Scuba diving is the only way left to find hidden treasure, befriend a nautical skeleton, or strap a huge tank to yourself. Explore the possibilities with today’s Groupon to Bay Breeze Dive Center in Gulf Breeze. Students must bring their own mask, fins, snorkel, and boots. Choose between the following options:

• For $30, you get a one-hour Discover Scuba class (up to a $79 value).
• For $179, you get an open-water-certification course (a $399 value).<p>

Bay Breeze Dive Center’s expert instructors attentively guide flippered pupils through scuba classes in an expansive indoor pool and the idyllic Pensacola Bay. Students submerge for one hour in the Discover Scuba class to gain a feel for aqueous activities, testing out flippers and learning how to breathe underwater without making a pact with a sea witch. Alternatively, the open-water-certification course pairs academic know-how with hands-on underwater lessons to train beginning divers in the ways of the water.

Instructors endow students with books and materials for class instruction before heading into the pool for two indoor sessions. Once able to move about and jump through a hoop of fire, students continue on to five open-water dives in Pensacola Bay. After an average of five weekdays or one full weekend, instructors evaluate students based on performance and progress, granting hard-working swimmers the certification necessary to perform future open-water dives or infiltrate a colony of mermaids.