Scuba Diving
Throughout human time, man has only been able to gaze out over the ocean surface in awe and wonder what may lie within her depths – previously only dreams and psychic readings has allowed people to imagine the world beneath the waves.. As civilization progressed, Man made feeble attempts to visit the underwater world with various contraptions including diving bells and forced air devices that resembled what so many of them became; coffins. Even hardhat divers only got a glimpse of the submarine world.
When Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invented the demand regulator and developed it into the aqualung that was to become known as scuba, they opened up the whole underwater world to the masses. Today, dive shops around the planet, offer scuba certification classes, equipment rental and sales and dive travel to all the fabulous undersea environments that the earth has to offer. In the last five decades, millions have been certified to dive and scuba diving is a multi-billion dollar industry hosting not only dive shops, but also charter boats and luxurious resorts in exotic settings that cater exclusively to divers.
Learning to dive is within reach of most people and a scuba certification course can be completed in as little as three days. The dive student will take classes to learn the physics and physiology of diving, equipment function, diving techniques and safety procedures. In a pool, instruction of basic skills will be taught; mask clearing, buoyancy control, ascents and descents, etc.. In the ocean, the student will perfect what they learned in the pool and be introduced to the marine environment.