![NEW _diving [Converted]-01-01.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1f819e_c6fdaddcd326413d948c166f1307f50d~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_104,h_104,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/NEW%20_diving%20%5BConverted%5D-01-01.png)
For Inquiry:
Buoyancy
From Open Water pool 1, we work on neutral buoyancy. All skills are performed off the ground an in trim. Yes, it can be done!
Trim
Trim: shoulders, hips and knees in one line. Why? Keeps fins up away from fragile coral and silty spaces.
Team Awareness
Team formation 100% of your time. You should never lose a buddy, and we'll teach you how from dive 1. It's not just a tec thing anymore.
Why non silt propulsion techniques? It's not only for cave and shipwreck divers. Flutter kicking towards a reef breaks fragile corals and dislodges pygmy seahorses.
Instructors with Scuba Certifications Raleigh treat all classes with the same approach to any technical level class. Classes are kept small. Students are required to perform skills neutrally buoyant. Buoyancy, trim, team awareness and no silt propulsion techniques are taught. This is NOT taught in the majority of Open Water or “Advanced” classes because most recreational instructors are not Technical Diving Instructors and cannot dive or teach cleanly. The majority of OW instructors have little or none technical dive training, and therefore cannot pass on those skills to you as a student.
Scuba Certifications Raleigh graduates are safer, more aware and more in control divers. The difference is easily seen in video and photo review during class. The quality of world class training far exceeds the quality of low priced cattle call classes. Beware of cheap priced scuba classes; your life is worth the investment in a good instructor.
All skills are performed while hovering
All skills must be performed hovering in trim with team awareness or c cards are not issued. Kicking Techniques is the suggested prerequisite to all RAID, IANTD, TDI and SDI classes. This will make you a better diver if you want to advance as a TEC diver and/or cave diver.
Nicole MeridieM
Dry suit course
She is truly a professional and pays attention to detail and safety, making sure I retained all the necessary information. I’m not the most comfortable person underwater but felt at ease with her. Highly recommended!
Testimonials
Naomi K
Intro to wreck course
Amazing wreck course!
Xenia Zerkidi
Opean water course
I felt very safe diving with Elaine. Class was fun, professional and I would recommend Urban Manta to everyone! She explained gear assembly to me as many times as I needed it.
See us in action
Hear from students that have wanted to learn diving from scratch and those that have wanted to improve their diving. These students wanted to access new enviroments to be able to dive all around the world in all kinds of conditions while keeping themselves, their buddies, and their enviroments safe. Available for open water recreational students to TEC students and cave divers.
Our Story
Learn about Raleigh’s premier scuba training!
Elaine started Scuba Certifications Raleigh to spend more time underwater and pass on her love of scuba diving from recreational diving to TEC, cave diving, and using a rebreather.
About Me
Elaine
I’m a RAID, IANTD and TDI Helitrox instructor and teach over 20 specialties. I’ve done over 2,500 dives in all kinds of environments all over the world. These include underwater photography dives in the tropics, local shipwreck exploration (including the Andrea Doria), rebreather trimix technical diving to 321′, cave diving to 277′ and ice diving beneath a frozen winterland.
I dive on the Lungfish backmount & front mount rebreather, the front mount GBM, Kiss classic rebreather, Kiss Sidewinder rebreather, Hollis Prism 2 rebreather, the Hollis Katana 2, Hollis SMS 75 or X Deep sidemount rigs, backmounted doubles or the Hollis Explorer rebreather. As a technical instructor I focus on proper trim and buoyancy control even with Open Water students on their very first pool session!
Dive Deeper
Get your scuba license before you head off on your next trip! We offer classroom and pool sessions in NYC, Raleigh & Marianna and dive in a world class training lakes in Pennsylvania, NC & FL. Explore boats, airplanes, a firetruck, a helicopter, a school bus and more as your skill and comfort levels increase to earn your Open Water diver certification. Dive in a drysuit to stay dry and warm all year round!
Already certified and looking for a challenge? Try a deep diving class so you can explore further on your next dive trip. Learn the benefits of diving with Nitrox or hone your navigation skills with a navigation or Search & Recovery class. Take a wreck diving class and join us on a local adventure! Try it on side mount to get more bottom time or as the next step towards Technical or Cave diving!
Dive Deeper With Scuba Certifications In North Carolina
You now don’t have to miss the chance to explore the blue oceans or be part of water sporting events. Scuba Certifications offers scuba diving classes whereby expert divers introduce you to the underwater world and the magnificence you have been missing up until now!
The benefits of scuba diving are significant and many, but topping them all is the experience of the adrenaline rush and the thrill that awaits you as you dive deeper into the blue world. From coming across lost civilizations to finding sunken ships and exploring uncountable sea species, there is so much that awaits you in Raleigh scuba diving.
Looking For A Better Way To Dive In North Carolina?
Join Scuba Certifications North Carolina to learn scuba diving so that you can enjoy drift and deep diving both during the day and at night. However, before you go on such ventures, it is important that you have learned how to scuba dive, and who best to trust with scuba teaching than us?!
You get to learn from the best scuba divers who make sure you are well-prepared to take risks that most divers, irrespective of experience level, crave. Safety, no matter how ecstatic or excited you are, always comes first.
Learn all the techniques, know the proper use of equipments, and always be around your group members to have the maximum fun without putting yourself through risks you are not prepared for. Scuba Certifications in Raleigh offers a range of classes to make sure your solo diving adventures and your next trips are more exciting and amusing.
Step Up Your Diving Skills For The Next Adventure
Every class that you take at Scuba Certifications will enrich your scuba diving skills. Our classes are usually small, allowing us to focus more on each student. It creates a more helpful environment, ensuring that each of our students has properly learned the taught techniques.
With us, you won’t have to look for any other scuba diving classes near me since we are available round the clock to answer your queries and help you make the most of the courses you attend. You won’t feel the need to look any further once you enroll in Scuba Certifications’ North Carolina diving center.
Ready To Join Us On A Local Adventure?
Join Scuba Certifications on a local adventure to learn some amazing techniques for future fulfilling and happening adventures. Once you have honed your navigation skills, mastered a few of the very important skills, and have been a part of our insightful scuba diving classes, you are ready to move towards cave diving!
Become a part of Scuba Certifications for a fun-filled experience. Our scuba diving instructors teach in a friendly, professional, and expert manner to make sure your learning experience is made a memorable one.
The comprehensive courses at Scuba Certifications not only aim to help you learn the diving art but also to make you aware of your social responsibility of looking after the marine life and prioritizing safety at any and every moment.
Contact us now to book your scuba diving course at Scuba Certifications in Raleigh.
-
When are the Open Water (beginner) pool sessions?I hold my pool sessions on Sundays from 5-10 pm. I do not hold them every week. I work around the schedules of my students and find a Sunday that works for everyone. For 2 or more people I will arrange a pool session on a Sunday that works for you. For one person I need to find a class for you to join. If you would like lessons during the week please contact my friends at Gotham Divers. Yes, you do need to purchase personal gear. Please see the Open Water (Beginner) page for an explanation. Any shop that tells you otherwise is going to tell you that you do in fact need to purchase the basic gear when you actually arrive in person to the store. Beware of cheap $110 mask/fins/snorkel combos. They are just that and a shop that quotes you this is most likely going to pull a bait and switch on you anyway. I get a lot of questions as to why I don’t sell gear that’s going to fall apart during the dive. It’s downright dangerous to battle a current on short snorkeling fins with heavy scuba gear on or to gulp water into your lungs through a crappy cheap snorkel. Your life is worth more than a small discount.
-
Why is scuba training so expensive?I get this question a lot. This is a gear intensive sport. You are breathing air underwater that is delivered through expensive equipment. I buy good quality, top of the line Hollis equipment for my students to learn on. This means the regulators breathe easily and comfortably and the Buoyancy Compensator wing will work. All of these are inspected and serviced annually. I also provide tanks and weights. The tanks must be filled with compressed air or nitrox that needs a big compressor to fill them. The compressor needs to be serviced and takes up a chunk of Manhattan real estate. The tanks also have to be visually inspected annually and sometimes tumbled to clean them. Your instructor has invested a lot of time and money to learn how to be your instructor. I’m not teaching you how to fold napkins. I’m teaching you how to stay alive under water and fix your problems in a calm manner underwater. I’m also technically trained and regularly do technical diving (rebreather, sidemount and double tanks certified to dive to 330 ft on trimix). This means even at the Beginner level I will teach you things such as streamlining, trim (proper form in the water), not sculling your hands and neutral buoyancy that are not taught by most solely recreational instructors. I’ll show you a series of memes to easily explain what an Urban Manta student looks like and what most other schools teach. The difference is very noticeable and you will learn how to not break the coral, damage your gear, kick up sand or silt and make your air last longer so you can dive longer.
-
I bought a PADI or NAUI book. Can I take your class?Yes you can. But I’m affiliated with SDI and TDI and in order for me to teach you, you need to have done the eLearning or Chapter Review questions provided by TDI/SDI. All the material covered by these agencies is the same and conforms to international standards but each of them provide their own learning materials. I have taken training with all of the above agencies but I like working with TDI/SDI and their materials are top notch.
-
What is an FAQ section?An FAQ section can be used to quickly answer common questions about you or your business, such as “Where do you ship to?”, “What are your opening hours?” or “How can I book a service?” It’s a great way to help people navigate your site and can even boost your site’s SEO.