If you are searching for a sport to hone your kids abilities, then scuba diving is your stray star! The challenge today is to increase your kids’ mental and fitness ability to be more indulged in physical activities! Psychologists and educational consultants show constant worries towards the backwardness of kids’ mental and physical ability due to living and spending most of their time in virtual reality!
The other side of scuba diving, besides being a very interesting adventurous sport. It is not just a hobby that will benefit your child both mentally and physically! But it would also gather you and strengthen the father and son connection, so you don’t have to stay far while your kid is in training! Scuba diving gives you the advantage to learn it at any age! Any weight and any physical fit! And that’s why we highly recommend it for many parents!
As we used to share our diving passion with you, and deep dive into the details in this article, we will show you what your kid is missing in the diving world! So let’s start!
Scuba diving has numerous advantages for your kids
Besides discipline and responsibility diving having a lot of benefits for kids we will mention it:
Gain Fitness
Obesity is an invasive disease between today’s kids. Relying on diets based on junk food and dozens of sugar and salt, make a lot of kids liable to diabetes early in their age! Diving is a physical exercise for the whole body under the pressure of dense water, so it is considered one of the best exercises for fitness and muscle toning. It also shall learn your kid’s balancing, and it will relax any stress on the joints.
Flexibility and strength
In diving, divers used to swim under the reverses of the water stream, and this leads to an increase in muscle strength, flexibility and endurance. In addition, this activity works to build muscles in the thigh and shoulders, and works to sculpt and reshape the muscles of the body.
Regulating breathing
While the child is under the water, he is trained to take deep breaths very slowly and to equalise his breathing tone to be synchronised, which improves the child’s breathing process and strengthens his lungs. In addition to that, deep breathing makes the child calmer and less prone to lung problems, and also be more meditated and have clear thoughts which is a priceless virtue to raise your kids on it.
relieve stress
Just as it happens during the process of meditation, breathing deeply and slowly makes the child more calm, and meditating on the seabed instead of thinking about problems, helps the child to be more relaxed, and also helps in resisting depression. Which is the disease of this generation! Diving will make them more quiet about what happened around them, and have the psychological immunity to face life’s pressure.
Sunlight and vitamin D
It is important to note that the child’s existence under the water means that he will exposed to the sun for a long time, and the sun provides the body with vitamin D, which helps in absorbing calcium in the body, and this improves bone strength and increases the proportion of endorphins in the body, which strengthens their nervous system.
improve blood circulation
Diving practice leads to the movement of all parts and muscles of the body, which need oxygen to work efficiently, so all blood vessels work with full force to supply the body with oxygen, which enhances the health of blood vessels.
And all of that was just a drop in the ocean of what your kids will gain, if they take scuba diving as their favourite sport! Furthermore, diving will increase your kids’ awareness also about marine life, life underwater, the aquatic creature that needs to be saved and their rule to save the planet, which will grow their awareness and sense of global sustainability goals, motivating them to be active thinkers!
When will your kids be able to dive?
There are a lot of considerations Drars diving centre instructors, talk about it with our newbie divers and their parents to have the full blown picture, before putting kids in gear and taking them to dive for the first time:
- First and foremost, the children must be qualified to dive. The youngster would have to attend a junior diving class, pass all of the tests, accomplish all of the skills, and then gain clearance from an instructor. Some world diving organisations, for example PADI, enable youngsters as young as 10 to get an open water certification.
- There might be some exceptions to begin taking courses in classroom and pool settings as young as 8 years old in specific situations, but the kids must wait until 10 to receive the certification.
- The newbie divers, after getting their certification, are obligated to dive with a diving expert or their parent/ legal guardian until the age of 12. At the age of 12, the youngster might dive with anyone over the age of 18, as long as their parent/guardian permits it.
- Before preparing our trainee for the final certificate, we ensure that they can manage all of the equipment, perform skills incredibly well, and comprehend all of the fundamental diving safety basics. and be aware that they have mastered the hand signals and know how to communicate with their companions.
- We have an honest policy in not sugar coating the dangers underwater, as our motto is diver safety comes first. Of course, we try to expand our young trainees’ horizons to understand every detail, and be able to estimate emergency cases.
And now if you reach this part of article, you will be enthusiastic enough and aware of the perks your kid could acquire through learning how to dive, don’t hesitate to contact us or leave any comments below! Stay safe