Course Offerings:

• Scuba Review
• Open Water Diver. (PADI or NAUI)
• Advanced Open Water, Advanced Plus (PADI or NAUI)
• Rescue Diver w/ Medic First Aid (PADI)
• Kayak Diving (PADI)
• Specialty courses including:
• Mixed Gas (Nitrox)
• Technical Nitrox
• Staged Decompression Procedures
• Wreck
• Night, Deep, Underwater Hunter
• U/W Photography
• and many more! (PADI, NAUI, TDI)
• Professional courses: Divemaster, Instructor. (PADI, TDI)

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Scuba Review Program

The purpose of this program is to review and update the knowledge and skills of certified divers particularly those who have had an extended period of inactivity in diving. This knowledge review will take place in one classroom session, followed by the diving skills review in confined water (a pool). An optional open water (ocean) dive to provide a supervised environmental orientation for an area may also be included at the students discretion. Both the Scuba Review Program and the Environmental Orientation dive are PADI sanctioned training activities, and a special decal is affixed to the certification card to denote completion of training.

The optional Environmental Orientation Dive which will be conducted by an instructor will include:

1. an area overview and briefing on expectations, local conditions, hazards, and points of interest
2. an orientation to special procedures and techniques pertinant to the area (entries, diving techniques, and exits)
3. a debriefing to include what was observed and suggestions for improving technique to make your diving safer, more relaxing, and more FUN !

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PADI Open Water Diver Course 

PADI Open Water Diver Certification

Your first step into the underwater world, PADI's Open Water Diver course certifies you as a diver. This certification allows you to buy/rent scuba equipment, fill air tanks, and dive safely without instructor supervision.

The program consists of:

• Five nights of classroom instruction and confined water (pool) training.
• Four open water (ocean) certification test dives (if desired) or "referral".

Students must provide own masks, fins, and snorkels

OPEN WATER DIVER  Course Flyer with current prices.

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Advanced Open Water, Advanced Plus (PADI or NAUI)

PADI Advanced Open Water and Advanced Plus

For the diver who wants to learn more about various types of specialty diving, PADI offers the Advanced Open Water Diver course. Requires Open Water certification to register.

The course consists of one or two nights of classroom instruction as needed, and 5 open water dives. 3 Core dives and 2 Elective dives. Core dives are Deep, Navigation, and Night dives. Elective could include Wreck diving, Multi-level diving and/or Boat diving procedures.

The Advanced Plus option adds 4 extra Elective dives, for a total of 9 dives. Other electives may include Underwater Naturalist, Enriched Air Diver, Search & Recovery, Drysuit diving, Underwater Photography and more!

Equipment required: Full SCUBA equipment plus depth gauge, timing device, compass, log book, two light sticks, underwater slate, underwater light and dive tables. (PADI Encyclopedia is recommended)

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Rescue Diver w/ Medic First Aid (PADI)

Medic First Aid

The Medic First Aid course is a basic training course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency care. It is a medically based assistance course designed to train students to follow, at the laymans level, the same emergency procedures and priorities used by paramedics and doctors. The skills of patient care necessary to support the life of an ill or injured person are covered in seven modules in which practical application and hands-on practice are emphasized. Students learn these skills in the same sequence they would use in caring for a patient. This is very important in that it facilitates memory when the skills are actually needed in a real world situation.

The Medic First Aid course is approved by the U.S. Departments of Labor, Mine Safety, and Health Administration; and covers primary care, secondary surveys, and lastly treatments according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Standards and Guidelines for Basic Life Support; and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, text "Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured". This text, commonly known as the "Orange book", is used extensively for the training of EMT's throughout the Unites States.

Medic First Aid is a basic course in CPR and other important emergency care skills, which is taught in an eight hour course (usually two four hour sessions), which allows the graduate to function with one consistent set of priorities in a medical emergency. Students learn the same priorities of care for the patient as are used by the professionals. This approach results in a continuity of care as the patient is passed on from the first responder, to the paramedic/EMT, nurse, and finally to the doctors.

Emphasis in the Medic First Aid Training Program of America is on the seven basic skills of care; Primary Assessment, One Rescuer CPR, Obstructed Airway Maneuvers, Control of Bleeding, Shock Management, Illness Assessment, and Injury Assessment. Students learn these seven skills in the sequence listed here - this is the same sequence in which they will actually be used. Each segment reinforces the priorities of care and approach to the patient. Medic First Aid Training uses seeing, hearing, and doing to make learning easier and more enjoyable! In practice sessions, numerous uses of the information (repetition), always in the same sequence, helps create retention of the skills in the proper order in which they will be used in an actual emergency.

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Kayak Diving (PADI)

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(508) 229-7707

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Specialty courses including

• Mixed Gas (Nitrox)
• Technical Nitrox
• Staged Decompression Procedures
• Wreck
• Night, Deep, Underwater Hunter
• U/W Photography
• and many more! (PADI, NAUI, TDI)

Mixed Gas (Nitrox)

Coming Soon!

(508) 229-7707

Technical Nitrox

Coming Soon!

(508) 229-7707

Staged Decompression Procedures

TDI Staged Decompression Procedures

For the diver who wants go beyond the limits of recreational diving. Not for everybody. Divers trying to proove the theory of Natural Selection need not apply. We will question your motivation and assess your character for entry into this course. This program is involved, both in terms of time and money, but the rewards are you will be able to go places and do things that the average "recreational" diver simply can not. "We only get one chance at life. There are no "do-overs" if you don't make the best of this one. We can sit around and wait for the grim reaper to call our number or we can explore our world and have fun while we're here!" Capt. Jim.

Overview

The course consists of four nights of classroom instruction and pool training as needed, and 4 Staged Decompression Dives.

This course examines the theory, methods and procedures of planned decompression diving. This program is designed as a stand alone course (recommended maximum depth 130') or it may be taught in conjunction with such TDI courses as Advanced Nitrox, Advanced Wreck or Extended Range Diver if deeper dive operations are required.

Course objective

The objective of this course is to train divers how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive not to exceed a maximum depth of 190' (when combined with other appropriate TDI courses). The most common equipment requirements, gear set ups, decompression techniques and decompression mixtures (including EANx and Oxygen) are presented.

Cost: $400.00 Includes classroom instruction, TDI Staged Decompression: Equipment, Techniques and Procedures 1995 Jan Neil, handout materials, and Certification fee.

*Does NOT include breathing gasses or boat charter fee.

Wreck

PADI Wreck Diver Course