Beginners Guide to Diving, Part 2

Learning to Dive

So you decide to learn how to dive. Are there any reasons that could prevent you from diving? Your age is not likely to be an issue. It is possible to start as young as eight years of age and dive for as long as your health allows. Most disabilities won't prevent you from diving. In fact, moving in the weightlessness underwater may even be less of an effort to some. Nor is where you live likely to be a problem. 80 percent of the world's surface is covered by water. You can dive practically everywhere on Earth. I myself live just south of the Arctic circle and there are certainly no colourful coral reefs here, and the water gets pretty cold at times. Yet, I have done some of my most memorable dives right here in the murky, cold waters of the Baltic Sea.

A beginner's guide to diving, part 1

Introduction

This article is to those of you who are not divers yet. Don't worry: since you're reading this, you probably want to be, and you'll see there's no reason you couldn't be. Reading this article could well be your first step to a whole new exhilarating life of adventures underwater.