Scuba diving provides numerous health, social, and adventure benefits. It keeps you active by requiring you to carry heavy gear and regulate your breathing, exposes you to nature underwater, and allows you to explore new areas. Diving lets you try something different by getting you out of your comfort zone and discovering a whole new underwater world. It also creates opportunities to travel, make new friends with similar interests, and even get paid through diving-related jobs or teaching. While diving, you can interact with marine life and visit over 7,000 islands globally. Statistically, diving is also considered safer than many other activities like driving.

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Why You Should Go
Diving
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2. Be Healthy & Active
• Long swims tone muscles
• Interact with nature underwater
• Practice regulating breathing to reduce stress
• Carrying heavy gear keeps you in shape

3. Try Something New
• Enjoy a new pastime
• Get out of your comfort zone
• Explore a new area of a familiar love
• See beneath the waves to a whole new world

4. Be an Adventurer
• Explore the ocean like never before
• Interact with new found friends
• Create new skills and hobbies
• Become a scuba diving expert

5. Open Opportunities
• Explore the 80% of the world most others haven’t
• Travel to over 7,000 islands to discover more diving sites
• Be paid to dive with a plethora of job opportunities
• Become experienced and paid to teach diving classes

6. Meet New People
• Interact with people of the same passion
• Network through new relationships
• Make new friendships
• Create fun and active relationships

7. Be Safe
• Diving fatality 1 out of every 211,864
• Statistically safer than driving
• Teaches how to control stress
• Increases knowledge of the Ocean

8. Incidents Compared to Other Sports