Try dive

Did you always wanted to try how it feels to dive?

The try dive course or also called basic diver or DSD discover scuba diver. Is strictly not a course. Like the name states it is a try dive. This program is designed for people who want to enjoy scuba without the full commitment to an Open Water Course. Who do not have the time or money to participate in a full 3 day Open Water Course. So if you are curious and want to know what all the fuss around scuba is about. Than the try dive is the right program for you. Enjoy the colorful underwater world for one afternoon for 1 or 2 dives. 

The try dive or Discover dive will give you a basic understanding about the scuba sport. You will learn the basic most important skill to have fun and stay save underwater. Some of the skills you will learn are. Clearing the mask in case water comes inside. This happens mostly when you smile underwater. Regaining the regulator if the regulator should fall out of your mouth. Basic buoyancy skills and the main safety procedures. All this skills will be practiced in shallow water in a nice bay like Aow Leuk, Mango Bay or Japanese Garden. The skills will be conducted in 1.5 m deep water and should not take longer than 15 min. Once you feel comfortable your instructor will take you for a small adventure to a maximum depth of 12 m.

A try dive or discover scuba is a shallow advnature in a beautiful easy to dive bay under supervision of a scuba instructor.

The 2 dives that can be done in this try dive program are not a real course but an interdiction into the scuba program. But SSI will acknowledge the program as part of your journey into the underwater world. You will receive a mail stating that you have done the program. It can be counted towards an Open Water Course due to the fact that some of the skills that have to be done in an Open Water Course are already done. But there is no guarantee that another school has to honor this. If you would do an try dive with one the Dive Point instructor and than decide to continue than we would sure count that towards the Open Water Course. Should you decide to do the full course somewhere else than that school might ask to do the full course. That has something to do with safety and that the try dive program has no clear standards. Meaning some schools do the proper training while others don’t take it that serious. As with everything in scuba the right knowledge is key to a save dive. I would also ask to do the full Open Water Course if someone would come from another dive school. Just to make sure that the standards are meet and quality is ensured. 

Our school

teaches more than 20 years diving programs and we know that most beginner a have healthy respect for diving. But once you have taken your first breath through the regulator and felt that it is just as breathing on land you will feel that it is easier than you thought. Most try diver don’t want to leave the water anymore and a good percentage will continue with the Open Water Course if they have the time. There is no need to be afraid to learn how to dive. The most rewarding feeling for a scuba instructor is to see the smiling faces after they come up from their first dive. We will always start all our Open Water courses with a try dive. That is another advantage of the Open Water Course in our school. We start with a try dive and you have time to get familiar with equipment and the underwater world without getting overwhelmed or stressed by a lot of skills.

The schedule:

10:30 Meeting at the Shop.

Paperwork including health check list.

10:45 20 min Video which explains the basics about diving

11:15 your instructor takes you to the boat

12:15 first dive with the training skills close to the beach up front.

14:15 second optional dive

16:00 back at the shop for debriefing and payment.

 

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