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PADI Specialty Classes

The purpose of the PADI Specialty Diver Courses is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards for various special-interest areas in diving.

 

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Upcoming Classes:
Saturday August 6th & Sunday August 7th, 2011
Saturday August 13th & Sunday August 14th, 2011

Students can pick from any of the following courses.

 

Digital Underwater Photographer Course

Digital Underwater Photographer Course:

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Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever. The Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today's modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros. The fun part about this course is learning to capture images to share with your friends and family. It’s a great way to relive the adventures you’ve had underwater.

2

150.00

Upcoming classes at Dutch Springs:
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Deep Diver Course

Deep Diver Course:

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After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There’s something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts divers. The fun part about this course is the opportunity to explore the deep. It’s exhilarating. You will learn techniques for diving in the deeper range of 60-130 feet, planning, organizing and deep scuba diving equipment considerations.

4

190.00

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Enriched Air Course

Enriched Air Course

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Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives. You can typically stay down longer and get back the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.

2

150.00

Upcoming classes: October 23, 2010
   
Multilevel Course

Multilevel Course

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The purpose of the PADI Multilevel Diver Specialty course is to familiarize divers with the theory, skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, hazards, benefits and enjoyment of multilevel diving with The eRDPml and/or with modern dive computers

2

95.00

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Night Course

Night Course

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Is it natural curiosity? Is it getting a new look at the familiar? Could it be the vibrant changing colors of aquatic life? Or, is it just because you can, that night diving is so popular? Whatever the motivation to dive at night - you’ll find that the environment is quite different.

3

190.00

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Peak Performance Buoyancy Course

Peak Performance Buoyancy Course

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per Diver

The purpose of this course is to polish a diver’s buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level. The goal of PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy training is to enhance the student diver’s buoyancy control abilities through knowledge development and practical skills practice.

2

95.00

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Search and Recovery Course

Search and Recovery Course

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Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost “treasure”? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.

4

190.00

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Underwater Navigator Course

Underwater Navigator Course

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The best way to learn underwater navigation procedures and to apply them is by doing it. This course philosophy therefore, expands student diver knowledge about environmental clues that help them to navigate, how to use a compass for precision, patterns that aid navigation, navigational instruments and how to interact responsibly with the aquatic life they’ll see while navigating underwater.

3

190.00

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Wreck Diver

Wreck Diver

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The fun part of the Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook.

You will earn techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards. Wreck scuba diving equipment considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks

4

190.00

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Program Prerequisites To participate in the Adventures in Diving program, an individual must:
  • Be certified as a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
  • Be 12 years of age or older to participate in all other Adventure Dives except the Enriched Air Adventure Dive. Divers who are 12-14 years old may obtain Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certifications.
    Contact us for the Special Requirements for 10 and 11-year-old Divers
  • Be at 15 years of age to participate in the Enriched Air Adventure Dive.