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 When you discover scuba
diving, you discover exciting adventure, freedom and serenity. Nothing
compares to the weightless exhilaration of breathing. Underwater Divers
find it nearly eddicted. First your PADI instructor will provide a brief
orientation, then take you on your first underwater adventure in the
confined water. Then you will learn to use scuba equipment and get
accustomed to your new surroundings. Finally, under your instructor's
careful supervision, you will go on an actual scuba dive and get a
close-up look at the underwater world. This is just the beginningPADI's Discover Scuba Diving is just enough to wet your appetite-becoming a PADI certified Open Water Diver is the next satisfying step. Find out more from your local PADI Dive Center or Resort, and Discover Scuba Diving today! WARNING: You may not be completely happy on dry land again. Scuba Review Are you a certified diver? Has it been a while since your last dive? Then the scuba review program is for you. It will reacquaint you with diving without having to take an entire course. <<Top of page |
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 Once you complete this
course you will be a fully qualified diver and awarded a certification.
This credit card sized "Positive Identification Card" carries your photo
and confirms your training completion and ability to dive to the
requirements established by. PADI (The International Association of Diving
Instructors).This qualification is recognized worldwide, allowing you to rent diving equipment and other diving related services for recreational Open Water diving with another suitably qualified diver without the direct or indirect supervision of an instructor. You will be able to participate in continuing education courses such as the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and exciting PADI Specialty courses including Multi Level Diver  Wreck Diver Night Diver Drift Diver which can eventually lead to the Master Scuba Diver rating, the highest non-professional level. Who can do it? Anyone who is over the age of 12, in reasonable health and fairly comfortable in the water. In other words if you can stay a float for ten minutes and swim 200 yards. Those who are 12 to 15 years of age will be awarded the Junior Open Water Diver rating but may not dive together unless buddied by an adult. <<Top of page |
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certified or have hundreds of dives logged, when you're looking for new
underwater experiences, new skills and fun, look to the PADI Advanced Open
Water Diver program your open door to diving adventure. PADI Advanced Open Water course can be completed in as little as one weekend. The choice is yours Diving interests and dive sites differ - so you choose the specialty dives in your PADI Advanced Open Water program, guided by your PADI Instructor. You'll make "core" underwater navigation, night and deep dives, and then choose "elective" dives from: Boot dive Drift dive Multilevel dive Search and recovery dive Wreck dive <<Top of page |
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 If you have recently
completed your Entry level and Advanced training logging a few dives in
the process, your train has emphasized the skills that make you a safe
diver.As a Rescue Diver you will have acquired the skills of self reliance caring for yourself and your equipment. You will observe other people and become aware of their behavior and attitudes and note how things may affect you later, anticipating, assessing and acting where necessary. You will have learned the Skills of Accident Management and .not just ''How to rescue a Diver!'' What Qualifications do I need? You must be at least 15 years of age and certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Advanced Plus Diver or 12 years old with a PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver qualification. <<Top of page |
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| Having completed your Entry
and Advanced level training you may wish to take your dive training to the
next stage, the Rescue Diver level. This course will teach you self
reliance as well as awareness of other divers so that you will be capable
and prepared to manage a diving accident should it ever arise. The Rescue
Diver course can not be undertaken unless you have a valid First Aid and
CPR qualification. The PADI Medic First Aid course meets the requirements
and is a basic training in CPR and emergency care. It is a medically based
course designed to teach student at a layman's level the same procedures
and priorities used by paramedics. The Medic First Aid course is recognized in over eighty countries and conforms to International First Aid standards. What Qualifications do I need? You must be at least 12 years of age. No prior certification is required and non divers are also welcomed. <<Top of page |
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 The
role of a Divemaster is one of great diversity. It means that the person
acting as the Divemaster may well be ''in charge'' of a diving activity or
dive site. Some of the duties of a Divemaster mean that she/he may become
a guide, supervisor, instructional assistant, medic, oceanographer,
technician, counselor, public-relation expert, seaman and trained buddy.
For many, the diversity of this course, although perhaps initially daunting, makes the job of a Divemaster very interesting, exciting and rewarding. The level of Divemaster is considered by PADI as the first stage of professional diver training. Divemaster are encouraged to pursue even higher levels of training and become a qualified PADI Open Water Instructor. <<Top of page |
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 CMAS (World Underwater Federation) is
the organization of the divers. The way goes from the diver over the
association and the national dipping sport federation to the world
union. The CMAS is not excluding a certification agency. The CMAS
was created on 15 January 1959 of 15 countries in Monaco under the
patronage of Commander Jacques Yves Cousteau. Since 1994 is the seat
in Rome, 94 countries belongs to the federation, and it is Mitlied
into the IOC, ind the UNESCO, into the IUCN, into the GAIFS and into
the World Games Organization.The Executive office consists of the three committees sport, technique and science as well as the independent commissions medicine and right . The three columns of the CMAS:
CMAS* and
CMAS** Certification Courses |
The PADI System of
diver education is based on state of the art instructional system
design theory, and progressive training that introduces skills,
safety related information and local environmental knowledge to
students in stages. PADI courses are student-centered and provide
for maximum practice and application. Students learn the basics
through indepe
ndent study and then are guided through additional
development by their instructors. The goal is to get students in the
water as soon as possible and provide them with the instruction
necessary to gain confidence in their diving abilities.
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