is based there ; Scuba diving, water ski-ing and surfboarding are also practised.

Musk Ducks are very much at home below the surface, slipping under head-first with barely a ripple, and staying submerged for as long as a minute at a time, often resurfacing only for a few moments before diving again.

The Bohol Sea is home to a large variety of premier scuba diving locations, dive charter boats, and hotels that cater to divers.

Underwater Basket Weaving is a trademark of the US Scuba Center Inc., which offers a specialty class designed to improve or more fully enjoy diving skills from which participants can " take home a memorable souvenir ".

Most cave diving exploration is now conducted on the basis of " mini projects " lasting 1 – 7 days, and occurring many times a year, and these may include daily commutes from home to jungle dive base camps located within 1 hour from road access.

Farther down the path lies the arctic aviary, home to the diving ducks including buffleheads, harlequin ducks, the smews, and long-tailed ducks.

Swanage is considered by many to be the home of British scuba diving.

It is best known today as a seaside and diving resort and also as a home for Jordan's mega projects.

The Ben Avery has a weight and cardiovascular room, an IAAF 8-lane 400m mondo track ( 2010 ) that compliments the sport fields with seating for 5000, a 4-lane indoor track, a rock climbing wall, a bouldering room, an Olympic size swimming pool with high rise diving boards, squash courts, basketball courts, badminton nets, and is home of the pot-banging cheer club.

An athletic building is named for him, the library for his mother, the law school for his father, and the basketball teams ' home, Matthew Knight Arena, is named for his late son, who died in a SCUBA diving accident.

* Cherbourg, home of a flotilla of patrol craft, intervention tug and a mine clearance diving unit with support ship Vulcain ( M611 ).

Some divers see a split beginning to emerge in recreational diving between regular recreational divers, who often dive in their home communities, and leisure divers, characterized as those who dive occasionally, normally when abroad on holiday and in more benign conditions.

The call is usually not that these divers be restrained from diving, but that they be encouraged to dive more regularly in their home communities so as to gain experience and support their local diving scene.

The NAC was built to be " the home of Irish swimming ", with modern facilities such as a 50m competition pool ( one of only three in Ireland ), diving pool with movable floor, and leisure centre – it is Ireland's largest indoor water leisure facility.

The park is also home to two nesting pairs of bald eagles, who can frequently be seen flying over Lake Washington and diving to the water's surface to catch fish and ducks.

He was noted for making many spectacular leaping or diving catches, depriving hitters of home runs or base hits, and was known in baseball circles as " The man who made center field look easy ".