The Different Extreme Diving Sports
This article will look at several different types of extreme sports in the diving arena. Please remember that all extreme sports are not to be entered into lightly and can cause life-threatening injuries and possible loss of life. With that said, here is a look into the exciting world of extreme diving.
Diving With Great Whites:
When you go cage diving with great white sharks in Africa, you will have to start very early in the morning. The boat is specially equipped for cage diving with the great whites. You throw fish overboard to attract the sharks and then you enter the water the moment the shark or sharks arrive. If you are looking for an extreme adrenaline rush jump into a cage only breathing with a snorkel and have a great white come and show you their teeth up close and personal.
Space Divers:
If you have never heard of diving from space, it is diving from the very edge of our atmosphere. For those of you interested in space diving consider this visual: on your climb to the edge of space the temperature drops to around 94 degrees below zero and you still have not reached your destination. You will be sucking down oxygen while you climb closer and closer to the exposure to ultraviolet radiation. While you are continuing your climb, you begin to wonder if your space suit will hold up or spring a leak. As you pass 43,000 feet and climbing, you look at the curvature of the earth and the darkness around you. You will actually reach the peak of your ascent at 102,800 feet above the earth - this is called the edge of space and it is now time to jump. Once you reach Earth’s gravity you are propelled to 614 miles an hour, which is nine-tenths the speed of sound.
Scad Diving:
If you are interested in this type of diving experience you will get an adrenaline rush because you are dropped from 164 feet in the air free falling with no bungee cords or parachutes into a suspended safety net reaching speeds in excess of 56 miles per hour.
Arctic Scuba Diving:
Offers the diving enthusiast the opportunity to go ice diving, diving with whales, or open-water diving. In this surrounding, you can experience diving under the arctic ice among ice stalactites or inside glacier pools. You could be diving beside looming walls of ice or exploring ice caves that are in icebergs. You may wind through hundreds of passageways under the ice.
Extreme Sky Diving:
There are many different skydiving adventures available for the spectator to watch or the extremist to try. Those of you who enjoy skydiving will love the thrill of jumping from 15,000-feet overlooking the Kennedy Space Center and this provides a beautiful scenic view of the Atlantic Ocean. This is the highest altitude you will find in the State of Florida.
Extreme Cave Diving:
Extreme diving is named such because it can be life threatening. Experienced cave divers know how to handle situations that may cause injury or death. When they are past 200 meters and run into trouble the simple maneuvers that they would use to free themselves actually may exhaust them and they could pass out and perish in the dark, depths of the cave. Extreme cave divers are a small group driven by the desire to push the limits of gravity through diving into the dark, unforgiving waters. Diving into caves adds another element of danger because if you were to have a problem you are unable to “shoot straight” up to the surface and that could be tragic for the diver.
Extreme Cliff Diving:
If you are looking for an extreme adrenaline rush, diving off cliffs with rocks on either side or a narrow pool of water as your target may just be for you. Often cliff divers also have to consider navigating exactly where they will land in the pool of water because there are rocks underneath the water that cannot be seen except as shadows in the water below. Many cliff divers enjoy the heights of 80-feet or more. In California, cliff divers from all over the world enjoy the challenges of The Punch Bowls, which has several waterfalls and you have to jump away from the falls.
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