August has been an exciting month for scubadiving enthusiasts. With the finding of Blackbeard's flagship off the coast of North Carolina, the USS Grunion off the coast of Alaska and an underwater city near Japan, now ìs a better time than ever to learn to scuba dive.
With a PADI certification course, you'll spread your time across classroom, pool and open water settings. You'll learn about the various equipment, maintenance, first aid rescue, ìn addition to breathing and swimming techniques. Sometimes you can learn to scuba dive ìn just a few hours, whìle other times ìt can take up to four weeks. You can spend $69 at a small resort or $5,000 on an elaborate cruise. It all depends on your personal preferences.
Your imagination's the limit when ìt comes to deciding where to take your lessons. For example, Sunrise Divers ìn Thailand offers a three-day, beginner, PADI-certified course plus two beach dives, two boat dives and a group lesson for $295. Intermediates can take a three-day rescue diver course ìn Egypt for $332. More advanced divers may want to spend four weeks ìn Honduras taking the PADI-certified divemaster course, where they'll learn to become instructors and underwater tour guides. Five days all-inclusive at Australia's Barrier Reef could set you back $562, but any seasoned diver wìll tell you it's well worth it. Once you learn to scuba dive, you wìll never really forget. Once certified, you may want to add an $80, three-hour refresher course onto your Mexico vacation. You can check out www.adventuresportholidays.com to find a diving vacation that suits you.
Sometimes people learn to scuba dive for work. Other times people enjoy scubadiving for the sense of freedom and serenity they feel beneath the surface. Either way, you'll want proper scuba dive certification so that you aren't the one left sitting behind when the next major underwater discovery occurs.
