All you need to know before SCUBA diving

Why?
SCUBA diving will nourish your curiosity and imagination in the marine environment. This article aims to explain the well-established attraction of the extreme sport of SCUBA diving and what you will need to know before approaching it.

While SCUBA diving you will be able to experience the wonders of the seas, the beauty, the peaceful quiet and diversity of marine life. Researchers assess that oceans are habitants for more than ten million species of marine organisms, from corals, fishes, Mollusca, marine mammals to small plankton species and much more. Have I intrigued your curiosity yet?

Try to imagine a unique feeling of floating, a little bit like an astronaut but in water. Being surrounded by waters allows you to move in an additional dimension, also up and down, unlike above water. The quite is also a charm to many SCUBA divers, who enjoy the peaceful character of this sport.
What is SCUBA?

SCUBA stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus and is basically diving with a tank containing breathing gas, usually compressed air. Before jumping to the water you must be equipped suitably. SCUBA divers use buoyancy compensator (BCD) which enables them to control their buoyancy underwater and to achieve neutral buoyancy for their convenience. The BCD is holding the tank, while to the latter a regulator is connected, through it divers breathe. Importantly, also joined a depth meter and a needle that presents how much breathing gas you have left. Additional gear is a suit, clearly depending on sea temperatures, a mask and fins to mitigate your underwater movement.

How extreme is it?

SCUBA diving is considered as an extreme sport hobby.
But it can and usually very safe as long as you are well trained and follow some basic ground rules.
Along popular shores diving clubs and schools are scattered. There are two basic courses of SCUBA diving, of about 10 days long, that allows you to dive up to 30 meters depth.
These courses firstly teach the physics of diving and how to allow our body to cope with some changes during diving, such as pumping air while descending and balance pressure.
Schools also have courses for becoming a professional diving guide or some other specialties.
Diving courses teach and train emergency scenarios and prepare the diver to various incidents that may unluckily happen. Following ground rules reduce these to the minimum.
Never diving alone and always dive in a pair is fundamental in preventing those.
Besides that a diver must know how to behave in the underwater environment, meaning not touch anything and not tease and irritate the marine life. Pushing the limits by ignoring the ground rules, like diving deeper than permitted, may cost you your life. Having said that, while being careful, responsible, trained and disciplined the extreme nature of diving is notably negotiable.
Thus SCUBA diving can speak and appeal to many people, differ in age and gender and frankly no one can blame them… so if you seek a new and exciting adventure, SCUBA diving can fit perfectly.