What is involved in the stages of scuba diver training? Is it all just jumping into the water or is there too much to discover?
Theory instruction
Your diver instruction will maybe start with a brief introduction to how the classes will be structured and then you will be shown a sequence of educational DVDs round all of the skills you will be learning during the course. After each DVD segment, your instructor will then spend time talking you through what you have seen, ensuring that you understood what was mentioned and ending with a short multiple choice test to ensure that it has all sunk in.
All aspects of the training are discussed in the classroom based work, from how to kit up, the safety drills and processes and several dos and don'ts.
Pool instruction
After the classroom work you are ready to move forward to the pool work. You will be handed for the first time the gear that you will be diving in and taken to a suitable swimming pool to discover how to safely use it. But, there is something to do before you start to kit up and that is the swimming checks! Nothing complicated - you just have to show that you might propel yourself through the water for a prescribed distance and then float for a approved amount of time. It does not matter if you are a fast or slow swimmer.
Once this is completed, you might then assemble your scuba diving equipment with the help of your teacher. There is a set order to put everything together in and you will need to learn this. Next you will enter the water, possibly with just the mask and snorkel, and start the basic exercises.
These start with mask clearing. It is important that you could clear water out of your mask whilst still underwater and you will learn and practice this technique. Once you and your instructor are happy, you will then completely remove the mask and replace and clear it.
There are then several exercises to carry out with the full scuba gear, for instance taking your first breaths under water, practicing altering your buoyancy to get it undeniably spot on and buddy breathing. They are all a fun afternoon in the pool!
Open Water training
Finally you are ready to take your scuba gear into the water for real. The first dive will be quite shallow and you will begin with practising several of those exercises again - mask clearing in the sea and so on. After that your teacher will take you on your first dive followed by logging it and then using the tables to calculate your nitrogen saturation.
After a suitable break you will return to the water for a further 3 dives, each one taking you deeper until on dive 4 you should reach about 18 metres.
Final Exam
The final exam can follow the classroom work, but finishing with it is better as there are several aspects to the examination that you might only fully remember when you have tried them out. It is a simple multiple choice test and once all of these stages are complete, it is photograph time and you are a qualified diver!
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