As you know if you’ve watched “Dhani Jones Tackles the Globe,” the world is a vast place full of many different cultures and many different sports. From handball to Sepak Takraw to cheese rolling, there are countless interesting and exciting sports Jackson would love to try. Every offseason, however, there is one sport that Jackson not just participates, but competes in aggressivelty: Extreme Competitive Underwater Orienteering. The niche sport was created in the Soviet Union in the late 1950’s as a training technique for Soviet sailors, but later developed into an exciting sport for divers who want the thrill of essentially being trapped in an underwater cave with limited oxygen... except that it’s a controlled environment where they navigate man made underwater structures specifically designed for a timed navigation and escape challenge, located in isolated freshwater bodies of water (aka a large pool). Recently, however, Jackson has been trying out the more dangerous and more competitive variant - deepwater ocean navigation. A more “open” experience where you must find different markers along the ocean floor before ascending, it requires significantly more skill - and carefulness - than a pool dive. In the future, Jackson hopes to go (non competitive) cave-diving for the experience of a lifetime. But until then, he’ll continue to do Extreme Competitive Underwater Orienteering.
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