Diving is Not a Sport???!!!

[donooo]

I feel if you worry about your health, try and keep yourself in good shape and are concerned about what you eat and drink,,, then let it be a sport. If you are forty pounds overweight, dive once a year on a vacation where you eat to much and drink to much. Need the boat boy to rig your gear and can't carry your own tank,,,,,then maybe it's not a sport.

There are lots of activitys that are not team that are sports. Even a few that are not scored. How about mountain/rock climbers or white water kayaks or bike riding.

Maybe it's just your mental approach.

don O

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Sport or not it's a great activity especially for a teen. Just my $.02

 

[lamont]

If you view the cave as being out to kill you and your team is competing with it to try to stay alive, does that meet the competitiveness and team requirements for it being a sport?

And given how cave divers view pushing the end of the line as being prestigious that seems like it is competitive...

Although clearly olympic cave diving would probably end with at least one team having a fatality, so "sport" is perhaps not the best way to view it...

 

[tasdiver]

But maybe the more important aspect to think about is the concept of "competition". If everytime we dive we are competing against an ever increasing standard of being the best diver we can be...then of course diving is a sport...and against an awfully tough opponent, too.

Jan, great thought . . .

 

[plot]

Activity. Just like golf. and poker.



I really don't see why it matters what you consider it? Does it lose it's appeal if it's not considered a sport?

 

[Cacia]

I feel if you worry about your health, try and keep yourself in good shape and are concerned about what you eat and drink,,, then let it be a sport. If you are forty pounds overweight, dive once a year on a vacation where you eat to much and drink to much. Need the boat boy to rig your gear and can't carry your own tank,,,,,then maybe it's not a sport.

agree.

Freediving is very athletic...

 

[BKP]

Uh oh... someone should tell Sport Fishing magazine that their namesake is an oxymoron...

(Oooooo... that would apply to Sport Diver too, wouldn't it?)

My vote (for what it's worth)... if Golf is a sport, then diving is absolutely an extreme sport...

...then again... I really don't *care* what it's considered... long as no one bothers me about it...

 

[JanR]

"Activity. Just like golf. and poker."

Isn't poker on ESPN which has the mission statement of "To serve sports fans wherever sports are watched, listened to, discussed, debated, read about or played."

It's cool to not call scuba a sport...just watch the reckless comments about poker not being a sport.

 

[Green_Manelishi]

"Sport: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess."

I'd say it's a sport.

What if you lack skill and physical prowess?

 

[Ocean One]

One of the definitions of "competition" in Webster Dictionary is "A contest, match or other trial of skill or ability". IMHO diving takes great knowledge, skills and abilities when matched up against Mother-Natures best and worst at times. VIZ, cold, current, darkness, cramped spaces, surge and the list goes on! Sounda like a competition to me!!!!