2. Topics of Discussion
• SCUBA – Its meaning and history
• Equipment
• How to dive/types of dives
• Hand Signals
• Health and safety
• Dive sites
• Marine Life
3. The Worlds Oceans
•75% of the earth is
water
•Approximately 20%
of the worlds oceans
have been explored
•The ocean contains
the last
wilderness on earth
4. What Does it Mean? History?
• SCUBA – Self Contained Underwater
Breathing Apparatus
• Long history dating back from 332 BC
• Modern fins, mask and snorkel tubes were
developed by fishermen from America,
Russia, France and England in the 1920s
and 1930s