Your scuba certification course will consist of several individual components. These include classroom, pool, and open water sessions.

The classroom sessions cover topics including dive equipment, physics, physiology, decompression and dive tables, dive planning, problem solving, and diving environments.

You will learn the basic skills required for scuba diving in the safety of a swimming pool. There will be several pool sessions, so you'll have plenty of opportunity to perfect your skills.

Commonly referred to as "check-out" dives, these sessions take place in the ocean or another open body of water, and serve as an evaluation of the skills you've learned in the pool.