CAGE DIVING

The most common method of diving with sharks is cage diving. This method is by far the safest, yet it still allows you to get up close and personal with the sharks. The cage, which is attached to a boat, is typically a rectangle and fits you and three other friends at a time. Once in the water, you have a largely unobstructed view of the sharks as they swim within feet of the cage.

What will you need if you want to cage dive with sharks? A healthy grip on your fear, for one. After that, you only need the basic equipment to snorkel or scuba tank, such as a wetsuit, a snorkel, a weight belt to keep you underwater, and scuba gear if you are a certified scuba diver. Instead of snorkeling gear, the boat might have its own "hookah style" air system that pumps air directly to you through a long hose from an air compressor on the boat [source: Alaska Mining and Diving Supply]. This method means that you don't need a tank in the water but can still be fully submerged to get the best view. The company that charters the trip should have most, if not all, of the equipment you will need. 

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History of Shark Cage Diving

Great White Shark Cage Diving has, in recent years, become one of the most popular adventure activities amongst adrenalin junkies, divers & tourists.  Shark Cage Diving has become hugely popular around the world and in particular in South Africa where it was started 20 years ago in Gansbaai near Hermanus in the Western Cape. Hermanus is just an hour and a half drive from Cape Town, the “Mother City” of South Africa.

South Africa has become known around the world as one of the best Great White Shark Cage Diving destinations in the world.  Great White Shark Cage diving is offered in many locations around the coast of South Africa, all theShark Cage Diving operators are required to have a permit as well as licensed boats which are checked regularly to ensure their equipment is in peak working condition. All Shark Cage Diving boat crew are required to have been trained as well as many operators ensuring that their staff have received training in the Tour Guide industry.

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SNOWBOARDING  

in 2000, Snowboarding was the fastest-growing sport in the US (followed by skateboarding), with the number of enthusiasts rising to a total of just over 7.2 million.

Snowboarding helped spark a revolution in the ski industry by inspiring ski manufacturers to make shorter, more maneuverable Skis with deeper sidecuts.
While Snowboarding is undeniably an exciting sport, riders should keep in mind that the sport also has inherent risks. Take a look at these Snowboarding Facts from the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

the National Ski Areas Association reports that during the 1996-97 season, four people died in Snowboarding-related incidents and 32 people from skiing. Of those injured on the slopes, 45 sustained life-threatening injuries, including serious head trauma and spinal injuries. Nine of those people had been snowboarding.

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HISTORY OF SNOWBOARDING

THE HISTORY OF SNOWBOARDING 
In 1964 a young surf freak called Sherman Poppen was dreaming about surfing the magic winter landscape of the Rockies. As a consequence, he built a surfboard for the snow. His first prototype was an about 1,20 m long plastic plank: two kids' skis bolted together. It was a present for his daughter Wendy which soon was a winner in the neighbourhood. 
One year later, in 1965, his idea was put into production: Carried out together with a bowling-ball manufacturer, the now called "snurfer" (=snow-surfer) found its way through toy-stores under the Christmas trees. For the unbeatable price of $15, one million snurfers were sold in the 10 years following, and Mr. Poppen soon began to establish a competition series.  But the snurfer as a mass phenomenon disappeared as quickly as he had emerged from the white surf of the Rockies. Nothing else but the vague memory of an uncontrollable toy stayed in most people's minds. It was close to be the end of a fantastic idea - surfing the winter mountains -if there wouldn't have been blokes like Dimitrije Milovich or Jake Burton Carpenter. 

SKY DIVING

FACTS ABOUT SKY DIVING 

1. The highest parachute jump occurred in August 1960 by Captain Kittinger from nearly 102,800 feet. The free fall lasted more than 4 minutes in which Kittinger’s free fall speed was almost 715 mph. It was at 18,000 feet when his parachute opened. That mean he was in free fall mode for almost 85,000 feet.


2. There have been instances in which military planes have gone down in bodies of water and pilots have used their parachutes to save their lives. They have deployed their parachutes underwater and been pulled up by the parachute in addition to activating their life vests.



3. To show that anyone from any age can sky dive, a 92 year old man sporting artificial knees did a solo jump in Cleveland, Ohio. He weighed a mere 105 pounds, had fake knees, and a hearing aid. He leaped at 3,500 feet. The oldest tandem skydiving jumper was a 100 year old in October 1999. A woman at the age of 90 wanted to dive for her birthday to prove that age is just a number. She jumped from 12,000 feet.


4. The youngest sky diver was four years old. Again, this shows that any age individual can jump. The jump was a tandem jump, of course and the jump was made at 10,000 feet.

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 Skydiving has an interesting history that can take up a whole volume, but this article will attempt to give a brief synopsis of that history. Most people consider skydiving a product of the twentieth century, but its history actually goes further back than that. The Chinese attempted parachuting in the 10th century, a thousand years before we did. Of course, there were no airplanes, so the Chinese did what we would today call base diving; that is, they jumped off outcroppings or other formations that would allow them to float from a height to the ground. And then, of course, we have the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, who illustrated a pyramid shaped parachute on a wood frame.

 

BUNGEE JUMPING 

 Bungee has quite an old origin. The idea of this way of jumping comes from the ancient ritual "Gkol" performed in the Pentecost Island in the Pacific Archipelago of Vanuatu. The legend says that in the village Bunlap a man called Tamalie had a quarrel with his wife and she ran away and climbed a Banyan tree where she wrapped her ankles with liana vines. When Tamalie came up to her, the woman jumped from the tree and so did her husband not knowing what had his wife done. So he died but the woman survived. The men of Bunlap were very impressed by this performance and they began to practise such jumps in case they got in similar situation. This practice transformed into a ritual for rich yam harvest and also for proving manhood.

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1979 when group of students from the Oxford University Dangerous Sport Club, impressed by a film about "vine jum

pers", jumped from 245-Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. Using nylon braided, rubber shock cord instead of vines, and dressed in their customary top hat and tails, they performed a four man simultaneous jump .The enthysiasts promptly were arrested for this. But at least hit the world press the next day. The new adrenaline mania has been started. The D.S.C. performed many other jumps, including one off the Golden Gate Bridge. In early 1988, A.J. Hackett and Chris Allum, opened the first commercial jump site in Ohakune, New Zealand. Hackett also made a great commercial show in 1987 when he jumped from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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LIVING LIFE TO THE MAX

WELL THIS BLOG IS ALL ABOUT TAKING UR LIFE TO THE 
EXTREME. I WILL BE SHOWING U SOME OFF THE MAIN EXTREME SPORTS THAT R OUT THERE NOW. I HAVE DONE  ONE OFF THESE EXTREME SPORTS AND I WANT TO LET PEOPLE NOW WHAT THEY R MISSING OUT ON. 
           
 

THIS BLOG IS ALSO ABOUT THE HISTORY OFF EACH SPORT AND JUST SOME FACTS ABOUT THEM.