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Athens Scuba kick off 2023

Athens Scuba has had an eventful year of 2022 and 2023 looks even more exciting.

Besides having our shop now fully operational and stocked, we’ll have plenty of trips and opportunities to get everyone diving!

We started our year strong with a trip to the Springs with a few Open Water and Advanced Open Water students. We had a great weekend and everyone got certified.

This month we are having our biggest trip to the Florida Springs yet, with 19 divers total, 5 of them PADI Open WaterDiver students! On February 25th we’ll start to on our long awaited group trip to Thailand, for two weeks with one week liveaboard and one week exploring Thailand.

Beach in Thailand

The rest of the spring we’ll spend training new divers the basics at the Georgia Aquatic Center in Watkinsville and in the Florida Springs.

We’ll have another exciting group trip to Grenada in April/May and a trip to Cozumel in June.

Beach bar on Grenada

Our lake Jocassee season is going to start in the beginning of June. We’ll go to the lake every other weekend throughout the summer, until late in October. All dates are on the website.

After the big success of last years scuba summer camp, we’ve decided that we’ll do another this year from June 12th to 16th.

Our teenage summer camp participants with DM Susan and Instructor Ben

While going to the lake every other weekend we’ll kept on doing confined water session for our Open Water courses, PADI Discover Scuba Dives for people who’ve never been diving before and Enriched Air Nitrox classes, all at the Georgia Aquatic Center.

Michelle and Emily at their PADI Discover Scuba lesson, which they enjoyed a lot and after which they signed up for a PADI Open Water Diver course.

In September we’ll be going to Roatan, Honduras for another big group trip.

Resort we’ll stay in on Roatan

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Scuba Summer Camp 2022

Athens Scuba is proud to announce that we are organizing Athens’ first ever Scuba Summer Camp for kids from age 10 to 17! We are excited to teach children a variety of knowledge and skills around scuba diving, snorkeling and swimming.

In this summer camp, required academics will be mixed with fun facts and educational videos. Water skills will be blended with fun activities, free diving and more, all of which will assist the future scuba divers in developing a better finning technique and airway control.

The camp will not fully certify the participant, but it will cover 2/3 of the full PADI Open Water Diver course. We will finish all knowledge and basic skill training with the children. The four check out dives required for full certification will be offered as an add-on later in the summer because the dives can’t be completed in a pool.

Requirements:

  • Minimum age is 10 years
  • Kids must be able to swim before the camp starts
  • Certain medical conditions will require a physicians sign off

The 5 Day Summer Camp from June 27th to July 1st 2022 includes:

  • Daily Supervision from 9AM to 3 PM
  • Two dive professionals in the water at all times while the campers are in
  • Life guard on duty whenever the campers will be in the water
  • Swim and snorkeling development, supervised by a professional swim coach on days one and two
  • Scuba knowledge development according to PADI standards
  • Scuba skill development according to PADI standards
  • Each child gets their own gear set with a Mask, Fins and Snorkel
  • Snacks
  • Water
  • Grill out Friday afternoon with parents

Parents are invited to join us Friday afternoon to check out the skills their children have learned and are encouraged to hop in and try scuba diving for free with us as well!