Diving for beginners: underwater museums, license and training

Diving for beginners: underwater museums, license and training

How and where to get a license, learn all the skills in the pool and choose a place to dive.

The underwater world of the seas attracts more and more tourists, and therefore there are more and more offers to dive deep at popular resorts. Diving is becoming more and more popular, and therefore attracts lovers of easy money. We will tell you how to properly prepare for the first dive.

The first steps of a future diver

• First of all, a beginner diver needs to check his own health. If there are problems with cardiovascular or respiratory systems, then diving is contraindicated for you, the therapist will tell you about other contraindications, and there are several hundred of them. It is necessary to realize that no one will let you go deep without preparation. Even before the trial dive in the pool you will be allowed only after a lecture on safety, the purpose of equipment and the rules of being under water. The dive in the pool will take place gradually and under the constant supervision of the instructor.

• Once you realize that you want to learn the basics of diving, you can start choosing a school. It is important to make sure that your school is internationally accredited, otherwise the certificate you receive will only be valid in the country where you received it.
• The main thing to remember is that even after getting your certificate you must dive with an instructor, even experienced divers never dive alone. Beginner divers as a rule do not need to buy personal equipment, the first time all the necessary equipment can be rented, but professionals still advises to dive in their own mask.

Where to dive for the first time

Top 3 most popular places: Barrier Reef in Australia, Egypt and Maldives.

It is best to choose a school directly at the resort where you plan to make your first dive. Despite its high cost, Maldives is in great demand among beginner divers. The islands have a large selection of diving centers, many gentle slopes where beginners dive, the islands are coral, so the rich underwater world is provided for you.

Malta is no less popular, but here mainly those who are attracted not by flora and fauna, but by shipwrecks come.

Also separately it is worth noting the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, if not the most popular place for diving, then certainly one of them, it will be interesting not only for beginners, but also for those who already have experience of diving, all because of the huge number of different species of fish and corals. The best place for beginner divers is Egypt, the Red Sea attracts tourists with its rich underwater world, a wide variety of schools, as well as inexpensive price.

Underwater museums

The top 3 most popular museums are Grenada Island, Naples and Judah Harbor.

Those who have already gained a little diving experience can discover underwater museums. The first such museum appeared near the island of Grenada in 2006, the idea belongs to Jason de Cairos Taylor. Sculptures, which were immersed in the sea, in addition to the aesthetic function were to restore coral reefs, suffered during the hurricane.

Gradually, the idea was picked up in other countries, and even on other continents. For example, a museum of underwater sculptures appeared in Mexico, in 2016 in Spain opened the first such museum in Europe, which is also called the first underwater museum of contemporary art. Another type of underwater museums are sunken monuments of antiquity. Those interested in ancient architecture can discover the sunken ancient Roman city of Baia, near Naples. Or the Judas Harbor – one of the largest ports of the Roman Empire, which in modern times also ended up underwater, this museum is located near the Mediterranean coast of Israel. An equally interesting underwater museum exists in the USA: the Trail of Historic Shipwrecks, the oldest of the ships featured on the trails sank back in the 17th century.