Love the Sea?
This Winter 2009 - 2010, Vicenza's Outdoor Recreation takes you to Italy's wonderful coastlines. Find out more by visiting the pages listed below.
Scuba
The Vicenza Outdoor Recreation Scuba Diving program
lets you experience the thrill of diving under the
supervision of a licensed professional in pool or poollike
conditions. During your adventure, you’ll master
some basic concepts and scuba skills, then head off to
experience an open water adventure.
Open Water Course
This course will teach you
everything you need to know to
safely and independently scuba dive.
Continuing Education
Courses
The Advanced Scuba, Rescue Diver and Master Scuba Diver courses qualify for college
credit. Ask our staff for details.
Specialty Courses
Nitrox, Night Diver, Deep Diver, Wreck Diver, Underwater Photographer, Navigation, Search/Recovery and Dry Suit Diver courses are offered through Outdoor Recreation.
Professional Leadership
Courses
Designed for professional divers or
aspiring professionals, Dive-Master, Assistant Instructor and Instructor courses teach advanced techniques and leadership skills.
Registration Details
Cost and time required vary
depending on course. Sign up at Outdoor Recreation at
least seven days prior to course
start date. Private courses, scheduled at
your convenience, are also
available.
Fishing
Offshore boat fishing (Open Water Fishing) in the Northern Adriatic Sea for ODR customers is usually done on Charter Fishing Boats that hold between 25 to 50 fishermen. The boats we use are in Chioggia and Rosalina Mare. After approximately an hour trip from the berth, the boat anchors in 20-30 meters of water. The rods used by our customers are light tackle, with 8 Kg (18 pound) test line. Boat Captains provide the bait, and also have chum bags over the side(s) of the boat to assist in attracting fish. The fish normally caught are Mackerel and an occasional Bonita Tuna (2-6 pound range). Some of the boats we use also provide lunch on board.
Kayaking
Kayaking is generally differentiated from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle. A kayak is a boat where the paddler faces forward, has their legs in front of them, and uses a double bladed paddle. Almost all kayaks have closed decks, however, there are many sit-on-top kayaks, and these boats are growing in popularity. Sea kayak is a kayak developed for the sport of paddling on open waters of lakes, bays, and the ocean.
Kayaks were originally developed by indigenous people living in the Arctic regions, who used the boats to hunt on inland lakes, rivers and the coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic, Bering Sea and North Pacific oceans. These first kayaks were constructed from stitched animal skins such as seal stretched over a wooden frame made from collected driftwood, as many of the areas of their construction were treeless.
Hydrospeed
Riverboarding is the North American name for a boardsport in which the participant is prone on the board with fins on his/her feet for propulsion and steering. This sport is also known as Hydrospeed in Europe. Hydrospeed includes recreational practice of using a high-flotation riverboard, designed for buoyancy in highly aerated water.
Riverboarding is believed to have originated in the late 1970s. It is claimed to have originated in France, when raft guides stuffed a burlap mail sack with life vests and went down rapids. Soon, riders adapted a personal submarine shell for their molds and the plastic version of the riverboard was born. European riders also developed a foam version (called a hydrospeed ) of the plastic board to reduce weight and avoid injuring each other during collisions that sometimes resulted from one rider travelling downstream and another facing upstream while surfing a hydraulic. Today, homemade foam hydrospeeds are found primarily among European riders. A growing sport in North America, riverboarding has grown in popularity from media exposure and the emergence of commercial operators running riverboard trips.
Whitewater Rafting
Rafting or whitewater rafting is a challenging recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid 1970s. Rafts were originally the simplest form of man’s transportation in water and were then made of several logs, planks or reeds which were fastened together. Nowadays, inflatable boat were used as rafts which were later adopted by the military for beach assaults. Rafts come in a few different forms. In Europe the most common is the symmetrical raft steered with a paddle at the stern.
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