Is a free diver a diver?

[tamas970]

Clarity was never a target for the media. Profit and manipulation with no respect to the consequences was/is.

Of course its overkill.. Why would media ever want precision - that might actually make people know what actually happen and not click the link to stuff that dont really interest them..

 

[Bob DBF]

First, freediver used, in the not so distant past, to include anyone not tethered like a hard hat diver. These terms have changed meaning in my lifetime, that is why SCUBA diver was used for distinction. Oh yeah, somehow SCUBA changed from an acronym to a noun, go figure.
When I was a kid, freediving meant SCUBA diving because snorkeling included what we now know as freediving. You can discuss Skin Diving amongst yourselves.


In the context department, on the North Coast at this time of year should you hear about a diver death you would automatically think Ab Diver. Oh, yeah, and weight belt still on.





Bob
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[dfx]

When I search Google for "diving club", I get a page full of results of this:



It all depends on context...

 

[nimoh]

I agree, context is everything. When I ask someone to go out "scuba" diving on Saturday, I will commonly ask "do you want to go diving this weekend?" and they know what I mean. I imagine that skydivers do the same.

The issue with the media is that they are interviewing free divers referring to themselves as divers, and so they print it.

 

[DennisS]

There are scuba divers, hookah divers, commercial divers, free divers, ama pearl divers, and navy divers. They all go underwater, they are all divers.

There are spearfishers, some use scuba, some freedive, both are spearfishers

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

According to NAUI, SEI and some other agencies, a free diver is a diver ... since free diving skills are a mandatory part of OW training ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[mdb]

Of course a freediver is a diver. What else are they doing but diving?

 

[boulderjohn]

According to NAUI, SEI and some other agencies, a free diver is a diver ... since free diving skills are a mandatory part of OW training ...

It is included in PADI OW training as well.

 

[Tigerman]

Clarity was never a target for the media. Profit and manipulation with no respect to the consequences was/is.

Thats why it piss me off..
The media purposely make things unclear for sales and that lack of precision is further spread by the general public who dont know better..
The media claim to be there to inform, but theire rather there to confuse and create hype...

 

[mdb]

Get over it. A diver is a diver.