Kids Scuba Diving
As your holiday in the Maldives nears, you may start worrying that there won’t be enough to do to keep the kids occupied but if you introduce them to scuba diving, they’ll be active, learn something new and get to see some really cool stuff!
Kids as young as 8 can experience diving with the PADI Bubblemaker experience. They’ll be in safe hands in just 2 metres of water but they’ll be mesmerised by the feeling of weightlessness enabling them to do impressive underwater acrobatics and of course, blowing bubbles is always a hit with kids!
From the age of 10, PADI includes kids in most of their scuba diving courses. The PADI Junior Open Water Diver course is the first step on the diving adventure and it’s where the young divers learn the necessary skills to enable them to explore the beautiful reefs to a maximum depth of 12 meters. Once they have this certification, they can complete some adventure dives from the Junior Advanced Open Water Diver course. Diving at this age requires a certified parent, guardian or PADI dive professional to be the young diver’s buddy.
Kids Learning To Dive
Kids aged 12 to 14 years can also complete the PADI Junior Open Water Diver course but, upon completion, will be qualified to dive to 18 metres. The Junior Advanced Open Water Diver course comes next certifying them to dive to a maximum depth of 21 metres. The young diver must have a certified adult as their buddy, but it no longer needs to be a parent. Kids who can’t get enough of the underwater world and want to learn more can also complete PADI Rescue Diver course at this age.
At the age of 15, just drop the ‘junior’ – these older teens get certified to the same depths as adults and the qualifications they may have earned as ‘juniors’ automatically become the fully-fledged versions! The only thing they cannot do is enrol on any professional level courses – they need to wait until they’re 18 for these!
Aside from keeping the kids occupied and happy on holiday, there are many other benefits of introducing them to the world of diving. Diving is a hobby the whole family can enjoy together, all over the globe, it brings a connection even when your worlds seem to be diverging. The theory that kids will learn brings together many abstract concepts they may have learned but not fully understood in school science lessons – diving brings them to life and suddenly it all makes sense! Kids will learn to take responsibility for their own safety and that of others, valuable transferrable skills for many situations in life. With the plight of the environment and specifically the oceans, being at the forefront to the media and entwined in educational curriculums, diving amidst fragile ecosystems such as coral reefs, will make kids want to do all they can to protect them, today’s young divers are tomorrow’s ocean ambassadors.
Contact us for more information on kids diving activities, or to ask about completing the theory for a PADI course at home before you arrive!
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
