Baton Rouge Diving Underwater | Adventures in Scuba Classes

Thank you for choosing Seven Seas, the one stop shop for the diver or snorkeler in you. Seven Seas, a family owned and operated business, is the only full service scuba center in Baton Rouge. We have our very own on-site heated 15 foot deep pool, an onsite classroom, full service repair shop, and well stocked retail store.

If you are interested in scuba diving lessons in Louisiana, Sevens Seas is the right choice for you. We offer small classes that provide instruction on a more personal level. Enjoy the benefits of beginner and advanced classes taught by authorized instructors, we also offer diving summer camps for kids!

Seven Seas also provides private classes for groups, please contact us for more details about setting up a class designed to fit your scheduling needs. If you've considered taking a scuba diving class in Louisiana, always ask instructors in advance if they offer an on-site pool like Seven Seas, rather than trainers asking you to use a crowded public facility.

In addition to our retail store, we are proud to offer scuba gear rental specials. Please visit our store which is conveniently located on One Calais right off of the Essen and I-10 exit to see our wonderful array of brand name quality products for divers. When taking part in our Baton Rouge scuba diving lessons, your safety comes first. Our equipment is on-site, and our rental equipment is inspected on a regular basis.

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Diving and Diver Info: Most modern open-circuit scuba sets have a diving regulator consisting of a first stage pressure reducing valve fastened over the diving cylinder's output valve. This valve cuts the pressure from the cylinder, which may be up to 300 bar, to a constant lower pressure, often about 10 bar above the ambient pressure, which is used in the "low pressure" part of the system. A relatively thin low-pressure hose links this with the second-stage regulator, or "demand valve," which is located in the mouthpiece. Exhalation occurs out of a one-way diaphragm in the chamber of the demand valve, directly into the water quite close to the diver's mouth. This configuration type is called "single hose". The first make of this sort of scuba was the Porpoise (make of scuba gear) which was made in Australia.

All modern scuba sets have a spare second-stage demand valve on its own second hose, a configuration called an "octopus" because it often has more hoses for other purposes coming out of the primary regulator on the cylinder top. This second "second-stage" regulator and hose, or "alternate air source", or "safe secondary" or "safe-second" for short, is typically yellow. It is often worn secured into a special friction plug on a diver's chest, easily available to be grabbed by, or offered to, a second diver in trouble for need of air. In so doing, this second mouthpiece eliminates the need for two divers, who need to share a cylinder, to "buddy-breathe" by trading off the same mouthpiece. The original octopus idea was conceived by Sheck Exley as a way for single-file-swimming cave divers to share air in a narrow tunnel, but has now become the standard in recreational diving. Modern "octopus" type primary stage regulators also typically feature high-pressure ports for use by computer sensors, and additional ports for additional low-pressure hoses for inflation of dry suits and buoyancy compensator (BC) devices.

Increasingly, in the 21st century, "safety" secondary mouthpieces have been combined with the inflator and exhaust assembly of buoyancy compensator (BC) devices. This combination eliminates the need for a separate low pressure hose for the BC. Some diving schools now suggest that a diver offer another diver in trouble their primary mouthpiece (i.e. the one in their mouth), before going to their own safe-secondary. The idea here is that the diver not in trouble has much more time to sort things out with his/her own equipment after temporarily losing ability to breathe.

*source: Wikipedia, used with permission

We offer scuba diving classes, lessons and diver equipment in Baton Rouge a short drive away from the following Louisiana areas: New Orleans, Lafayette, Kenner, Metairie, Slidell, Opelousas, LaPlace, Chalmette, Bogalusa, Hammond, Baker, Denham Springs, Mandeville, Zachary and Port Allen.