Comments on: What colleges offer majors that associate with SCUBA diving?

By: sicnarf

sicnarf — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:47:03 +0000

Hi. To be a Scuba Instructor for instructing sports divers you don’t need to study it at college.
You can just learn to dive in your own time with a PADI school near you (or go on vacation and take a course there).

Once you’ve been diving for a while, you can become a PADI Divemaster, and then a PADI instructor. These qualifications are what’s needed to teach sports divers.

I would say that this is something you can do while studying whatever you like at college. By the time you finish college you could be an Instructor, and also have a degree in something else, in case you decide that Scuba Instruction isn’t for you.

By: mugenhunt

mugenhunt — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:19:50 +0000

Marine Biology is one. Oceanography is another, and might be more to your liking. Underwater Archeology sounds fun. You could become a Geologist specializing in underwater phenomena, but that’s not going to be that Scuba intensive while in college.

By: BoredBeyondBelief

BoredBeyondBelief — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:01:37 +0000

There are several underwater archaeology programs in the US. I can think of Texas A&M and Florida State University. Plan on getting a PhD in these cases if you want to pursue it all the way.

Here’s another link to a list of programs: