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How popular is Scuba diving? Some people are afraid of water. Don't ask them. If you ask a diver, he'll tell you there is nothing on earth remotely like it. He would be right. SCUBA diving is a very popular sport. Not as popular as some participation sports, but more than others. Diving offers the diver a chance to get up next to nature in a way that is impossible unless one actually puts on the tank and a flotation device and gets wet. You've seen lots of television shows that have divers in them. Movies, too. It's beautiful down there! Heck, there's more water covering this big blue marble than there is land. And visiting an aquarium to see the fish is like looking in a café and smelling the food. Wouldn't you rather go in and eat? Why not learn to dive? Some of us live a long way from the ocean, and fresh water diving, while fun, isn't as cool in most cases as salt water diving. But it's still fun! One way one might measure the popularity of a sport might be by the number of magazines published on it. There are a flock of diving magazines. SCUBA diving is a multi-million dollar business in the US in equipment alone. If one considers the travel and lodging associated with SCUBA diving trips and vacations, the numbers go outta sight. Is diving for you? You make the call....

According to most estimates, there are approximately 1.2 million scuba divers world wide.

66% Male

34% Female

Average age is 29

PADI, the world's largest scuba certification agency, has barely grown over the last 6 years. In 2007 they had 133,562 members and in 2012 they had 135,710 members, less than a 2% increase.

Between 1997 and 2004, the Divers Alert Network reported an annual fatality rate between 11 and 18 deaths per 100,000 members per year.