Did your heart skip a beat when Captain Nemo saved a South Indian fisherman while scuba diving in the Jules Verne Classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea? Do you daydream about finding Blackbeard’s treasure chest in his submerged ship? Does watching the Discovery Channel make you yearn to learn to scuba dive? Perhaps you should turn your dreams into reality and investigate scubadiving as a new hobby. It’s easier than you think!
Almost anyone in relatively good shape can learn to scuba dive, whether a good swimmer or a great swimmer, old or young. Full certification programs offered through the Professional Association of Diving Instructors or the National Association of Scuba Instructors require a combination of classroom, pool and open water training. Divers will learn about equipment purchase and maintenance, swimming and breathing techniques, in addition to rescue procedures. The local dive shop is often the easiest way to get in touch with a scuba program, but some people enjoy making a whole vacation based around learning how to scuba dive too.
Why would one want to learn to scuba dive, you ask? Aside from it being a mind-blowing vacation addition and rewarding hobby, there are career and practical reasons too. Commercial divers build boats and docks, excavate ancient ruins and shipwrecks, survey tectonic plates and underwater volcanoes, construct pipelines and dams, or repair bridges and submarines. Scientists dive all the time to study marine biology, underwater species and habitats and archaeological finds. Additionally, combatant divers have completed military assignments underwater for centuries.
Whether you plan to scuba dive just once or you would like to learn to scuba dive as a rewarding, long-term hobby, it’s something definitely worth looking into. It has been estimated by the President’s Panel on Ocean Exploration that approximately 95% of the ocean floor remains unexplored. Wouldn’t you love to boldly go where no man has gone before?
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