SCUBA--sport or hobby

[Stivo]

zen squirrel beat me to it! definitely an activity, i don't find sport or hobby fitting. my $0.02

 

[jbichsel]

No matter whether you classify it as work, sport or hobby, it still comes with a 'recreational activity' price tag.

 

[miketsp]

In my book a sport is something you do to keep fit or competitively.
Just diving recreationally a couple of times a month won't keep anybody fit.
Exactly the converse, you should keep fit to be able to dive.
Exception of course being those engaged full time - DMs & above lugging equipment around all the time.
So it's a (expensive) hobby.

 

[downunderjenn]

Suprise Zen! I disagree.

First, sport is not defined as needing to win against another. I do not win when I run. I have goals, reach them, and try to create more challenging goals, as in scuba. Moreover, dive skills are a good way to guage diving. We often compare one another's skills to determine what sort of diver each other is.

Secondly, diving is my exercise and I'm your buddy unless after reading this you disown me, or go down before me with another group

If golf is a sport, diving is a sport. If hiking is a sport, diving is a sport. I think activity is a similarly defined word, but refers to a smaller group of participants. A sport physically engages at least one nation of people participating according to rules and goals. Diving accomplishes this. Building model airplanes is an activity. Diving is a sport.

 

[ZenSquirrel]

Suprise Zen! I disagree.

I do not win when I run. I have goals, reach them, and try to create more challenging goals, as in scuba. Moreover, dive skills are a good way to guage diving. We often compare one another's skills to determine what sort of diver each other is.

Yeah, but most people run races and thus train to run faster. The goal being to run the couse faster than the other guy. That's the competition.

I agree that everybody should set goals to improve their dive skills, but the reason that you do that is to be a safer diver, which is not something that you can "win" at. You can say that your boyancy control is better than another diver's but that just means you can get closer to the ground without silting it up. So what?

I'm your buddy unless after reading this you disown me, or go down before me with another group

I don't disown people for having different opinions. And you know how disorganized that dive group was! I had to go down when I did or get stuck on the surface with nothing to do but float around and listen to Ralf make fun of me from the boat! What would you have done? It is not like I left you without a buddy. You got to dive with another DM instead of a lowly DiveScrub! I'd also like to point out that I did find you while the dive was in progress. I had a decision to decend on your bubbles and stare at more lake muck or get on the boat and have a beer. I would say that only 3 out of 10 would have passed up the beer for lake muck! ;-)

If golf is a sport, diving is a sport. If hiking is a sport, diving is a sport.

Golf is a sport because you can beat the other players.
Hiking is not a sport. Activity.

I think activity is a similarly defined word, but refers
to a smaller group of participants. A sport physically engages at least one nation of people participating according to rules and goals.

ac·tiv·i·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-tv-t)
n. pl. ac·tiv·i·ties
1.The state of being active.
2.Energetic action or movement; liveliness.
a. A specified pursuit in which a person partakes.
b. An educational process or procedure intended to
stimulate learning through actual experience.

I can't help but notice that this doesn't say anything about about nations or the size of the group involved.

I think you are mixing up "Sports" and "Olympics".

Diving accomplishes this. Building model airplanes is an activity. Diving is a sport.

Hmmm...building model airplanes is just a hobby. ;-)

(P.S. I don't disown people for their (incorrect) opinions ;-) but I do disown them for thinking that my screen name is ZenDiver when it is really ZenSquirrel!)

(P.P.S. Don't argue points of definition with a mathematician. The only thing worse is arguing points of definition with a lawyer and that is only because they get paid to do it! Hmmmm...is lawyering a sport? ;-) )

 

[getwet2]

No,....HOBBY

 

[crpntr133]

Either way I will be SPORTing my new dive gear ( my B-day present) this weekend.

I think I might have to say hobby, but either way I love it.

 

[scubaranger]

I say its a hobby unless you compeat in some type of match weather it is a Nav. course,spear fishing or depth limits or the like of it.for a trophy or cash prize. other then that its a hobby. And man I'm I hooked!!!!!!

 

[PhotoTJ]

I have stated this before, let's have no more discussion.

It's neither sport nor hobby.

It's an adventure.

 

[Skyjunky]

Hobby