The extent of responsibility of recreational buddy divers is unclear, but buddy diving is generally recommended by recreational diver training agencies as safer than solo diving, and some service providers insist that customers dive in buddy pairs.
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Full scope of recreational diving includes breath-hold diving and surface supplied diving – particularly with lightweight semi-autonomous airline systems such as snuba – and technical diving, as all of these are frequently done for recreational purposes, but common usage is mostly for open water scuba diving with limited decompression.
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Scuba Recreational diving implies the use of an autonomous breathing gas supply carried by the diver, the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus which provides the name for this mode of Recreational diving.
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Rebreathers used for recreational diving are generally designed to require a minimum task loading on the diver and as far as possible to fail safe and give the diver ample warning to bail out to open circuit and abort the dive.
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Some organisations extend the scope of recreational diving to allow short decompression obligations which can be done without gas switching.
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Some recreational diving activities require skills sufficiently beyond the basic recreational open water diving skill set that they are classed by the recreational diver training industry as specialties, and for which further training and certification is available.
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Recreational scuba diving grew out of related activities such as Snorkeling and underwater hunting.
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However, for much of the 1950s and early 1960s, recreational scuba diving was a sport limited to those who were able to afford or make their own kit, and prepared to undergo intensive training to use it.
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Until the early 1950s, navies and other organizations performing professional Recreational diving were the only providers of diver training, but only for their own personnel and only using their own types of equipment.
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The first scuba Recreational diving school was opened in France to train the owners of the Cousteau and Gagnan designed twin-hose scuba.
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Scuba-Recreational diving has become a popular leisure activity, and many Recreational diving destinations have some form of dive shop presence that can offer air fills, equipment sale, rental and repair, and training.
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Generally, recreational diving depths are limited by the training agencies to a maximum of between 30 and 40 meters, beyond which a variety of safety issues such as oxygen toxicity and nitrogen narcosis significantly increase the risk of diving using recreational diving equipment and practices, and specialized skills and equipment for technical diving are needed.
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Solo Recreational diving a bailout cylinder is considered standard for dives where there is an appreciable risk of entrapment, or where a direct controlled emergency swimming ascent is not an acceptable option to manage an out-of-air incident at any point in the planned dive profile.
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Solo Recreational diving, once considered technical Recreational diving and discouraged by most certification agencies, is seen by many experienced divers and some certification agencies as an acceptable practice for those divers suitably trained and experienced.
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Buddy Recreational diving is the more generally advocated procedural alternative, on the principle that in case of an emergency, a dive buddy can assist the diver in difficulty, but this is only valid if the buddy is close enough to help, notices the problem, and is competent and willing to assist.
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Recreational scuba diving involves physical and psychological risks and therefore can be classified as an extreme sport.
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The total size of the diving population is important for determining overall fatality rates, and the population estimates from the 1990s of several million U S divers need to be updated.
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In many countries recreational diving is either not mentioned at all in laws and regulations, or specifically excluded from regulations covering occupational diving.
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In spite of this lack of clarity, and conflicting evidence, buddy diving is recommended by recreational diver training agencies as safer than solo diving, and some service providers insist that customers dive in buddy pairs.
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Recreational diving provides a market for the diving equipment industry, the diver training industry and the diver services industry, all of which are interdependent, and at retail level, frequently provided by the same local specialist outlet.
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Scuba diving tourism is the industry based on servicing the requirements of recreational divers at destinations other than where they live.
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