SPECIALTIES

Rescue Diver

Scuba Rescue Diver provides the fundamental knowledge and skills to understand situations where a rescue may be necessary. It entails a set of skills which will challenge you physically as well as mentally to help a person in distress. It also teaches the fundamentals of avoiding a rescue situation before something happens. This course is intended to make you a more safe and aware diver. It is required to become a dive leader.

Advanced Scuba Rescue Diver

In this course, the accident supervision and management with practical applications are emphasized. It will make you better able to help prevent diving accidents, recognize life threatening diving situations, initiate/supervise rescue and assist procedures, perform in-water rescue, manage rescue assistants, provide aid during and after the rescue efficiently and effectively, manage emergencies taking into consideration local variants.

Dry Suit Diver

The dry suit diver specialty will allow you to conduct dives with a dry suit as opposed to a wet suit.  The course will show the advantages of dry suit diving, types, proper usage and how it affects your diving. This course is meant for divers that plan to dive in cold to freezing climates or for people that get easily cold with a wet suit.

NITROX Diver

NITROX allows you to conduct dives using oxygen enriched air (up to 40% oxygen). This will allow you to extend your bottom time. In this course, an overview of the pros and cons of using NITROX, potential hazards, dive tables, common mixtures, history, and equipment are taught.

Night Diver

During this course you will be able to safely dive at night. Topics include signs, planning, night boat diving, night beach diving, equipment, and potential hazards.

Search and Recovery

As a Search and Recovery diver you will learn the skills and knowledge to safely recover items from the bottom as well as the methods to search. Subjects that will be covered include navigation, limited visibility, techniques for light salvaging, rigging, and knot tying.

Deep Diver

This course is to provide the diver with the knowledge and skills to plan and make deep dives while minimizing risks and avoiding the need for stage decompression. Deep diving is defined as dives made between 60 and 130 feet. Training dives are not to be conducted beyond 130 feet. Problems, hazards, planning, preparation, equipment, air supplies, gas management, nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness emergency procedures and depth limits for recreational diving and use of dive computers.

Underwater Hunter/Collector

This course will make you able to collect game such as fish, crustaceans, shellfish and other marine game while taking into consideration the laws governing it. It course will cover hazards, techniques, safety,   equipment, local laws and regulations, selection of specimen and locations.

Underwater Photographer

As an underwater photographer, you will be able to take underwater pictures satisfactorily. You will learn about cameras, camera features, lenses, types of photographs. You will take underwater pictures and the pictures will be reviewed and commented by the instructor.

Underwater Archaeologist

As an underwater archaeologist you will be able to use the methods of underwater archaeologists in their studies and preservation of submerged historic sites. You will be able to map, learn about catalogue techniques, hazards, use of marker buoys, research methods and more.

Wreck Diver (External Survey)

Being a wreck diver you will be able to safely conduct dives around a wreck. What hazards, cautions and risks, entanglement, equipment, locations and sources of information among other things of interest.

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