But most of all enjoy it. Swimming is fun and knowing how to swim opens up new opportunities. You are not entering into the next Olympics. All you need to do is to learn how to swim metres feet. You just need to be able to swim. The swimming stroke you learn before you scuba dive is not important, but knowing how to swim is.
I recommend using breast stroke, as this is the easiest to do and is less tiring when you swim. Speak with your instructor, and tell them why you want to learn to swim. Explain to them you need to be able to swim metres feet and to be able to float and tread water for 10 minutes if you choose PADI. Choose the easiest swimming stroke for you to learn in preparation for learning to scuba dive.
The floating and treading water will come naturally, as you learn to swim. Leave this towards the end of your swimming training. Trust me on this one, treading water will happen naturally, as you become more confident in the water.
You will probably find that your first lesson will be using a flotation device. To begin with, most swimming teachers will start by providing you with a float to hold in your hands. You will begin by learning to swim widths of the swimming pool at first.
Once you build your confidence with this stage of learning how to swim, the teacher will progress you to the next stage, and so on. The next stage is learning how to use your arms, once you are confident with swimming using a float and kicking your legs. All good swimming teacher will know that most people are nervous when they first start.
They will take you through the learning stages slowly and at your pace. The cost associated with learning to swim will partly depend on whether you have private or group lessons. Before you decide on how you want to be taught how to swim, you may consider whether you want to have private lessons or swimming lessons in a small group.
Private lessons will always be more expensive. However, the benefit of a private lesson is you will have the swimming teacher all to yourself. You will be able to encourage others and others will encourage you. You may be able to find someone who has their own private pool at their home, who provides private swimming lessons. Using someones private pool at their own home will be a much cheaper option than going to public swimming pool classes.
Try looking in your local newspaper ads or perhaps look on Gumtree for private adverts. Local supermarkets and convenience stores also display private adverts.
Be careful though to vet the person you are having the lessons with. Always be safe. If you cannot find a private teacher at their own home, or if you prefer to use a public swimming baths instead, find details of your local swimming pool and ask them for the cost of their private and group training options.
Which way you choose how to learn to swim will be guided by what you are able to afford at the end of the day. How much time you have will play a role too. This cost includes both the swimming lessons and the room in the hotel for the duration of the swimming course.
So if you can find a friend or your partner will join you, the cost will be less per person. This is an expensive way of leaning how to swim, but if you have the money, it looks like a fab way to learn to me.
With most of the swimming being done with fins on in any case. Once you start scuba diving , the amount of actual swimming you do is very little. If you ignore the dive itself, which is mostly spent swimming with the aid of fins on your feet and at a very slowly pace, so that you conserve your air under water.
Normally, when you jump into the water, you have to swim to the marker buoy before you descend. Also, when you ascend and reach the surface, you will need to swim back to the boat. All of this swimming is done with your fins on. You can do it at your own pace and the distance you have to swim is very short. The boat comes to you and you just swim the last small bit back to the boat.
This depends on the diving instructor and the scuba company. Even if you are not a great swimmer, a beginner scuba course may be right for you, as it does not require you to pass a swimming test.
However, we do not recommend that you take it if you are afraid of the water or swimming. If you are anxious or nervous about the idea of scuba diving because you are afraid you are not a strong enough swimmer, it may be a good idea to develop your skills further before you attempt to learn how to scuba dive. While you do not need to pass a swim test to take a beginner scuba course, you will need to pass one to become a certified open water scuba diver.
The tests for open water swimming competency vary, based on the certification program you use. PADI, for example, requires you to:. There are many lessons to learn and principles to understand about diving underwater. Not least the amount of additional pressure that water exerts on our bodies than the pressure we are used to on land.
To get certified to dive, you need to enroll on a course with one of the many scuba diving schools. PADI is the most popular, simply because of the number of dive shops and centres around the world over 6,, and counting. There are two parts to the training. The first is the academic side, and is learnt by reading the instruction manuals and through Elearning.
This is followed by an exam, which you must pass before you can become certified. The academic learning is followed by the practical side of the training. Which begins in a swimming pool, and starts with your swimming test.
This is followed by some open water i. Then progressing from there. The cost of getting certified to scuba dive , will depend on a number of factors. The first of these is where you choose to learn to dive. However, you may be on holiday or vacation in any case, so the cost of the holiday or vacation, would be a cost you had in any event. The cost to become a certified diver does then depend on how much it costs in the country you choose to do the training.
This will vary from country to country. You are better off learning to dive in similar waters to where you want to dive the most. Or at least learn in waters comparable to where the majority of your diving will be. The best dives are not always the deepest ones.
Sometimes the most popular are at less than 15 metres 50 feet. These are limits to not exceed for the beginner level of a certified diver. There are some extremely popular dives up to around 15 metres 50 feet. One of my favourite dives in Barbados is no more than 10 metres 33 feet. This is the Cement Factory dive.
The reason I love it so much is seeing the seahorses that are there. On one dive alone , I counted nearly 30 separate seahorses.
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