Geography/ Geology
What continent has land in all 4 hemispheres?
Africa
Finding nemo is widely known as the greatest movie of all time. What type of fish is Dory?
Blue Tang
What does SCUBA stands for?
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
How is freediving different from SCUBA?
No breathing apparatus needed.
What is Kenta fav marine animal?
Orca
Russia is the largest country in the world by area which it has 11 time zones! China is the 3rd or 4th biggest country, how many does it have?
1 zone (UTC+8)
Name the most poisonous cephalopods.
Blue Ring Octopus
what is the FIRST rule in SCUBA?
Never hold your breath!
Can a freediver get Decompression sickness (the bends) from freediving?
Yes
Who in the club had done Ice diving?
Emily
What country has the most pyramids in the world?
Sudan
What is the largest neritic cephalopod native to British Columbia Waters
Giant Pacific Octopus
What is the maxium depth of recreational diving?
40m/ 130 feet
Just use metric system already!
In freediving, what do BO and LMC mean?
BO= black out
LMC= Lost Motor Control
Joy
Which country is located on the boundary of 4 tectonic plates? Name the country and all 4 plates.
Japan
NA,EA,Pacific,PS
What S word represents a group of fish (of different species) intermingling, forming a group
Shoal
The deepest scuba dive record is hold by Ahmed Gabr,
with OC 332.35m in 2014. How long was his ascent time? (How long did he spend ascending from the bottom to surface?)
13 hours, 35 minutes
Under what conditions will our "Mammalian diving reflex" trigger in humans and most of the other mammals?
When our face and nostrils are submerged in cold water.
Among our team, who has been dry for the longest and really need to get back into the water soon?
Ronald
Vancouver is located near an active subduction zone where Juan de fuca plate is subducting under us as we speak. If we keep digging down from here, how deep would we need to dig to meet Juan de fuca plate?
around 60 to 70 Km
When energy moves up a food chain in a marine environment (a seal eats a fish and is then eaten by an Orca), most of the energy is lost to metabolic processes and heat. What percentage of energy is actually passed up to the next trophic level (i.e fish to seal)
10%
Explain how a dive watch bezel is used when diving.
(Not a dive computer)
Bezel is used for keeping time. The bezel can only be turned counter clockwise as if it was to accidentally rotate during use, the time recorded will only increase but not decrease.
What is the depth of the deepest freedive done?
(According to AIDA Freediving World Records)
214m
by NITSCH Herbert in 2007
Discipline: No Limits (NLT)
Which exec has broken their arm twice, once from tobagganing, once from jumping off a stage like a rock star?
Dylan