How hard is it to get SCUBA certified?
I'm moving to Miami, FL at the end of this month and am interested in learning how to SCUBA dive...
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It's not difficult to get certified. What's difficult is finding a dive shop that you feel comfortable with. As for the training agencies, there's no real difference between PADI, NAUI or SSI at the open water level. The difference come in later, if you go tech as you'll leave these agencies and go to IANTD. You can get hold of any PADI dive shop and ask for their discover scuba course. It should be free or at most cost you a couple bucks for pool use. Gives you a chance to try it out in a supervised pool for 40 minutes. Scuba may not be for you, better to spend 3 dollars for a pool fee than 250 bucks on a course, that you may not be able to finnish.When you've decided on your shop, you'll have to make some basic purchases. Mask, snorkel, fins are bare minimums, the rest of the gear can be rented after you're certified. The course ought to include the use of this gear for your training period. Most reputable dive shops don't have any surprises like "ohh did we tell you there's an extra charge for..". It should be all in one package.
The training itself can be done in as little time as 2 evenings (average class time) and 2 days of diving, one day in the pool (2 dives) and one day in a quarry or lake (2 dives). That's it,when sucessfully completed, you are cert'd to dive to 60 ft with a buddy. It doesn't end there, there are many courses, for varied interests, to take, Advanced level open water, wreck, cavern,Nitrox,photography and peak buoyancy to name a few.
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Take a course with PADI, SSI, etc. Usually it is 8 or so classes (classroom plus practicing in a pool) then an open water certification. It is not difficult as long as you don't have any major ear problems and actually know how to swim. You'll have to do a swim test in a pool. Usually just a few laps.How much can man dive underwater?
It took SCUBA diving on summer as my required college kinesiology class. I thought it was very easy. You have to learn how to clean the clean the equipment, how to put it on, and how to take it off. You pretty much breathe the same way underwater excpet you breathe from a mask. The only major thing we had to remember was to always blow out all the air you have before going out. Becuase there will no longer be pressure, your lungs will expand and burst if they are filled with the amount of air that fits in your lungs when there's pressure. It wasn't part of the course, but some students and I went with the professor to a lake, and got our NAUI certication in just one day. It was the easiest "A" I ever got in college.I can float in any position in any water - salt or none. Can anyone else do this and do we know why?
You need certificates to do this. Lots of training & hard work is involved.This website might be of some help.
http://www.diveoz.com.au/learning_2_dive...
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