Glossary Of Freediving Terms

[shoutatthesky]

Right thanks to Sanso's tutelage here is the updated version in PDF format. Please give me your criticism as it helps greatly and as I just received and tried on my new perfectly fitting Elios nothing you say could offend me.rofl rofl rofl

 

[trux]

Great work, Adam! And congrats to your Elios!
I agree with Glen that better than having it in many versions buried deep in several threads, some more prominent position would be better. Setting up a WiKi may not be necessary though - simply opening a new sticked and locked thread, where you put your glossary directly in text (not as a file) would already do a good service. Sticking it would assure it stays visible, and locking it avoids that it gets cluttered with too much noise and that only the glossary stays visible.

 

[sanso]

Great work, Adam! And congrats to your Elios!
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My congrats as well!

I almost forgot to add that our bot gills in the #DeeperBlue irc channel also knows a couple of things I started teaching her (gotta be a her, right?) common abbreviations and such when I started the Channel - maybe I can find a way to sync Your list with the bot's knowledge.

Right now, when in the channel and wondering what FRC is, just ask

gills, whatis FRC

and she will tell You what she knows.



EDIT: everyone can teach her additional fact[oid]s BTW. So feel free to join the fun and teach gills what a freedive-bot needs to know!

 

[shoutatthesky]

I have no idea what you are talking about Sanso - but by all means teach your "bot" the list.

 

[shoutatthesky]

Can anybody help with these -

Reverse pack
SpO2
Anything beginning with w, x, y or z?

Also anybody know any other glossaries out there -
glossary chapter excerpts from Freedive! by Terry Maas and David Sipperly
Kivi.org - freediving dictionary or glossary or whatever you wanna call it
Divers Alert Network : DAN Medical Center : Dictionary

 

[Tol]

Um.... only in 1 country mate ! rofl

Trust the yanks to change the English language then try to tell other people how to spell. rofl

Don't forget, we also enlighten people on correct pronunciation! hehe

 

[shoutatthesky]

I have finally got around to creating a wiki so every one feel free to add to the glossary.
Freediving Glossary Home - Freediving Glossary

Please let me know if there are any difficulties

P.S. I know the format is a bit messy but I am just learning. I will tidy it up as I have time (or you can all help).

 

[Mullins]

Nice job Adam, though I'd suggest it might be a good idea to limit the list to freediving-specific terms only, as many of the words on the list are already thoroughly defined by dictionaries. In those cases, the best you could do would be simply to cut-and-paste from a reliable source, trimming off the irrelevant bits to suit and letting freedivers add freediving-specific detail as required. Entering brief explanations in an unregulated, vernacular way may seem helpful to some readers but is a little misleading, as it suggests that this brief gloss is the true definition. It also leaves the door more open for inaccuracy to creep in, especially when it's a wiki.

Couple of examples:

"FAILURE DEPTH - The depth at which lung pressure becomes negative and therefore it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to equalize."

This belongs on the list but is not accurate and really needs to be quite specific, e.g. "May refer to either a theoretical (calculated) or practical (tested) depth, typically measured in salt water. Theoretical: the depth at which a diver's lung volume is reduced to Residual Volume (RV) assuming the diver begins at Total Lung Capacity (TLC) at the surface before descending and does not exhale. When RV is reached no air can be retrieved from the lungs by means of a 'normal' exhalation. For this reason Failure Depth often coincides with inability to equalise. Practical: the depth at which a particular diver typically cannot equalise. While practical Failure Depth may be partly determined by the diver's theoretical Failure Depth, additional factors such as equalising skill and gas exchange are usually involved... ..."

Or something similar, that's just an example rather than a detailed suggestion and is not complete. It hardly even starts to detail the alternative usages and definitions of the term. You can see though, that many of freediving's terms would demand a pretty rigorous definition if you wanted to be accurate and informative.


"FATIGUE - Complaints of being tired, experiencing a lack of sleep or a generalized tiredness."

Probably doesn't belong on the list but if you want to include it you probably need to take a proper definition from a dictionary and supplement it with detail relevant to a freediving context. The above definition is both incomplete and inaccurate (fatigue does not mean the action of complaining about tiredness)

Cheers,
Dave

 

[shoutatthesky]

Thanks Dave. There certainly is a heap of tidying up to do and that is really the purpose of making it available on a wiki.

My aim with this glossary is really to aid people in the beginning stages of of freediving (like myself) who in their studies come across a multitude of terms which they have never heard of before. I really just want to make a basic definition available so that the general idea of whichever text the person is reading is not completely lost.

As for 'Fatigue' I don't know why that was on the list. Must have been tired!

 

[trux]

After some demand on the French forum Espirt Apnée I remembered this old glossary. However, the formatting of the glossary was rather corrupted, making the search of a specific term rather difficult, so I logged into the system with my Facebook account, corrected the formatting, made some corrections, and added some more terms. However, there are still many terms missing, and those present are often incomplete, or even incorrect (for example I did some changes at hyperventilation). It would be nice if a moderator could make this thread "sticky", and if more freedivers contributed with new terms and correctures/completion of the existing ones. Anyone can log in quickly with a Facebook or MSN account, and start editing instantly.

http://freedivingglossary.wetpaint.com/

It is also a pity the glossary was not done directly in WikiPedia as I suggested earlier in this thread, but perhpas there would be a way to transfer it there later. I could also offer hosting the glossary at Apnea.cz, so that it is on a more exposed place.

In any case, kudos to Shoutatthesky for launching the project!

 

[Stephan Whelan]

We'd be happy to host it here on DB as well if there was enough interest.