Pigeon Island Diving Center – Trincomalee
Discover scuba diving
- Duration: About 3 hours
- Depth: max up to 12 metres
- Age: min age 10 years old
- Groups: maximum 5 people
- Medical Check: basic swimming skills, medically fit for diving
*Please check the PADI Medical statement (link) carefully before diving with us. Must be filled before the course starts.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving
For Beginners (no experience required)
Your first underwater experience! Explore the fascinating blue world and start your lifetime adventure with pigeon island diving centre in Sri Lanka!
Have you always wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater?
If you want to Try Scuba Diving, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, our Try Scuba Diving and PADI Discover Scuba Diving is for you.
What to expect
While not a scuba certification course,
Try Scuba Diving and PADI Discover Scuba Diving is a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world.
To breathe underwater for the first time – what a feeling! This is simply incomparable! You have to get used to it at first. After all, people are not made for it normally. After a few minutes of quiet breathing under water, most participants realize how easy diving can be. To stay calm and to follow the instructions of your PADI Instructor are the first prerequisites to complete the first diving exercises of your life. If that works after a few minutes, most of the participants are really enthusiastic and never forget that first impression under water.
What you learn
You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional. If you make an open water dive, you’ll practice a few more skills in shallow water to prepare for your adventure. Get ready to:
- Learn about the basic scuba equipment and how to use it underwater
Find out what it’s like to breathe underwater.
Learn key skills that you’ll use during every scuba dive.
Have fun swimming around and exploring.
Hear about becoming a certified diver through the PADI Open Water Diver course.
After DSD experience you’ll get a Certificate of Recognition (not a scuba certification) and we register you in the PADI system. Normally we’ll reduce the costs for the PADI Open Water Diver Course if you are interested to continue and get first scuba diving certification.
Difference Between
PADI Discover Scuba Diving
Maximum depth 12 metres
Taught by PADI Instructor
Learn more information about scuba diving
Theory in a classroom with PADI video
Trying certain skills underwater
Try Scuba Diving
Maximum depth 6 metres
Guided by PADI Divemaster
Basic information about scuba diving
Quick introduction to scuba diving
Trying underwater skills – optional
Schedule
When do we start?
Because of the high demand on fun dives in the morning we decided to usually start Discover Scuba Diving in the afternoon (in some cases, in the off-season, there is also the possibility to start in the morning). You can start in the afternoon, at 13:15. Please contact us AT LEAST one day before, so that we can organize the course groups and reserve a spot for you.
Arrival (13:15)
Upon your arrival at the base, you will be welcomed by one of our local and international Divemasters and Instructors. You fill out the necessary paperwork, medical statement and make your payment. We accept both card and cash
Preparation
First you start in the classroom with theoretical part which includes PADI video and a short quiz.
Then you are sized up for your equipment, we give you fins, mask and wetsuit. Once Instructor set up all the equipment, you learn basics about scuba diving.
Then you have a comprehensive but compact dive and boat briefing with your group. This consists of important information about the dive sites, safety procedures, attractions of the dive site, marine life, signs & signals.
Departure (14:00)
Diving
Time passes quickly underwater as you are surrounded by all the fish. You will enjoy spectacular marine life and first time breathing underwater. One dive usually takes a maximum of 35 to 45 minutes depending on your breathing and air consumption.
If you loved your first experience, you could also do a second dive and get even more comfortable. And if you have more time to spare and cannot resist getting into the water, you could continue on to doing the PADI Open Water Course.
Return (16:00)
After your return to the diving school, our Divemaster helps you to identify different species that you witnessed during your dives.Diving helps create a bond between people, all coming from different parts of the world, but all sharing the same love for the ocean, and we provide a platform for just that.
When is Trincomalee diving season?
Diving in Trincomalee is affected by The best time to dive in April Trincomalee from mid March until end of October.
