Underwater swimming and diving is as old as swimming and has been perpetuated into the .... dive diver

Underwater swimming and diving is as old as swimming and has been perpetuated into the present by pearl divers and sponge divers. Attempts to construct diving apparatus go back to the 19th century, but the sport of scuba, or Aqua-Lung, diving dates from 1943, when Cousteau and the French engineer ile Gagnan developed the first fully automatic compressed-air Aqua-Lung. Clubs formed after 1943 as fast as scuba equipment became available; national associations were formed in France, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States; and in 1959 Cousteau formed, with 15 national organizations (later more than 50), the Conf ration Mondiale des Activit Subaquatique (CMAS; World Underwater Federation). The fish hunted for food and the coral hunted for ornament by primitive divers are still sought by contemporary skin divers and scuba divers. dive diver