Scuba Diving Overview

If you've just decided to learn to dive you've made an excellent decision and if you're not quite sure yet, let me help you make an excellent decision. Let's have a look at everything you need to know about learning to dive.
Introductory Courses
Introductory courses can be as brief as a few hours trial in a swimming pool all the way through to full certification. Courses may have slightly different names but they are generally versions of the below courses:

Discover Scuba Diving
 - A few hours or more introduction to diving. This course provides a first experience of scuba diving under the watchful eye of a scuba professional.  Yep! You get to get wet.

Scuba Diver - 
The Scuba Diver course is an abbreviated Open Water Course that is commonly taken by people who either don't have enough time do a full Open Water Course or who don't need a certification for the type of diving that they enjoy.

Open Water Diver
 - The Open Water course is the most common course and a full introduction to scuba diving. The course takes 3 days or more and once you complete it you'll be certified for life and ready to go on to further training and a lifetime of great diving.

How fit and healthy do I need to be?
You don't need to be an Olympic athlete, but you will need to be in good overall health. There are some conditions that may prevent you from diving and you'll need to pass some basic water skills test, so if you're generally healthy and can swim and float well enough you should be ok.

What equipment will I need?
You won't need any equipment other than Mask, Snorkel, Fins when you start to dive as it is included in the course fee. You will need to rent your gear for the Open Water portion of the class. Once you're certified there are all sorts of things to buy and many divers love new dive gadgets just as much as the actual diving.

What will I learn?
If you do a Discover Scuba Diving course you'll learn the basics of dive safety and a few basic skills to make sure you're safe underwater. During the Open Water course you'll learn all of the basic skills that you'll need to be able to dive accompanied by a buddy who is also Open Water certified without the supervision of a dive professional. Here are some of the basic skills you'll learn in an Open Water course:

•    Regulator Recover
•    Mask Clearing
•    Mask Removal and Replacement
•    Fin Pivot
•    Proper Weighting

So what's next?
Call and speak to a Dive Specialist or enroll online for your selected course.  Welcome to life beneath the waves!  317-897-2822