Scuba Diving Archives

How old do you have to be to get your scuba diving license? Does anyone know where you could get one in or near Connecticut?

If you’re old enough to post in Y!A (according to the Y!A Terms & Conditions, anyway), you’re old enough to learn to scuba dive.

Contrary to what ‘Micheal’ said, no agency certifies 8 year olds to dive, as far as I know. PADI does offer a couple of confined-water programs for children aged 8-10 (the ‘Bubblemaker’ experience program, and the ‘SEAL Team’ training program), but both of these programs are restricted to a max. depth of 2 m (6 ft), and neither result in any kind of open-water diving certification.

PADI Instructors may certify students as young as 10 as ‘Junior Scuba Divers’ or ‘Junior Open Water Divers’, provided those students have completed the same theoretical and skillset requirements as the full adult ‘Scuba Diver’ and ‘Open Water Diver’ certs issued to students aged 15+. Also, PADI’s ‘Junior’ certs are hemmed about with additional restrictions on max. dive depth and eligible dive-buddy which (mostly) don’t apply to holders of the ‘adult’ versions. You can find full details of all PADI courses at http://www.padi.com

You can also find details of PADI shops in CT via the PADI website (click on the ‘Find a Dive Shop’ link, and enter your location in the search box). There is also another, non-partisan website which MovieBuff (another Y!A contributor) regularly recommends, but I can’t remember the URL offhand, sorry — you may be able to find it by searching MovieBuff’s previous answers, or through Google

(I just tried the search string "dive shop locator", and got this hit: http://www.free-diving.com/find-a-dive-shop . This wasn’t helpful in itself, but by following a couple of links from this page, I got a list of CT dive shops here: http://www.scuba-newengland.com/DiveCenterList.asp?StateID=CT ).

Hope this helps.

Scuba Diving Accidents Dead diver remains Blue Hole

More video: http://divingaccidents.net

The Blue Hole is notorious for the number of diving accidents fatalities which have occurred there earning it the sobriquet, “World’s Most Dangerous Dive Site” and the nickname “Diver’s Cemetery”. The site is signposted by a sign that says “Blue hole: Easy entry”. Scuba Diving Accidents are frequently caused when divers attempt to find the tunnel through the reef (known as “The Arch”) connecting the Blue Hole and open water at about 52 m depth.

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Cave Scuba Diving Chapada Diamantina Brazil

An amazing cave dive in one of the most beautiful and magic places in the world

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I was just wondering what the best places on earth are to go scuba diving? and if you could also please tell me a good zoo to go to?

There are as many answers to this question as there are divers in the world.

‘Best’ is an entirely subjective measure, dependent on what a diver likes to see/do underwater, their financial resources, and their level of qualification and experience. So it’s impossible to give you an absolutely definitive answer, since your question is so broad.

However, the following areas come up regularly in dive-magazine ‘bucket-lists’:

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (longest barrier reef in the world, with thousands of dive sites)
Maldives, Indian Ocean (strong currents, large pelagics)
Aliwaal Shoals, South Africa (big sharks!)
Sulawesi, Indonesia (huge marine biodiversity, including many endemic marine species)
Galapagos, Ecuador (major shark aggregations)
Truk Lagoon, Pacific Ocean (many WWII wrecks)
Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean (US vessels sunk during atomic bomb tests — experienced divers only!)

Personally, the Red Sea is a favourite destination — reliably good warmwater diving conditions, well-established tourist industry infrastructure, and close enough to home that I can afford semi-regular holidays there with my family.

Antilla Wreck Aruba SCUBA Diving

This is video that I took of the Antilla with my Canon A70 and some Pelican Watersports took of me on the Antilla wreck in Aruba. Feb 2005

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