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Dive right in! Head to Mumbai’s initial underwater festival
- Updated: April 20, 2017
Attempt personification hockey
IfâÂÂApril is this unbearable, May is firm to make us feel like we’re duck wings cooking in a low fryer. Giving us a spark of service from this dark karma is a initial book of a Mumbai Underwater Festival, that is entrance to a city subsequent month.
The two-day festival will underline an array of aqua-sports, and will be hold during a Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul, a sports formidable in Vile Parle (E).
Expect all from scuba diving to radical H2O sports, as good as a accumulation of on-ground activities for those who’d rather not step into a water.
“We hold an underwater festival in Pune final year. That was India’s initial ever festival of a kind, though during that point, we were only contrast a waters,” says Kshitij Mittal, who, along with Ankit Saboo, founded Finkick Adventures to make underwater activities some-more permitted to people.
Underwater Cycling
Make a splash
“Interest in scuba diving is flourishing in India, though not during a rate with that it could be. So we realised that a best approach to make it occur is move everybody who is extraordinary to try it together in one space. This way, they’re gentle meaningful that others, too, are here to try their palm during it for a initial time,” adds Mittal.
The festival will underline an introduction to scuba diving for non-swimmers, while approved divers (with PADI, SSI, or CMAS certifications) can take it a nick aloft with an underwater barrier march or cycling in a 17 feet-deep pool. Swimmers, meanwhile, can play a fun diversion of underwater hockey. “We also have a event on diving for a infirm with approved instructors,” reveals Mittal.
Balancing on a Slackline
Get on a skateboard
Although a festival includes a word ‘underwater’, there are copiousness of activities for those who’d rather hang above a water, too. You can try your palm during skateboarding and slacklining. Participation for all activities is open to those aged 10 years and above. Additionally, there are photography exhibitions, talks, film screenings and slackline performances that we can locate as a visitor.
“There’s no one powerful underneath that divers can meet. That’s what we’re perplexing to emanate — a community,” Mittal sums up.
ON: May 6 and 7, 9 am to 6 pm
AT: Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul, Vile Parle (E).
LOG ON TO: mumbaiuwf.com
CALL: 8380087062
COST: Rs 500 onwards