Dives are divided into groups based on starting position and direction. There are five groups of dives for all springboard and platform events, plus an additional sixth for just platform. The groups ...

Approach: The forward steps taken by a diver toward the end of the 10m platform or 3m springboard board. This precedes the hurdle and the takeoff and usually involves three or more steps. Armstand: ...

Tracy Schmitt spent years trying to find a scuba instructor. She is a competitive sailor, skier and mountaineer, but each dive shop she approached refused to entertain the idea that she could be a ...

Tracy Schmitt spent years trying to find a scuba instructor. She is a competitive sailor, skier and mountaineer, but each dive shop she approached refused to entertain the idea that she could be a ...

Diving 101: Olympic scoring, rules and regulations Judges look on as a diver descends in front of them.

PITI, GUAM -- Wet suit and flippers on, oxygen tank strapped to my back, I steadied myself for the underwater descent. "Look below you," my scuba-diving teacher said. "There are some fish right there.

When Michael Birns arrived at the University of Delaware in December of 2021 as the diving safety officer for the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and the scuba instructor for the School of ...

At the Olympics, dives are scored by seven FINA-appointed judges. The judges rate the execution of every dive on a scale of 1-10, including half-point margins. Once all seven judges have submitted ...