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Specialty Descriptions: Basic Search &
Recovery
This course is designed to enable and Advanced Open Water Diver to
conduct shallow water (10' to 60') search & recovery dives safely.
All training dives are limited to 20' to 35' manimum depth.
Advanced Search & Recovery
This course takes up where the basic search & recovery course leaves
off. Advanced search & recovery students will study in depth
all gas laws, diving physics and physiology and search & recovery
techniques and skills. Artifact Diver
The course in Artifact Diving is designed to be a safe supervised
introduction to artifact diving. It will place special
emphasis on collecting and reporting artifact finds, terminology and
how to identify types of artifacts. Basic Underwater Photography
A basic entry level course that looks at underwater photography,
using 110 and 35mm cameras. Emphasis is on the use of
inexpensive underwater cameras and strobes. Basic Wreck Diver
The Wreck Diving Course offers a new and exciting experience to the
diver. Wrecks offer a wide variety of sizes, shapes, colors
and fish havens to see and explore. Diving is limited to
prepared wrecks without deep penetration. Boat Diver
This course is designed to be a safe, supervised introduction to
Boat Diving. It will place a special emphasis on Coast Guard
requirements, terminology, how to select a boat for a diving
venture, and the Divemaster during the boat dive. Current (Swift)
Water Diver
This course of current diver is designed to be a safe supervised
introduction to current diving. It will place special emphasis
on safety and procedures of dealing with diving in currents. Deep
Diver
The Deep Diver course is designed to allow advanced open water
divers to make no decompression dives to a maximum depth of 100
feet. Any dive deeper than 60 feet should be considered a deep
dive. Diver Safety Assistant
This course is designed to train non-divers on how to assist a diver
in the event he as in trouble on the surface and needed assistance,
dive injuries, dive planning, dive team operations as well as
physics and physiology as it pertains to diving. Equipment
Specialist
This course is designed to introduce the diver to the care, cleaning
and preventative maintenance of scuba gear. It is not designed
to teach students to repair diving gear. High Altitude Diving
This course is desinged to instruct the diver in the technique,
concepts and problems associated with high altitude diving.
Limited Visibility Diver
Limited visibility diver specialty is designed to introduce advanced
divers to diving in conditions of silted water or dark water.
Limited visibility training is beneficial to have in other types of
specialty areas such as collector, artifact, search & recovery and
salvage. Night Diver
The course of night diver is designed to introduct the experienced
advanced open water diver to night diving. It will have a
special emphasis on diving safely at night and making dives to a
maximum depth of 60 feet with ideal conditions. Research Diver
This course is to acquaint the diver with underwater environment and
the interrelations between the flora and fauna and the different
life associated with different environments. Rescue Diver
This course is designed to instruct divers on self rescue and
assisting buddy divers. Dive Medic (I & II)
These courses are designed to teach divers (BLS) basic life support,
oxygen provider and AED (automatic defibulator) use. Divers
and non-divers can both greatly benefit from this couse.
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