2nd Breath Scuba Diving - Margate - South Coast - South Africa

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2nd Breath Scuba Diving

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Description:

Learn to dive in a pressure-free and professional atmosphere. Instructor Peter's 25 years of experience means you'll soon be out exploring the world famous Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks. 2nd Breath is PADI accredited and offers everything from Discover Scuba to professional Divemaster. Those brave enough will also want to try our exclusive shark awareness course.

Training facilities:

· 3.5m deep diver training pool with 1.2m shallow end

Certification dives:

· Discover Scuba Diving One pool dive
· Scuba Diver Three pool dives, Two sea dives
· Scuba Review One pool dive
· Open water diver Five pool dives, Four sea dives
· Advanced open water diver Five sea dives
· Emergency First Response Not Applicable
· Rescue Diver 10 pool exercises, 4 open water scenarios
· Master Scuba Diver Eleven to thirteen sea dives
· Dive Master Four pool dives, Six sea dives
· Wreck Diver Four sea dives
· Deep Diver Four sea dives
· Boat Diver Two sea dives
· Underwater Naturalist Two sea dives
· Underwater Photographer Two sea dives
· Night Diver Three sea dives
· Drift Dive Two sea dives
· Shark Awareness Diver Two Sea Dives
· Discounts available on Courses and Equipment purchases!

Shark awareness course:

This specialty is conservation oriented. There are NO shark dissections and no sharks are harmed in any way. This Distinctive Specialty Course is the braichild of Peter of 2nd Breath Scuba. It is structured to accommodate both divers and non-divers. The course is PADI approved and cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
Divers will be able to dive with shark species found on the South Africa south-east coast.

The goals of the shark awareness course are:
· To develop your knowledge of and familiarity with sharks in general and, in particular, those species which may be encountered locally.
· To replace the myths and misconceptions about sharks as devil fish with an objective and science-based view of sharks in crisis.
· To develop your knowledge of how to interact responsibly and with minimum risk with sharks, with emphasis on how to identify species as well as individual sharks within the same species.
· To equip and encourage you to become a shark conservation ambassador.

Course structure:
· Two academic classroom sessions. Both divers and non-divers participate.
· Two sea dives. Only certified divers participate.

Sharks studied:
· Spotted Ragged Tooth (Grey Nurse) Shark
· Tiger Shark
· Zambezi (Bull) Shark
· Scalloped, Great and Smooth Hammerhead Sharks
· Great White Shark
· Short-finned Mako Shark
· Copper Shark
· Blacktip Shark
· Spinner (Long-nosed Blacktip) Shark
· Smalltooth, Thintail and Bigeye Thresher Shark
· African Angel Shark

It is a fact that most divers will never even see a shark during all their diving careers. This is a chance to encounter and interact with any number of sharks: it is quite normal to see more than 25 individuals on every dive!

Dive locations:

Margate is adjacent to two of the world's premier dive locations, namely Protea Bank and Aliwal Shoal, with sea temperature 22+ degrees Celcius. Both locations offer a dozen or more individual dive sites each. All diving is conducted from boats. Besides conducting training dives, 2nd Breath Scuba Diving offers charters for the experienced certified diver at both locations.

Aliwal Shoal is eminently suitable for novice divers, with a number of sites at only 10-12 metres deep. Besides the numerous colourful reef inhabitants including pretty corals, it is not unusual to see the likes of manta and stingrays. For more experienced divers there are 18+ metre deep sites where large potato bass and sharks can be seen. Pods of dolphins are often spotted, if not during the dive then from the boat. In addition there are two diveable shipwrecks just off the Shoal.

Protea Banks is definitely for the advanced diver and adrenaline junky! Depths are 30+ metres, and drift diving is the norm given the prevailing current. This is where you see the big stuff from large turtles, tuna, sailfish to sharks and even whales.

There are a number of other superb dive locations locally. To briefly name but a few: Cowrie Reef/Landers Reef out of Park Rynie, Adda Reef/ Bo Boyi Reef/Potato Reef and Deep Salmon out of Margate.