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Company description Designed specifically for people who have neither the time nor the inclination to earn their certified diving status, Costa Rica`s resort course is a delightful alternative.
I`m a fish. I love the water, and if God had chosen to make me a porpoise instead of a human being, I wouldn`t have minded at all. The only drawback as a human to joining these wondrous creatures of the deep is the manner in which I was going to do so: heels over head and backward off the stern of a boat. At age 20, that would have been ``cool.`` Doing so for the first time at age 50 rated somewhere between adventure and lunacy.
``You can do it. Just lift your legs up and over you`ll go. You`ll be back on the surface in nothing flat,`` cheerfully exclaimed my instructor.
I gave myself up to the ocean below and left fear behind. Somersaulting under water and bobbing quickly to the surface, I came up yelling, ``Yes!`` respirator flying from my mouth.
That, in all truth, was the hardest part of learning to scuba dive in what is currently recognized as ``A Resort Course In Scuba Diving.``
Designed specifically for people who have neither the time nor inclination to earn their certified diving status, the resort course is a delightful alternative. Instead of five-to-seven days of lessons and experience both onshore and off, and at about half the cost of full open-water certification, resort course diving safely provides you with a condensed version valid for a two-week certification period.
``Great!`` you say. ``That`s just what I want. How do I get there from here?``
You don`t simply sign up, get your gear, board the boat and jump in. It isn`t that simple, thank goodness. It`s important for you, as a wise consumer, to talk with the people who will be instructing you, both on land and eventually under water, to get a sense that these folks know what they are about. Ask to see their credentials to document their years of experience. Are they indeed certified instructors? By whom are they certified? There are several internationally recognized diving groups which certify schools and individuals for instruction. You will want to look for: P.A.D.I.; P.D.I.C.; and/or N.A.U.I.
A resort course begins with some ``classroom`` training on the fundamentals of water pressure on our bodies, including the physiological effects of diving (possible hazards and how to avoid them). Charts and verbal directions create an easy learning situation. In addition to the physics of diving, you also learn some hand signals for underwater use. They are part of the fun as well as the safety of diving.
From the ``classroom`` which very well may be poolside, you move into water--the pool first, then the ocean. Greet your underwater gear; learn what`s what and how it works; practice underwater exercises with gear on, becoming familiar with and accustomed to it; and then, take a swim around the pool, practicing the morning/afternoon`s lesson.
From the pool to the deep blue sea:
To observe live star fish, sea urchins (don`t touch!), incredibly designed and variously colored marine life, to swim with sharks (try to choose small, friendly and already-full sharks your first time out), manta rays and porpoises, is to enter an awesome realm of life, inspiring and humbling even for two-legged fish like me. It made all the preliminary steps worth the effort. And it validated releasing the fear which kept me too long from this sport.
I learned something about fear. I learned to express it, to give voice to it and to listen to others` responses to my questions and hesitancy. By doing so, I conquered that fear and experienced something entirely new.
By the time we made our second open-water dive of the morning, no one had to encourage me to exit the boat.

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Learn to scuba dive on your vacation and experience an underwater tropical odyssey. Article by Cocori.

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Costa Rica
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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