Three Safety Exercises
When everyone is fine with breathing, one after another needs to do three exercises. They might not be fun for you at the moment, but very important for your safety.
Mask Clearing
Exercise number 1 is called mask clearing. While diving, sometimes a little bit of water comes into your face mask, for example because your mask doesn’t fit correctly or because you have a beard. Therefore you need to learn how to bring that undesired water out. You just need to tilt your head back, press your mask against your forehead and exhale through your nose. Et voilà, you have a clear view again.
Finding your Regulator
Exercise number two is another safety aspect for how to bring your regulator back to your mouth if for some reason it’s not there anymore (never had that situation). If your regulator is beyond your sight, just tilt your body to the right – because the regulator is always installed on the right side – and swing with your right arm. You now have the regulator on your right side and can bring it back into your mouth. Remember to exhale first or press the air shower button (at the front of your regulator), otherwise you’ll breathe some salty water.
Out of Air
The third exercise is nearly the same, it’s for the unlikely situation that you’re running out of air. Because then you’ll need to breathe out of your diving buddies octopus (his second regulator). So in this exercise your buddy gives you his octopus and you’re breathing out of that one for a few seconds. And that’s it!
Let's Start Diving
Your instructor will ask again if everything is alright. If not – don’t hesitate to tell them. Doesn’t matter what it is – they will always help you!
Now that everyone is feeling good and safe, the dive into the beautiful new world starts – and that´s it from our side for telling you how it will be, because every underwater world is totally different! But we promise, it’ll be exciting and overwhelming!
Pro Tip: Don’t be unrealistic – otherwise you’ll get disappointed. Don’t expect a huge colorful reef in Malta, a turtle on your first dive or a blue whale in Egypt. Adapt your expectations to the location you’re diving at or – the best option – don’t have any expectations. Let yourself be surprised and you won’t be disappointed.
The dive itself will approximately take between 30 and 45 minutes and for sure you will be relieved when you’re back on the surface. After taking off the equipment and getting dry it’s talking time – you can speak with your instructor about unknown animals you’ve seen, difficulties you had underwater or at best you already want to talk about the next step – a diving course :) That would be great! Have a look here for information about the
Open Water Diver Course.
The Next Step
To be honest, after the Try Scuba many people are just happy to be able to breathe normal and don’t even want to think about diving again. But we once saw a quote:
Diving is like sex – The first time you are nervous, but it’s still the BEST thing you’ve
ever tried. The more you do it, the better it gets. Do it with more people, learn new techniques.
With more experience you go longer & deeper.
That’s a pretty funny quote – but it’s so true. Don’t write off diving after one dive, the nervousness and the insecurity will become less and less.
We’re sure you’ll do great on your first try dive – just relax and enjoy!
If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. There's a first time for everyone.
Tami & Chris