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Try Dive
Introduction
The Romsey Sub-Aqua Club Try-Dive Programme lets you experience the thrill of diving under the supervision of an experienced instructor in a swimming pool. During your adventure, you'll master some basic physiological concepts and understand some of the diving skills before plunging into the weightless underwater environment. We take individuals or groups up to six persons who want to experience scuba diving for the first time or even the second.
Try Dive programme
Each try-dive is about 1 hour in duration. This includes poolside tuition on diving techniques and equipment. This is followed by a scuba dive in the pool with your own BSAC qualified instructor to make sure you get maximum enjoyment from your first dive.
The try-dive covers:
- The golden rule of diving: "Always keep breathing, never hold your breath".
- Explanation of ear clearing. So that your progression to depth is made comfortably and safely
- Instruction on key hand signals, so that instructor and student can communicate in this silent world.
- You will enter the pool shallow end and put on the scuba gear.
- You will have an explanation on how buoyancy control works and you can get to try it yourself.
- You and your instructor will kneel you down in the shallow end to allow you to get used to breathing with an aqualung.
- Once your comfortable and happy we can try swimming underwater and allow you experience the weightless underwater environment
- If your confident enough, we will teach you some more skills and get you to do barrel rolls, somersaults, hoop swim-throughs etc...
This is all about fun, you will only do what you feel comfortable with. You can even bring along a disposable underwater camera to record your first exploration into the underwater world.
Where do I start?
- Minimum age: 14
- A optional "T" shirt to wear in water
- Any mask or fins you may already have, but we can supply these.
- And... A sense of adventure
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The only requirements are that you have no known significant medical problems (especially heart conditions, serious ear or sinus problems, lung damage, asthma, fits or epilepsy). If you have any questions about medical restrictions, send our Diving Officer; Steven Winstanley, an email and ask him if he thinks you will be ok to dive. A medical declaration form needs to be completed prior to the Try Dive.
Romsey Sub-Aqua club asks for a £15 donation per person for this unique experience. The funds will go to Romsey Sub-Aqua club, a non-profit making organisation.
Other Information
Location
Please refer to the "Pool Location" section of our website for maps and directions.
Times and Dates
We typically run try-dives once a month on a Tuesday evening between 7:30pm and 9:00pm.
Booking
RomseySAC can organise a try dive as a Birthday, Christmas, Thank-you, Congratulations or whatever the occasion maybe. We are open to other sports and social clubs in the area, wishing to try something different for an evening. Please use the link on the side of the webpage to book.
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What Next?
If you would like to continue with the Sport of Sub-Aqua, RomseySAC welcomes new members into it's training programmes. Here you can meet new people, and have fun as you explore the underwater world. See our introduction, fees and training sections for further details.
