Learning How to Dive
Though diving is considered to be one of the easiest of water sports, carelessness can prove to be dangerous. The beginner not only tends to overestimate himself, being presumptuous, but the problem clearly lies in underestimating the dangers of the ocean and not understanding its ways carefully.
As a rule, one must always remember that the diving is at one’s own risk. For this reason one should definitely comply with the diving regulations issued by the concerned authorities. Generally these are : 1. Decompression dives are prohibited, even if a dive computer is in use which measures the levels of nitrogen vis-a-vis the respective depth over dive time, diving below depths of 90 feet is prohibited, and 3. wearing a BC is mandatory. Besides these, there are other diving safety rules to be followed.
One must never dive alone, despite the numerous shallow diving sites. One must also get acquainted with the site’s special features, such as the location of the reef’s edge, opening in reef channel, direction, the strength and direction of currents, the sun’s position, and so on. Special care must be taken during current diving. Here one must make sure of not venturing faraway from one’s boat. Further one must also dive against the current for in case of an emergency the current will bring one back to the boat.
Thus training by qualified hands coupled with one’s enthusiasm, and a little bit of cautious approach takes one to another world. The mysteries of the ocean beckons one and all, and diving provides an excellent and thrilling opportunity to unravel some of these, the fascinating world of corals being one of them.
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