Even supposing water sports activities total had an accomplish bigger in U.S. participation charges within the future of 2021, the second 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, scuba diving participation decreased by 8.8 percent from 2019 to 2021.
Darcy Kieran, who writes the Scubanomics column on medium.com, cites those numbers from surveys executed by the Sports activities & Fitness Trade Association.
In line with Kieran:
“For extra than a decade, scuba diving has been constantly shedding ground 12 months after 12 months, going, as an illustration, from 3.1 million participants in 2016 to 2.7 in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and fully 2.5 in 2021 (second 12 months of the pandemic).”
Whereas Kieran well-known a microscopic participation jump by “core divers” within the future of 2020, that quantity decreased the next 12 months. He posits that: “The dive industry is completely no longer gratifying right now time’s consumers.”
Kieran provides:
“It’s time to prevent pretending that we are innovating because we moved a number of commas in a scuba diving textbook or changed the color of a regulator. Your total commercial model wants to be redesigned from scratch. We are no longer within the 1980s anymore.”
John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/
John Liang is the Recordsdata Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first bought the diving computer virus whereas in Excessive College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification within the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Hover of Costa Rica, and other places including a pool in Las Vegas serving to to interrupt the realm file for essentially the most attention-grabbing underwater press convention.
