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Calories Burned While Scuba Diving

This calculator determines the number of calories you burn during an average scuba dive based on your weight and total bottom time. The average scuba diver burns .053 calories per minute per pound (.1166 calories per minute per kilogram). By comparison, the average person burns .009 min/lb (.0198 min/kg) sitting still and .048 min/lb (.1058 min/kg) walking fast. So keep scuba diving and burn those calories!


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