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Learn to Scuba Dive
 
Learning to scuba dive has never been easier and the leading training agencies have modernized their teaching methods to allow safe and easy learning for a number of different preferences and agendas. Not everyone has the time to endure a 4 or 5 day course, however, with home study and the use of modern technology such as DVD and online learning, some of the course may be conducted in the students own home or hotel room leaving just the water skills and sea experiences to be completed at the resort. Furthermore, you don’t have to sign up for a whole course anymore before you know whether you’ll like it or not. The new style allows a ‘try-it-and-see’ approach where you can simply keep on going until you reach the qualification you want or you gain the full beginner rating.
You can even do some in your home country and the rest at our resort. As long as you finish within twelve months of starting then you don’t have to begin from scratch again.
Learning to scuba dive has never been easier and the leading training agencies have modernized their teaching methods to allow safe and easy learning for a number of different preferences and agendas. Not everyone has the time to endure a 4 or 5 day course, however, with home study and the use of modern technology such as DVD and online learning, some of the course may be conducted in the students own home or hotel room leaving just the water skills and sea experiences to be completed at the resort. Furthermore, you don’t have to sign up for a whole course anymore before you know whether you’ll like it or not. The new style allows a ‘try-it-and-see’ approach where you can simply keep on going until you reach the qualification you want or you gain the full beginner rating.You can even do some in your home country and the rest at our resort. As long as you finish within twelve months of starting then you don’t have to begin from scratch again.
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The first step is called the Discover Scuba Diving Program. A short pool session to learn some basic safety skills and a briefing on how to conduct yourself underwater is followed by a shallow supervised dive in the sea. This program actually forms the first part of the Open Water Course and can be credited towards it if completed within a year.If you go a little further and complete 3 pool sessions, two sea dives and the accompanying theory with an instructor then you can gain the first beginner qualification called the Basic Scuba Diver. That can be done in about 2 days and allows you to dive to 12m under supervision. It’s not the full qualification and will not allow you to dive in challenging conditions or with regular dive groups. Clear, warm water diving with family and friends is the ideal for the Basic Scuba Diver rating.
With just 2 extra pool sessions, two more sea dives and the accompanying theory and swim test, you can acquire the full Open Water diver qualification allowing you to dive to 18m in conditions that you have become used to.
At Sinai Blues, we use the PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) method. The PADI organisation has been in existence since 1967 and they certify around half a million divers each year. It is standards based and the most popular and well-tested method of diving in the world today. The qualification is recognized globally and is valid for life.