Study on Serious Leisure of Senior Scuba Divers

• Main Authors: Chen, Yi-Ren, 陳怡仁
• Other Authors: Cheng, Hsien-Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82351627561460999633

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 生態科學與技術學系生態旅遊碩士班 === 103 === The predicaments encountered by the senior scuba divers included diving accidents, structural constraints, and physical obstacles. The research results in personal effort indicated several individual aspects such as knowledge specialization, skill upgrade, environment understanding, and self-expression enhancing; the other substantial aspects included controlling economic costs and managing the store. Twelve durable benefits were also mentioned in which group attraction was found as the highest quality followed by personal rehabilitation. The differences in research results between this study and Stebbins’ were increasing individual accomplishment, progressing language skills, and enhancing family connection. Eighteen interviewees can be divided into 15 devotee workers and 3 amateurs. Both groups have found the strong characteristics of taking scuba diving as their leisure career. However, the other five qualities (need to persevere, make significant personal effort, durable benefits, tend to identify strongly and the unique ethos) devotee workers showed stronger characteristics than amateurs. In conclusion, the senior divers in this study all paid serious attention to protect the marine environment, and further spreading the concept of sustainability into their environmental education. Local divers showed stronger recognition to the community, and actively do anything necessary to take care of their surroundings. On the aspect of equipment purchase, female divers cared about hygiene issues, while male divers emphasized on economic considerations. In addition, most divers continuously upgraded their licenses due to career development. Senior divers in this study expressed that scuba diving not only enrich their own life, but also lead them to be the people pursuing better conservation of the marine environment, the spirit of mutual co-existence, pioneering social enterprise opportunity.