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Underwater Diving

Underwater diving here means the broad underwater-diving context with training, equipment, buoyancy, breathing gas, buddy system and safety planning. It is not springboard/platform diving; `underwater-diving` is an English alias of this entry.

LevelVariant FamilyAquatics Family CategoryWater sport / underwater diving
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Classification

Category Water sport / underwater diving
Family Aquatics Family
Level Variant

Weitere Angaben

Tags outdoor, water, tauchen, water-sport, underwater-diving, aquatics-familie, wassersport-tauchen, unterwasser-tauchen

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Dive underwater in a trained, controlled and safe way with buddy, equipment, gas planning and local rules.

Teilnehmer

Buddy team, course group or subdiscipline format.

Teamgröße

usually buddy system; group by course/dive.

Spielfeld

pool, confined water or dive site.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

skill completion or subdiscipline-specific scoring.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

  • mask
  • fins
  • BCD
  • regulator
  • cylinder
  • dive computer

Wichtige Regelpunkte

  • missing buddy/plan
  • gas/depth rule breach
  • unsafe ascent
  • local dive-site breach

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

  • CMAS
  • CMAS (CMAS)