What Are The Requirements To Learn To Scuba dive And Where Do You Study?

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What are the basic necessities to allow you to start to learn to dive and what are the alternatives for where you might learn to scuba dive?

There are only really 3 requisites to getting started on a diving program and these are:

1 - you should be in good health - you must not have a cold (save you are partaking of a referral and merely doing the out of water sections for now) and certain medical conditions such as back problems, asthma and migraines may stop you from being able to start the instruction.

2 - you should be confident in the water - you do not need to be a fantastic swimmer, but you must be able to be happy in the water. You will need to take part in a swimming test comprising of some swimming (not timed, merely a set distance) and then treading water for a set time. The exact time and distance relies upon on the instruction organisation.

3 - you have to be ready, willing and able to learn! Easy as that. As long as you can read the manuals and the exam paper and fill in a multiple choice paper, you should be there.

Now all that you will need to do is to choose where and when to do your training. There are 3 alternatives available, depending on when you plan to be diving in the future. These are:

1 - Complete all of your instruction abroad in warm water. Marvelous if you are only going to be a holiday diver as it avoids the discomforts and additional instruction involved in cold water training. If you are going to scuba dive at home once qualified, then you may need to undertake an additional dry suit specialist training course to allow you to dive in one of these.

2 - Complete the training in cold water at home. If you are going to be scuba diving a load in cold water, then why not learn in cold water? When you then dive in warmer water with the freedom of a wet suit instead of a dry suit you will appreaciate how much easier it really is! It also means that the dry suit instruction is out of the way along with the initial training, which could make the whole instruction masses more affordable!

3 - Undertake a referral and split the instruction. If you do not want to spend your entire holiday diving, then a referral might be best for you. There are round 2 full days of training out of the water and then 4 dives. If you are just away for a week and allowing for not scuba diving the day before you fly, then this truely does take up most of the holiday. So referrals split the instruction. The classroom work and the initial pool work is done at home when you have ample of time. Then, when you fly out to your tropical hotspot, you are then just left with the final 4 training dives and then you are a qualified diver.

And that is it! As long as you are healthy you merely have to make your mind up whether to learn at home or abroad or split the instruction.

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Written by Keith Lunt of GoDiving.org. For more interesting information, call into the scuba diving blog

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