Discover Local Diving

Discover Local Diving is a supervised underwater tour designed to orient divers to unfamiliar aquatic conditions and environments. It may also be used to reintroduce divers to the open water environment after a period of diving inactivity. Divers may choose to discover new aspects of a dive site close to home or get an orientation to the local area while on a diving holiday. The guidance provided by PADI Members allows participants to comfortably explore different underwater environments, find items of interest and avoid potential hazards. Divers who have been inactive find that the Scuba Review program combined with Discover Local Diving is just what they need to get back in the water

Overview

The Discover Local Diving experience consists of a site orientation, dive briefing and guided tour provided by a PADI Divemaster, PADI Assistant Instructor or PADI Instructor.

Most often, divers participate in these experiences at new dive sites – places they’ve never visited. However, by focusing on an unfamiliar aspect, we offer Discover Local Diving experiences at familiar sites. For example, instead of diving on a reef, exploring the sandy area that surrounds it.

Discover Local Diving can introduce divers to environments with differing characteristics including:

Physical properties (temperature, water movement, salinity, ambient light and visibility)

Bio-geography (coral ecosystems, kelp ecosystems, sandy bottoms, etc.)

Topography (walls, submarine canyons, pinnacles, etc.)

Artificial aquatic structures (piers, wrecks, etc.)