SCUBA Society

The SCUBA Society provides members of the Barry community with safe, enjoyable opportunities to interact with the aquatic environment. Students, staff and faculty are invited to join the society, where the Sport Management–Diving Industry student-majors and Dive Education student-minors lead a variety of educational experiences.

To remain in good standing, student organizations are required to participate in campus and community volunteer activities. Each fall the SCUBA Society participates in the campus-sponsored Halloween Haunted House that provides a scary, yet safe, environment for local children. Always employing an underwater theme, the SCUBA Society has won a number of awards for its innovative presentations.

Other community-based volunteer opportunities range from participating in local beach clean-ups, performing reef fish count surveys, working with Habitat for Humanity building homes, filling Thanksgiving food baskets for local families, to participating in walk-a-thons for various organizations.

Travel opportunities are also available as society members experience dive/snorkel outings in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and the Keys. Visiting Crystal River to snorkel with endangered manatees is one of the favored trips during October’s Fall Holiday. Easter Break often finds us in the north Florida springs as we canoe-dive in the Rainbow River to explore the Florida aquifer at Devil’s Den and other locales.