[PADI] Dive on B747

[RooFlyer]

Here's a sure-fire winner for @Denali & hubby:

Bahrain submerging a 747 underwater for scuba divers.

 

[Denali]

Underwater theme park sounds like a untrained tourist accident waiting to happen but for the rest of us, totally would do it!

To be honest, they would have to strip out most if not all of the seating because of snag hazard on equipment and access so DMs can hand hold the discover scuba newbies and have multiple holes cut out in the sides for access and silt outs. It's just going to be a long metal tube but I'm sure PADI will come up with a cert card.

Much, MUCH smaller but hubby dived the Ohio fresh water Gilboa Quarry a couple of years ago (while I was working). Due to lack of fish they have helos and planes

 

[HockeyMonkey]

I assume an open water scuba certification that most people start with wouldn’t cut it as swimming inside a plane is not open water

You would need something like this
Wreck Diver | PADI

 

[Denali]

Lots of tourist resorts offer Padi Discover Scuba, which is a open water dive with dive master hand holding to bring you back alive.

 

[HockeyMonkey]

Lots of tourist resorts offer Padi Discover Scuba, which is a open water dive with dive master hand holding to bring you back alive.

The thing is going inside an enclosed space is not an open water dive.

 

[Denali]

No it's not but if you've ever been at a American targeted resort, if they pay enough they get what they want for take home bragging rights. Seen it in a few places with smaller house reef wrecks. They mistake the huge access points as safe enough to drive a pickup through as safe for them.

 

[GlobalT]

The article states the doors are closed and implies divers may not be able to go inside but rather dive around the outside of the aircraft only.

 

[Justinf]

I initially clicked on this thinking it was a propaganda story on a 747 diving 10,000 feet in a minute.

 

[AisleSeat]

Lots of tourist resorts offer Padi Discover Scuba, which is a open water dive with dive master hand holding to bring you back alive.

If qualified on that program. Otherwise an instructor must do it. That said, plenty of dodgy operators would use an unqualified DM for that program

 

[Quickstatus]

The Thread title (on initial reading) reminded me that this thread was about an experience similar to QF30