Here at Seafari, we are scuba diving crazy, Scuba is such an amazing hobbie and life style which touches into so many cool and interesting areas it hard not to be totally obsessed with! Well, here are some fun scuba dving fact you may not actually know about and some which are just amazing and cool. Enjoy and see you for a dive trip soon!
- Scuba” is an acronym., It stands for “Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus”. The first SCUBA was invented in 1943 by Jacques Cousteau.
- Wetsuits were invented in the early 1950’s by Hugh Brandner, the first two wetsuit manufacturing companies were O’Neil and Body Glove.
- Did you Know that through a Dive Mask, Objects look about 33% larger due to the flatness on the mask’s lens, a light refraction error?
- Only 10 percent of the sea has ever been explored.
- Sharks have a bad rep thanks to the sensationalised danger of them in the movie Jaws. However far more people are killed by Coconuts than by sharks. 150 people are killed yearly from falling coconuts, whereas only 10 people a year are killed from sharks.
- The Air we breath takes on different reactions under deep pressure. Oxygen becomes toxic ( meaning poisonous) where as Nitrogen become intoxicating ( meaning it gets you drunk). at deeper, high pressure depths.
- Water absorbs light rapidly, that’s why scuba diving noobs get disappointed the reefs and aquatic life actually looks a little bit less colorful than on TV documentaries. The color that is absorbed the quickest is red. Hence the red filters for the underwater cameras. The color red is followed by orange, yellow, green and blue. DIve lights allow you to see in true colour.
- The deepest Scuba Dive achieved was accomplished by Egyptian, Ahmed Gab, in the Red Sea in 2014, His records stand at 332.35 Meters deep and required nearly 15 hours decompression!!! WOOOW!
- Official stats of scuba injuries often list barotrauma injury as the primary injury related to scuba diving, in truth, broken fingers or squashed noses are the most common. Think twice before you float to close the boat ladder while another diver is trying to climb up or when carrying tanks and weights.
- Everyone knows the Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, what you may not know is to understand the underwater world better, they took scuba diving courses in oceanography, marine biology and more to make sure they understood the world and their work was on point! So Cool!
