If you have the desire and meet basic requirements you can easily learn to dive. Lexington Scuba is here to help you begin the process of making diving an important and gratifying part of your life for years to come.
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One option you might consider is SDI's online eLearning program. With SDI’s eLearning program, you can begin the process of getting certified any hour of the day or night and learn at your own pace. Sign up online today or, if you would prefer, just stop by our store to pick up your learning materials and schedule your in-water training.
Who Can Learn?
Anyone, including children as young as twelve and seniors well into their seventies, who is comfortable and relaxed in the water can learn to scuba dive. The only specific requirements are to be able to swim 200 yards (no time limit, any stroke) and to be able to tread water or float in water too deep to stand for ten minutes.
Most people would be surprised to learn that there are levels of qualification for all ages and physical abilities. Children ages 12 to 14 can qualify for Junior certification, which requires they dive with an adult until age 15. There are even special programs to help paraplegics and quadriplegics experience the beauty of the underwater world.
Even for those concerned with the effect of certain health problems, as long as you are in good cardiovascular and respiratory health, and not on any drugs that might cause complications under water, getting a physician’s approval to dive is generally easy. If you can honestly answer No to all of the questions on the standard Medical History form, you won’t even have to get your doctor’s okay.
What is Involved?
The SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course is an entry-level certification course designed to give you the necessary skills to safely conduct open water dives. Some of the many skills you will learn include
Buoyancy.
Proper weighting.
Marine conservation.
Equipment assembly.
Proper dive planning.
Equipment maintenance.
The course covers all the basic knowledge about equipment, physiology and the marine environment while training students to perform basic skills underwater. This course is the key to start exploring dive destinations around the globe or just in your backyard. With our SDI program you will learn dive tables however, SDI is the only certification program that teaches new divers to use dive computers in their entry level program. Other agencies do not include dive computer training and charge extra for dive computer courses.
The course consists of self study, academic review with an instructor and in-water skill development sessions at the pool, followed by two days of open-water training dives.
Where?
Academic review (classroom) sessions take place at Lexington Scuba.
Skill development (pool) sessions take place with in walking distance of our dive facility.
Open-water training dives can be completed here in South Carolina, or on one of our many group trips to Florida, the Caribbean and elsewhere.
When?
Lexington Scuba offers beginning scuba courses on convenient weekend, weeknight and custom schedules, several times throughout the year. Academic review and skill development sessions take place every month. Call or email us to find out when the next class is available.
How Much?
Learning to scuba dive is surprisingly affordable. The best news is you get to decide how much you will spend by choosing from various options for training and equipment.
What Equipment Will You Need?
The good news here is that we supply most of what you will need for your pool dives. There are a few personal equipment items, however, whose selection is critical to your comfort, safety and enjoyment.
Students are responsible for supplying:
Mask and snorkel.
Adjustable fins and wetsuit boots.
How Long?
Where and for how long is my certification good? Your certification is good at any dive facility anywhere in the world no matter what training agency they use. Once you become a scuba diver you’re one for life. Your certification never expires. Although after a long period away from diving it is wise to take the Inactive Diver Program to refresh your skills.
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