Have you ever wanted to see the beauty of the underwater world? Scuba diving can be the best way to start while you are on hollidays in Cabo San Lucas
It is a magical activity that disconnects us from the reality in which we live everyday where our bodies are adapted to breath without any inconvenience. We encounter a world that we have only seen through a TV screen and it impacts us in unique ways that we have not experienced before by seeing and interacting with the different forms of marine life. When diving with scuba gear we can spend a long time underwater breathing and learning to be completely relaxed, floating as if in space with the equipment that perhaps for some people they have always seen as from another world. However it is a very simple diving equipment and with only a very little practice time in one day we can go down to almost 40 feet or 12 meters, encountering something unmatched.
Scuba diving area for begginers class in Cabo San Lucas
Here in Cabo San Lucas we have a place called Pelican Rock, ten minutes from the nautical marina that has optimal conditions to learn to dive and have your first diving experience. First of all, it has a lot of marine fauna, not only fish, but you can also find sea lions on the rocks and in the water when we are diving, which is what we are always waiting for, a fun encounter with the sea lions. It is also a site that begins in a sandy area 5 feet or 2 meters deep like a swimming pool, ideal for diving beginners because it allows us to enjoy this activity knowing that if we do not stand up we will almost have our head out of the water. And if you feel confident and want to go down a few more feet or meters, we continue along this sandy area until we reach the Pelican Rock, finding some corals on the rock and thousands of fish, moray eels, rays, lobsters, octopus and many more always within This area is protected by buoys where boats cannot enter and it is safe.
What can you expect to see while scuba diving in Cabo?
Being in the Pacific Ocean, we have a large number of schools of fish that are not seen in other seas like here, since the marine currents bring many nutrients and foods that carry together a lot of marine life. Not for any reason did Jackes Coustou go out of this waters to investigate these seas around the middle of the 20th century. Here where the Gulf of California or Sea of Cortez also converges, naming it the world’s aquarium for having diverse types of ecosystems that perhaps one should go to different seas to find all this rich biodiversity of marine life in one place. This was considered by him his laboratory to study marine biology.
Why scuba diving is also for begginers in Cabo San Lucas?
We do not believe that learning to dive is difficult, and that is why in one morning you can be scuba diving without any certification. Clearly there are people who have it easier than others but in any case with the techniques that PADI gives us in diving instructions, we make it possible for people who have never gone underwater before to stay for a long time enjoying the fish, rays, and all types of organisms that Baja California Sur has to teach us. In fact today there are several agencies that give international certifications and with these you can dive anywhere in the world, although it is necessary to dive for the first time with a certified instructor if you are not a certified diver.
Basics of scuba diving theory and you body phisiology
To remove some doubts, your first experience discovering diving only requires a short introductory theory class where you will understand topics such as the physics of diving. This explains how water pressure has an effect on your body, mainly in its air spaces, without generate any type of problem or injury to us. Some air spaces that our body has are the lungs, ears and sinuses. Another air space that is artificial is the diving mask. Now, as we descend underwater, our air spaces will have greater pressure and for that we must do something. In the case of the lungs we simply have to do what we always do but we don’t really think about it and we don’t realize it. That is to breath constantly without holding our breath. This is instinctive for people because does someone hold their breath while walking, sleeping, running or eating? No, then we won’t hold up when diving either. Regarding the ears and sinuses, what we do to compensate for the excess water pressure when descending is simply to balance the external pressure of the water with the internal pressure in the ears. This can be done in several ways, but the most simple way to learn to ecualize you ears is to gently pinch your nose by blowing through it and thus the ears generate outward pressure and equalize the external pressure of the water.
For some people who are eager to dive for the first time, they may believe that this is too much, but the reality is that you have to let yourself go with the moment and only the mind begins to understand how the body itself should act, breathe and move. Diving also allows us to enter a moment of complete relaxation in which we barely consume air, and we move extremely slowly while we watch all the marine life pass by.
What do I need to do for going scuba diving?
The beauty of diving is that you can have as many underwater adventures as you want on your vacation without certification, and you can also train yourself with different courses. A PADI credential will give you greater knowledge about diving techniques and physiology, more practices to feel even more comfortable and confident enjoying this activity even more. Who knows, you may be you get so passionate about diving that you want to be a diving professional. You could spend your life in the water teaching and helping to conserve the seas, educate others so that they become aware of the importance of the seas and the animals that inhabit the ecosystem.