DiverWire) The recreational scuba industry’s trade association, the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) has just unveiled an initiative designed to get more scuba divers into and back into the water. The new program is a real-life, environmentally-friendly treasure hunting game called DiveCaching.
DiveCaching is an underwater variation of “Geocaching,” a decade-old game that uses a GPS device and simple search skills to locate hidden land-based caches.
DEMA officials outlined how the DiveCaching concept works:
Divers hide a “treasure” or “cache” underwater and post the GPS coordinates and compass directions on www.geocaching.com.
Other divers search www.geocaching.com for nearby DiveCache listings and actually dive to locate the cache.
Once the cache is found, divers log their cache visit using the on-site visitor’s log. The finder may also choose to photograph the cache, deposit an additional treasure in the container or simply return it to its original location.
After returning to the surface, the finders log their visit on www.geocaching.com, sharing their adventure with other divers around the world.
“Waymarking” allows searching for and finding a specific landmark if you are diving in an area where hiding an actual cache is not allowed.
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