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Like all animals, human beings
need oxygen in order to survive. When we
breathe, we extract oxygen from the air, and use
that oxygen for metabolism, which is
how we convert the food we eat into useable
energy to do the things that we do. One of the
by-products of metabolism is carbon dioxide;
whenever we exhale, we are getting rid of the
carbon dioxide that our bodies produce.
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The Head Games of Diving |
by B. R. Wienke |
As divers, we often view our performance in terms of
the manueuvers we can, or cannot, do. Skills, and
their respective levels of development, are
certainly of concern to both the beginning and
accomplished diver. In grooving motor skills and
attempting to enhance our performance, it appears
useful to consider a number of competing factors
impacting physical performance and mental
perception, and especially their interplay, the so
called head games of competitive endeavor.
Accomplished athletes often exhibit exceptional
control of mental disposition, superb reflexive
mastery of movement patterns, and uncanny ability to
visualize motor skills. Some of that performance
ideology can be applied to both learning to dive and
diving better, a more pedestrian, yet equally
complex, activity. The
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The Psychology of Diving |
by
(Dr) Peter M.
Forster |
I
have been a diver almost as long as I have been a
psychologist. I began training with the British Sub
Aqua Club in 1975, two years after I started on an
undergraduate psychology course. At one point, the
two even came together when I studied the effects of
stress, along with a colleague, Arthur Grierson, who
was an active sky diver.
Sadly, Arthur died in a sky
diving accident and I moved on to other areas of
psychology. However, the psychology of scuba diving
has always interested me and this page reflects that
interest. These days, I am a diving instructor with
PADI, in my spare time, and my knowledge of
psychology has undoubtedly made me a better
instructor.
I hope that this page teaches you a few
interesting things about the psychology that
underlies scuba diving and maybe even leads to
changes that improve your diving enjoyment and
safety.
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