I got PADI certified when I was younger. No ocean near me so I had to fly, stay in a resort and pay a dive operator to take me out. It was very cool but too expensive for the short amount of time in the water (length depends on depth). It seemed to be popular with the middle age crowd that liked to vacation in warm places, dive during the day then party at night
22 years ago I went to Madagascar as part of an organised group. We were scuba diving off the reefs in the south, cataloguing and counting fish and coral species.
I racked up over a 100 hours underwater in 2 months. I loved it. I was going to get my PADI training, then spend the rest of my live living in the tropics taking tourists our on boats.
I got back to Scotland and I haven’t even snorkelled since, let alone scuba’d.
Diving, partly because of money, but I’m also not sure about the medical requirements.
Also flying, same reasons but money is a bigger factor there.
I got PADI certified when I was younger. No ocean near me so I had to fly, stay in a resort and pay a dive operator to take me out. It was very cool but too expensive for the short amount of time in the water (length depends on depth). It seemed to be popular with the middle age crowd that liked to vacation in warm places, dive during the day then party at night
22 years ago I went to Madagascar as part of an organised group. We were scuba diving off the reefs in the south, cataloguing and counting fish and coral species.
I racked up over a 100 hours underwater in 2 months. I loved it. I was going to get my PADI training, then spend the rest of my live living in the tropics taking tourists our on boats.
I got back to Scotland and I haven’t even snorkelled since, let alone scuba’d.