The Open Water Scuba Diver certification consists of a few slices of pizza while watching a video about scuba diving, then spending a very leisurely and informative chat around one of our tables in our Beachfront restaurant with a diving professional over a cup of coffee or a Full English Breakfast. Then at some point, we’re going to play a quiz with you called “Who remembered what?” over our frappuccinos.
Then its shirts off and trousers down. Get your togs on and kit up we’re going to spend a couple of hours frolicking in our pool having a go at a lot of what we were chatting about in the restaurant. Pop your mouthpiece out, blow bubbles, mouthpiece back in. Mask off, mask on, practice buoyancy control and just get used to your kit cos tomorrow we’re doing this again but this time it’ll be in the sea!
So after a sleepless night of nervous excitement & tension, and the relentless persistence of the Jaws theme tune raging around your noggin, it’s time to head out on the boat to one of Koh Tao’s legendary dive sites. Here we’re going to get our kit on, perform a buddy check, then jump in the water and together we will descend down a line holding on to the rope to control our descent. Equalize all the way and then take in the beauty of your surroundings. A completely different atmosphere. An alien world with creatures you have never seen before, and the feeling of weightlessness all the while giving your best Darth Vader with an asthma attack in surround sound.
So relax. This is what it’s all about. Get used to your environment. Look around and be in awe. And let your Instructor lead you through the dive site.
We’re going to do 2 dives this day and we’ll do 2 different dive sites. Maximum depth will be no deeper than 12 meters and we anticipate spending about 30-40 minutes down there depending on how big an air pig you are. Conserve your air by relaxing and swimming slowly and you’ll get more time at the bottom. Rush around or breathe quickly like you’re running a race and the length of time you have air will be severely reduced. So relax. Look around.
It’s on the second dive we’re going to have a go at doing some of the skills you did in the pool the day before. Have a go at doing them in the sea now and understand why it is we need to know these skills as scuba divers.
Then it’s back to land for a sunset beer and a yarn about your days’ adventures with your new underwater buddies. Not too many beers mind cos tomorrow we have 2 more dives to take to a maximum of 18 meters and this time we won’t be bouncing along the ocean floor at 12 meters like we were yesterday. This time we’ll be perfectly neutrally buoyant at 18 meters in mid-water which descends to a depth as much as 30 meters in some places, where some more experienced individuals are enjoying the sensation of nitrogen narcosis on their Advanced Deep dive.
So 2 final dives. More exciting dive sites. Further away, deeper, bigger marine life and bigger schools of marine life. This is diving! This is what you pay good money for. This is why you got your scuba certification.
We’re even going to send an Underwater videographer with you to record this experience for you & tonight after a jolly good afternoons sleep, we’re going to get together for a beer and watch the movie the videographer made for you of your morning.
And that’s it! 3 and a half days of fun a lifetime of memories and a scuba diving certification or a key if you like to open up many incredible future experiences.
Our Open Water Scuba Diving Certification starts every day and costs just 11,000Bt. Making it officially the cheapest place in the world to learn to Scuba Dive and just one more reason to learn to dive with Big Blue Diving today.
P.S. Mention that the reason you chose Big Blue Diving to get your Scuba Diving Certification with is because you read this article we’ll buy you a Free Pizza! Tell your Instructor Jim said it was Ok.
