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| Introductory Dive |
This is a three hour session for the complete beginner.
After signing a responsibility waiver and a medical statement that you have no predispositions to diving, you will be equipped with a complete set of diving equipment in the shop. We will then take you to our introductory diving site called Green Bay. It is a small secluded bay which is very suitable to beginners.
The instructor will gather everybody together for a short diving theory introduction which takes about twenty minutes. The instructor will teach you everything you have to know before you enter the water.
By the end of the lesson all the beginners get geared up with the help of the instructors, everybody follows the instructor in the water in the shallow part which is only one meter deep. You will try breathing from the regulator above surface, and when you are ready you will try it in the water. In the beginning normally people find breathing a little bit difficult but that feeling goes away within minutes.
The divers will practise two safety skills in shallow water: how to empty a mask that has been filled with water, and how to remove and replace the regulator (breathing apparatus) in the water. These are basic skills that every diver needs to know, and are part of the exercises from the larger Open Water course.
Once comfortable, you will start swimming around under water. There will be lots of small curious fish around you in all colors of the rainbow.
During the dive everybody will get a change to feed the fish with their own hands.
The maximum depth of this dive is six meters below the surface, and is a safe depth but still deep enough to see much more than snorkelers. The dive usually lasts about thirty to forty minutes.
If the introduction dive leaves you wanting for more, the natural step is to continue to become a certified Open Water diver.
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