Experience Life Underwater With Scuba Diving

Scuba diving is a means of experiencing an environment that will change your thoughts of normal. Humans take hearing, seeing and even breathing for granted. When you leave your environment and indulge yourself in a one filled with liquid instead of air, things change. Breathing cannot be taken for granted. You must prepare yourself for that first frightening breath underwater.

Breathing Underwater
Humankind has a natural fear of drowning. This comes from the first time you accidentally allows liquid to enter your windpipe. You start choking, coughing and trying to expel the liquid from your lungs. Everyone has experienced this frightening occurrence. Now, consider that you are surrounded by water and are at a point that air is not as plentiful as on the surface. If you are not prepared, it can be quite overwhelming. Prepare yourself, and you will open up a world like no other.

Certification First
Scuba diving is learning how to control yourself in an environment hostile to your existence. Scuba diving requires training that will help you to change from an air filled environment to a liquid filled environment. After you master the basic skills necessary of breathing underwater, safety requirements, and show self-control, you will be able to be certified. The certification allows you to rent scuba gear, and get air tanks filled.

Interact with a New World
Now that you have been certified you are ready to explore oceans, lakes and rivers in a manner unknown to those who have only viewed them from the surface. If you have snorkeled before, you get a view that could be compared to a person flying low over a town. You may see the people and the structure but you are hovering above. They are too far away to interact.

If you scuba dive, you can go down to where the activity is and be part of it. Imagine seeing a fish larger than you and swimming next to it. Wow what a thrill!

Your Eyes Can Deceive You
When you are underwater, visibility is considerably different than that of what you are use to. In our environment, we have developed the ability to judge distance and speed of objects. Underwater, this just isn't what you are use to. Its whole new ball game where objects are not as close as they appear.

Your Ears Will Fool You Too
One other thing is your sense of sound. Under water sounds travel different from sounds in air. Not only do you hear sounds but your body will also perceive the vibrations. Fish use this phenomenon as a means to find food and hide from predators. Scuba diving will give you a chance to rediscover your senses. Additionally, it gives you a greater sense of your place in the world.