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• Mountaineering


  An outdoor recreational activity or a sport which attains or attempts to conquer high points of mountainous regions, mainly for the pleasure of the climb
• Mountaineering Trail sign
• How snorkeling began

  1. Hollow reed (3000 B.C.)

  2. Animal skins filled with air (9000 B.C.)

  3. Diving bell (300 B.C.)

  4. Eye goggles from shells of tortoise (1300s)

  5. Hollowed tube and sketch of webbed swimming gloves (1400s)

  6. Wooden paddles (1717)

  7. Modern fins (1912)
• Hollow reed


  Skin divers of the island Crete in the Mediterranean used hollow reeds to breathe while submerged in water as they collected
• Animal skins 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
• 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
• Eye goggles from 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
• 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
• 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


  Modern fins were invented by Frenchman Louis de Corlieu. Patent for this was obtained in 1993
• Basic equipment in snorkeling


  • Snorkel
  • Goggles
  • Fins
  • Floating vest
  • Rash guard