Scuba Diving Cyprus and Scuba Diver Training

Scuba Diving and Diver Training Company in Cyprus, with five professionally-staffed and newly-equipped centres in Larnaca and Limassol Cyprus

Introduction

With nearly two decades' of Scuba Diving experience on the island and our highest awards as PADI CDC, 5 * IDC and 5 * Gold Palm Resorts, you can be assured that there are no shortcuts to safe and proper scuba diver training in Cyprus. We can train and advance all levels of diver from novice, beginner, or inexperienced divers to professional divers.

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Winner of PADI's most prestigious "Outstanding Contribution to the Diving Industry" award in 2005.

We also have a Centre of Excellence only a four kilometre drive from the popular resort of Limassol, Dive-In has created this Amazing Complex and dedicated it to all levels of GO-PRO PADI Professional Scuba Diver Training. Access to this fantastic Centre is just so easy we are two minutes drive from the Islands main highway and only 40 minutes drive from the Paphos or Larnaca International Airports. This complex is ideally suited for all career minded Scuba divers who demand the very best from PADI Instructor Training.

We can arrange competitive International flights to Paphos or Larnaca airport in Cyprus, and we can also arrange Airport transfers if necessary.

The island of Cyprus can offer dives starting from a shallow depth right to true deep sea diving here at dive-in Cyprus we can organise diving vacations and holidays.

The Dive-In Group

The Dive-In group consists of a PADI Career Development Centre, PADI 5 * IDC Dive Centre in Limassol, 5 * Gold Palm Resorts in Limassol and Larnaca incorporating BS-AC International schools in Larnaca and TDI & TecRec Schools in Larnaca. Your guarantees of quality service, clean air and professional instruction.

Dive-In is the most progressive Scuba Diving and Diver Training Company in Cyprus, with five professionally-staffed and newly-equipped centres in Larnaca and Limassol. Each location has a full compliment of boats ranging from 9m catamarans, rigid inflatable boats and numerous diver propulsion vehicles to a Pro48 jet drive dive boat; We also run a fleet of air-conditioned Nissan Navarra double cabins and Nissan Patrols. All our classrooms are equipped with up-to-date material and the latest audio-visual aids.

Diving

Working in conjunction with each other our centres co-ordinate between resorts easily and efficiently, offering access to the widest range of sites across the island with minimal disruption to your holiday.

With nearly two decades' of experience on the island and our highest awards as PADI CDC, 5 * IDC and 5 * Gold Palm Resorts, you can be assured that there are no shortcuts to safe and proper training. Our courses cater for all levels, from beginners to professionals. We keep our classes small to give students the time theyneed to make the learning experience a pleasure. After all, diving is a recreational sport and, as it should be fun, it is our aim to make it so!

If you've never dived before, the lack of tides and currents combined with exceptionally clear and warm waters (not to mention one of the top 5 wreck dives in the world), make Cyprus the ideal place to start. In just 2 days you can gain an internationally recognised licence that will allow you to dive anywhere in the world.

Whether you're thinking about learning how to dive, wondering where in the world to dive, expanding your diving horizons, or considering turning your hobby into a rewarding career, the staff at Dive-In are happy to answer any questions you might have.

Just think of the whole different world below the surface of the sea - amberjacks, barracuda, grouper, wrasse, morays, crustaceans and molluscs; tunnels, caves, shipwrecks, amphora and soft coral - it's all here if you Dive-In!

Clive Martin, MD of Dive-In Cyprus, receiving PADI's prestigious award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Diving Industry" in 2005 from Drew Richardson, PADI Worldwide

A Brief History on the development of Scuba Diving

Modern scuba diving equipment consists of one or more gas tanks strapped to the divers back, connected to an air hose and the diving equipment called the demand regulator. The demand regulator controls the flow of air, so that the air pressure within the diver's lungs equals the pressure of the water. The demand regulator and the autonomous diving suit where invented by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau.

Early Diving History

The First Diving Suits (deep sea diving) Diving probably began with divers using snorkels made of hollow reeds about 100 A.D. as the first piece of diving equipment. At around 1300, Persian divers invented underwater eye-goggles, made from the polished shells or tortoises. By the 16th century, barrels were used as early diving bells, divers could travel underwater with more than one breath of air, but not for that long!

John Smeaton a British engineer invented the air pump in 1771. A hose was connected between the air pump and the diving barrel, and air was pumped to the diver, it was hoped that this method would allow deep sea diving. By 1772, Frenchmen, Sieur Freminet invented a 'rebreathing' device that recycled the used air from inside of the barrel, this was the first self-contained breathing device. though this invention was a poor one and the inventor died from lack of oxygen after using his own device for 20 minutes.