What exactly is it?
This underwater sport requires knowing certain things before getting started, such as physical and medical contraindications. It is a sport that greatly requires the body and the mind, as well as the visual etc.
So we will explain them to you:
- Do not be pregnant
- Knowing how to swim, be in water requires this skill.
- Knowing how to read and write, you will have theoretical training upstream of the activity in order to know everything necessary for a safe practice
- Being over 12 years old can vary depending on some clubs from 8 to 16 years old
Some health problems can affect the practice of this discipline, so we advise you to ask your doctor upstream if you have heart, visual, respiratory, neurological problems etc. which prohibit you from the practice of underwater diving.
How to gain experience?
Many certifications / diplomas exist by diving and making a first dive baptism is compulsory for all people who have never dived before. We tell you everything.
Whether you decide on a whim to do it a weekend or on vacation, it's up to you.
Baptism, what you are going to do and how it happens.
Before you can pass the certifications and become a diving professional, you must first pass what is called a baptism of diving . That is to say to experiment for First time the immersion Submarine In waters 2 to 6 meters deep supervised by a graduate instructor.
You will be provided with all the necessary equipment such as mask , combination , stabilizer vest and palms and You will obviously be explained how correctly use them. All you have to do is dive under the supervision of your instructor.
Before diving, theoretical baptism training is composed as follows:
- Handling of equipment
- Go on the diving site where you will be briefed on the use of equipment and the safety rules by the professional who takes care of your baptism.
- Baptism will take place in water that will maximize 6 meters deep with the supervisor at each stage of your baptism, it can also be done in a swimming pool.
The following training if you wish, it is level 1 training with several possible training structures:
- ffessm which is the French federation of studies and underwater sports
- Padi , Professional Association of Diving Instructors, American school
- anmp , the National Association of Diving Monitors
- or the Snmp
Level 1 training, unfolding, duration, theory before practical, etc.
This training is only the first step because there are several others who will give you the ability to dive more and more deeply, but also to have the ability to supervise and teach. Each training brings its added value to the panel of skills of divers.
This training takes place as follows:
- A theoretical education upstream that it is important to master. This will give you the basic knowledge of scuba diving . And it will teach you its Principles but also air management , physiology underwater , safety rules as well as handling equipment .
- There follows a practical exercise in the pool to put into practice the theoretical teaching learned previously. This, in order to ensure the acquired skills before free waters.
- Then you will attack the natural environments supervised by qualified instructors and to familiarize yourself with aquatic fauna and flora.
- To obtain first level certification, you must be assessed by demonstrating your skills and skills in terms of safety procedures, your reaction capacity in urgent situations and your ability to be in the seabed. This is done to see if you can dive independently.
Good to know: if you want to be able to dive into other countries and explore tropical and foreign seabed, you must get closer to a Ffessm approved training center.
