As scuba diving reached a point of widespread popularity, diving organizations were created to provide resources and training to ensure diver safety.

Be aware of some of the ways baseball injuries can occur, and how you can help prevent them.

Early evidence of this timeless activity is a late fifth-century depiction of a young diver at an ancient burial vault in Naples, Italy. Modern history of diving takes us back more than a hundred years to when people simply enjoyed jumping into the water, and dare devils challenged one another to their best and deepest plunges possible.

Most diving competitions involve three general categories: Springboard diving (1 meter and 3 meter), platform diving, and synchronized diving. World class diving events fall under the jurisdiction of FINA, the governing body for international swimming and diving competitions.

Scuba diving is a kind of underwater diving that uses a set of gear to breathe underwater, and S-C-U-B-A is actually an acronym that stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

Perhaps no other recreational activity demands quite as much technical know-how as scuba diving. Proper training, preparation, and confidence go a long way to having a safe and enjoyable journey through the underwater world.

An alphabetical list of terms used in scuba diving.

When water makes up about seventy-five percent of the earth's surface, humans can't help but explore it. But the mystery of the vast underwater world could never be solved on a single breath. And so scuba diving came to be.