Lesson 2: Site Conditions
site conditions
During Chapter 3, you learned that a site assessment should be conducted as soon as you arrive at a dive site. This provides you with the opportunity to evaluate the site's conditions and determine if they are favorable for diving.

No matter where you plan on diving, you must consider the site's accessibility, visibility, temperature, currents, and bottom composition. Diving in the ocean presents additional factors such as waves and tides. Observing these conditions prior to a dive helps to prepare you to deal with them while in the water and avoid potentially hazardous areas of a dive site.

During this lesson, you'll learn how to assess a site's conditions, how they occur, and how to cope with them during a dive.