Think of it as a test drive for scuba diving. You show up. You get a crash course (literally—no, wait, not that kind of crash). A professional instructor holds your hand through the basics: how to breathe through a regulator, how to clear your mask, and how to not panic when a fish stares at you.
Then you go underwater. In the ocean. Or a pool. Or a quarry. Wherever you book it. The whole thing takes about two to three hours. No exams. No homework. Just fun.
Do I Need to Be a Mermaid?
Nope. Do you need to be able to swim? Ideally, yes. But the bar is low. You just need to be comfortable in water—like, you shouldn’t scream if your face gets wet. The instructor will be right there, holding your buoyancy device, making sure you don’t accidentally float to the surface like a popped pool float.
You’ll be in shallow water first. Usually no deeper than 40 feet. That’s deep enough to see cool stuff—sea stars, maybe a turtle if you’re lucky—but shallow enough that you can still hear your own thoughts. And by “your own thoughts,” I mean “this is so cool, why didn’t I do this sooner?”
