With Southern Dive Center, Statesboro not only has a place that sells and rents scuba equipment, but one that offers classes for diving certification and specialties such as wreck diving, night diving and underwater photography. A checkout dive at one of northern Florida's freshwater springs is par for the second weekend of the basic Open Water Diving course. For graduates and already certified divers, frequent excursions such as one to West Palm Beach in March and another into the Georgia Aquarium's big tank in Atlanta on April 8 are planned, as are twice-annual trips to the Florida Keys.