Evaluation Essay
As I lowered into the water for the first time my eyes were greeted by an amazing school of fish of all sizes and shapes. While slowly descending, I could see off in the distance an underwater landscape. I never dreamed I would see things underwater in such clarity. If I stared long enough, I could make out the smallest detail of the activity that was going on below me. I could see small baby fish trying to get away from their parents, larger fish sleeping, and a reef system bustling with life. This is why I scuba dive, I reminded myself, to see amazing underwater worlds and their abundance of life. I have experienced those kinds of dives many times in the warm tropical waters. So when the suggestion was made to go diving in a local quarry, I immediately questioned why. I knew that a quarry is an area that was once used for mining stone, that has filled up with water from a natural spring once the mining activity was abandoned, I just did not understand why anyone would want to dive in one. Is there interesting aquatic life to observe? Are there things to explore? Would diving in such a place allow me to improve my dive skills? Despite my apprehension, after my first cold fresh water quarry dive, I could positively answer these questions and say that diving in a cold water quarry was just as rewarding as any warm water tropical dive.
As a diver, I want to see diverse aquatic life and experience how they live and interact with their natural environment. In warm tropical environments divers can observe thousands of
species of fish, plant, and other animals among numerous coral reefs, which are home to this never ending entertainment of wildlife. I found that a cold water quarry offers the diversity of aquatic lif...
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...ion skills. It is also very common to find training platforms that have been put in the quarry for divers to practice basic dive techniques. A quarry's silt bottom is perfect for practicing or enhancing buoyancy skills, which every diver needs to perfect. Whatever the dive skill that a diver wants to practice, a quarry makes it possible
I feel most divers have not, or don’t give quarry diving its due diligence. With most quarries being in closer driving distance, divers can dive more often. I think that a serious diver should embrace any diving opportunity that can improve their skills and allow for exploring something new. If given a chance, quarry diving is an opportunity for any diver to have an eye opening and rewarding experience that brings with it a fantastic opportunity to study diverse aquatic life, explore many interesting objects, and perfect dive skills.
The Making of a Hardrock Miner written by Stephen M. Voynick, describes his own personal experiences as a hardrock miner in four different underground mines in the western United States, the Climax molybdenum mine in Colorado, Hecla Lakeshore Project a copper mine in Arizona, and two uranium mines in Wyoming. Rather than a book telling of the fortunes gained and lost, this book was about the relationships gained, but then also lost through mining. Stephen M. Voynick’s direct words and simple writing style provided a book that was an easy read and educational about mine work and safety.
In a country like the United States of America, with a history of every individual having an equal opportunity to reach their dreams, it becomes harder and harder to grasp the reality that equal opportunity is diminishing as the years go on. The book Our Kids by Robert Putnam illustrates this reality and compares life during the 1950’s and today’s society and how it has gradually gotten to a point of inequality. In particular, he goes into two touching stories, one that shows the changes in the communities we live in and another that illustrates the change of family structure. In the end he shows how both stories contribute to the American dream slipping away from our hands.
The Testing, a story by Joelle Charbonneau, is a story about a group of friends who get tested by the government to test how they act and how smart they are.. The plot of this story starts when Malencia Vale graduates high school and gets picked to go to a series of tests created by her government to see if she is smart enough to go to their university, but when she finishes the first test she realizes there is more to it than just being smart it is also about how you act under pressure, then as she goes to the last trial to pass into the university she starts to understand the tests are actually about if you have the skills necessary to be a good leader and if you will do whatever it takes, the story ends when she passes the test and
How would you feel if you and your family had to be placed in a internal camp from your home? Well, in this memoir, The Invisible Thread, Yoshiko Uschida explains her struggle of going through that situation. Yoshiko Uschida creates a sense of bewilderment throughout the memoir to explain her displacement from the United States to an internal camp.
As previously mentioned, the modern techniques used for mining are extremely different than those of prehistoric times. In the early history of mining, ancient peoples dug for materials close to the earth surface with make shift shovels and pics; as one could imagine, this...
As a mariner its important to know about the marine life, that was one reason I have chosen this topic for my today’s short presentation.
33 feet up, looking down at the water, trying to determine if this trick will make or break a diver from the rest of his or her career is a heart pounding experience. He jumps, spins, flips, and then hurdles 62 miles per hour toward the unforgiving water head first. The loud splash the diver makes as he enters the water perfect. He disappears into the dark obis of the water for what feels like forever, as he mentally prepares himself for either applause or boos. He finally has no choice but to come up. The room is silent as his head breaks the surface of the water. Then before he has time to recollect what is going on the room busts into cheers and applause, he looks at the score board and sees his name move up from third to first place. The adrenaline rushing through a divers veins, the anticipation till he enters the water, all of this makes diving the best sport in the whole world and Britain definitely knows this.
Diving has gotten away from the stereotype based on the early days of diving, that it is a rough and tough sport requiring extreme endurance and strength. Today it is viewed as an activity done by both men and women and even children. While diving is promoted as a leisure sport, it is still a sport. One that takes an amount of physical activity. We start by carrying heavy tanks on our backs. We are in constant motion for the entire dive. Even breathing is a more difficult as we must overcome the additional pressure on our body as we expand our chest.
The career I chose is commercial diving and underwater welding. I chose this career because commercial diving and underwater welding is a very exciting and lucrative career for veterans, ex-military, and adventure-seeking individual who desires more than just your average nine-to-five job. As a commercial diver and underwater welder, you will be expected to perform under the most challenging of circumstances, requiring the diver to be highly trained, certified, and be in peak physical and mental condition.
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...990; Davis et al., 1995). The topography and depth of the reef determine the dive profile at a site and may variously reduce or enhance the vulnerability of benthic organisms to damage, depending upon the skill of the diver (Hawkins and Roberts, 1992). On reefs with steep slopes, for example, benthic organisms will be less vulnerable to damage by divers who are able to control their buoyancy and remain away from the wall, but will be more vulnerable to divers who are less skilled and find it necessary to hold onto benthic organisms for added stability, particularly in strong currents (Rouphael and Inglis, 1997).
The original intention of scuba diving is to process a series of underwater operation, such as underwater exploration, salvage and water-based construction projects. Afterward, scuba diving has developed to an underwater sport activity, a kind of physical and recreational exercise. Since diving equipment has developed remarkably in recent years, an increasing number of people are addicted to start scuba diving. While divers can enjoy the fancy world underwater, the prior function of scuba diving is to enhance the ability of muscle to use oxygen and improve heart and lung fitness. Scuba diving is deemed to an auxiliary method to cure cancer in some countries.
Scuba diving is a sport in which you can lose yourself to the beauty of the underwater world and escape gravity for a short time. You can wander among kelp forests or swim with sleek noble sharks. You can find a fortune in Spanish ducats or lose yourself in the beauty of the underwater realm. Some may say though that diving is an extreme sport and that it is too risky for anyone, it's just for the wild hooligans. Scuba Diving is a safe and enjoyable hobby despite the small risk involved. Haven't you ever wondered what it was like to swim with the fish? Or see why all of those people would want to were all that funny looking gear and go under the water?
Lastly, sea-walker diving is also a famous activity that provides participants opportunities to observe the underwater world in the underwater tourism industry. Compare to the snorkeling, sea-walker diving can provide tourist more time and chances to observe the marine organism and environment. There are many tourist willing to try sea-walker diving because the participants can join even they don't know swimming. ( Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the most famous seawalker diving destinations of the world because of its high level water
When I was younger, my father was an avid diver, going out on the dive boat every weekend possible to take photographs while dragging my mother and I along for the ride. I was not one to complain though, because it meant going to the beach just about every weekend during prime diving season. The photographs that he took under water are what truly inspired me to hopefully get involved into marine sciences. The photographs were captivating; the different shades of blue and the variety of colors emitting from the various organisms captured within the photo were simply breathtaking. I did not understand how anyone could look away from them, and I still do not understand how people can look away from such photos. They allowed for me to see part of the organisms that lived under water; giving me a glimpse into another world, and into a world I only wanted to explore for my own