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Published: November 6, 2007
Stargazers living in major cities have an incredibly difficult time locating all of the constellations they seek. Simply put, many constellations appear only dimly or not at all when competing with city lights at night. Technology seems to have had a largely detrimental effect on stargazing as the years progress. People looking for the stars in major cities now feel very similarly to how fans of water exploration did years ago--technologically impeded in their ability adequately explore.
Of course, people now have economically frugal means of investigating ocean depths through innovations like scuba diving, a hobby that has grown a great deal in the last century.
For the general public, scuba diving as recently as a 100 years ago seemed fiscally unfeasible. Divers have had the opportunity for air-assisted diving since the 18th century, but that technology remained unreliable and entirely too expensive. In the 40s, though, Frenchmen Cousteau and Gagnan managed to invent the major antecedent to most modern scuba diving tanks with their Aqua Lung. From their creation, it was only a matter of time for recreational scuba diving to begin to flourish.
Americans had the luxury of early schools for scuba divers. The YMCA provided scuba diving instruction and certification as early as 1959 in Chicago, a year before international organizations such as the National Association of Underwater Instructors formed. Lessons toward certification tend to come at reasonable prices and usually require only a modest investment made toward gear, especially considering how easily gear can be rented at shops nearby diving spots. Often, scuba divers as young as 15 can get certified at major scuba diving schools. Lessons for divers may take place in as controlled an environment as a city pool or as realistically as in an ocean or lake, depending on the comfort of the instructors and the participating students. So easily afforded and popularly taught, scuba diving has enjoyed a growing international following as a way to explore the deep blue unknown.
People regularly lament the paucity of stars viewable from major cities while concomitantly forgetting the underrated wonders of the water covering so much of the earth's surface. While human advancement has made stargazing by simple sight a little more difficult, technology has clearly enhanced the scuba diving experience. With only modest investments in equipment and instruction, people of cities large and small can all enjoy the wonders of watery depths. Sometimes looking up can only give a dim view, but looking down can provide just as many glowing wonders as anything in the stars; scuba diving offers a chance to do so. The deep blue sends out its call--it only remains to answer.
Sources:
"Introduction to Scuba Diving." The Scuba Guide. Moxy Media. 31 Oct. 2007 http://www.thescubaguide.com/introduction/.
"Learn to Dive." YMCA Scuba. YMCA. 31 Oct. 2007 http://www.ymcascuba.org/ymcascub/dive.html.
"Welcome." YMCA Scuba. YMCA. 31 Oct. 2007 http://www.ymcascuba.org/.
For the general public, scuba diving as recently as a 100 years ago seemed fiscally unfeasible. Divers have had the opportunity for air-assisted diving since the 18th century, but that technology remained unreliable and entirely too expensive. In the 40s, though, Frenchmen Cousteau and Gagnan managed to invent the major antecedent to most modern scuba diving tanks with their Aqua Lung. From their creation, it was only a matter of time for recreational scuba diving to begin to flourish.
Americans had the luxury of early schools for scuba divers. The YMCA provided scuba diving instruction and certification as early as 1959 in Chicago, a year before international organizations such as the National Association of Underwater Instructors formed. Lessons toward certification tend to come at reasonable prices and usually require only a modest investment made toward gear, especially considering how easily gear can be rented at shops nearby diving spots. Often, scuba divers as young as 15 can get certified at major scuba diving schools. Lessons for divers may take place in as controlled an environment as a city pool or as realistically as in an ocean or lake, depending on the comfort of the instructors and the participating students. So easily afforded and popularly taught, scuba diving has enjoyed a growing international following as a way to explore the deep blue unknown.
People regularly lament the paucity of stars viewable from major cities while concomitantly forgetting the underrated wonders of the water covering so much of the earth's surface. While human advancement has made stargazing by simple sight a little more difficult, technology has clearly enhanced the scuba diving experience. With only modest investments in equipment and instruction, people of cities large and small can all enjoy the wonders of watery depths. Sometimes looking up can only give a dim view, but looking down can provide just as many glowing wonders as anything in the stars; scuba diving offers a chance to do so. The deep blue sends out its call--it only remains to answer.
Sources:
"Introduction to Scuba Diving." The Scuba Guide. Moxy Media. 31 Oct. 2007 http://www.thescubaguide.com/introduction/.
"Learn to Dive." YMCA Scuba. YMCA. 31 Oct. 2007 http://www.ymcascuba.org/ymcascub/dive.html.
"Welcome." YMCA Scuba. YMCA. 31 Oct. 2007 http://www.ymcascuba.org/.
