Are you for Scuba?

Just this past Friday one of my fellow lifeguard instructors at Big Surf set up a Discovery Scuba lesson for all us supervisors and lifeguard instructors. She works part time at Sports Chalet and we all got the lesson for free! I have never done anything like this ever in my life so I was so stoked! At the Sports Chalet in the Tempe Marketplace, there is a decent size pool that goes down to about 13 ft. We all got our flippers and goggles and hopped into the water. We had two instructors and they were very excited to teach us. After we got into the water we put on our BCD’s which stands for Buoyancy Control Device. This thing looks like a vest and it holds your air tank. It also controls your buoyancy, so it can make you sink or float.


Before we got into the deep part of the pool we sat on the ledge and tested out our equipment out and learned how to use our BCD’s and how to breathe underwater with our Regulators. Once we figured all the equipment out we sat on a ledge under the water and the instructors slowly let us descend to the bottom of the pool and made sure we were ok as we sank to the bottom. After we reached the bottom it was a ton of fun! We got to swim around, play underwater football, swim through hoops, and we even drank Capri Suns under water! We spent about two hours just swimming and playing with all the cool scuba gear. Some of my fellow lifeguard instructors had waterproof cameras, so we took a load of pictures so I will be posting a few photos of the whole underwater adventure when I can.


This whole Discovery Scuba experience was so awesome and really peaked my interest into maybe learning more about scuba diving and actually take some of the classes they offer there. If you want more information about the scuba program at Sport Chalet visit their website and you can also call the Sports Chalet Tempe Marketplace location for more info as well. The number is (480) 966-9139. Hope everyone has an Adventurous Day!!!



Lonni Summers