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As marine environments within the adventure domain are future key-settings for recreational SCUBA diving experience, SCUBA-based textual materials should provide insight into environmental knowledge that is well connected to the novice divers' behaviour and attitude. This research is concerned with a major recreational SCUBA diver manual for novice divers from a position that seeks to explore its focus and scope of environmental knowledge in semantic networks. However, results obtained from thematic analyses of environmental knowledge emerged two sub-themes: marine-based conservation and aquatic life. Analyses of textual data indicated that the manual has groundling statements and notes on environmental knowledge. Furthermore, analyzing manual' environmental documents showed that there is no skill-related knowledge, which attributes to SCUBA divers' environmental behaviour and attitude towards underwater environment.

In this research, quantitative findings and qualitative follow-up themes were used to quantify, conceptualize and finally try to explain the impact of disabled children" engagement with physical activity on their parents" smartphone addiction levels. An initial phase of quantitative investigation was conducted with 116 parents. Analyses of statistical trends indicated that male parents use smartphones more often than female. Furthermore, quantitizing data towards parents" smartphone addiction showed that parents watching their disabled children during physical activity exhibit more smartphone-addicted behaviors than non-watching parents. Finally, data obtained from quantitative findings revealed that levels of smartphone addiction of parents whose disabled children participated in more than 60 minutes of physical activity were greater than the levels of smartphone addiction of parents whose disabled children participated in 60 minutes of physical activity. With no adequate theoretical explanation for these results, a follow-up explanations phase of qualitative investigation was conducted with 5 parents. Analyses of interview data emerged three themes: (a) Male dominance in smartphone use, (c) parents passive participation in physical activity with or without smartphones and (b) levels of smartphone addiction among parents in terms of duration of their children daily physical activity engagement.

The aim of this study was to explore how do people flourish during leisure adventure activities by examining the data collected during interviews with wreck divers, as special interest tourist. Ten participants who have previously dived in touristic wrecks all over the world were interviewed using open-ended questions. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Analysis resulted in a synthesis of the various ways participants experienced flourishing: (1) Unlocking a mystery or seeing something others may have missed, (2) Socializing and building unique social trust, (3) Carrying a torch for the restoration of the balance between humanity and the underwater cultural heritage, and (4) Enjoying more leisure and travel days for the sake of wreck diving. Wreck diving adventure is experienced as a motivating force that shows a kaleidoscopic and unique view of flourishing.