Fishkiller
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well It is MAY and people are taking test so why should here be different.
Diving Trivia - Compiled by Bernie Chowdhury
Reprint from Divers Digest March 199X
1. Who invented SCUBA and in what year?
2. Who invented underwater photography?
3. When were the world's first underwater photographs taken?
4. What was the first book on underwater photography?
5. What was nitrogen narcosis first called?
6. What was the name of the first film Cousteau entered in the Cannes Film Festival?
7. What was the name of the 1956 underwater film that won an Oscar in the U.S. and the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival?
8. Which two men are credited with descending beyond the visible range of light, when did they do it and how deep did they go?
9. John Scott Haidane came up with the first set of dive tables, in 1907. What was the name of the committee that commissioned him to come up with a set of tables?
10. Who came up with the idea for saturation diving? [Saturation diving theory states that, once a diver's body has become saturated with inert gas, stage decompression no longer increases]
Extra Credit
11. What is the name of the civil war ironclad wreck that Gary Gentile fought the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). for 5 years for the rights to dive on?
Diving Trivia - Compiled by Bernie Chowdhury
Reprint from Divers Digest March 199X
1. Who invented SCUBA and in what year?
2. Who invented underwater photography?
3. When were the world's first underwater photographs taken?
4. What was the first book on underwater photography?
5. What was nitrogen narcosis first called?
6. What was the name of the first film Cousteau entered in the Cannes Film Festival?
7. What was the name of the 1956 underwater film that won an Oscar in the U.S. and the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival?
8. Which two men are credited with descending beyond the visible range of light, when did they do it and how deep did they go?
9. John Scott Haidane came up with the first set of dive tables, in 1907. What was the name of the committee that commissioned him to come up with a set of tables?
10. Who came up with the idea for saturation diving? [Saturation diving theory states that, once a diver's body has become saturated with inert gas, stage decompression no longer increases]
Extra Credit
11. What is the name of the civil war ironclad wreck that Gary Gentile fought the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). for 5 years for the rights to dive on?
