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• Holidays, long weekends, school breaks, and summer vacations are the most awaited days for people who have been very busy with work and school. These are the days they can take a break from the routine or perhaps from the "stress" of life, as often said and heard.
• Ecotourism activities in the Philippines have been gaining popularity as well.
• OUTDOOR RECREATION

  organized activities done during one's free time for his/her own personal reasons, where an interaction between man and an element of nature is present.
• Recreation is derived from the Latin word recreare which means to be refreshed.
• BENEFITS OF OUTDOOR RECREATION

  -Physical Health Benefits

  -Psycho-Emotional Benefits

  -Social Benefits

  -Economic Benefits

  -Spiritual Benefits
• Physical Health Benefits

  -Being outdoors prevents a person from having a sedentary life. It allows people to move, whether by walking, running, swimming, biking, paddling, etc. With the surge of electronic gadgets, more and more people (children and adults alike) are unconsciously getting stuck with a sedentary life, contented with playing with their computer games, tablets, or cellphones, or watching television.
• Psycho-Emotional Benefits

  -Engaging in outdoor recreational activities helps people to rest, relax, de-stress or unwind, and feel revitalized. In fact, some research showed that too much artificial stimulation and time spent in purely human environments can cause exhaustion and loss of vitality and health (Katcher & Baeck, 1987; Stilgoe, 2001).
• Social Benefits

  -Outdoor activities are ways for families to become closer. They can be a "family-bonding activity"

  as each family member participates in an activity, achieves a common goal, and goes through the same experience.
• Economic Benefits

  -People who have a relaxed body and mind tend to be more productive at work. This translates into efficiency at the workplace.
• Spiritual Benefits

  -Positive outdoor experiences can stir up spiritual values. Being one with nature brings certain calmness within a person: It strengthens an individual as it heals, rejuvenates, and soothes the body and soul.
• Principle 1: Plan Ahead and Prepare
• Principle 2: Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
• Principle 3: Dispose of Waste Properly
• Principle 4: Leave What You Find
• Principle 5: Minimize Campfire Impacts
• Principle 6: Respect Wildlife
• Principle 7: Be Considerate of Other Visitors
• Existence time

  -is time spent for biological needs like having a meal, sleeping, and other personal care.
• Subsistence time

  -refers to the hours spent for economic purposes such as going to work, chores, and for students, hours spent in school, and school work.
• Free time

  -is all the remaining time after.
• day can be divided into three parts according to Clayne R. Jensen (2006): the existence time, subsistence time, and free time.
• outdoor recreation also promotes stewardship.
• CANOE ARTIFACT

  In 2010, a wooden dugout boat was discovered submerged and was retrieved in Lagasit River in Rosales, Pangasinan. It is believed to be a century-old boat used by early Filipinos. It weighs more than five tons, measures eight meters long, two meters wide at its front and its back, and a height of up to 1.5 meters. The artifact is displayed in the municipal hall of Barangay Casanicolasan, Rosales, Pangasinan. (Visperas, 2010)
• Water or aqua has a certain unique attraction to people of all ages.
• SNORKELING

  One of the best but simple way to see, discover, and appreciate the intriguing underwater life. It allows one not only to grasp the amazing beauty of marine life, but swim with them as well.
• SNORKELING

  Is peeking through life underneath water by swimming with the aid of a snorkel and mask. Through snorkeling, one can observe the underwater attractions for a longer period of time, without the need to constantly resurface to gasp for air, and with relatively lesser effort.
• 3000 B.C. HOLLOW REED

  Skin divers of the island Crete in the Mediterranean used hollow reeds to breather while submerged in water as they collected sponges.
• 9000 B.C. ANIMAL SKINS WERE FILLED WITH AIR

  An ancient bas-relief dating 900 B.C. depicted divers in Assyria using animal skin filled with air to lengthen their stay underwater.
• Alexander the Great

  -encouraged the development of the first diving bell, which was a cauldron designed to trap a pocket of air when it was lowered into the water. This instrument allowed divers to take breaths without needing to go all the way up to the surface to gulp air, but it also limited their mobility.
• Aristotle

  • he mentioned divers using a tube connected to the surface to the snorkel remarking that it worked like "the trunk of the elephant"
• 300 B.C. DIVING BELL

  Alexander the Great encouraged the development of the first diving bell, which was a cauldron designed to trap a pocket of air when it was lowered into the water. This instrument allowed divers to take breaths without needing to go all the way up to the surface to gulp air, but it also limited their mobility. On one of the writings of Aristotle, he mentioned divers using a tube connected to the surface to the snorkel remarking that it worked like "the trunk of the elephant"
• 1300s : EYE GOGGLE FROMS SHELLS OF TORTOISE

  The shell of the tortoise was used to develop a gadget to protect the eye as well as to see more clearly in water. The shell was sliced very thinly until it became translucent then polished for vision clarity. It was then used by the persian divers.
• Leonardo de Vinci

  • proposed and created the first contemporary snorkel, a hollow tube designed attached to the leather-head helmet of the diver, allowing to breathe even when face was submerged underwater. He also had a sketch of webbed swimming gloves, an idea that led to the modern-day fins.
• 1400s : HOLLOWED TUBE AND SKETCH OF WEBBED SWIMMING GLOVES

  Leonardo de Vinci proposed and created the first contemporary snorkel, a hollow tube designed attached to the leather-head helmet of the diver, allowing to breathe even when face was submerged underwater. He also had a sketch of webbed swimming gloves, an idea that led to the modern-day fins.
• Benjamin Franklin

  • came up with an idea of using wooden paddles attached to the hands and feet to help swimmers swim faster.
• 1717 : WOODEN PADDLES

  Benjamin Franklin came up with an idea of using wooden paddles attached to the hands and feet to help swimmers swim faster.
• Modern fins were invented by Frenchman Louis de Corlieu.

  Patent for this was obtained in 1933.
• 1912 : MODERN FINS

  were invented by Frenchman Louis de Corlieu. Patent for this was obtained in 1933.
• Snorkel

  • is a piece of equipment that makes it possible to breathe at the surface while the face is submerged in water. It is basically composed of a tube, also called the barrel, and a mouthpiece. The tube-end sticks out of the water while the mouthpiece goes in the mouth. It also has a clip so it can be attached to the mask.
• classic snorkel

  • has the most basic part, the solid tube and the mouthpiece. Sometimes, this can be bent to a specific shape.