Salty Dog Dive Center

It's possible to complete your confined and open water dives in as few as two or three days by completing the classroom portion online via PADI eLearning or home study options offered by Salty Dog Dive Center. The PADI Open Water Diver course is incredibly flexible and performance based, which means that Salty Dog Dive Center can offer a wide variety of schedules, paced according to how fast you progress. Your instructor's interest is in your learning to scuba dive, not in how long you sit in a class. So, training is based upon demonstrating that you know what you need to know and can do what you need to do. This means that you progress at your own pace – faster or slower depending upon the time you need to become a confident scuba diver who dives regularly. You can start learning to scuba dive online right now with Salty Dog Dive Center and PADI eLearning.

Having dive equipment that is suited for the types of diving you wish to do is the most important step in helping you achieve your diving ambitions. As a minimum, you want your own scuba mask, snorkel, boots, and scuba fins, as these have a personal fit. Salty Dog Dive Center will help you choose ones that have the fit and features best suited to you. Included in the cost of your PADI Open Water Diver course, Salty Dog Dive Center will provide a dive regulator, scuba BC, dive computer, scuba tank, scuba wetsuit, and weight system and weights. It's recommended that you invest in your own scuba equipment when you start your course because you're more comfortable using gear fitted for you, more comfortable learning with gear you've chosen, and it's more convenient for future diving.

Compared with getting started in other popular adventure sports and outdoor activities, learning to scuba dive isn't expensive. Learning to scuba dive is a great value when you consider that you learn to dive under the guidance and attention of a highly trained, experienced professional - your Salty Dog Dive Center PADI Scuba Instructor. From the first day, scuba diving starts transforming your life with new experiences you share with friends. Salty Dog Dive Center is proud to be able to offer the PADI Open Water Course from £449 per person.

If you have an appetite for excitement and adventure, odds are you can become an avid PADI scuba diver. Minimum Age: 12 years old (students younger than 15 qualify for Junior Open Water Diver certification). Physical: All students complete a brief scuba medical questionnaire. If any conditions apply, a dive physician must assess the condition and sign a medical form. Waterskills: Before completing the PADI Open Water Diver course, your instructor will have you demonstrate basic waterskill comfort by having you swim 200 metres/yards (or 300 metres/yards in mask, fins and snorkel) and float and tread water for 10 minutes.

No, assuming you have no irregularities in your ears and sinuses. The discomfort is the normal effect of water pressure pressing in on your ears. Fortunately, our bodies are designed to adjust for pressure changes in our ears – you just need to learn how. If you have no difficulties adjusting to air pressure during flying, you'll probably experience no problem learning to adjust to water pressure while diving.

When you're lucky, you'll get to see a shark. Join us on our South West Rocks dive trip. Although incidents with sharks occur, they are very, very rare. Most commonly shark encounters primarily involve spear fishing or feeding sharks, both of which trigger erratic feeding behavior. Sharks' main food source is fish and if they can get a free feed they will. Most of the time, if you see a shark it's passing through and a relatively rare sight to enjoy.

With the necessary training and experience, the limit for recreational scuba diving is 40 metres. Beginning scuba divers stay shallower than about 18 metres unless you are a Junior Scuba Diver then it is 12 metres. Although these are the limits, some of the most popular diving is no deeper than 12 metres/40 feet where the water's warmer and the colors are brighter.