If foam noodles can be found floating on the surface of almost every pool, think how many perfectly salted meatballs must be at the bottom of the ocean. Discover the sea’s sunken treats with today’s Groupon for scuba instruction at The Dive Shop. Choose between the following two options:

• For $49, you get a Discover Scuba class (a $99 value).<p>

• For $199, you get an all-inclusive scuba-certification class package (a $445 value) that includes:
• A shorty wetsuit
• A regulator with alternate air source and gauge console
• A buoyancy-compensating device with low-pressure inflator
• Scuba tanks and air fills
• A PADI crew pack of open-water-diver textbook, computer textbook, and logbook
• Rental equipment for weekend open-water dives
• Lake Rawlings scuba-park entry fees<p>

Classes are subject to availability and date restrictions, so check Dive Shop’s class schedule for upcoming sessions before reserving a seat.

Whether just beginning to investigate underwater worlds through diving or cementing skills for full scuba certification, students will find their fins at The Dive Shop’s PADI five-star facility. Divers can earn their saltwater-swimming credentials in an all-inclusive certification course that educates through academic lessons and real-world dives. The Dive Shop, one of the only PADI Instructor Development Centers in central Virginia, begins the two-weekend workshop in the classroom, where students study textual dive information and merfolk culture and diplomacy. Next, swimming skills are solidified during five hours of pool-skills practice, followed by more academic learning. Classes culminate on the following weekend when participants travel to Lake Rawlings for two days of open-water testing, at which time divers can earn their aquatic seals of approval.

During Discover Scuba classes, PADI-certified instructors swim alongside sport-curious attendants for one to two hours of introductory scuba tutelage that imparts basic breathing methods, full-gear swimming techniques, and combinations for opening Davy Jones’s gold-filled lockers. Students take to the simulated open waters of an indoor pool equipped with all necessary implements, and like rookie astronauts, indulge their senses with weightless exploration.