I did Discover Scuba Dives 2 times. The first one, back in January 1990, was in the open sea. Though it was in summer, the place has cold waters year round. The experience was pretty nice, no more than 10 meters depth, good visibility and lots of fishes.
The second one was more recently in 2007. I was in vacation in a place with beaches, but visibility makes open water dives impossible or unpleasant, so there is a shop with a large circular pool 4 meters depth and something like 12 meters diameter.
The pool is full of colourful fishes and several marine objects (anchors and the like) to make the dive nicer. Water is warmed a little, so wetsuit is still required. participants are fully equipped and are introduced to the pool by means of a semisubmerged platform with stairs.
The whole thing was very nice implemented and makes the Discover Scuba adventure a pleasant and unstressed event.
After the dive, which was something like half an hour, I was so impressed with the whole diving thing that, after returning home and back to work, I started to search information and possible diving schools, certification agencies, etc.
Every participant was supposed to be paired with a DM. From the very begining I felt pretty comfortable and unstressed, so the DM left me alone and put his attention to other participant that was not so comfortable.
After the experience I realized that scuba diving was right for me.
The positive point of this was that the pool was not a "swimming pool" used for diving, but a place for diving confined.
I understand that dive schools normally use a general purpose swimming pool for a weekly time frame. The rest of the time the pool is used for swimming, aquagym, etc.
If the place where I did my second Discover Scuba dive would have had a "normal swimmingpool", I would not have done that dive and perhaps I would not be certified.
The attached pic was taken from the operator web page (it's in spanish).
The second one was more recently in 2007. I was in vacation in a place with beaches, but visibility makes open water dives impossible or unpleasant, so there is a shop with a large circular pool 4 meters depth and something like 12 meters diameter.
The pool is full of colourful fishes and several marine objects (anchors and the like) to make the dive nicer. Water is warmed a little, so wetsuit is still required. participants are fully equipped and are introduced to the pool by means of a semisubmerged platform with stairs.
The whole thing was very nice implemented and makes the Discover Scuba adventure a pleasant and unstressed event.
After the dive, which was something like half an hour, I was so impressed with the whole diving thing that, after returning home and back to work, I started to search information and possible diving schools, certification agencies, etc.
Every participant was supposed to be paired with a DM. From the very begining I felt pretty comfortable and unstressed, so the DM left me alone and put his attention to other participant that was not so comfortable.
After the experience I realized that scuba diving was right for me.
The positive point of this was that the pool was not a "swimming pool" used for diving, but a place for diving confined.
I understand that dive schools normally use a general purpose swimming pool for a weekly time frame. The rest of the time the pool is used for swimming, aquagym, etc.
If the place where I did my second Discover Scuba dive would have had a "normal swimmingpool", I would not have done that dive and perhaps I would not be certified.
The attached pic was taken from the operator web page (it's in spanish).