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How do you Scuba Dive and go kayaking?

Just Windering. Our school is having one of those things. You are suppose to learn how to swim good so I do. And well if yu sign up for this, then you dont do P.E. Can anyone please explain how you do both? Scuba Diving and Kayaking??

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1. What you are referring to is called kayak diving in which you take a large and very stable kayak with room for dive gear, paddle out to a dive spot, secure the kayak and dive off it. Getting on and off is tricky at first but it lets you get to places shore divers could never reach and where boats may not be permitted.
2. Scuba diving is basically swimming underwater with a tank of air on your back and mouth piece so you can breathe the air in the tank. It takes very good swimming skills and you have to be able to swim with the tank (fairly heavy) on your back. You have a weight belt and BC (which can fill with air) to help control how deep you go in the water. It is very fun and you can see many cool things underwater. Kayaking is a small single or two person boat. Usually made of plastic. You will use a two sided paddle to move along the top of the water. Kayaking is much easier and less strenuous than scuba diving until you get into white water kayaking where there are big waves and the current is moving very quickly.