This all started about 22 years ago when I had my first experience of this Micro adventure -Scuba Diving. I was working in Corsica and I done my first try dive.
I have always loved the water grown up paddling, swimming and surfing and learning to dive was on my bucket list.
It wasn’t until the next summer when working as a instructor in a hotel in Southern Italy that I started to climb the ladder of scuba diving where I took courses up to advanced diver.
The following year I was working in Tunisia where I done some more diving but it wasn’t until I went to the island of Rhodes in Greece that I studied up to the level of Divemaster.
The following year life took me out to Cyprus where I started working in Viking Divers and also done my instructors training.
Viking divers. Photo taken at Green Bay in ProtarasI worked as a instructor for 6 years teaching recreational and some technical diving so my boys have grown up hearing my stories of diving adventures.
Micro adventure – Scuba Diving
This year it was the turn of my youngest to learn. The easiest and more time beneficial way to learn is to either do all the theory at home or theory and confined water training.
You can purchase a android or apple app which does all of the theory, knowledge reviews, final exam and will send the diving centre you will do the open water dives your results.
So theory completed it is a case of 5 confined water sessions and 4 open water dives. Now the youngest is 10 so his maximum depth to dive as a junior open water diver is 12m.
The whole cost of learning to dive this way was €400 including his certification card.
The main issue with children of this age learning to scuba dive is their size compared to size / weight of some of the equipment so some assistance is needed donning and removing equipment also some skills they have to complete can be difficult due to size of equipment.
Dive Safari
Once all of his skills where completed and open water dives done we spent a day on a dive safari where we all could dive together and enjoy diving without skills and assessments.
We visited Cape Greco and done a dive that I always loved taking divers to ‘Tunnels and Caves’
This is a great dive site where the dive finishes surfacing through a hole in the roof of a cave.
I would recommend participating in a try dive first to see whether they like it first as it is quite expensive if they decided they don’t like it. A try dive is also a great little Micro adventure – Scuba Diving
The adults had planned to dive the Zenobia wreck but due to illness this didn’t happen.
Zenobia Ferry
The Zenobia is a 180m three deck Ro-Ro ferry full of truck and cargo that lays on its port side at 40m that can be reached at 18m so to deep for the boys but a fantastic wreck for all to enjoy. This dive is its own micro adventure.
