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Emergency First Responder

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Prerequisites: None
Minimum Age: None
Class Length: 1 Classroom Session
Diving: None
Materials: Emergency First Responder Manual
Equipment: None
Cost: $85

Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers too.

Emergency First Response courses encompass:

  • CPR for adults, children and infants
  • First aid for adults, children and infants
  • Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training
  • The Emergency First Response Instructor and Instructor Trainer courses

 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 July 2008 01:47 )
 

Master Scuba Diver

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Prerequisites: Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue, EFR & 5 Specialties
Minimum Age: 18
Class Length: Extensive - specialty courses dependent
Diving: Extensive - specialty courses dependent
Materials: Specialty courses dependent
Equipment: Specialty courses dependent
Cost: Specialty courses dependent

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

  • Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 50
  • Minimum qualifications: PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 12 years old, five PADI Specialty Diver certifications.
Want it. Live it. Dive it. Master Scuba Diver.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 July 2008 01:44 )
 

Rescue Diver

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The PADI Rescue Diver Course is the next step for those individuals who are either concerned with the safety of themselves and others or divers who are interested in earning their Master Scuba Diver Rating or becoming a Dive Master. Either way, this is the class for the divers that enjoy learning more about diving.
Prerequisites: Advanced Diver, EFR
Minimum Age: 12
Materials: Rescue Diver Crewpack
Equipment: Compass, Knife, Whistle/Safety Sausage, Light, Slate
Class Length: 3 Classroom Sessions
Cost: $275
Diving: 3 Sessions

Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken. You'll cover:

Self-rescue and diver stress
Emergency management and equipment
Panicked diver response
In-water rescue breathing protocols
Egress (exits)
Dive accident scenarios

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 July 2008 01:47 )
 

Advanced Open Water

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The PADI Advanced Open Water course is for the open water divers who a ready to truly Enjoy Diving. This class has 5 open water dives and one classroom session. The two required dives are deep and navigation. The three other dives are selected by the class.

Prerequisites:    Open Water Diver   
Minimum Age: 12
Materials: AOW Crewpack   
Equipment: Slate, Knife, Light
Class Length: Knowledge Reviews   
Cost:    $299
Diving:    5 Dives over 2 days

Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and much more. These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non professional certification in recreational diving.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from more than 15 Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can go diving at night, check out the local wrecks in the area or even fly through the ocean on a diver propulsion vehicle – all during your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

  • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
  • Number of dives: Five dives
  • Adventure Dive options include altitude diving, AWARE-fish identification, boat diving, deep diving, diver propulsion vehicle use, drift diving, dry suit diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater nature study, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography and wreck diving
  • Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course
  • Materials: Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak, Adventures in Diving manual and video and logbook
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 July 2008 01:41 )
 

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