Scuba Dive Training Courses and Prerequisites

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By: Peter Kingston

Scuba diving is an exciting sport and wonderful way to explore our oceans. It is a fast growing sport that can be dangerous if you have not been properly trained. Scuba dive training is available everywhere and most states require that you be certified before diving.

Scuba Diving has grown to such an extent that even beach resorts have started offering scuba diving lessons, as well as equipment rentals and certified trainers to accompany untrained noobie divers who just want to try it out.

Once you get a taste of this exciting sport you may want to go more and more often. There are scuba diving clubs that plan trips for their members and offer diving gear to purchase or rent at a discount. You may want to venture into more extreme scuba diving as you advance in your skill level. This of course will require a higher degree of certification and scuba dive training.

Prerequisites: any and every scuba diver must have skills in swimming, obviously. Aside from this, however, a scuba diver must have had training and experience in snorkeling, which forms the basis for some of the techniques used in scuba diving. If you want to take up scuba diving as a sport but don't know how to snorkel yet, then take up snorkeling first before taking a course in scuba.

Regular Scuba Certification: this trains a person in the basics of scuba diving, allowing operation in shallow water and near shorelines, and is mainly used for training scuba divers who undertake the sport for purely recreational purposes. For a vast majority of people who take up the hobby, this is enough.

Open Water Diving: Open water diving is done from a boat several miles at sea. You would have to be trained in how to operate a boat and how to use the special equipment needed for this type of dive.

Rescue Scuba Dive Training: Any basic scuba diver will want to take this class. When you are diving with a buddy or several friends a situation could arise where you may need to rescue a friend and this would give you those skills.

Deep Water Scuba Dive Training: Diving to body crushing depths is only for the extreme sport enthusiast. Although many scientists who explore the underwater world would also require this training. There is also special equipment for these dives.

Scuba Dive Training for Hazardous Conditions: Focusing on scuba dive training for divers who may find it necessary to dive in a hazardous area for a rescue, exploration or for work. A hazardous area may be a shipwreck, toxic waters, shark habitats, or underwater caves.

Instructional Courses - this type of scuba course teaches a scuba diver how to teach other people to scuba dive. It also features training in basic first aid to help injured pupils, as well as tutorials in buddy systems that are required for helping noobies along underwater. Obviously, a certificate in basic entry level scuba diving is a must for taking this course up, though no proficiency in the more advanced courses is required since this mainly focuses on teaching others the methods of recreational scuba, and not professional scuba.