Discover Scuba Diving
A beginners guide to starting your scuba adventures
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breath underwater and want to try scuba diving but aren’t quite ready to take a certification course? Then Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) is for you. Catan Divers offers this program either in the pool or at the beach at Twin Rock Beach Resort.
This is your first introduction to the underwater world, an exciting and exhilarating sport. Interact passively with the marine environment and experience first hand the joy of the underwater world.
Scuba Diving Is A Way Of Life
Find out how you can embrace the lifestyle
Whilst this is not a certification course, it is a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world. A word of warning though. Once your try this amazing sport you will be hooked and want more.
Course Requirements
Open to anyone aged 10 years and above
No prior experience with Scuba Diving required
Need to be in reasonable physical healthy
What you will learn
Go over the scuba equipment you use to dive and how easy it is to move around underwater with your gear
Find out what it’s like to breathe underwater and learn key skills that you’ll use during every scuba dive
Have fun swimming around and exploring
Start Learning Now
Contact us to sign up for a Discover Scuba Diving program and get your Discover Scuba Diving Participant Guide
Your Participant Guide explains the experience and lets you pre-study the safety rules and skill techniques your dive professional will review with you.
You’ll also learn about opportunities to become part of the scuba community after you complete your underwater experience
Whats included in the Course
Direct supervision and instruction from a teaching status PADI Dive Instructor (Max 4 students/Instructor)
Use of full set of rental dive equipment, tank and weights
Instructional materials and Official PADI DSD Certification Certificate on completion
Scuba Diving for Life
Life will never be the same after discovering scuba diving
This is where it really gets exciting. Once you have completed the DSD within the pool and find out just how easy it all is you will no doubt want to get into the open water to experience the underwater world for yourself. Your first open water dives can be conducted after the pool session, as part of a dive trip.
The DSD open water dives are conducted at two specially selected dive sites, chosen for their depth and easy dive conditions. You will be taken from Twin Rock to the boat departure point a short drive away, where you will board our dive boat and head out to offshore dive sites for two dives.
This includes drinks, snacks, water and a surface interval between dive brunch/lunch. For more details of what is included please check our dive trip page.
DSD - Pool Session
- with Official PADI DSD Certificate
DSD - Open Water Dives
- 2 Boat Dives – See day trip
Once you have completed the Discover Scuba Diving in confined water you can complete some dives in the open water. Under the direct supervision of a PADI dive professional you can spend the day with us experiencing the underwater world in 3D on an exciting 2 dive day trip. Take in the wonders of the underwater world at two different off shore dive sites, chosen especially for you. Maximum depth of 12 metres.
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