And how do we at Smile know this? Because we’ve been Scuba Diving with ScubaDoo for this month’s Challenge Smile. Not only did we learn to dive, but we learned a bit about our environment too. The bit that takes up the majority of our planet, the wet bit.

It’s quite a phenomenal fact that us land-lubbers really only get to see a tiny proportion of the planet we live on and the flora and fauna it contains. The surface of our planet is covered, amazingly, with 71% water. And it’s this part of the world we know the least about but, thanks to ScubaDoo, Smile can bring you a bit of an insight into the beauty that’s hidden in some of that wet stuff.

I took a PADI (Scuba Diving’s leading accreditation body) ‘Discover Scuba Diving’ course. PADI Qualified Dive Master for the day was ScubaDoo’s Nigel, and along with me came a mixed bunch of land dwellers, some of whom had tried Scuba before but wanted to have a refresher. This included Megan who, at Spain’s youngest legal diving age of 12 years, proved on the day that Scuba really is for just about everyone!

Two at a time, Nigel took us down 6 metres to the sea bed where we went through the basic drills we’d learned earlier on. Basically the simple stuff you need to know in order to safely explore and ‘WOW’ at the undiscovered.

And what ‘WOWS’ there were. Scuba Diving made me feel like superman. Not just because I was wearing a really tight suit but because said suit and its complementing extras make you just about perfectly balanced, meaning you can hover, float and fly around the contours of the ocean bed and rocks with ease whilst checking out its residents. Scuba Diving is truly amazing and if you’re one of those people who say, "I’d really like to try that". Stop putting it off and get in touch with ScubaDoo today!

Special thanks go to Dave and Nigel at ScubaDoo and also to John, whose underwater video footage gave us the pictures we needed to bring you this month’s Challenge Smile.