SCUBA: extreme sport?

[T.P.H.]

NO...I believe the word EXTREME should be left with the kiddie troopers that envented it.

 

[mxracer19]

Can I get some figures for motocross? been riding 5 years and thus far...

-4th degree Lacerated liver requiring medivac and ICU stay
-Lateral fraction of sternum
-Hairline fracture right ankle
-Multiple sprains - both ankles
-Concussion
-Incalculable number of times I came off the track wondering how I ended up off the bike.
-Tied first place world record - and every other racer - for # of bruises and cuts, swallowed dirt, amount of dirt in nostrils, asscrack, chest and boots.
-Been run over, clipped, thrown, highsided, lowsided, blindsided, swapped, folded, crumpled, rolled, beaten, and been tossed around like a ragdoll.

Cmon what other sport can you say you were airborne for 90 feet, landed without a parachute or wings, crashed doing it and lived?

So to me...while floating around a ship at 240' below is deffinatly hardcore...
I don't think Ill ever find anything as extreme as motocross.


-Matt

 

[ParamedicDiver1]

I would have to say yes. Any sport that has "life support" equipment as a necessary item to participate, would meet my idea of extreme. Of course with continual training and safe diving, the dangerous part of it can be limited.

 

[wolf eel]

mxracer19 ...
I don't think Ill ever find anything as extreme as motocross.

Alright then and to boot the Moto guys allways do get the chicks because the chicks dig it more then climbing and diving combinded

 

[Amphibious]

Alright then and to boot the Moto guys allways do get the chicks because the chicks dig it more then climbing and diving combinded

yeah motocross has it;s charm.... but Freediving is the real winner

wait till you see the girly's eye bug out when you tell they you can hold your breath for 5mins :07:

Freediving - the worlds OLDEST extreme sport

 

[Ishie]

-4th degree Lacerated liver requiring medivac and ICU stay

::hurk:: Goodness, that sounds horrible beyond all comprehension.

And Dr. Bill, *ahem*, 24 years old here. No thrasher music or aerials necessary to get me hooked.

 

[SDAnderson]

Women are complicated

More like selective.

As to whether or not scuba is an extreme sport, the answer lies in how you define the words. Properly trained and executed within recreational limits, it's hard to make a case for scuba being either "extreme" or "sport."

That said, one characteristic that scuba shares with "extreme" activities is the penalty factor - not much has to go wrong to result in serious injury or even death. You don't have to be 40ft inside a pitch black, silted out, collapsing wooden wreck at 250ft in 40F water to find yourself in a world of trouble if any one of a large number of things go wrong - an uncontrolled ascent from 20ft can blow out your lungs and running out of gas is always a good way to have a bad day, no matter where you are.

As someone who is disturbed by the casually oblivious attitude toward the inherent risks of scuba that I see too many other divers evince (observe the numbers in this thread that seem to feel there is no more risk to diving than a walk in the park) I think we would be doing the "activity" a favor if we stopped promoting it as a safe and casual activity and started to re-emphasize the need for caution, training and a healthy dose of fear.

 

[Spratman]

Be very careful when diving with Ishie... Wow, you are a walking time bomb, girl!

How about taking a horse ON a wall dive? Don't need to worry about charging the battery like you do on a scooter, but they do tear up the reefs and it's hell getting them to hold the reg in their mouths...

I've had one "extreme" experience scuba diving, though it wasn't extreme diving, it was extreme getting back on the beach. Scuba diving never bothers me as extreme, for starters, because I will never die doing anything remotely dangerous, including diving. Not the way I operate. I could freedive spearfish for great whites, and be fine until I took two steps on the boat, lost my balance, and fell into the props.

Normal activities are what will kill me. I have fallen off a horse directly onto a jump (bruises), gotten thrown off a horse at high speed directly after a jump (bruises), hit a wall jumping while ice skating (bruises), had a pedal on my bike fall off while riding a trail (bruises, scrape). I have broken a leg getting off the ice after a show, broken my foot cleaning a horse's hooves (my fault), gotten a concussion GETTING INTO A CAR, got my finger broken in a screen door... see a pattern?

I'm concerned scuba diving isn't dangerous enough to keep me alive. One of these days, you'll see the report on incidents and accidents: "Diver killed in Monterey after knocking herself unconscious on a rock shelf in ten feet of water. Family and friends are asking that mourners refrain from laughter while at the funeral home."