Scuba Diving

omg i recieved it from wishcash but well i was training my pokemon in the makiuta dojo to prepare for the new dongeon that required dive i-i…. i died! How do i get it back i think wishcash said something about getting another in solar cave but i cant find it!!!! Plz tell me if im right or where i can find it!!!!

i have red so i can help u the hm dive is in the solar cave on the 10th floor a key & a water pokemon is needed when inside the cave there are keys scatterd on the different floors pick them up along the way here’s a few items you’ll need on your dungeon journey 1-escape rope 2-apples or huge apples 3-reviver seeds
4- warp orb (just in case a monster house jumps out at u) 5-iron thorns,silver spikes,& gravelrocks. be sure 2 switch 2 your water pokemon to leader when in fron of the lock box containing the hm dive also the other 2 hm’s – waterfall, & surf are found on the
15th & 20th floor of the solar cave keys are needed also. good luck & glad 2 help a pokemon player in need

omg i recieved it from wishcash but well i was training my pokemon in the makiuta dojo to prepare for the new dongeon that required dive i-i…. i died! How do i get it back i think wishcash said something about getting another in solar cave but i cant find it!!!! Plz tell me if im right or where i can find it!!!!

i have red so i can help u the hm dive is in the solar cave on the 10th floor a key & a water pokemon is needed when inside the cave there are keys scatterd on the different floors pick them up along the way here’s a few items you’ll need on your dungeon journey 1-escape rope 2-apples or huge apples 3-reviver seeds
4- warp orb (just in case a monster house jumps out at u) 5-iron thorns,silver spikes,& gravelrocks. be sure 2 switch 2 your water pokemon to leader when in fron of the lock box containing the hm dive also the other 2 hm’s – waterfall, & surf are found on the
15th & 20th floor of the solar cave keys are needed also. good luck & glad 2 help a pokemon player in need

I have never been diving before so I am looking into doing it this summer. Everywhere I look seems like you have to take 2 to 3 two hour classes and or courses before you dive. Is this necessary? Can’t they just give you the basics and you go out there? Have anyone ever been diving before? Is training longer than a day necessary?

Thanks

There are a few ways "give you the basics" can be handle:

1. Discover Scuba: The instructor will go over some very basic stuff. You will then get to play around in the pool or in some very calm and shallow ocean/sea water with the instructor by your side.

2. Resort Course: You go to a resort. The instructor will give you a very basic course. For your stay at that particular resort, you will be able to go on some simple dives with the instructor nearby.

3. Open Water Diver Course: You spend time in the classroom learning theory. You spend some time in the pool learning some skills. You then do some certification dives demonstrating what you learned in the class and pool. After certification, you can follow your training and go diving with a buddy.

With PADI, the fastest you can get certified (classroom, pool, and certification dives) is two days, and those would be a couple of really long and exhausting days. The typical class that I teach is five weeknights for about 5 hours each night to cover the pool and classroom. After that, you will have to do the certification dives over two days.

The training is necessary. You can kill yourself or get severely injured (like a ruptured lung) if you mess up while scuba diving. Scuba diving is safe and easy, and preventing major accidents is easy as well. Without that knowledge, you could mess up.

I have never been diving before so I am looking into doing it this summer. Everywhere I look seems like you have to take 2 to 3 two hour classes and or courses before you dive. Is this necessary? Can’t they just give you the basics and you go out there? Have anyone ever been diving before? Is training longer than a day necessary?

Thanks

There are a few ways "give you the basics" can be handle:

1. Discover Scuba: The instructor will go over some very basic stuff. You will then get to play around in the pool or in some very calm and shallow ocean/sea water with the instructor by your side.

2. Resort Course: You go to a resort. The instructor will give you a very basic course. For your stay at that particular resort, you will be able to go on some simple dives with the instructor nearby.

3. Open Water Diver Course: You spend time in the classroom learning theory. You spend some time in the pool learning some skills. You then do some certification dives demonstrating what you learned in the class and pool. After certification, you can follow your training and go diving with a buddy.

With PADI, the fastest you can get certified (classroom, pool, and certification dives) is two days, and those would be a couple of really long and exhausting days. The typical class that I teach is five weeknights for about 5 hours each night to cover the pool and classroom. After that, you will have to do the certification dives over two days.

The training is necessary. You can kill yourself or get severely injured (like a ruptured lung) if you mess up while scuba diving. Scuba diving is safe and easy, and preventing major accidents is easy as well. Without that knowledge, you could mess up.

I am very interested in learning to Scu Dive. i really don’t have much knowledge. i live in greater Manchester. I would like if pos a recommendation of a school or club. expence, what i would need to train, anything you could advise me on would be an advantage.

Hey…great. Always good to see people interested in taking the plunge.
In answer to your question:
There are two primary certification agencies available to you in England. BSAC (British Sub Aqua Club) and PADI ( Professional Association of Dive Instructors).
You have some choices to make. Not only do you need to decide which agency to train with, you’ll also have to decide what shop you train with within that agency. No one can make that choice but you. It’s a personal preference thing and how comfortable you are with the training staff at the shop you choose and how well they fit into your schedule regarding the actual training.
Of the two agencies, personally, I would choose BSAC. You have that option available to you, which is nice. BSAC isn’t offered everywhere and in my opinion, their training is a little superior to PADI. That…is coming from a PADI diver.Me.
I had the privilege of doing my rescue cert with a BSAC guest instructor along with the regular PADI instructor. He taught us things that weren’t on the PADI course but ought to be.
That all said, whichever dive agency you choose of the two, that certification card will be recognized world wide. Your next step is choosing the shop to train with. The only way you’re going to figure that one out is to visit the local shops, talk with the staff, take notes on what’s included on course (read the fine print, a "good deal" may not include gear rental etc) and make your decision on who you feel most comfortable training with. It’s not good to take a course that you don’t see eye to eye with your Instructor. The more comfortable you are with the staff, the easier your course will be and the more enjoyable as well.
For the actual course, you’ll need to budget some time and money. Courses will take a week at least. Academics are usually run in the evenings and actual open water dives on the weekends. The courses cost on average $250- $300. That price will include your training materials ( manuals and dive tables or electronic planner), the actual classes both in water and out and in almost all instances, the use of rental gear (read the fine print).
You will need to own some gear before you start the course. You’ll need at the very least mask, snorkel and fins. This is considered personal gear. It needs to fit you, not someone else which is why you’ll rarely if ever see it offered at rental. The rest of the gear will be provided by the shop, including your wet suit for the duration of your course. Your personal gear will set you back about $200-$300 bucks for quality stuff. No point on skimping here. Get the best you can afford and it will last you a lifetime. Buy cheap, ill fitting stuff and you’ll be disappointed with it after certification and buy replacement gear. Why spend the money twice?

To get you started in finding a dive shop near you, here are links to both PADI and BSAC’s dive shop locations.
For BSAC: http://www.bsac.com/findit.asp?section=1420
For PADI: http://www.padi.com/scuba/locate-a-padi-dive-shop/default.aspx

One thing I might add here. I’m not sure if BSAC offers it, but PADI does. PADI has what’s called "Discover Scuba". It’s a mini course that gives you a little basic instruction and then an hour in the pool doing scuba. It’s either free or just the cost of public pool admission, depending on the dive shop. You won’t be a certified diver afterward but you’ll be able to figure out if Scuba is for you at an unbeatable price. Who knows..you may not like the idea of breathing through your mouth underwater. Some people don’t. Better to find out cheaply than to pay for a full course and then find out.

Edit: As for the other poster’s answer regarding "needing a lot of strength". No, you don’t. If you are of average fitness you’re actually probably fitter than many divers are in the first place. Quite a few are overweight, probably at least 60% are in my club. Diving is actually a lazy sport. You don’t want to expend energy. Doing that expends air which means less time on the bottom besides tiring you out amongst other things. You use every trick in the book NOT to have to use your muscles and if you do use them, you use them as efficiently as possible. You’re weightless in the water and when you’re on the deck with gear, it’s no different than a backpack filled with camping gear.

Trying to gather information as to the best school to send my grandson to on the east coast. He wants to do commercial diving and has certification. It will cost approximately $25k. I have a list of schools and have been to the websites of numerous schools but would like to hear from someone about their PERSONAL experience.

im a commercial diver in the gulf of mexico and as far as school you can go cheap young memorial in morgan city la is your best bet theres no use payin 25k for dive school it doesnt matter what school your grandson goes to the end result is the same .the training you get in dive school is pretty much worthless its all ojt in this industry, this industry is no cakewalk
dont let dive schools tell you otherwise

I want to become a wwe diva well a wrestler. im 13 years old i have been workig out a lot but when should i start training and learning how to wrestle???

A diva?!?

Your avatar looks like Weird Al Yankovic.

Is the breath-holding time the limit or coping with the water pressure? Which is the way, she notices, that’s the pressure gets too much??

Because air can be compressed by adding pressure to it, pressure would be a concer to a skin diver. Water adds pressure (weight) which pushes on the air spaces in the body. These include, ears, sinuses, lungs, stomach and intestines.l Another artificial air space that is affected is the mask.
Scuba divers really only have to worry about the ears and mask air spaces as they descend because most other air spaces are equalized simply by breathing from their scuba cylinders and regulators.
Skin Divers on the other hand do not have that luxury.
The air in the lungs on a breath hold dive will compress with no means of equalizing them.
If your lungs are filled with air at the surface, they will compress to half their original size at a depth of 33 feet in salt water (34 feet in fresh water). Go another 33 feet deeper to 66 feet in salt water and they will compress to one-third their original size. Another 33 feet to 99 foot of salt water and the will compress to one-fourth their original size.
The pressure on the mask air space will begin to be noticable to the skin diver at about 7 or 8 ft. Skin divers can equalize the pressure in the mask by exhaling a bit of the air from the lungs into the mask through the nose. Masks have the nose enclosed in them for this purpose. Swim goggles should not be used any deeper than about 15 ft as it will begin to feel as though your eyes are being sucked out of your head (sorry to be so graphic).
The ears can be equalized by wiggling the jaw and swallowin while the skin diver descends. The skin diver can also equalize this pressure by pinching the nostrils together while exhaling through the nose. Please note that skin divers and scuba divers should avoid forceful equalization when using the second method as eardrum injuries could occur. Equalization of the ears should be done early and often as on descends beginning once at the surface and every few feet thereafter.
This should be done before any discomfort is felt. The skin diver will feel and hear a slight popping or clicking sound when they equalize their ears.
To extend bottom time, skin divers have been known to hyperventilate before going to depth. If this method is used, no more than 3 or 4 quick, deep breaths should be taken before breath holding. Any more than that and the skin diver could experience shallow water black out on ascent.
The hyperventilation is a trick to fool the autonomic nervous swystem and the brain into thinking that it doesn’t need to inhales by blowing off excess carbon dioxide in the lungs which is the gas that triggers the brain to inhale. It takes the body longer to build up the trigger amount of CO2 when using hyperventilation.
The deepest that I have snorkeled is about 40 to 50 feet. The key is to get to know your limits and not to exceed them. I would suggest starting with shallower non hyperventilation dives and going a bit deeper following that. Your body will definitely let you know that you need to come back up. If you have good fins and strong leg muscles you can probably go deeper but again start shallow to acclimatize yourself first.
Women traditionally have a smaller lung capacity than a male that is the same body size, but they still usually win in an argument.

Is the breath-holding time the limit or coping with the water pressure? Which is the way, she notices, that’s the pressure gets too much??

Because air can be compressed by adding pressure to it, pressure would be a concer to a skin diver. Water adds pressure (weight) which pushes on the air spaces in the body. These include, ears, sinuses, lungs, stomach and intestines.l Another artificial air space that is affected is the mask.
Scuba divers really only have to worry about the ears and mask air spaces as they descend because most other air spaces are equalized simply by breathing from their scuba cylinders and regulators.
Skin Divers on the other hand do not have that luxury.
The air in the lungs on a breath hold dive will compress with no means of equalizing them.
If your lungs are filled with air at the surface, they will compress to half their original size at a depth of 33 feet in salt water (34 feet in fresh water). Go another 33 feet deeper to 66 feet in salt water and they will compress to one-third their original size. Another 33 feet to 99 foot of salt water and the will compress to one-fourth their original size.
The pressure on the mask air space will begin to be noticable to the skin diver at about 7 or 8 ft. Skin divers can equalize the pressure in the mask by exhaling a bit of the air from the lungs into the mask through the nose. Masks have the nose enclosed in them for this purpose. Swim goggles should not be used any deeper than about 15 ft as it will begin to feel as though your eyes are being sucked out of your head (sorry to be so graphic).
The ears can be equalized by wiggling the jaw and swallowin while the skin diver descends. The skin diver can also equalize this pressure by pinching the nostrils together while exhaling through the nose. Please note that skin divers and scuba divers should avoid forceful equalization when using the second method as eardrum injuries could occur. Equalization of the ears should be done early and often as on descends beginning once at the surface and every few feet thereafter.
This should be done before any discomfort is felt. The skin diver will feel and hear a slight popping or clicking sound when they equalize their ears.
To extend bottom time, skin divers have been known to hyperventilate before going to depth. If this method is used, no more than 3 or 4 quick, deep breaths should be taken before breath holding. Any more than that and the skin diver could experience shallow water black out on ascent.
The hyperventilation is a trick to fool the autonomic nervous swystem and the brain into thinking that it doesn’t need to inhales by blowing off excess carbon dioxide in the lungs which is the gas that triggers the brain to inhale. It takes the body longer to build up the trigger amount of CO2 when using hyperventilation.
The deepest that I have snorkeled is about 40 to 50 feet. The key is to get to know your limits and not to exceed them. I would suggest starting with shallower non hyperventilation dives and going a bit deeper following that. Your body will definitely let you know that you need to come back up. If you have good fins and strong leg muscles you can probably go deeper but again start shallow to acclimatize yourself first.
Women traditionally have a smaller lung capacity than a male that is the same body size, but they still usually win in an argument.

I see you’re in India. I believe there are two Indian Naval training units that offer a commercial course. I’m not sure if there is any military commitment involved and it’s strictly a business venture run by your Navy or not. They may just offer the facilities to civilian Instructors to offer a civilian career path or there may be a term of military service.
Other than that, you’re looking at out of country training. You’ll need a few things prior to the start of any commercial course anywhere on the planet though. You’ll need to already have your Open Water scuba certification, a current medical and in almost every school, your own personal gear such as exposure protection and the like.
As to where else, other than your Navy for training, there are a number of accredited schools in South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines. Your personal choice here and your nationality may influence how to obtain the proper visas or even if you can get one for a particular country. Either South Africa or Singapore have the most to offer regarding number of schools and closest to you.
Here’s a partial list:

http://longstreath.com/diving_companies.php?caID=3&coID=188

http://longstreath.com/diving_companies.php?caID=3&coID=193