If you’ve tried scuba diving you’ll know how amazing it is, you’ll have experienced the thrill, adventure and excitement of being underwater and you’ll be longing for your next holiday so you can experience it all over again.
If you have never tried diving you might have heard some of the myths and common misconceptions below that put people off taking the plunge and trying diving:
You need to buy lots of expensive equipment
Wrong! You can hire everything you need from us at Euro-Divers – it’s modern, well maintained and there is a range of sizes. If become totally hooked and you want to invest in your own equipment you can do so gradually, perhaps starting with a mask and fins.
There’s no need to dive as you can see the same stuff when snorkeling
While it’s true that you can see a lot of incredible marine creatures from the surface, nothing beats diving amongst them.
There’s no need to dive as you can see the same stuff when snorkeling
While it’s true that you can see a lot of incredible marine creatures from the surface, nothing beats diving amongst them.
Divers’ tanks have oxygen in them
There’s nothing mysterious or different about the contents of a divers tank, it contains air – just the same as you breathe at the surface but compressed to fit enough in to last the dive! Once qualified you can go on to learn about diving with different gases and mixes in your tank but not pure oxygen.
Diving makes your ears hurt
One of the first things you’ll learn is how to equalize your ears and therefore avoiding any pain or discomfort. Diving with congestion can cause your ears to hurt so this is best avoided.
You need to be a strong swimmer
As long as you are comfortable in the water and can swim at least 200 metres using any stroke you like in as much time as you need, then you can dive!
Sharks and other dangerous creatures will attack me
Humans are not on the sharks, or any other creatures’ menu, you will quickly discover that big fish are the highlight of a dive and something to be searched for rather than avoided.
I will run out of air and drown
You will be in very safe hands, each diver has an easy to read pressure gauge displaying how much air they have left, initial training covers checking this and responding accordingly. You will also not be alone, you and your allocated dive buddy look out for each other.
I will get lost
The reefs here in the Maldives are easy to navigate and the boat picks you up wherever you surface. The guide will be on hand underwater and you’ll have a buoy to inflate at the surface if needed. Wherever you are diving around the world it is recommended that you dive with an operator who knows the area well.
You need to dive really deep to see interesting things
This couldn’t be more untrue – the shallower you are the more light and colour there is, the marine life is most abundant at depths of less than 20 metres.
Diving is dangerous
As long as you follow the rules and dive within the limits of your certification, adhere to advice from local dive guides and ensure you are with your buddy at all times, the risk is extremely low. Fatalities that occur are usually within extreme versions of the sport such as cave diving and diving to extreme depths – not the realm of recreational divers seeking to enjoy the sights on the reef.
If you have any other concerns, no matter how small, please get in touch and our team will be very happy to put your mind at rest by explaining the aspects worrying you and preventing you from embarking upon an awesome adventure!
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.
