Scuba Diving – A Beginning
Posted on December 19, 2008
When you say the words scuba diving it brings so many wonderful images to all people, regardless of whether they are divers or not. Who can forget Finding Nemo, Thunderball, the Deep or the Blue Planet series on the BBC? So, even if you have not done it yourself, you have marveled at the underwater world with all of its different fish and marine species like sharks, whales, dolphins and all the weird little things you can find in rivers, lakes and tidal pools to 20,000 leagues under the sea, and the cool thing is unlike the rest of the planet, there is a whole lot more to be discovered.
Scuba Divers are seen by most as being adventurous and there is plenty of that, if that is what you seek, from cave diving and wreck diving, to technical diving, you can as crazy as you want. However, scuba diving as a recreational sport is available to all. The young the old and even handicapped people all enjoy this sport.
The first step for many to become scuba divers is a Discover Scuba Dive (DSD), or try dive, or resort dive as they are sometimes called. These are one time experiences that normally take around 45 minutes to an hour. Most dive centers or instructors will begin the process with some simple instructions, and then teach you some simple skills in shallow water, and then your small group and the instructor or dive leader go on an underwater tour to take in the sights. For many this is a dream come and they will go on to take a scuba diving class that results in a certificate that will allow them to dive any where in the world with one of the major scuba diving training agencies like PADI or SSI.
Fred Tittle has lived and worked in holiday vacation resorts his entire life, from Lake Geneva’s Playboy Club, as a rock jock for KSPN FM in Aspen Colorado, he became a PADI Pro Scuba Diver in Hawaii, diving on Maui, Kauai, Kona on the big island, and Waikiki on Oahu. He now owns EcoSea Dive in Sihanoukville Cambodia where he teaches SSI and PADI scuba diving courses and runs liveaboards in the gulf of Thailand and Asia adventure tours, http://www.ecosea.com
Fred’s new project http://www.CheapCharliesHotels.com where he reviews cheap hotels , budget guesthouses, discount accommodations and cheap international flights, but is really an excuse to vacation more, China is up next.
