Importance Of Open Water Courses

For enthusiasts divers, they are required to go through 4 to 7 days worth of diving in order to be qualified for the Professional Association of Diving Instructor, or PADI certificate. With the current development of technology, PADI offers an environmental and more convenient method of teaching open water course online which allows divers to learn at their own pace in the comfort of their home. Why is learning an open water course important for divers to learn before advancing to harder difficulties?

For starters, divers are required to learn the basic understanding of their diving equipment in order to operate and equip their equipment properly while preventing unexpected accidents from happening to yourself and your diving partners during their diving sessions. They are also required to learn hand signals to warn other divers in emergency situations. This will be important when divers run out of oxygen or encounter an issue with their oxygen tank which they can signal to other divers to notify of their issue and share air with them while ascending safely. Divers are required to learn theoretical parts of diving as well such as reading dive tables, scuba gas laws, risk of scuba diving and scuba diving safety. After learning all the basics and theory, divers are encouraged to invest into advanced open water courses as they learn more advanced lessons and theory for advanced diving sessions and are encouraged to dive as often as possible to put their knowledge into practical use and gain more experience while enjoying themselves in their diving sessions.

Most importantly, divers will learn how to safely ascend and descend during their sessions. Some divers suffer a common injury called the barotrauma, or decompression sickness, which is the injury of the lung when a diver is ascending from an area with higher pressure too quickly. scuba diving holidays could include but not limited to: pain, hearing loss, dizziness and feeling of stuffy ears. This can be felt most commonly when you’re ascending while you are sitting in an airplane and you can feel your ears feeling a bit more stuffy. However, divers suffer more severe consequences as they may suffer from the common symptoms of barotrauma along with more serious symptoms such as feeling of sickness, fatigue, headache and loss of appetite while also be at risk of being afflicted by type 1 decompression sickness called the Bends which afflicts pain in the joints or type 2 decompression sickness which may result in paralysis or death in worse case scenarios. Divers will learn not only about decompression sickness as part of theory knowledge, but to also detect symptoms and prevent the sickness from progressing even further on themselves and other divers

If you aim to gain more experience as a diver, open water course is an important course for every divers to go through as you will help to look after divers and yourself to prepare and prevent unexpected accidents and become more educated in the dangers of diving while gaining more appreciation for the ocean and the marine life as you leisurely swim and enjoy the view of the sea bed.