SCUBA--sport or hobby

[Scubaguy62]

It's a hobby because I'm constantly putting money into it to make either myself or my gear better, and also because on every dive I practice something.

It's a sport because it demands dexterity, physical ability and coordination, and it can be stressing at times. Also, I enjoy doing it as much as I enjoyed playing baseball.

Most of all, is some sort of sick obsessive therapy; I'm usually obsessed about going diving (having the ocean a 20 min drive from my house is a big influence on that), and when I get in the water is the best therapy I can think of, and I get "sick" when I can't dive!

 

[Randy43068]

SCUBA.. it's an O B S E S S I O N !!!

 

[miketsp]

Rather amusing the similarity to this thread on whether cycling is a hobby or a sport:
http://www.cyclingforums.com/t146867.html

 

[dweeb]

When people ask you what you do in your spare time,,,,,and you reply SCUBA diving...... do you think of it more as a sport or hobby???

It's just something I do. However, the historically acknowledged definition of sport is Ernest Hemingway's -
A true sport must involve risk of death, everything else is just a game. By that criteria, SCUBA is a sport, except in PADI's marketing materials.

 

[mtnredhed]

Rather amusing the similarity to this thread on whether cycling is a hobby or a sport:

I look at sport as a competitive physical game with non-subjective scoring. It's one of the reasons why I don't believe things like ice dancing, freestyle sking. synchronized swimming and their ilk should be in the olympics. I can easily see cycling as a sport that can be particpated in at a "hobby" level.

Diving can be a profession, a trade, or a hobby depending on your involvement.

 

[LeFlaneur]

It should be noted that, while scuba diving is not competitive, TALKING about scuba diving definitely is.

 

[Lemonade]

It should be noted that, while scuba diving is not competitive, TALKING about scuba diving definitely is.

Yeah Quarrelling on this board complements SCUBA's lack of competitiveness.