Try a one-time scuba experience from our boat at Tribe Gate in Havelock

Try a one-time scuba experience from our boat at Tribe Gate in Havelock seahawksscuba.livejournal.com/1064.html

The colourful Mandarine fish in the Andaman

Dive Fitness and Safety Scuba diving can be a strenuous activity particularly if one is unfit. Before any in-water training, you are required to fill a medical questionnaire and a liability release form. You may request the dive center to email you a copy of the questionnaire before you arrive in Havelock. In case you are suffering from any of the conditions mentioned in the questionnaire, a medical fitness certificate has to be issued by a physician. Having a cold or congestion at the time of the dive may result in an inability to equalize the pressure on your eardrums which will lead to ear pain. This may limit the depth till which you can descend or even require you to exit the water. The try dive is the best option for scuba diving for nonswimmers in Andaman.

Introduction and Briefings Following an introduction of the staff and crew to the customer and vice-versa briefings will be conducted. The briefings consist of a description of the marine fishes and animals you will most likely see on the dive. Followed by the basic rules of scuba, primarily do not 1/4

hold your breath, always equalize before you feel pain in your ears. Then a description of the skills required to be comfortable in the water and scuba dive is provided. Again, these skills consist mainly of exercises that allow you to maintain a slow, comfortable rate of breathing during scuba in Andaman. As talking underwater isn’t possible you will be briefed on the hand signals used to communicate with your divemaster.

Your dive instructor and you.

Training session with your instructor in Havelock.

Once the briefings are completed you will be taken to a nearby beach where a training session will be conducted in shallow water (no higher than chest level). The purpose of this training is to make you comfortable using the equipment and in particular getting you used to breathe from a regulator. Some people may find it uncomfortable as the air in your tank is devoid of moisture. All students are given as much time as possible to perform the requisite skills as each individual will get acclimated to being and breathing underwater.

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Giant stride from the boat A Memorable Scuba Experience from the Boat in Havelock Following the training session, all persons and equipment are loaded onto the boat. The ride to Tribe Gate takes less than ten minutes during which time equipment checks are done. Once you reach the site, you will be briefed on the entry method; the “back roll”. A divemaster will demonstrate the entry and will be waiting in the water for you. Before descent, your divemaster will quickly run through the hand signals with you again and will remind you of how to behave underwater and the precautions you need to take while scuba diving in Andaman.

You will make a slow gradual descent in the vertical position with your divemaster reminding you to equalize and checking if you’re okay. In case you begin to feel any kind of discomfort or pain in your ear let your divemaster know immediately, they will stop the descent and get you to slowly ascend to a point where the pain stops. Following this, you will begin to slowly descend again. In case you are unable to descend due to discomfort, for your safety, you will have to stay at a depth at which your ears do not hurt or you will have to surface and abort the dive.

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Schools of fish in Tribe Gate.

Once we reach a depth between 10-12 m or a depth at which your ears aren’t hurting, your dive guide will guide you around the reef. As a safety precaution, the divemaster will always be in physical contact with you. During your dive, an additional diver will be there who will be photographing and recording your dive experience. As part of the Try Boat Dive package, you will be given a minimum of 30 pictures along with a video of your backroll entry and three additional minutes of underwater footage.

During your dive, you will come across fishes and corals of various shapes and sizes. Some of the wonderful creatures you might come across include Pufferfish, Parrotfish, Triggerfish, Clownfish (better known as Neemo), Moorish idols, Bannerfish along with a wide assortment of colorful Sea Slugs and Sea Cucumber.

While scuba diving in havelock, please remember we are guests in this fragile environment, so touch nothing, take only pictures, and leave only bubbles.

Once the dive is complete, you will return to the dive center and be given a debriefing, and will be dropped back at your hotel.

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