About Us
Sekawan Travel & Tour Sdn Bhd (1247168-A) KPK/LN8805 is one of the travel service providers in Malaysia specialized in dive travel. We facilitate travel arrangements within Malaysia help match your wish list to the right vacation for you, from figuring out whether your skill level is adequate for the conditions at the destination to updating you on any hidden fees or local requirements to telling you the best season to find a bucket-list marine animal.
Why you need a dive travel specialist
Frees the traveler from tracking each country’s mandates.
An advocate if those rules change mid-trip.
Better at handling tough situations than even an experienced individual traveler.
They have direct connections with operators, and their business volume gives them to pull.
Dive travel specialist help match your wish list to the right vacation for you, from figuring out whether your skill level is adequate for the conditions at the destination to updating you on any hidden fees or local requirements to telling you the best season to find a bucket list marine animal.
Handle a trip with complexities, such as multiple flights (international date line time and date changes, and connecting flight itineraries) and possible layovers?
Frequently asked Questions
The word “SCUBA” is an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Scuba is a portable breathing device equipment worn by divers for breathing underwater which consist of one or two compressed-air tanks strapped to the back and connected by a hose to a mouthpiece.
Non-swimmer are allowed to dive as long as they do not have health issues, but there are limits to what non-swimmer can do. Non-swimmer are only allowed to make simple intro dives with an instructor and cannot get a full scuba license if cannot swim.
Yes, you can dive without being certified. You can join discover scuba diving programme which is specially designed for scuba diving first timer to dive without any prior experience. These programme is one of your first steps towards your journey into scuba diving.
You can enroll into scuba diver course which is a subset of the open water diver course to get scuba diving certification. To enroll in a scuba diver course, you must be 10 years old and above, need adequate swimming skills and in good physical health. You could get certified in just 4 days for the open water diver course.
When you start to learn scuba dive, at least you need a mask, snorkel and fins. Other gear that will help you to stay safe on the water includes flashlight or headlamp, first aid kit, compass, slate, delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB), emergency signaling devices, backup dive tables, Z-knife, shears, safety reel and lift bags.
It depends on how quickly you breathe your air. Other factors that will affect air consumption are body makeup, depth, fitness, sea conditions, how effectively you use your fins and even water temperature. Your first dive should be a minimum of 20 minutes and the average first dives usually range from 25 - 40 minutes but some first timers dive for 1 hour.
