Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature ()

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Photos
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Scuba Diving as a Global Leisure Activity
	Diving in Greece
	Diving Everywhere: A Globalized Leisure Community
	Underwater Entangleds
	Pleasure and the Moral Gaze
	Exploring the Underwater Self and Nature
	Book Outline
Chapter 2: The Global in the Local: Scuba Diving in ­Greece
	Researching the Local, Understanding the Global
	Research Methods
		Autoethnography
		Amphibious Ethnography and Interviews
		Digital Ethnography
		The Magazines
		The Archives
	The Historical Ethnographic Perspective
Chapter 3: Technology and Underwater Worlds
	Imaginary Diving Technologies
	Realizing Utopias and Rising Dystopias
	Applied Technoscience: Helmets, Sponge Fishing and Diving Accidents in the Dodecanese
	Traditional Diving Communities
	Parallel Submarine Worlds
Chapter 4: Diving Technology at the Recreational World
	Diving Equipment and Recreation Diving
		Achieving Autonomy Underwater: The Regulator
		Safety and Comfort
		Technology as a Pole of Diving Clusters
	Things and Humans Under the Surface of the Sea
		The Technology Sensory
		A Magic World
		Beyond the Underwater World
	The Era of Diving Heritization
		Diving Past as Cultural Heritage
		Metamorphoses: Bellstone Diving as a Sport
		Women in New Underwater Worlds
Chapter 5: From the Navy to the Sport’s World
	Brawny Dives
		The “Underwater Men,” the Bible of Scuba Diving in Greece
		Significant Biographies
		A New Ethos
	The Sportization of Scuba Diving
		The Hellenic Federation of Underwater Activities (EOUDA)
		The Navy and the Federation
	Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine
	Standardization and Professionalization of Scuba Diving Education
		Standardization
		Professionalization
	The Ideology of Safe Diving
Chapter 6: Underwater Phantasmagoria: The Touristization of Scuba Diving
	Phantasmagoria of the Depths
		Phantasmagoric Perception of the Depths
	Maritime Antiquities in Greece: A Journey From Research Celebration to Diving Prohibition
		Maritime Antiquities and Scuba Diving: The Prehistory
		The Desire to Explore the Depths
		The Institutionalization of Underwater Archaeology
		The Diving Prohibition
		A Short Story
	The Production of the Underwater Recreational Space
		The Seabed as a Contested Field
		Underwater Spatial Arrangements
	The New Professional View
		The Comparative Advantages in a World Market
		Recreational Underwater Spectacle for All
Chapter 7: Breathing Under Water: Scuba Diving as Multisensory Experience
	Blue Phantasmagoria: Allure, Senses, and Emotions
		Blue Water, Black Water
		The Color of the Equipment
	Underwater Embodied Self
		A Globalized Discourse of Adventure Risk Management
		The Care of the Underwater Embodied Self
		Diving as a Captivating Multisensory Adventure
		Communities
	Underwater Sensorium, Body, and Diving Equipment
		Underwater Hyperreality?
		The Feeling of Flying
		Aquaticity: Tradition, Senses, and Emotions
	The Soundscape of Scuba Diving
		Beyond the Silence
		Underwater Breathing as Metaphor
	Sensorial Flows and the Desire to Be Elsewhere
Chapter 8: Pleasure and Aquastalgia
	Beyond the Sea Blue Water
		The Ecological Problematization of the Greek Depths
		A Sensitive Taskscape
	Underwater Aesthetics
	Underwater Ethics and Moralities
		“Fishing With Scuba Gear Is Unethical”
		“We Leave Only Bubbles”
		Technology and Sensitivity
	Underwater Ecological Perspectives
		Eco-Dive Ethics
		Eco-Dive Politics
	Aquastalgia
		Mediterranean Aquastalgia?
		A Globalized Indigenous Underwater Ontology?
	Underwater Noble Savages and the Human Being
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Diving as Travel on the Boundaries
	Immersions
	Surplus of Underwater Experience
	Diving for Pleasure?
Bibliography
FEK (Greek Official Government Gazette)
Dive Magazines
Archives
Internet Sites
Documentaries and Movies
Index