Dissertations / Theses: 'SCUBA diving'

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Ho, Wai-ting. "Diving Paradise-Scuba Diving Centre at Hoi Ha Wan." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2594745x.

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Buzzacott, Peter Lee. "Diving injuries amongst Western Australian scuba course graduates." University of Western Australia. School of Population Health, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0096.

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[Truncated abstract] Introduction, Little is known about the prevalence of post-course diving injuries amongst Western Australian recreational divers, nor is it known which risk factors affect the Western Australian diver’s likelihood of sustaining a diving injury. Objective, The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of diving-related injuries amongst Western Australians with varying experience since certification as entry-level divers within Western Australia (WA). Specifically, the study compared divers’ experience, behaviour and equipment with their diving injury history. It was hypothesised that diving experience has an effect upon the likelihood of a certified diver suffering any of the diving injuries most commonly reported amongst international diving populations. In addition, the strength of association between diving injuries and other potential risk factors was measured amongst certified Western Australian divers. Methods, A cross sectional survey of Western Australians, whom had completed a recognized entry-level recreational scuba diving course within WA, formed the basis of the study. Diver training facilities within WA posted a four-page questionnaire to divers they had trained to entry-level within the previous six years. The self-administered questionnaire collected data describing the divers’ post-course participation in scuba diving, injury prevalence during the last year, demographic characteristics and prevalence of known or hypothesized diving injury risk factors ... Conclusion, In this study diving experience, measured by the number of dives made during the previous year and the total number of dives made since certification, has not been found associated with the likelihood of reporting having suffered at least one diving injury of any type whilst diving during the previous year. Whilst the limited response rate and self-reporting methodology threaten the validity of the findings of this study, the findings improve our understanding of the type of diving injuries commonly suffered by divers, and of which risk factors are associated with a diver’s likelihood of suffering a diving related injury within WA. These findings may assist the design of further diving injury research, ultimately leading to the design of diving safety interventions aimed at reducing the prevalence of diving injuries amongst Western Australian recreational divers.

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何偉廷 and Wai-ting Ho. "Diving Paradise-Scuba Diving Centre at Hoi Ha Wan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983881.

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Jain, Dhruv S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Immersive scuba diving simulator using virtual reality." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106054.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-79).
We present Amphibian, a simulator to experience scuba diving virtually in a terrestrial setting. Amphibian is novel because it simulates a wider variety of sensations experienced underwater compared with to existing diving simulators that mostly focus on visual and aural displays. Users rest their torso on a motion platform to feel buoyancy. Their outstretched arms and legs are placed in a suspended harness to simulate drag as they swim. An Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) and a pair of headphones delineate the visual and auditory ocean scene. Additional senses simulated in Amphibian are breathing-induced motion, temperature changes, and tactile feedback through various sensors. Twelve experienced divers compared Amphibian to real-life scuba diving. We analyzed the system factors that influenced the users' sense of being there while using our simulator. We present future user interface improvements for enhancing immersion in Virtual reality diving simulators.
by Dhruv Jain.
S.M.

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Iannone, Louis. "The aqua-dock : a portable, submergible scuba diving platform /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11168.

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Ozyurt, Deniz. "Effects Of Scuba Diving On Middle Ear Pressure." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607207/index.pdf.

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ABSTRACT EFFECTS OF SCUBA DIVING ON MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE Ö
zyurt, Deniz MS. Department of Physical Education and Sports Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Feza Korkusuz Co-Supervisor: Dr. Mehmet Ö
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i April 2006, 42 pages Since
the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) was developed
the growth in the recreational diving population leaded an increase in diving-related injuries, mostly about the ear barotraumas. Previous findings show that inexperienced divers are more predisposed to ear barotraumas. This study was performed to see the dive related alterations of the middle ear pressure and the compliance of the tympanic membrane due to experience (experienced - skin divers and/or underwater rugby players and inexperienced -not use to skin diving or such water sports) and depth (3m and 12m) in 22 novice divers with normal pre-dive audiometry, tympanometry, and otorhinolaryngologic examination. Pre dive otologic inspections were taken and pre dive / post dive tympanograms were measured for each depth. In 8 ears of the 5 inexperienced divers either hyperemia or hemotympany were observed in the second day&
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s (12m) otoscopic inspections. In the first post dive tympanometric measurements
middle ear pressure changes were observed in 19 ears of 14 divers. The compliance was not changed in 5 ears of 3 divers and increased in the reminder. In the second tympanometric measurements, 12 ears of the 8 divers showed negative middle ear pressure and compliance was not changed in 10 ears of 5 divers and increased in the reminder. Due to experience and middle ear pressure changes of each day
no meaningful, statistically significant correlation was found. Also no meaningful correlations were found neither for experience and compliance. A correlation of .542 between experience status and otologic inspection prior to 12m depth dives was a contradiction to the hypothesis there would not be any significant difference between experienced and well trained inexperienced groups as the otologic variations such as hyperemia or hemotympany were only seen in inexperienced novices. Again
the correlation of .571 showed that 3m depth dives had grater frequency of middle ear pressure changes than 12m depth dives. Similarly
due to the compliance correlation of .516, 3m depth dives had a grater frequency of compliance increases than 12m depth dives. These results however should be reconsidered as the 3m depth was the first open water dive day and 12m depth was the next day which the novices could use to the open water conditions.

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Du, Preez Mirike. "Constructing safety in scuba diving a discursive psychology study /." Diss., Pretoria : [S.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09122005-152019/.

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Walker, Douglas Greig. "Investigation of the critical factors in scuba diving fatalities Australia 1955-1991." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1993. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26616.

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The underwater environment has become a popular recreational area since the development of a simple and efficient valve which would supply air "on demand" at ambient pressure from a cylinder having air at a considerably higher pressure. This followed improvements by Cousteau and Gagnan on earlier attempts to achieve this change from manually controlled supply systems. The previous continuous-flow system was wasteful of air supplies. This work took place in France during the last stages of World War 11 and was marketed at first under the trade name of "Aqualung". It was a consequence of the post-war publicity given to the exploits of "frogmen" plus an appreciation that oxygen rebreather sets carried serious risks to the users which soon made the potential of this apparatus popular and provoked a flood of imitators. The Cousteau-Gagnan team tried hard to preserve their copyright of the name of their product and forced their competitors to come up with an alternative name. The acronym SCUBA (self contained underwater breathing apparatus) has now become better known than the name Aqualung. The exploits of the wartime "frogman" (who used either rebreather apparatus or were simple swimmers, never scuba divers) popularised the idea of venturing underwater and this was made possible after development of scuba, a far safer apparatus than rebreather units. One consequence of this peacetime influx into the world of divers by amateurs was their insistence on safety, or at the very least a minimisation of morbidity and mortality. Such a basic requirement was minimally considered in wartime and was foreign to the can-do ethos of commercial diving at that time. There was no significant medical interest in diving-related deaths as the causes (drowning squeeze or "blow up") were obvious factors and inevitable in such an occupation. Attention was directed to "The Bends" because this was causing morbidity (and deaths) and this was effecting skilled men so delaying the progress of work, and the need to persuade the crew of submarines that they could escape if their craft happened to sink inspired the development of oxygen rebreather sets. Knowledge was slight, most diver training was "on the job" and the Standard Suit hose-supplied diver of pre-scuba days was dependent on a significant surface team. Medical interest was still at this time effectively nil. It was the demands from recreational divers for reliable scuba instruction which has had a major influence in changing the attitudes to training and diving safety long held by the commercial diving community. This report has been confined to consideration of fatalities with a close time relationship to scuba diving in Australian waters, as this is now the most commonly practiced form of diving. Death may indeed occur in association with breath hold, hose supply and with use of re-breather sets but it is the scuba divers who suffer the greatest number of diving-related fatalities nowadays. Regulation of diving activities has been increasingly introduced in relation to commercial and scientific diving but the only present controls affecting recreational divers are those introduced and applied by the Instructor organisations and dive shop owners. They are aware that the public expects professional training standards of a high quality and that Government regulations will be introduced should too many adverse comments be made by either news media or by some Coroner. They are also partly controlled, although their customers are not, by the Workplace Health and Safety Regulations which have been extended to include diving instructors and those running the commercial dive boats. Increasingly Instructor Organisations have been requiring medical assessment of fitness to scuba dive before they will issue a card showing the person has successfully completed a training course, a card which is now necessary before equipment will be hired, an air tank filled, or the diver accepted on a commercial dive boat. This has been required by individual instructors for many years but it has now become mandatory in Australia and New Zealand in response to an awareness that they would be exposed to adverse comments, as Organisations or as individual instructors, should some "incident" permit the Media or a Coroner to declaim virtuously concerning an obviously unfit person being certificated as fit to scuba dive. A possible additional factor may have been their desire to minimise the perceived claim risk when approaching Insurance companies. Scuba diving pupils naturally object to any medical decision that they are unfit to scuba dive if this is given after completion of a course and their money is not refunded. Gradually if has become accepted that the examining doctor should have some understanding of the basic medically-related factors in diving if a Fit to Dive certificate was to have real value, a matter understood by many of the instructors before being accepted by the medical authorities. In many other countries a medical check is still optional. There is much opinion but little detailed data available on which to base a considered judgment of the relative significance of the medical among the multiple factors effecting the safety of divers using scuba. This investigation has saught to assess the presence or absence of many factors, the medical among them. The results of the survey provide a reliable basis for strengthening or amending present beliefs and practices. During the course of the project a point has been made of publishing provisional reports. These have been sent to all the major Instructor organisations and every one of the Government or police providers of information. In order to reach the diving community directly they have been printed in the Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, which is read by many doctors and instructors. In general, Commercial diving is different from recreational scuba diving in significant ways. Government regulations strictly limit dive times and depths and define the topside supervision which is to be exercised. Hose supply is mandatory for dive depths which a recreational diver would consider commonplace, the use of scuba is limited to shallow depths. There are relatively few fatalities in commercial diving compared with recreational divers, as far as can be ascertained, but the numbers of active divers in each group and their dive profiles is unknown. The term opportunistic commercial could be applied to those only occasionally diving to undertake a job for another person. All such are included in this survey.

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Helies, Frank C. "Factors promoting retention and attrition rates of college and shop certified SCUBA divers /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148726191911102.

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Tapsuwan, Sorada. "Valuing the willingness to pay for environmental conservation and management : a case study of scuba diving levies in Mu Ko Similan Marine National Park, Thailand /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19162.pdf.

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Queiroz, Neto Ambrozio. "Investigating Destination Competitiveness through Customer Value in Scuba Diving Tourism." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/384795.

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Most destination competitiveness models are derived from a suppliers’ perspective, even those that recognise the demand as an important element of the competitiveness of a destination. Some of these studies have investigated competitiveness from a demand perspective based on destination attributes, but these attributes were derived initially from a supplier’s perspective. This study takes an alternative perspective; that the ability to provide superior value to the customer is critical to destination competitiveness. It addresses a gap in the literature of destination competitiveness by focusing on tourists’ perspectives of value. The research investigates customer value in destination competitiveness in the context of SCUBA diving tourism, a niche tourism market using mixed-methods making use of a multi method approach deploying face-to-face interviews and online surveys. In the first stage, interviews (n=34) were conducted in four popular SCUBA diving destinations in Australia and Thailand from August to October of 2015. Using thematic analysis, a total of eighty-four destination attributes were mapped. Analysis of the results indicated that the most relevant attributes were related to SCUBA diving services, underwater fauna and environmental conditions of the dive sites. These interviews sought to cover SCUBA divers with different profiles to gather a maximal range of destination attributes. Respondents with little diving experienced were unable to express many destinations attributes due to their lack of experience. The second stage explored the relative importance of the destination attributes from the perspective of SCUBA diving tourists (n=712). Certified SCUBA divers completed an online questionnaire containing closed and open-ended questions. Data collection took place from January to June of 2016. Among the fifty-two destination attributes used in the second stage, the most important were (1) professional operations, (2) variety and abundance of marine life, (3) quality and environmental conditions of the dive sites, (4) environmental commitment of the dive operator, and (5) friendly staff/casual atmosphere. The least important destination attributes were (a) opportunity to dive in a cave, (b) popularity/fame as a diving destination, (c) adventure activities, (d) opportunity to dive on an artificial reef, and (e) entertainment activities and facilities. Further, this research also investigated to what extent the levels of diving experience and travel experience influenced the importance given to destination competitiveness attributes. A series of analytical procedures were used, including descriptive analysis, principal components analysis, cluster analysis, cross-tabulation and analysis of variance with post-hoc pairwise comparison. Regarding the level of diving experience, this study identified three groups: low, medium and highly experienced divers, each with different importance rankings of destination attributes. Among these three groups, six of ten destination competitiveness factors (groups of attributes) differed significantly (p<.05): diving operations, diving conditions, destination management, diving training, general tourist attraction and visa policy, while four factors: risk perception, price, big wildlife encounters and technical diving, did not differ significantly (p > .05). Diving operations, diving conditions, destination management, diving training, general tourist attractions and visa policy were significantly (p < .05) more important for low experience divers. On the other hand, technical diving emerged as more important to the highly experienced group than the medium experience group. Regarding the level of travel experience, this study also identifies three groups: low, medium and high travel experience. Among the three groups, seven of ten destination competitiveness factors (groups of attributes) differed significantly (p <.05): diving operations, risk perception, destination management, price, diving training and service, general tourist attraction and visa policy. No significant difference between groups (p >.05) was found for diving conditions, big wildlife encounters and technical diving. These results indicate that the ranking of the importance of destination competitiveness factors also changed according to the level of travel experience. Further, apart from price, all significant factors presented the same trend: the higher the travel experience, the lower the importance given to the destination competitiveness factor. This trend suggested evidence of a career pattern about the importance given to destination competitiveness factors. The results indicate that the investigation of destination competitiveness through customer value provides a useful and innovative approach to examine competition among destinations in the same niche market. Therefore, this study provided evidence that destination competitiveness should incorporate destination attributes that tourists in a niche (and sub-niches) value as part of a successful trip.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Environment and Sc
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Erickson, R. Scott, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Effects of a hypertext-based simulation in high school scuba instruction." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1993, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/58.

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A study was conducted to investigate the effects of a hypertext - based computer simulation on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of students participating in a high school scuba program in Edmonton, Alberta. The study compared two groups of students: one which used the simulation as a supplementary (laboratory-type) activity, and another which was taught using traditional methods. The two groups received an equal amount of instrutional time. The simulation and non-simulation groups were found to be equilvalent at the beginning of the study with respect to age, gender, previous diving experience, previous computer experience, attitude toward computers and attitude toward diving. After instruction, the simulation and non-simulation groups were examined for differences with respect to knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, using the following measurement instruments: Knowledge: Marks from students' certification examinations were used as a measure of general diving knowledge. Attitudes: Students were post-surveyed for attitudes toward diving using a locally developed attitude scale. Behavior: Students were evaluated using a locally developed skills assessment to determine their degree of proficiency at out-of-air emergency skills. Reliability estimates for the locally developed instruments were .86, .88 and .93 for the diving attitude, computer attitude and out-of-air skills instruments, respectively. A series of t-test comparisons revealed no significant differences (p<.05) between simulation and non-simulation groups with respect to knowledge, skills and attitudes. The relationships between knowledge, skills and attitudes were examined using Pearson's correlation coefficient, and a significant (p<.01) positive correlation was found between the knowledge and skill measures, with r=0.69. A "diversion index" (DI=# of non-ideal cards in attempt/total # of cards in attempt) was calculated for each attempt made by each student on each of the scenarios. A pattern in diversion indices was revealed, and generalized into a model consisting of four stages: discovery, refinement, solution and exploration. This model is suggested as one way students may approach simulation learning. Six volunteers were interviewed to determine students' opinions regarding the effects of the simulation. Students stated that the simulation helped with the development of in-depth knowledge about out-of-air emergencies, but not with the development of out-of-air emergency skills. Students said that they liked the simulation and enjoyed using it. Implications of the study are discussed with emphasis on research methodology, diver education, and environmental education, and a number of suggestions for future research are offered.
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Duncan, James P. "Investigating scuba divers' attitudes to sustainable shipwreck diving in North Carolina." Thesis, East Carolina University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1598171.

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This study examined the ways in which NC scuba divers identify sustainable shipwreck diving activities to gain a better understanding of how their behavior impacts sustainable cultural tourism on the coast of North Carolina. The information collected by this study revealed the norms of respondents regarding how human activities affect the sustainability of submerged maritime archaeological sites. This was done by comparing diver characteristic variables in relation to attitudes regarding a multitude of sustainable shipwreck diving activities as they were defined by previous literature (Stone 1996; McCarthy 2000; Jewell 2004; Edney 2006). Results concluded that divers that belong to archaeological organizations tended to define sustainable diving activities as the literature does. The most experienced divers not a member of these groups tend to disagree with the literature when it comes to identifying sustainable diving activities.

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Brown, Kevin. "A Deep Diver's Becoming." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40424.

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When scuba diving under a physical overhead such as a cave, a mine, a shipwreck, or under a virtual overhead due to decompression requirements, it makes it impossible to safely access the surface in the event of an emergency. Therefore, diving with overhead is often described as technical diving. In this research, I address how technical divers in Outaouais, Quebec, practice this risky sport with unforgiving consequences. Based on fieldwork in Outaouais, I focus on divers, including myself, who perform trimix dives deeper than 200 feet. I argue that the process of becoming a deep diver is a lifelong journey where a diver learns to adapt to a milieu hostile to human life. The basic skills are acquired during classes to ensure that a novice diver will survive in this limit-environment. As divers bend the rules and take more risks to go deeper for longer lengths of time, they will go through a series of limit-experiences and near misses that are essential to their development and found to be regenerative. In turn, those limit-experiences and near-miss events shared with teammates create mutual trust. It is this trust that becomes the foundation of the team and allows the team to improve upon existing techniques and increase the depth and difficulty of their dives.

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Yuspeh, Emmy. "Havelock in India as an Emerging SCUBA Diving Destination : Challenges and Opportunities." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387616.

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This qualitative field study is conducted on the Andaman Islands in India and focuses on the sustainable destination development and SCUBA diving tourism. The island in focus, Havelock, is an emerging tourist destination and an international airport is scheduled to open in the Andamans in 2021. The topic is approached through observation and interviews with people involved with the SCUBA diving industry, selected informants, and diving tourists. Different scales that operate with the island’s development - global, national, regional and local - are investigated. Global warming poses a threat to the coral reefs that is the main resource for tourism at the location and the longterm residents’ education in the subject is absent. The communication between state and nation is a problem as laws are passed without participation or awareness from the local community which makes it difficult for businessowners to invest. Furthermore, diver motivation and satisfaction are investigated. The main motivation of beginner level diving tourists from India are not educated in how the underwater world looks like, but are motivated to see what they already know through movies like “Finding Nemo”. The study reveals that a degraded coral reef does not affect diver satisfaction where the divers are not educated in how a healthy reef looks like. The local Marine Protected Area - Rani Jhansi Marine National Park - is in 2019 funded by the government and there are currently no entrance fees for diving tourists. However, this has been proved successful in other destinations. The Marine Protected Area is perceived as positive by the local SCUBA industry, but it is not interacting with its regulation and governing.

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Seymour, Kiéra Danielle. "The perceived value of scuba diving tourists at a marina destination / Kiéra Seymour." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9835.

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Tourism activities set in coastal and marine environments have evolved far beyond the traditional passive leisure experiences of the classic resort holiday. While the traditional beach holiday remains a contemporary mass tourism phenomenon. Marine tourism now extends far beyond beach activities to a wide spread spectrum of activities including scuba diving with over 20 million certified divers worldwide. The tourism product carries both the characteristics of the service product and the characteristics unique to the tourism industry, which makes the tourism product different from physical/ tangible goods. Therefore tourism destinations involve a multiple of industries (e.g. hospitality, transportation, entertainment) that contribute through their value-added activities to the overall competitive position in the marketplace. Tourism value can be seen as a combination of a product’s (destination’s) perceived quality and associated price which a visitor will summarize as the value received. Value in tourism has been seen as a definite option to improve a destination’s competitive edge. Tourism development is about adding value in a way that is consistent with market demand. As tourism value is created within the destination it holds various benefits including that destinations will achieve high market growth and hence become more competitive due to successful value-added programmes. Destinations are winning competitive battles by careful analysis and response to the core values and needs of the segmented travel marketplace. This study was based on four distinct value dimensions developed by Sweeney and Soutar (2001:211) that are termed emotional, social, quality/ performance and price/ value for money. Sweeney and Soutar’s model (2001:211) was examined to determine its appropriateness for an intangible product in the service sector namely scuba diving. Two modifications to Sweeney and Soutar’s model (2001:211) were required for this study. The modifications which were used in this study included perceived risk value which was introduced by Hall, Robertson and Shaw (2001:350) and epistemic value developed by Sheth, Norman and Gross (1991:160). The primary goal of this dissertation was to determine the perceived value of scuba diving tourists at a marine destination. A literature study was undertaken to contextualise Marine Tourism and perceived value since a review of existing literature on perceived value provides insight as to why the value concept is so crucial for the success of marketing researchers. Thereafter an empirical study was undertaken to obtain relevant data for analysis. A nonprobability sampling method namely convenience sampling was used to conduct the survey due to the absence of a structured list of divers visiting Sodwana Bay during this time. A destination-based survey was undertaken at Sodwana Bay from the 29th of March to the 8th of April 2012. Five hundred (500) self-administered surveys where distributed by field workers among scuba divers who were available and willing to complete the questionnaire. Of the 500 questionnaires distributed a total of 402 were completed and could be used for collation of data. Microsoft™ Office™ Excel 2007 was used to capture the data, which was then statistically analysed and processed by means of descriptive statistics using the SPSS 20.0 programme. More specifically, factor analysis and ANOVAs were done to analyse the value created. In order to achieve the goal, the study was divided into two articles. Article 1 aimed to determine the perceived value of a tourism experience, in this case for the scuba diving tourists at a marine destination, namely Sodwana Bay. Results revealed that the demographic profile of the scuba divers, are middle aged Afrikaans speaking men who are well educated, earn a high income, and originate from Gauteng. To examine the factors underlying the value scale, a principle axis factor analysis with oblique rotation (direct oblimin) was undertaken. The twenty-two factor aspects yielded five factors with eigen values greater than 1.0. These factors explained 64% of the variance and were labelled: ‘Emotional value’, ‘Functional value’, ‘Social value’, ‘Perceived risk value’ and ‘Epistemic value’. Twenty-one aspects had loadings of over 0.418, with only one item having a factor loading of 0.251. With the highest mean (3.43) Epistemic value revealed that respondents consider curiosity, acquiring knowledge, providing novelty and broadening knowledge as key in a valued experience. Reliability (Cronbach’s α) was computed to verify the internal consistency of aspects with each factor. All factors with a Cronbach Alpha above 0.63 were deemed acceptable for the purposes of this exploratory study. Bartlett’s test of sphericity was significant (p<0.001) and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure sampling adequacy (KMO) was 0.874, which are acceptable for the purpose of this study. Article 2 aimed to determine the factors which influence perceived tourism values of scuba divers at a marine destination, namely Sodwana Bay. To achieve this, ANOVAs were developed and correlations were drawn between age, gender, province, income, level of education, marital status, number of times dived, number of nights stayed in the area, travel group size and media (including, websites, shows, friends, radio, T.V., magazines, previous visits and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter). Correlations were discovered between language, province, marital status, income and media (including, websites, shows, friends, radio, T.V., Magazines, Previous visits and Social Networks such as Facebook and Twitter). The perceived values which were rated highest in each case were emotional value, perceived risk value and perceived functional value. Since this is the first study of its kind in South Africa, it can benefit marine destinations all across the country. The perceived values which were rated highest in both articles should be of high priority in marketing efforts for marine destinations, especially where scuba diving activities are taking place. Assessing and understanding these values will help scuba diving destinations to gain a competitive advantage and provide a more tailor-made product which will improve the value experienced. It is recommended that this study is repeated at other diving sites and also various other tourism products to determine difference and/or similarities between tourism values. Marketing strategies can be utilized through the identification of these and various other values which will improve current marketing efforts.
Thesis (MA (Tourism Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

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Tschapka, Michael Karl, and n/a. "Involvement, motivation and setting preferences of participants in the adventure tourism activity of SCUBA diving." University of Canberra. Languages, International Studies & Tourism, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061128.125036.

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Adventure tourism is a growing market sector worldwide including Australia. A range of research exists that examined participation in adventure tourism activities by consideration of various aspects such as socio-demographics, motivations, activity/setting preferences and involvement in the activity to understand the adventure tourist. While studies have been conducted that included several of these aspects, a holistic investigation of involvement, motivations and setting preferences together has not been conducted previously regarding adventure tourism in Australia in general and SCUBA diving in particular. Furthermore, in Australia, only limited information is available about those who participate in the adventure activity of SCUBA diving. The aim of this research is to investigate differences and similarities of involvement, motivations and setting preferences of SCUBA diving club members in Eastern Australia. In this study 294 SCUBA diving club members in New South Wales and Queensland were surveyed by utilisation of a web-based questionnaire in order to identify their involvement in SCUBA diving, socio-demographic characteristics, participation motives and setting preferences. Descriptive analysis was used to investigate the socio-demographic characteristics of divers, their motivations and setting preferences. Principal component analysis was applied on involvement variables as well as motivations to investigate the underlying constructs. Agglomerative and hierarchical cluster analyses were used to derive clusters of divers that differed in their involvement in SCUBA diving. Exact Pearson chi-square tests were conducted to test whether there were significant differences concerning sociodemographics between clusters. In addition, analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were conducted to determine differences and similarities of motivational components and setting preferences between clusters. This study found that SCUBA diving club members are a heterogeneous group regarding their involvement in SCUBA diving. Five clusters of divers emerged that differed in their involvement in SCUBA diving. While differences in socio-demographics across the different involvement clusters were revealed, they proved to be less valuable for interpretation purposes. Regarding divers� setting preferences, similar structures were observed across all clusters regardless of differences in involvement. Motivations showed a complex structure across the clusters in regard to divers� involvement in SCUBA diving. Based on the studies findings, recommendations for future research were suggested. These emphasised the need for a holistic examination of motivations and setting preferences of adventure tourists based on the concept of involvement, which would be important for theory development and segmentation of tourists. The same holistic approach would also be valuable for examining other types of tourists such as events tourists and heritage tourists to better understand tourist behaviour.

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Holman, Milan. "40 Meters Down: A Diver's Journey." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/130.

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Gunnarsson, Emilia, and Emelie Sörholm. "Sustainable Manangement of Scuba Diving Tourism : A Study of the Marine Reserves of Bongoyo and Mbudya, Tanzania." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-28821.

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With an increasing understanding for the impacts of scuba dive tourism on the marine environments and local communities world-wide, research has recently expanded to include the perspectives of ecology, socio-culture and economy. However, due to the common lack of a transdisciplinary view, the following research aims at fulfilling the gap by viewing the management of scuba dive tourism at the two marine reserves of Bongoyo and Mbudya, Tanzania, through a sustainable perspective. Thereby, the research examines the ecological state of the marine environment as perceived by the scuba divers, the operation of scuba diving, as well as how scuba dive tourism relates to the major possibilities and challenges of the marine reserves. Supported in nature-based tourism management and the theories of recreation specialization and recreational succession, questionnaires were handed out to divers and interviews were conducted with stakeholders of the marine reserves, including a scuba dive operator, conservation groups and a private interest. The results portrayed degradation of the coral reef, with scuba diving constituting a minor influence, in comparison to the greater challenges of destructive fishing methods and lack of regulations. Thereby, the research illustrates scuba diving as a positive contributor to the marine environment, raising awareness on the need for conservation within both the local and the scuba diving community. Finally, the research concludes with proposals of sustainable management strategies for the operation of scuba diving within the marine reserves.

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Strauss, Marceen A. "Unit on integrated sport/recreation activities for physically challenged persons entry level skin and pre-scuba diving training." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/276.

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Belknap, Julia. "A study of the relationship between conservation education and scuba diver behavior in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3244.

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Andrade, Mariana de Carvalho Cardoso Gonçalves. "The influence of landscape and seascape features in the location of underwater recreation sites." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11216.

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Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
This study aims to use the SCUBA diving activity as a mean to analyse the different components of the coastal and underwater landscape, since this recreational activity is intimately related to the processes that occur in these environments. With this approach, it is expected to enlarge the scope of landscape architecture to the underwater scenery. It intends to analyse the characteristics of each dive site individually, in relation to their neighbourhood and also the whole study area, looking to detect associations between these characteristics and their presence. Several dive centres were contacted in order to obtain data. The data gathered corresponds to the dive sites’ location as well as the frequency of visits in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The method used was based on the application of metrics used in other research contexts (e.g.: landscape ecology; urban planning). On a second phase, using an adequate regression equation applied through the “Stepwise” technique, a few variables were statistically classified as relevant for the occurrence of dive sites. The result is one model that allows us to interpret the reasons that could justify the dive sites observed and to define a probability of their future existence in the remaining seascape

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Pieterse, Izabelle. "The hearing abilities and middle ear functioning of the recreational scuba diver." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09112007-080225.

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Aleixo, Teresa Sofia Teixeira. "O arqueoturismo no domínio do património náutico e subaquático." Master's thesis, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/2387.

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Nesta dissertação pretende-se analisar o estado actual do património arqueológico náutico e subaquático em Portugal, apresentando-se os princípios para um modelo para a valorização do património arqueológico subaquático, em particular no que se refere às potencialidades do Arqueoturismo. Neste sentido, na primeira parte da tese é analisado sumariamente o estado actual do turismo, bem como, a caracterização do arqueoturismo, realçando-se a importância dos parques arqueológicos. São igualmente analisadas questões que se prendem com a arqueologia náutica e subaquática, nomeadamente no que respeita à valorização e salvaguarda dos sítios arqueológicos. Posteriormente apresentam-se alguns modelos de gestão de sítios arqueoturísticos existentes ao nível nacional e internacional. O resultado final resulta num exercício de reflexão geral sobre a importância do turismo cultural e da afirmação do arqueoturismo subaquático e náutico enquanto produto de excelência, recomendando-se que sejam equacionadas políticas efectivas de gestão através de novos e adequados modelos a esta nova realidade. The proposal of this thesis is to question the nautical and archaeological heritage in Portugal, evaluating the principles for a model in order to emphasize the importance of underwater arqueology, mainly in what concerns the importance of archeo-tourism. In effect, the first part of this work is the analyses of the current state of tourism as well the feature of the archaeo-tourism, emphasizing the importance of archaeological parks. Then are analyzed issues about nautical and underwater archeology, namely about protection and preservation of underwater sites. I finish with the presentation of some models of archeo-turistical management of national and international sites. The final results was an exercise of general reflections on the significant of cultural tourism and the affirmation of nautical and underwater archaeology, like an alternate product of development with an adequate policy model of management, to this new reality.
The proposal of this thesis is to question the nautical and archaeological heritage in Portugal, evaluating the principles for a model in order to emphasize the importance of underwater arqueology, mainly in what concerns the importance of archeo-tourism. In effect, the first part of this work is the analyses of the current state of tourism as well the feature of the archaeo-tourism, emphasizing the importance of archaeological parks. Then are analyzed issues about nautical and underwater archeology, namely about protection and preservation of underwater sites. I finish with the presentation of some models of archeo-turistical management of national and international sites. The final results was an exercise of general reflections on the significant of cultural tourism and the affirmation of nautical and underwater archaeology, like an alternate product of development with an adequate policy model of management, to this new reality.

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Serour, Ramy Khaled. "An environmental economic assessment of the impacts of recreational SCUBA diving on coral reef systems in Hurghada, the Red Sea, Egypt." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1447.

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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Biological Resources Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Frånberg, Oskar. "Oxygen content in semi-closed rebreathing apparatuses for underwater use : Measurements and modeling." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Omgivningsfysiologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-172949.

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The present series of unmanned hyperbaric tests were conducted in order to investigate the oxygen fraction variability in semi-closed underwater rebreathing apparatuses. The tested rebreathers were RB80 (Halcyon dive systems, High springs, FL, USA), IS-Mix (Interspiro AB, Stockholm, Sweden), CRABE (Aqua Lung, Carros Cedex, France), and Viper+ (Cobham plc, Davenport, IA, USA). The tests were conducted using a catalytically based propene combusting metabolic simulator. The metabolic simulator connected to a breathing simulator, both placed inside a hyperbaric pressure chamber, was first tested to demonstrate its usefulness to simulate human respiration in a hyperbaric situation. Following this the metabolic simulator was shown to be a useful tool in accident investigations as well as to assess the impact of different engineering designs and physiological variables on the oxygen content in the gas delivered to the diver by the rebreathing apparatuses. A multi-compartment model of the oxygen fractions was developed and compared to the previously published single-compartment models. The root mean squared error (RMSE) of the multi-compartment model was smaller than the RMSE for the single-compartment model, showing its usefulness to estimate the impact of different designs and physiological variables on the inspired oxygen fraction.

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Lin, Kao-Cheng, and 林高正. "Recreational Scuba Diving." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23vhw6.

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國立體育學院
教練研究所
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Summary Taiwan is located in a sum tropical area. According its geographical location, it is a prime location for promotion of recreational diving.Historically Taiwan’s diving has been limited to military, underwater construction, and fishing purposes. The average Taiwan citizen had no right or reason to be exposed to diving.With the end of the martial law in Taiwan, growth of our economy, and advancement of informational technology, Taiwan had an overgrowing number of recreational divers.According to Chinese Taipei Diving Association, there are more than three hundred thousand certified divers in Taiwan. Obviously Taiwanese people make up an ocean-loving nation. The purpose of this book, beside introducing the history of recreational diving, equipment, techniques, and basic sports science theory, is to be able to work toward more science training, and experience in diving.It also provides more details on diving physics physiology and safety rules.For diving instructors and students, this book will serve as a reference for their purpose. This book is structured to contain the fooling structure: Chapter 1: · Diving history (in Taiwan and oversea). · Introduction of international diving associations. · Description / meaning of Diving Certification System. Chapter 2: Diving Environments · Characteristics / causes of currents, waves, tides, typhoons. · Dive sites introduction – internationally, Taiwan Main Land, Taiwan outlying islands. Chapter 3: Diving Equipments · Introduction and explanation of scuba diving equipments. · Use of scuba diving equipments. · Characteristics of equipments. · Buying selections. · Maintenance. Chapter 4: Diving Techniques · Use of basic sports theory and instructor theory to explain proper. · Method of training and technique. Chapter 5: Diving Physiology · How divers deal with depth, pressure, and physiological changes while diving. Chapter 6: Diving Physics · Explanation of Differences in water, air, pressure, buoyancy, light, color, sound under the water and explanation of scientific theories involved. Chapter 7: Types of Diving · Explanation, characteristics, limitation, equipment considerations necessary for specialty diving including: shore, boat, night, drift diving. Chapter 8: Diving Safety rules · General dive safety rules explanation, how to conduct pre-dive planning, and avoiding injury from dangerous marine life. · Expected growth of recreational diving by adhering to safety rules.

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YIN, HSIANG-WEN, and 尹相文. "Risk Management of Recreational Scuba Diving." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29942433509674710441.

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崇右技術學院
經營管理研究所
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ABSTRACT Title：Risk management of recreational scuba diving Pages：137 School：Chungyu Institute of Technology Department：Graduate Institute of Business Administration Time：Jan, 2017 Degree：Master Researcher：Hsiang-Wen Yin Advisor：Dr. Chih-Wei Chiu Nowadays, recreational scuba diving activity is a flourishing industry. Although, plenty of diving courses are developing on the market while coaches are now even more common, the number of accidents has not decreased recently. This primary research, collecting 6 diving experts’ experiences all over industry, official and academia, focuses on using document analysis and in-depth interview to analyze the risk management of scuba diving activity in Taiwan. According to the results, organizing 3 discoveries as follows: 1. “Waves” and “Tides” are the two main factors of natural environment that cause risks during scuba diving. Experienced coaches and cognition ability of self-physical fitness and self-ability would be the two most effective ways to prevent environment risk. 2. Scuba diving with enriched air or not reaching training hours would be the most dangerous while engaging in the activity. Besides, “decompression sickness” is often ignored. But with perfectly planned diving program could have a good control for the risk. 3. When it comes to personnel management, obtaining related business licenses and strictly controlling the ratio between students and coaches are both indispensable. For general scuba divers, both assessment of physical and mental state and the leading from a professional and qualified coach could control the risk successfully during scuba diving. Keywords: scuba diving, natural environment, scuba diving model, personnel management

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Tung, Tsang-Chi, and 董蒼吉. "Analysis and Improvement of SCUBA Diving Mouthpiece." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49656395033094913624.

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朝陽科技大學
工業設計系
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In this study, it is investigating if the mouthpiece of foreign turning model tallying with Taiwanese mouth. The structure of Taiwan has upgraded from OEM to ODM, as technology advances more and more, the development of the product must also be more in line with human nature. Diving activities are divided into deep diving and skin diving, and deep diving, also known as scuba-diving, mainly equipped with high-pressure air barrels, first stage (pressure regulator ) and second stage (breathing regulator ). Water recreation activities in Taiwan have been promoted by the government policy and the water association of civil society, making diving more and more common, diving players also increased year by year. Currently, the comfort of mouthpiece of second stage (breathing regulator ) on the market lacked a theoretical foundation that could be the basis of improvement. The study is aimed at the improvement of diving breathing regulator which is less concerned. On the current market, the mouthpiece was made according to foreign type, its size does not tally with oriental mouth. The study improved the design by visiting and discussing with diving instructors and professional dentist, according to their experience and professional, collected information to integration and do the design after digitizing the information, finally validate the result.

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Mei, Chih-Chao, and 梅志超. "The Research of Scuba Diving Safety Management." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23888150081806995613.

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大葉大學
運動事業管理學系
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People engaging in scuba diving are no longer just professional divers. Scuba div-ing has become a popular recreational sport with many everyday people. Due to safety management playing a large role in scuba diving, it greatly affects the diver’s lives. Therefore safety management in scuba diving should be discussed at length and re-searched heavily. By using the qualitative research method to survey six highly experi-enced divers, we can use their points of view as the main content of this research. By combining the above results with document analysis and case studies, the result of the research is as follows: Natural occurrences, equipment, techniques and regulations can be controlled by the diver. Therefore, the safety management of scuba diving needs to focus on the artifi-cial causes of danger. When scuba diving, one must exercise caution and be confident, but not arrogant or over-confident. The reasons for scuba divers facing dangers when diving include ignorance, misbehavior, over-confidence, diving while in poor physical condition, diving when tired or a poor ability to deal with emergency situations. These hazards are not only faced by beginner divers, but by coaches and instructors as well. The crucial points of safety management are to develop a deep understanding of why safety is important to divers. These safety concepts need to be conveyed by basic diving education and training. Therefore, arranging mock emergency classes in daily training will reinforce safety knowledge in divers. Also, better education and self-discipline will result in divers exercising greater caution. Well organized education and the co-operation between the physical and mental aspects will be the foundation of scuba diving safety management.

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Lee, Ming-Lun, and 李明倫. "The Research of SCUBA Diving Leisure-Fit." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59966726673340484951.

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樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
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Taiwan possesses a preferable geographic location where world’s second largest current, Kuroshio, flowing by and is an island state. Its rich marine resources are particularly suitable for developing water recreation activities. However, with the imposition of martial law, the entire coastlines were closed for decades and limited the development of water recreation activities. This study describes in detail Taiwan’s leisure scuba diving development history, the scope of leisure diving system and scuba diving researches in recent 5 years to present the full context for the leisure diving in Taiwan. The concepts for leisure scuba diving and leisure fit models are integrated to explore the appropriateness of leisure fit models towards leisure diving. This study utilizes leisure fit questionnaire as research method. Participants of this study were the divers with certificates of elementary leisure scuba diving. Total 278 valid questionnaires were collected. The obtained data were processed with SPSS for descriptive statistics and differential analyses. In addition, the leisure fit models were examined with AMOS linear structure equations and the results revealed that 1) scuba diving participants have different feeling for leisure fit, leisure satisfaction, flow experience and well-being areas in different backgrounds. 2) supplies-needs leisure fit models shows positive influences on leisure satisfaction, flow experience and well-being. 3) abilities-requirements fit models leads no positive effects on leisure satisfaction, flow experience and well-being.Our findings could be considered as useful reference for the related sectors.

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HU, WEI-CIANG, and 胡偉強. "Analysis and Improvement of SCUBA Diving Regulators." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05706826751303967174.

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國立交通大學
機械工程系所
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The self contained underwater breathing apparatus - SCUBA set ,consist of compressed air tank and pressure regulator .The development of scuba diving nowadays is based on the invention of regulator. The pressure of compressed air carried by diver must be reduced to the pressure as in environment by regulator before he or she can breath in.If the regulator fail in the water or it can’t supply the enough air for diver, the lives of diver would be in serious danger .So the performance and stability of the regulator concern the life of divers .Until nowadays, the design of regulator is depend on the experiences of the designers .Try-and-error is required to get the better results. In this project, using the Mold-Flow Analysis Software- FLOW-3D, simulation of the air flow in the regulator will be used and analyses of the key factors influence the performance of the regulator will be idenfied. Besides, we can predict the index performance of regulator by using the analysis result. Contrary to the tradition process, the performance can be predicted bfore a proto-type is made for experiment when design a new regulator. Therefore, the simulation process by using of FLOW-3D can effectively reduce the time of develop products. In addition, utilize the results of simulation to improve the regulator for a better performance.

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Chase, Anna Christina. "Enveloped by Ocean Life: Experiences of Scuba Diving." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35723.

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This arts-informed, phenomenological, and heuristic inquiry focuses on what it means to immerse deeply into experiences within the natural world. Through attention and reflection on emotional and somatic aspects of my own ocean SCUBA diving experiences, and those of beginner and practiced divers, a method and the significance of learning through personal experiences and others’ shared stories is illuminated. Readers are invited to imagine or revisit what it is like to be enveloped by ocean life through an artful narrative account of the ocean diving experience. Crafted in meandering ways, through the aesthetics of photographic images, divers’ evocative descriptions and poetic text, and interspersed with remembrances and imaginations and contemplations of self and world, the narrative reflects the diversity, richness and resonance of divers’ shared stories, and the reverberating and nurturing beauty and mystery of the ocean world. Through five narrative sections that embody a sense of movement deeper into the experience – into relations with the natural world, (‘Immersing’ ‘Opening Pathways of Exploration’, ‘Widening Circles of Compassion’, ‘Nature Reveals Her Open Secret’ and ‘Surfacing’), I encourage readers to wander amongst ocean life to expand ways of experiencing the natural world. It is important to look for new, creative ways that allow space for explorations of self and world, to uncover new ways to reconcile both the mind-body connection as well as the human-nature connection. This inquiry brings the notion of connectedness with nature to the forefront as humans’ alienation from the natural world is recognized as a significant contributor to the present ecological crisis. The exploration of ocean experiences was also a search for ways to encourage and sustain a lifelong inquiry into the relations with the non-human world as a way to continually build and reinforce a strong bond with the natural world for psychological, social and ecological wellbeing. The immersive nature of research methods and representation illuminated how ocean life and artful expressions of remembrances and imaginations build lasting impressions, further adding vitality to what is perceived in both aquatic and terrestrial worlds – enhancing a sense of connectedness with the natural world.

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Lu, Han-Yu, and 盧翰宇. "Security Marine Training Planning Research in Scuba Diving." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64288998220907454233.

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輔仁大學
體育學系碩士班
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The study used qualitative research method, interviewed six senior diving instructors. The purpose of this study is to explore diving marine trainings’ system and safety plan’s diverseness, obstruction and prospect. Findings of this study are as follows: I. Diving marine training system：Most organizations reference license’s rule; some extend their own systems. Instructor plays the most important role to protect students’ safety when training. Assistant’s most significant responsibility is to assist instructor in protecting students. II. Diverseness of diving safety plan：In marine training, most organizations’ policy decisions are decided by the authoritative instructor. Every organization follows the rule that training students in the confined water first, and then in the open water under instructor and assistant’s protection with some equipments. III. Diving obstruction：Human factors, natural factors and lack of equipment are the three main factors. IV. Diving prospect：Every organization’s instructor anticipate training more divers to be instructors for marine training and the ways to strengthen students’ skills.

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LIN, JUNG-NAN, and 林榮男. "A Survey of Sports Injuries in Scuba Diving." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86643833012057585700.

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國立高雄大學
運動健康與休閒學系碩士班
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The research studied the sports injuries in scuba diver, aimed at finding out the current situation; studied their relation between diving experience, diving ways and sports injuries, and understood how the divers treat the sports injuries when happened targeting scuba divers through a questionnaire. Sampling scope is based on the famed diving area in Taiwan：Cave in the northeast of Taiwan, Kenting area in Pingtung county, Green Island, Orchid Island, Penghu and Little Liuqiu. Sampling method; purposive sampling, 500 questionnaires were distributed to the above six areas. With regard to the symptoms of musculoskeletal discomfort in the questionnaire were referred to Standardized Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, NMQ.Collected.387 effective questionnaires conducted and analyzed by Chi-square Test (χ2 Test) using SPSS for Windows 23.0 software, the conclusions were made as follows. First, among individual background variables as marital status, monthly income, residence and exercise habits are significant different. Second, among diving experience as diving seniority, frequent diving sites, current diving sites, number of tanks of most frequent diving sites, diving activity types, and average number of tanks every quarter are significant different as well. Third, with regard to the causes of injuries, the most frequent answered causes were the interviewee carried diving equipments and travelled 50m of coral reefs that made their muscle sore after finished two tanks, especially the shoulder. Fourth, concerning sports injuries treatment, most interviewee ignored the soreness lasting one day due to no influence for life or work. Fifth, some interviewee believed the above injuries caused by the diving.

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Huang, De-Rong, and 黃德蓉. "The Impacts of Scuba Diving on Coral Reefs." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41947954330391137278.

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國立臺中教育大學
永續觀光暨遊憩管理碩士學位學程
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The growth of coral reefs is an important indicator of marine ecology. Coral reef ecosystems also provide biodiversity conservation, medical contributions, and creation of tourism value. Many island countries develop marine tourism due to the enhancement of employment opportunities and economic benefits it brings in coastal areas. Besides, marine tourism is one of the high-income industries. The scuba diving, which deeply relies on coral reefs ecosystems, is one of the Marine tourism activities. With promotion of scuba diving and the growth of tourists, problems of coral reefs ecological impact has become more serious. If the health status of coral reefs become worse, tourism value will also be affected. Designation of protected areas and the establishment of the diving payment system are the ways to protect coral reefs ecosystems. The awareness of Coral reefs conservation is gradually emphasized in Taiwan. Taiwan reached 40% of the world's coral species. The success of coral reefs ecosystem conservation can save more resources for scuba diving market. Also, the economic benefits it brought cannot be underestimated. Therefore, this research reorganizes the coral reef impact of scuba diving and preventive management strategies. Then using questionnaire survey method to know the current state of scuba diving activities and analyzing the management strategies can be used. In conclusion, the results can be the basis for conservation of coral reefs in the future.

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Shun-Wei, Tsai, and 蔡勳緯. "A Study of Risk Management for Scuba Diving." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07159849262125506599.

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大葉大學
運動事業管理學系
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Diving as an exercise to enhance physical fitness sports project, widely loved by everyone. And in recent years to carry up more lines of open water diving with its close to nature, in touch with nature "green movement" essentially sought after by many diving enthusiasts. But due to the special nature of the environment in which the sport, it also has potential risks unpredictable. Diving enthusiasts enjoy exercise while basic risk awareness is essential. And risk management professionals often determines diving scuba diving the key to success. Risk management procedures, including risk perception, risk assessment, risk management strategies using other steps (Head & Horn, 1991). In addition, the risk for major strategy for risk retention, risk avoidance, risk transfer and risk reduction. Scuba diving is essentially risk management plan should include regular inspection equipment, facilities, training for relevant personnel to provide adequate and comprehensive supervision of all activities. Due to the rapidly changing environment, risk management strategies also need to regularly review the amendments to cope with the actual situation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception and the actual dive professionals manage recreational scuba diving situations of risk management. And through the use of qualitative research method of semi-structured in-depth interviews, literature analysis, supplemented by four diving professionals to view the main content of the research, to be explored through case studies, in order to get results, but also the application of research findings to be discussed and put forward some suggestions.

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CHENG-KUO, CHEN, and 陳正國. "A Study of SCUBA Diving Instructors’ Professional Competency." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2ma25q.

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國立臺東大學
體育學系碩士班
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Abstract This study was to investigate: how SCUBA diving instructors perceive the importance of their professional competency, to what extent they perceive they own the professional competency, how their perception of the importance of their professional competency collaborates with their perception of their professional competency, and how instructors with different demographic backgrounds differ in their perception of the importance of their professional competency and the extent to which they own the professional competency. The researcher developed a questionnaire, titled as cognition of SCUBA diving instructors’ professional competency, to collect the needed research data. A sample of 300 diving instructors was asked to respond to the questionnaire and 253 valid questionnaires were returned. research findings based on the data analysis results include: 1. There are more male instructors than female instructors, more instructors aged beyond 40 than other age group, and more part-time instructors than full-time instructors. Most of the instructors hold a junior college degree and have 6-10 years of diving experience and 1-3 years of coaching experience. 2. The importance of the professional competency and the extent to which the instructors own the professional competency, as perceived by the instructors, can be ranked from high through low as: professional skills and attitude, instruction and operation skills, professional knowledge, injury prevention and first aid ability. 3. Junior instructors consider instruction operation skills as the most important; while senior instructors consider professional attitude as the most important. 4. Coaching experience can promote instructors’ professional competency. 5. There is a positive relationship between how the SCUBA diving instructors perceive the importance of professional competency and how they perceive they own professional competency. 6. SCUBA diving instructors’ perception of the importance of professional skills and attitude and professional knowledge is better than their perception of the extent they own these professional competencies; and their perception of the extent they own instruction and operation skills is better than their perception of the importance of these skills.

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Pereira, Marcos Aurelio de Melo. "Recreational scuba diving and reef conservation in southern Mozambique." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4266.

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Recreational SCUBA diving has grown tremendously along most of the southern Mozambican coastline in the last eight years. This growth was not accompanied with management actions, largely due to a lack of baseline information and appropriate regulations. A number of aspects of the industry were thus covered in this study to redress this shortfall. Information was collected on divers and diving pressure in southern Mozambique using questionnaires and dive log sheets distributed through local dive centres. The diving pressure was estimated at 42 500 dives in 2001 and 62 000 dives in 2002, and occurs at about 20 dive sites. More than 50% of the diving occurs on five reefs, three of which were included in the study. Surveys using visual techniques were conducted on six reefs subjected to different diving pressures, ranging from minimal ( 6 000 dives.year-I). Divers visiting southern Mozambique were found to be mostly educated South African males in their 30s. They are experienced and committed divers, satisfied with their diving experiences in the area and sensitive to reef conservation issues. The reefs differed in benthic composition, with three mam reef groups identified through multivariate analysis. All were typified by prolific soft corals but one included an abundance of branching Acropora and the other an abundance of foliose hard corals, thus differentiating the three groups. Reef fish communities also differed among the reefs. While prey species diversity was generally similar on all the reefs, two included high densities of piscivorous species. The present levels of SCUBA diving appeared to be having no deleterious effects on the reef communities, especially when compared to other disturbances such as storms and fishing. The sustainable diving capacity was estimated to be 7000 dives/year/dive site. The overall effects of recreational diving activities in southern Mozambique are discussed, along with future research needs and the management implications of the study.
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Yang-Han-Chen and 楊漢禎. "The Study of Recreational Scuba Diving Instructor’s Teaching Skills." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52630950237409031818.

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碩士
輔仁大學
體育學系碩士班
101
Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the current conditions of recreational diving instructor’s teaching skills’ implement. Seven recreational diving instructors were interviewed by qualitative research’s semi- structured interviews. After analyzed the verbatim, findings of this study are as follows: I.Instructor’s Current Teaching Conditions These days recreational diving instructor teaches students both academic and skill which depend on each other closely. II.Instructor’s Teaching Strategies A.Both academic and skill subject are taught by the systems’ order no matter restricted water, open water and so on. B.Most instructors teach students in accordance with their aptitude. III.Instructor’s Teaching Strategies of Safety Guidance Instructor teaches student the safety knowledge in class, moreover, realizes students’ ability for safety. IV.Instructor’s Teaching Strategies of Marine Resources Guidance Instructor teaches and shares the ways to protect marine. After instructor and student reaching an agreement, they put into practice together.

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Graber, John H. "The fluidic breathing assist regulator for scuba diving systems." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33113581.html.

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PENG, YA-HSIN, and 彭雅欣. "A Study on Innovation Business Model for Scuba Diving Industry." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5z3wpj.

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碩士
景文科技大學
旅遊管理系觀光與餐旅管理碩士班
104
For the tourism market in Taiwan is getting mature, leisure activities tend to an increasing proportion. Because of a rapidly aging population, the competition of industrial transformation, the development of Leisure Sports Industry gradually increased. The 2013 Athletic Commission "Sports City Report" ranks “water sports” (8.2%) the 4th place in the Sports List. The recreational diving industry is a part of the sports service industry that improves the quality of sports service, environmental education and risk management. Attracting talent to the recreational diving industry and there by upgrading production will achieve an economic, social and environmental three -win situation. In this study, a business model canvas of management tool in Deconstruction business Elemental composition mode, jointly developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur is employed. The results of literature review, interviews and joint observation were used to collect research data, assess competitive advantages. Besides, blue ocean strategies are used to create innovation business models in the recreational diving industry. The findings of this study provide recreational diving industry or their managers an expansion of business scale and innovation business transformation models in the future. The result shows there are a lack of well-established policy and an insufficiency of externally well-equipped environment to support the recreational diving industry. In the part of the companies, a certification system is advised to set up, and the fine spirit of service is merged into the instructive activities. Moreover, professional management courses are suggested to organize for the managers which help them modify their business models to meet the various changes in the consumption market and the diverse customer needs. It is also hoped to offer a sustainable development for the diving industry.

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Hsieh, Chia-Ju, and 謝佳儒. "The Study of Market Positioning for Scuba Diving at Taiwan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25811046990712119307.

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朝陽科技大學
資訊管理系碩士班
101
As the various countries of the world is increasing emphasis on the quality of life for the people. However, Taiwan is a marine resource-rich island, in recent years, due to the open environment, making the increasingly rich waters sports to participate in the population and the type of activity. In recent years, the news media and the Internet community information passed quickly and conveniently. More and more people concerned about the sport of recreational scuba diving. Nevertheless, it is difficult to develop the related industries and immature in Taiwan, and the diving sports information scattered. Therefore, people who are interested in learning about the recreational diving cannot be ruled out concerns and get the necessary knowledge. Resulting in the incorrect concept of recreational diving, and promote recreational diving hinder. Although the relevant organization committed to the development and promotion of diving, but due to the above factors, the benefits of play are somewhat limited. The purpose of this study is to explore the issues and challenges facing the promotion of recreational diving, then solutions provide recommendations for reference when planning advocacy campaign plan. Eventually, through the results of this study, the participation of the people in this movement can be increased, and in order to enhance the conservation concept for the marine environment, the purpose of emphasis on caring for the environment. According to the results of the questionnaire analysis, the future development of recreational diving industry, focusing on water regulations and policies focus on government agencies need to be more clearly defined. As well as the waters of the great importance of the environment and facilities, in order to protect the people involved in the security of the waters. Dealing with these issues in order to make the people understand the waterborne close to water activities to adapt to the water environment.

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Chung, Chiu-Mei, and 鍾秋美. "Ethnography Research on Scuba Diving Guide Overseas Work in PALAU." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9gq4zz.

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碩士
國立清華大學
臺灣研究教師在職進修班
105
This research discusses a scuba diving company’s business expansion overseas in Palau and scuba diving guides work at Palau. This research field work was in Koror States, in the Republic of Palau. The research period was in the beginning of 2015 to the end of 2015. This research was collected using a method of observation and interview. From the perspective of an international scuba diving company, this discussed, the cooperation with scuba diving guides, figureheads in business, and other foreign affiliations. This research focused on scuba diving business transactional practice. The pursuit of one mans dreams. The pursuit of corporate profits, not only in Taiwan, but also in Palau. While the scuba diving company in Palau was a small investment. There was local businessman who helps establish the company. The scuba diving company paid the local businessman monthly fees and taxes for the Koror government. The scuba diving company often encountered unequal treatment. The scuba diving company had to create face to face conversation in order to communicate and achieve a win win situation. This research found the following points. First: scuba diving guides in Palau were not only professional, but they also must comply with Palau local laws and regulations, then they must apply for a work permit, obtain a CPR license, and must have passed the Koror tour guide examinations in order to engage in scuba diving in Palau. If tour guides did not pass the Koror tour guide examinations, then they must work in Palau or another state. Second: In Palau, scuba diving guides brought diving passengers to do scuba diving activities this was a labor-intensive job. Taiwan's scuba diving guides required good communication, but, language skills were more important, in addition to Chinese, they must also know English. To give a good diving experience, and to gain more customers, there was a working plan, to bring diving customers back to Palau. But this was only promotional. Thirdly, from the perspective of overseas workers' adaptation to life, it was possible to explore the fact that the traditional culture of Palau had gradually diminished. Tourism had brought tax wealth, but the number of tourists and foreign workers was much higher than that of locals. Palau culture lost its strength, due to population reduction and population migration. Also there were many outsiders, and the traditional Palau culture, was reformed into a new cultural system. Fourthly, the research showed that scuba diving guides had to face the different cultural adaptation problems. The scuba diving guides, sought work overseas to get better profits. In Palau they needed friends to help. The friends who came from Taiwan helped the scuba diving guides a lot. Their experiences allowed them to run their business in a short time. The cultural background of Taiwan, the business experience, and the influence of the network of people in the practice of transnational activities. These all help the scuba diving guides learn how to run their business.

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Ran, Mao-Chien, and 冉懋謙. "Research on the Construction of Leisure Scuba Diving Risk Index." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p96mpa.

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樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
106
In recent years, the population of leisure diving activities in Taiwan has increased day by day, which has also promoted the promotion of recreational scuba diving activities in Taiwan. It is important to reduce the risk of participating in diving activities. In order to establish the risk indicators for recreational scuba diving, this study explores the risks involved in recreational scuba diving to establish risk indicators for recreational scuba diving, and provides opinions and specific suggestions for the research results. Each scuba diver is used as a reference. This study used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a research tool and analyzed it using a hierarchical analysis method. The study compiled six indicators, namely: marine environment, weather and climate, general divers, professional divers, self-health status, and equipment. To establish the risk index of recreational scuba diving, the results of this study show that self-health assessment is the most important risk of leisure diving, showing that leisure diving is the most effective risk reduction factor for self-health, and then by professionals. Help to be more secure. The results of the study can provide a reference for subsequent research.

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Yen, Jack, and 顏士傑. "Developing SCUBA Diving Industry in Kenting by Service Design Approach." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mury27.

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國立政治大學
經營管理碩士學程(EMBA)
106
Taiwan, surrounded by ocean and is located both in sub-tropical and tropical area. There is ocean current passing by at the east of island which create variety of fantastic ocean environment. In recent years, recreational activities in ocean has became more and more popular, many type of ocean activities are raising. SCUBA diving is one of them and thousands of people learnt how to do SCUBA diving and got their SCUBA diving certificates every year. The ocean environment in Taiwan has big advantage to the development of SCUBA diving activities. Kenting area is one of the best location for the development of SCUBA diving industry because of protection of the National Kenting Park, suitable weather of tropical area and convenient transportation compare to other islands. This thesis is focusing on how to develop the SCUBA diving industry in Kenting area through service design methodology to answer the question of study topic. Start from stakeholder analysis to find out key stakeholders and then interview with those identified stakeholders to get their feedbacks. Figure out their insights by empathy approach and then get the point of view of stakeholders. Following, design and create service model form that user's point of view to solve the design problem. Finally, using business model analysis and risk analysis technique to review the service model created by service design approach to make the business model viable, sustainable, and reliable. Furthermore, hope to help making SCUBA diving industry in Kenting area or even in Taiwan a very famous and successful story to inter-nations.

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Wang, Ying, and 王瑛. "A study of instructor’s risk management for recreational scuba diving." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f57w9n.

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國立臺東大學
體育學系碩士班
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Safety is first concern when we join scuba diving. The risk management becomes the key during scuba diving journey in Taiwan. The purpose of research was to investigate how diving instructors handled risk management by using in-depth semi-structured interviews of qualitative research and assisted by documentary analysis. After case-cross analysis, the findings of this study were as follow: 1. For instructors, environment risk could be controlled by weather forecast and diving plan. The most dangerous risk was to face cocky divers. 2. The best effective self management to instructors was to take advanced and professional training not only for themselves but for divers as well. The external management included divers, equipments, and boat. When facing new divers, instructors used different ways to assess their ability. Meantime, they usually asked divers to have own equipments and re-check before on board for safety purpose. However, instructors could not help to give up boat management due to profit of ship owners, it was beyond their control. 3. Instructors used risk management strategies in different situations. Due to benefit concern, they took risk retention strategy to accept new divers and re-arrange other instructors at the same time. To sign responsible release or medical treatment agreement was fix procedure for risk avoid in diving field. The different views to insurance showed that instructors were not familiar for risk transfer strategy. To reduce risk need methods to solve out. Instructors expressed their suggestion to government including boat regulation setting, relative businessmen assessment and urgent treatment supporting to prevent risk from happening or worse.

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Peng, Tsung-Hung, and 彭宗弘. "Research of Scuba Diving Participating Motivation and Leisure Constraint in Taiwan." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51427323794494347971.

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Ananiadis, Christopher. "The effect of a scuba diving cylinder on static lumbar spine posture." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/277.

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Thesis (M.Tech.: Chiropractic) -Dept. of Chiropractic, Technikon Natal, 2002 1 v. (various pagings)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of wearing a scuba diving cylinder on static lumbar spine posture, in terms of clinical objective findings, namely radiographic changes in the lumbar lordosis, lumbosacral angle, lumbosacral disc angle, and the lumbar gravity line, during upright standing on land.

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Cheng, Liu Kuan, and 劉觀正. "A Study of Recreational Scuba Diving Volunteers’will for the Ocean Environmental Protection." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81431220333507475459.

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中國文化大學
運動教練研究所
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the recreational scuba diving volunteers’ will for the ocean environmental protection. The results of this study offer some constructive recommendations for the government to recruit volunteers for the beach environmental protection. The study was conducted by questionnaire survey; the subjects were leisure divers at Northeastern Corner and Ken-Tin National Park from June to September 2004. 200 questionnaires were distributed, whereas 177 were returned in valid with effective return rate of 88%. The results of analyses were as follow: 1. 177 valid returned 102 (57.6 %) never participated and 75 participated before (42.4 %). Number of participation were 2 to 5 times the most, majority were male of 57 mainly aged from 31 to 40; Occupation was mainly the information technologists; educationally majority was university graduates; Diving age mainly 1 to 4 years; among these participants 70 were willing to be volunteers again if they have chance, whereas 5 were not. 2. There were 132 people willing to be volunteers (again) on ocean environmental protection, the major motivations were; to enhance diver’s concept of ocean environmental protection; to give their effort on ocean environmental protection; to provide a better diving environment in the future; to serve the society and to act as the pioneers’ mission for environmental protection. 3. The comparison of the desire of leisure divers to join beach cleaning upon their viewpoint, Most of the leisure divers have no comment on the aspect of the effectiveness of the project. In the aspect of extra effort, the government needs to foster the professional divers; the other thought was that people lack the concept of the environmental protection. It should start from good education. 4. The reasons for 45 leisure divers were not to be volunteer (again) for ocean environmental protection were that the activities schedule may not suit their timetables; not interested on ocean environmental protection; individual or group can not be benefited; it is neither their obligation nor their responsibility to do this work; they felt beach cleaning has no special meaning and did not hold some other supportive activities and competitions. It is recommended that the government should continue its effort to educate the ocean environmental protection, to set the required regulations to protect the ecology and environment, to use the available resources, to promote the relevant activities and gather the local resources to promote the ocean environmental protection scuba driving volunteers’ management policies. Key words: recreational scuba diving, beach cleaning, volunteer of ocean environmental protection.

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