Can anyone help me with some basic scuba diving information?
Hey,
I’m hoping someone can help, I need some information on scuba diving. I basically would like to find out where it is done (deep/shallow waters etc. as well as which are good places around the world to do it) and also how long it usually takes (rough average) and what times of the year and day it is done (morning/afternoon etc.)
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
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First off you have to get certified….I was years ago with my brother at the local YMCA… THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR SAFETY !!!
The class I took was 6 weeks and then open water certification.
Warm water dive sites are the most popular…Bahama Islands is one of my favorites
I am 22 years old and have been scuba diving since 12. You need to get certified by any P.A.D.I. certified store. Also here are a list of great locations :
Bonaire (Best and most convenient for beach excursions)
Belize
Cozumel
Australia
Pulau
Anywhere with a coral reef
You do have to get certified…
I just got certified this last weekend.
You can dive in both shallow, deep, morning afternoon, night dives, and you can dive as long as you have air (basically… there are restrictions to that)
You can dive in quarries, oceans, lakes, rivers… it just depends on where you want to dive.
Hi.
For recreational diving (as opposed to various professions such as underwater welder, etc.) you’re not supposed to go more than 130 feet deep, so unless you’re breaking the rules, scuba diving happens at that depth or shallower. 130 is still pretty deep, though.
This means that generally you’ll dive fairly close to shore, like within sight of land – not in the middle of the ocean. But you certainly could if you wanted to.
You can dive anywhere in the world – it depends on what you want to see. For pretty fish and coral, you dive in warm places like Hawaii, Carribean, Indonesia, Phillippines, northern Australia, etc. Any tropical location. But other people like to dive in underwater caves, or like to go see shipwrecks, etc. There is diving in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Scotland, etc. You’ll need a really thick wetsuit or even a drysuit to dive in these places.
You can also dive any time of year. In the tropics, the temperature doesn’t change much throughout the year. Elsewhere, you do like you normally do: the colder it is, the warmer you should dress. I’ve gone diving near-ish to Chicago in October wearing a pair of 7mm wetsuits, and it wasn’t bad at all. Some places have underwater Christmas tree decorating parties.
How long a dive takes depends on a few things: how many air tanks you have, and how big they are; how good of a diver you are; how much you’re exerting yourself (are you swimming, or just hanging out?); and it very much depends on how deep you go since you use air faster when you’re down deeper. But for an average scuba diver, at an average depth, with one average-sized tank, figure maybe 40 minutes or so.
The first step is to get Scuba Diving Certification, before you can go diving. The certification process has classroom sessions, pool sessions, and open water sessions. The open water is typically done in natural body of water, like the ocean, lake, quarries, etc. It has to be deep enough like 30 to 50 ft. The certification process can be completed in 3 to 4 days if you are traveling somewhere like the Caribbean, where there is lots of diving opportunities. At home many of us do it over 4 to six weeks on weekends.
Once you are certified – then you can start diving to your hearts content in numerous destinations within US & around the world. Open Water Diving certification basic rule is not to exceed 100ft – however many of us have gone deeper. My maximum is 120ft. Deeper does not mean better.
As a recreational Diver majority of my dives has been between 30ft to 70ft in 11yrs of diving. This is because my favorite dives are always coral refs, warm waters, & ship wrecks.
Once you are proficient at it one tank of air can very easily last close to an hour – but that does not mean you stay under water 1 hour – you will know why when you take your classes.
Scuba Diving is done in ice cold water to very warm water of the tropics (I like warm water diving only). It can be done any time of the day – including night dives in dark with lights – great stuff.
Check out the two websites below. One is a resource for learning how to scuba dive where you will know what to expect, what questions, destinations, types of diving, etc. The second one is the scuba diving magazine website. Browse around in that website for lots of information about equipment, destination, lots of articles.