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8 unusual facts about Diving


Alabama High School Athletic Association

The AHSAA sponsors state championships programs in 12 boys and 12 girls sports: Baseball, Softball, Basketball, Football, Cross Country, Soccer, Swimming and Diving, Track and Field, Tennis, Volleyball, Wrestling, and Indoor Track.

Christopher Sacchin

In the 1 metre springboard event he won the bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and the European Championships in 2006 and 2008.

Deep water blackout

Free-diving, for more on the practice of breath-hold diving as a sport.

How to Make an American Quilt

When she was young, Sophia (Samantha Mathis/Lois Smith) was a talented diver with dreams of escaping her small town and overbearing mother.

Julie Andersen

Andersen is also a lifelong scuba and free diver, serving as an ambassador for SCUBAPRO and SubGear, and spends much of her time swimming with sharks around the world.

Kenneth Arnold

He was an avid swimmer and diver being good enough at the latter to try out for the U.S. Diving team.

University of Indianapolis

Swimming and DivingRuth Lilly Center Pool – Women have finished in top 12 at NCAA Championships for 12 years in a row, including best of 6th in 2007.

Swimming and DivingRuth Lilly Center Pool – team has claimed 11 individual national championships, including Orel Oral's 7 national championships from 1998–2002.


1986–87 FA Cup

Midway through the second half Coventry were level again – Bennett's pinpoint cross from the right was met by striker Keith Houchen with a diving header for a memorable goal.

1999 Football League Cup Final

Tottenham won the game, and their third League Cup, with an injury-time diving header from Allan Nielsen.

Ashley Whitney

She later transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where she finished her college career swimming for coach Teri McKeever's Cal Bears women's swimming and diving team.

Australian Owlet-nightjar

The Australian Owlet-nightjar feeds at night by diving from perches and snatching insects from the air, ground or off trunks and branches, in the manner of a flycatcher.

Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics Unit

The Beijing SWAT Unit is divided into sub-units consisting of but not limited to: a Helicopter Unit (飞虎队; nicknamed Flying Tigers), an Underwater Diving team (蛙人队; nicknamed Frogmen), female SWAT unit (女子特警队) and a Police Dog Unit (警犬队).

By a Waterfall

It features a crowd of chorus girls diving and swimming into the water in various geometric and floral patterns.

Charlie Robertson's perfect game

A spectacular diving catch by Johnny Mostil on a liner to left by Bobby Veach in the second inning preserved the historic feat.

Christian Dailly

He returned to the dressing room after the match shouting, "Cheats! Fucking cheats! Fucking diving cheats!" Unfortunately, the outburst was being broadcast live on BBC Scotland as then Scotland manager Berti Vogts was being interviewed by Chick Young.

Dare Devil Dive

That name was inspired by a Bugs Bunny cartoon, High Diving Hare, in which Yosemite Sam attempts to coerce Bugs Bunny into performing a high-diving act when the show's star, Fearless Freep, is unavailable.

Dick Shatto

His daughter, Cindy Shatto, competed in 3 Metres Springboard diving at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games and in Women's 10 metre platform diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Diving petrel

The prehistoric fossil record was long limited to very fragmentary remains described as P. cymatotrypetes found in Early Pliocene deposits of Langebaanweg, South Africa; while this bird apparently was close to the Common Diving Petrel, no members of the genus are known from South African waters today.

Essgee

A tradename used by Siebe Gorman a British engineering company that developed diving gear.

Firestone High School

Phil "Flip" Boggs, gold-medal winner in springboard diving in the 1976 Olympic Games

Gorilla at Large

The most infamous of these was as the alien "Ro-Man" in Robot Monster (1953), also a 3-D production, in which he wore a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on his head.

Graham Balcombe

During the Second World War, Balcombe was stationed in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where he continued to develop his diving equipment, which was put to use at local sites such as Alum Pot, Keld Head and Goyden Pot.

Gregor Blanco

On June 13, 2012, Blanco made a fully extended diving catch in deep right-center field, catching the ball in the end of his mitt, to rob Jordan Schafer of a hit in the top of the 7th inning of Matt Cain's perfect game.

Historical Diving Society

The HDS is setting up the Historical Diving Society Museum (HDS Museum) at No. 2 Battery, Stokes Bay, Hampshire, England.

How to Swim

In this cartoon, Goofy provides an educational treatise on swimming and diving with questionable results.

If I Could Make a Living

In a telephone interview with Tulsa World Walker said, "I approached the second album a little bit differently from the first one, because it's kind of like scuba diving, the first time, you're down there at the bottom, and it's a little bit dirty, so you have to feel around a lot before you can find the treasure. For the second one, the water was a little more clear."

Jack Laugher

Greg Louganis has been reported as being impressed with Laugher's diving.

Jeannie Cho Lee

Since August 2010, Jeannie Cho Lee, along with the diving champion Guo Jingjing and principal dancer Yuan Yuan Tan, has represented Estee Lauder in a campaign for Advanced Night Repair eye serum "No. 1 Eye Repair in the Eyes of No. 1".

Joseph H. Wales

After a diving trip to Devils Hole he wrote the scientific description to the previously unrecognized Devil's Hole pupfish.

Just Give Me a Reason

The scenes include Pink's solo mattress scene, another with Nate Ruess shows the two singers singing the song in a white, blank set, and a third scene showing Pink and her husband Carey Hart embracing and diving.

Kim Yong-Dae

In both legs, Kim performed fantastic saves to keep his team level including a diving save from Dario Conca and a kick-save from Muriqui among others.

Kirra, Queensland

A popular diving area with sea-life including Manta rays and Wobbegongs has been buried over since the pumping started.

Lawrence Paterson

Since 2000 he has written non-fiction histories of Germany’s Second World War U-boat service, inspired largely by his lifelong interest in the Second World War and working as a Scuba diving instructor, diving the wartime wrecks off France.

Lothar Matthes

Lothar Matthes (born 23 July 1947) is a German former diver who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Ľuboš Micheľ

He sent off one Ghanaian player for diving and ordered the Ghana coach, Ratomir Dujković, to leave the field after the coach argued with him about the offside goal.

Mario Chiarini

At the 2009 World Baseball Classic, Chiarini made a spectacular diving catch to rob Bobby Abreu of an RBI.

Nancilea Foster

She also claimed five gold medals at the Speedo USA Diving Spring National Diving Championships, including four from the individual and synchronized springboard (along with her partner Cassidy Krug).

New World Publications

New World also published Nudibranch Behavior by Dave Behrens, Sea Salt by Stan Waterman and Diving Pioneers by Bret Gilliam and helped distribute works for friends Howard Hall, Cathy Church, Helmut Debelius and Constantinos Petrinos.

Operation Meridian

Forty-three Avenger bombers, 12 Firefly fighter-bombers with rockets and fifty Hellcat, Corsair and Seafire fighters were launched, approaching with the sun behind them and diving from 9000 feet to 3000 feet to release their bombs.

Paola Tagliabue

Tagliabue belongs to Tresse Diving Club of Saronno and she is also a member of the Italian national team.

Papango

New Zealand Scaup, a diving duck, known in the Maori language as the Papango

Peter Hochachka

His work included studies of enzyme adaptation to temperature and pressure, the mechanisms underlying tolerance to low oxygen levels in animals, the bioenergetics of exercise, metabolism during diving in seals, allometric scaling, and human adaptations to high-altitude hypoxia.

Ratio decompression

It is generally taught as part of the "DIR" philosophy of diving promoted by organisations such Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) and Unified Team Diving (UTD) at the advanced technical diving level.

Robert Gordon Teather

On 26 September 1981, Corporal Robert Teather, a member of the Surrey Detachment Diving Team of the R.C.M.P., rescued two fishermen trapped in the overturned hull of a boat.

Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine

He visited the Royal Naval Medical School at Alverstoke, the R.N. Physiological Laboratory, the Submarine Training School at HMS Dolphin, Diving School HMS Vernon, and the RN Air Medical School at Seafield Park.

Side mount

Sidemount or side mount is a configuration of breathing gas cylinders carried by scuba divers, and a shortened form of Sidemount diving or Side mount diving

Simon Wiggins

He is the brother of former AFL player Patrick Wiggins (with whom he now plays at Sunshine) and is married to Australian diver, Loudy Wiggins.

Simone Schaller

She joined the Los Angeles Athletic Association in 1932 so that she could compete on the track team and met Aileen Allen, an Olympic diver in 1920, who encouraged to try and make the Olympic team and coached her.

Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets

In October 1988, K-278 was honored by becoming one of the few Soviet submarines to be given an actual name: Komsomolets (Комсомолец, meaning "a member of the Young Communist League"), and her commanding officer, Captain 1st Rank Yuriy Zelenskiy was honored for diving to a depth of 1020 meters (3,345 feet).

Submarine hull

Titanium alloys allow a major increase in depth, but other systems need to be redesigned as well, so test depth was limited to 1000 metres (3,281 feet) for the Soviet submarine Komsomolets, the deepest-diving military submarine.

Surface-supplied diving

Compressor diving is the most common method used to fish for Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) in the Caribbean.

Victoria Police Search and Rescue Squad

In 1958 members were trained in diving by the Royal Australian Navy, and from this time onward the squad became responsible for underwater searches.

Voyage to the Edge of the World

It also was the first film to show high depth footage in Antarctic waters (thanks to the diving saucer SP-350 Denise).


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