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Where to learn to scuba dive on Long Island
Quick ReadWant to get certified in scuba diving? Here's where to go.
Photo credit: iStock | Want to learn to scuba diver? There are plenty of spots where you can get certified on Long Island.
In the 1970s, poor eyesight prevented Stephen Scigliano from becoming an astronaut. So he decided if he couldn't go up, then he would go down. Scigliano took up scuba diving.
"The world underwater is gorgeous," says Scigliano, who owns Swim and Scuba, a Rockville Centre dive shop and swim school. Scuba diving "is very relaxing. There are no phones, no beepers and nobody yelling at you."
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