Lake Wales Parks and Recreation Now Offers SCUBA Classes

The City of Lake Wales is inviting you to learn to explore the underwater world with SCUBA. The entire certification course will be compressed into a single week and include instructions from certified instructors.

SCUBA stands for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus," an invention that has enabled humans to explore what had, throughout history, hidden and unavailable. Now Lake Wales Parks and Recreation is offering area residents a chance to engage in the sport.

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SCUBA offers underwater fun and adventures for Floridians. The City of Lake Wales Recreation Department is offering area residents a chance to get certified in the popular sport.

Participants will learn the basic skills and techniques associated with the sport during a five-day training series. Classes will take place Monday, September 30 to Friday, October 4, with two of the classes held in the pool at the Lake Wales Family Recreation Center, 1001 Burns Avenue. Other days will include a lake dive and an open-water certification dive in the Atlantic Ocean.

The cost of the program is $495 plus tax. Minors must be accompanied by an adult and consent waivers are required. Participants must supply their own mask, snorkel, fins, and a twelve-pound dive weight and surface marker buoy. Wetsuits are available for rent.

Five-day training series begins on Monday, Sept. 30 when participants will get orientated with the program and take a swimming test at Off the Wall Adventures, 2055 Shepherd Rd. in Lakeland.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 1 and 2, participants will learn underwater skills and techniques in the pool at the Lake Wales Family Recreation Center.

On Thursday, Oct. 3, participants will travel with instructors to Avon Park to apply their skills underwater in Lake Denton. On Friday, Oct. 4 the class will travel with instructors to West Palm Beach to apply their new skills in the ocean.

Sign up for this course at the Lake Wales Family Recreation Center on Burnes Avenue, or for more information phone Andrew Humble at (863) 678-4192.