Talk:Penetration diving

Section sizes

Section size for Penetration diving (17 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	1,142	1,142
Environments by confinement	2,281	2,281
Cave diving	2,724	3,226
Cavern diving	502	502
Ice diving	1,234	1,234
Wreck penetration diving	160	3,245
Wreck diving	1,046	1,046
Salvage diving	1,556	1,556
Clearance diving	483	483
Diving under ships	821	821
Sewer diving	53	53
Safety and risk management	442	1,908
Scuba diving	635	635
Surface supplied diving	831	831
Equipment	183	183
Skills, procedures, and training	413	413
References	5,012	5,012
Total	19,518	19,518

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Does this subject rate its own article?[edit]

Or should it be merged and redirected? If so, I don't really know where to put it, it is more a category than a specific class of diving. If not, how do we usefully expand it to a real article? Constructive suggestions requested. • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 06:57, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's never going to get beyond a barely-referenced stub, Peter. My suggestion would be to use Chapter 9 of JJ's Fundamentals of Better Diving as a basis and expand the section on "Diving environment" in Underwater diving #Diving environment.

Jablonski, Jarrod (2000). "Chapter 9:Diving Environments". Doing it Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving. Global Underwater Explorers. pp. 137–147.

This article could then be redirected there (along with a few other similar stubs). --RexxS (talk) 18:32, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am inclined to agree. Unfortunately at present I don't have access to Fundamentals - the person I used to borrow it from appears to have lost his copy. There must be other sources though, so I will see what I can do. • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 05:10, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected more or less as suggested. • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 06:19, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect target is not really satisfactory and is unsuitable for expansion, and there is now a fair amount of content available, so I will be reconstructing as a full article. There are several types of penetration diving for which we have a couple of large articles, so this will contain a high level summary of each of those, and some content to draw it all together coherently. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 06:31, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]