Usually during the first months of the new year, Wolfs Marine in Benton Harbor, MI presents a “Discover Scuba” class to provide those with an interest in trying Scuba, a taste to see if diving would meet their expectations.

Wolf also uses this time as an opportunity for those already certified a winter an opportunity to dive in a controlled environment, meaning clean, clear, and relatively warm water.

Members of the local Michigan Underwater Divers Club (or MUD Club), encourage divers to use this opportunity to check out their diving gear and refresh their skills.

Individually most divers will practice their fin kicks, like the Flutter kick and frog kicks which is used to minimize stilling up the bottom, then there is working on their trim and buoyancy as they swim thru hula hoops suspended at different levels.  Many will practice doffing their equipment in the deep end, then surfacing and diving down back down to donning their equipment while sitting on the bottom.  Flooding and clearing their mask and even swimming around with no mask.