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Scuba Diving
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First Author: Jackie
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SCUBA Diving
What is SCUBA?
- SCUBA stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
- A "diver" uses a tank of compressed air to swim underwater
Why SCUBA?
- Gives you the same physical activity benefits as swimming
- It works your cardio-respiratory system
- Every trip is an adventure
- Get to see some pretty amazing stuff
How do I get certified?
- First you will need to be certified before you can dive
- Take a class in open water certification; this allows you to dive to 60+ feet
- At destination locations the class can take from 3-5 days, or you can also take a class that last several weeks or months
- U of A Class
- Offers a certification class (PEAC 1831) that takes 8 weeks to complete
- Sign up on ISIS to get enrolled for next semester
- The classes are small to give better indiviual attention
What will I learn?
- Basics of diving techniques
- How diving affects your body
- Diving safety
- Equipment selection and maintenance
- Confined water training (which is in a swimming pool or swimming pool like environment)
- Open water training (which means the open ocean or another large body of water that is used for diving)
- At the end you will be certified to dive for life!
What are the benefits of scuba diving?
- Health Benefits
- Exercising in water is great due to the natural resistance of the water
- Need to be in good health, but do not have to be in excellent shape
- A great workout that feels effortless at the time
- Emotional Well-being
- Calming environment
- Stress free
- Learn breathing techniques to help relax the body
- Skill-building
- Choose specialty courses such as underwater naturalism, search and rescue, and underwater photography
- Learn skills for goal setting and learn how to reach them
- Social Benefits
- Immediately make friends with the same interests as you
- Buddy system allows you to depend on someone else and get to know them better
- Environmental Awareness
- Educates you on the ecologial aspects of marine life
- Gain information on ways to volunteer on projects to help marine life
- Career Opportunties
- Every instructor started exactly at the point you would start at
- Maybe you too would fall in love with the wonderful world of marine life
- Careers include: divemaster, instructor, underwater photographer, or a marine biologist
Top 10 dive sites:
- Rocktail Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
- See tropical fish, bottle-nosed dolphins, and humpback whales
- Don't forget to look on shore for the leather-back turtles laying eggs
- Rangiroa, Polynesia
- Be carried through your dive by the incoming tide while sharing the ride with scores of grey reef sharks, dolphins, mantas and sometimes large hammerhead sharks
- High adrenalin diving
- Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Small cluster of islands off the tip of Sulawesi
- Lots of pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs, flat worms and healthy coral
- The Maldive
- Great place to see manta rays
- Considered the best place to dive in the Indian Ocean
- Little Cayman, British West Indies
- Really easy place to dive
- Extremely clear water
- Cocos and Malpelo, Eastern Pacific
- See schools of hammerhead sharks
- Very isolated island which give it an extraordinary beauty
- The Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea
- Coral, sponges, sea slugs, and all the weirdly shaped micro-creatures that crawl, slither and hop along the reefs
- Great place for night diving
- Sipadan Island, Malaysian Borneo
- Can get up close and personal with turtles and sharks
- See mandarin fish
- Surin and Similan Islands, Thailand
- See groups of feeding game-fish as well as whale sharks, mantas and leopard sharks.
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Used as a bomb testing site
- Shipwreck heaven
So, get out and dive! You don't want to miss an adventure like this!
Scuba Diving with Dolphins
Grand Bahama Island
Scuba Diving
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