Our next Open Water Course starts Saturday Sepetmeber 11/2010 at 9am at Adventure Scuba Diving Inc.
Phone: 905 938 3483 for details

Open Water Diver

Course Description

If you’ve always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now’s the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever. In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way.

Earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification is just the beginning. As a certified diver, fabulous dive destinations, exciting people, unparalleled adventure and uncommon tranquility await you. And, as you continue your adventure and gain experience through higher training levels, your opportunities expand.

 

Our next Open Water Course starts Saturday August 21th at 9am at Adventure Scuba Diving Inc.
Phone: 905 938 3483 for details

Open Water Diver

Course Description

If you’ve always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now’s the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever. In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way.

Earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification is just the beginning. As a certified diver, fabulous dive destinations, exciting people, unparalleled adventure and uncommon tranquility await you. And, as you continue your adventure and gain experience through higher training levels, your opportunities expand.

 

Why should I enroll in DAN courses?

Scuba Diving is a relatively safe activity. Thinking back to any training we have received the focus of any dive certification agency is on diving safety. In order to keep scuba diving a safe sport we all need to continue our training. We also need to develop the confidence and skills to aid a dive buddy in need of assistance. We are fortunate in the local diving area to have relatively quick access to medical assistance; however, we don’t always dive close to help. With the training received from DAN courses you will be able to help others by responding quickly and confidently to a diving accident.

I have been trained in CPR and First Aid, how do the DAN courses benefit me?

While the training in CPR and First Aid offered by many medical training agencies provide a foundation, they generally focus on non-diving activities. The DAN training material and skill development sessions are geared towards the diving environment. By having a program with materials that present the training from the view of a diver, we become confident in reacting to potential diving emergency situations.

DAN Oxygen First Aid for SCUBA Diving Injuries

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $110.00

The Oxygen Provider Course is designed to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of recognizing diving injury signs and symptoms, response and management. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education. The course duration is 4 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $110.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, non-rebreather mask, and certification.

DAN Advanced Oxygen First Aid for SCUBA Diving Injuries

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $95.00

The Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries is an advanced-level program that provides additional training for those individuals who have successfully completed the DAN oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course within the past year (12 months). It is designed to train DAN Oxygen Providers to use the MTV-100 or a bag valve mask (BVM) while providing care for a non-breathing injured diver and activating the local emergency services (EMS) and /or arranging for evacuation to the nearest available medical facility. The course duration is 3 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $95.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, and certification.

DAN Oxygen First Aid for SCUBA Diving Injuries combined with Advanced Oxygen Program

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $170.00

The Oxygen Provider Course is designed to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of recognizing diving injury signs and symptoms, response and management. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education. The Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries is an advanced-level program that provides additional training for those individuals who have successfully completed the DAN oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course within the past year (12 months). It is designed to train DAN Oxygen Providers to use the MTV-100 or a bag valve mask (BVM) while providing care for a non-breathing injured diver and activating the local emergency services (EMS) and /or arranging for evacuation to the nearest available medical facility. The course duration is 7 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $170.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slates, non-rebreather mask, and certification.

DAN On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $110.00

Approximately two-thirds of divers with decompression illness have evidence of damage to the nervous system. These signs are often vague and can go unrecognized by the diver. This can cause them to be dismissed as insignificant or not dive-related. This program focuses on how to obtain essential information about a diver involved in a dive emergency and what information to relay to emergency medical services. Only medical professionals should diagnose medical conditions. The information you gather while performing a neurological assessment will be useful to help the dive physician understand the extent of the injury and how it has changed in the time it took to get the diver from the dive site to definitive care. The course duration is 3 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $110.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, and certification.

DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $110.00

Although serious hazardous marine life injuries are rare, most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures at some point in their dive careers. Knowing how to minimize these injuries helps you reduce diver discomfort and pain. The First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries program is designed to provide knowledge regarding specific types of marine creature injuries and the general first aid treatment for those injuries. The objectives of the DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries are to train the general diving public and interested non-divers in the first aid techniques for a suspected hazardous marine life injury. In addition, this course will introduce divers to the identification of potentially hazardous marine life and how to avoid hazardous marine life injuries. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education. The course duration is 4 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $110.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, and certification.

DAN Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Divers

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $125.00

More than 10 percent of all dive fatalities are actually caused by cardiovascular disease, according to DAN dive accident and fatality statistics. This course teaches divers and other interested parties to provide care for sudden cardiac arrest including the use of an automated external defibrillator (AEDs).The DAN Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving course represents entry-level training designed to educate the general public to better recognize the warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest and administer first aid using basic life support techniques and automated external defibrillators while activating the local emergency medical services (EMS) and/or arranging for evacuation to the nearest appropriate medical facility. The course duration is 4 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $125.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, and certification.

DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $250.00

It is a rare event when a dive emergency is a single event. More often than not, separate small problems compound to create a larger problem. Divers and dive professionals interested in understanding first aid care for dive emergencies can now take the Diving Emergency Management Provider course from a DAN Instructor. This single program integrates the knowledge and skills from several DAN Training Programs into a single eight-hour day. The DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider (DEMP) combines the skills and training of the Oxygen Provider, Advanced Oxygen Provider, Automatic External Defibrillators and First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries into one package. The DEMP course is 8 hours, with a certification valid for two years. This course provides the training and skill development for four of the core DAN courses in one package. The fee of $225.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, and certification.

DAN Basic Life Support for Professionals

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Fee: $200.00

The remote nature of dive accidents, whether a few hours from shore or days from civilization, frequently requires more advanced levels of care than are offered by traditional or entry-level CPR programs. Basic Life Support for Dive Professionals is a professional-level basic life support program designed to teach advanced skills to dive professionals, divers who find themselves in remote situations where emergency help is not immediately available and interested others who are involved with diving. The course duration is 8 hours. The certification is valid for 2 years. The course fee of $125.00 covers costs for student workbook, work slate, and certification.

 

WHERE CAN I DIVE? Anywhere there's water!

The short answer is, you can dive practically anywhere ther's Water-from a swimming pool to the ocean, and all points in between, including quarries, lakes, rivers and springs.

WHY DIVE?

ESCAPE to a different world. Scuba takes you to a different world with new colours, shapes, textures and creatures. Become a Scuba Diver, renew your energy and excite your senses.

EXPLORE new places. Scuba Diving frees you to explore the underwater world-from historic shipwrecks to pristine reefs to the mysteries of your local quarry. Become a Scuba Diver and explore what you've been missing.

EXPERIENCE a connection with nature, a feeling of freedom, and a transformation. Diving transforms your perspective of life forever. Become a Scuba Diver and transform yourself.

WHAT'S INVOLVED?

LEARNING TO DIVE isn't difficult, but like any activity worth doing, it requires some time and effort. While taking the Open Water Diver Course, you'll enjoy 3 phases:Knowledge Development, Confined Water Dives and Open Water Dives.

The Open Water Diver Course is incredibly flexible and performance based, which means that we can offer you the program on a wide variety of schedules.

At Adventure Scuba Divng, we're commited to providing you with the safest and highest quality scuba training available. We incorporate a variety of training facilities including swimming pools, shore based diving, locales, and quarries.

The instructional team is ready to go when you are. We specialize in providing quality instruction while you are on vacation or around your hectic work schedule.

To provide you with the most flexibility and variety of training options, we offer PADI, SDI and TDI certifications.

Our staff will help you choose the program best suited to your needs.

Discover Scuba

Price $25.00

Course Description

The PADI Discover Scuba program introduces people to scuba diving in a highly supervised and relaxed manner. It dispels common misconceptions about scuba by letting individuals try it for themselves. Under the guidance of a PADI professional, new divers learn basic safety concepts, put on equipment and swim around underwater in a closely supervised environment. The PADI discover Scuba program takes place in a pool where an appropriate, positive introduction to scuba diving is possible.

After trying scuba, many new divers may decide to repeat the experience. Others will choose to pursue certification by enrolling in a PADI Open Water Diver course. The desired result is to excite people about scuba diving and encourage additional participation.

Discover Scuba Diving

Price $100.00

Course Description

If you’re looking for a convenient way to try scuba, look to a PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience to broaden your horizons. You can jump into this program near home in a pool, or on vacation near open water. Give it a try. Diving can change your life.

• World’s most popular introduction to scuba diving.
• Available in a pool, ocean, river, lake, quarry or almost anywhere there’s water.
• Discover Scuba Diving skills may be credited toward the PADI Open Water Diver certification.
• Average dive depth is 6 metres/20 feet (12 metres/40 feet is the maximum depth).
• Most Discover Scuba Diving experiences take just an hour or two.
• No equipment necessary – everything’s provided except you supply the smiles.

Open Water Diver

Price $400.00 All inclusive

Course Description

If you’ve always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now’s the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever. In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way.

Earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification is just the beginning. As a certified diver, fabulous dive destinations, exciting people, unparalleled adventure and uncommon tranquility await you. And, as you continue your adventure and gain experience through higher training levels, your opportunities expand.

• Number of Dives: Five Confined Water Dives and Four Open Water DivesKnowledge Development: Five sessionsPrerequisites: 10 for Junior Open Water Diver and 15 for Open Water Diver. Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water.Materials You’ll Need: PADI Open Water Crew-Pak, PADI Open Water Video or DVD, Log Book.
• Equipment you’ll use during the course includes: mask, fins, snorkel, tank, regulator, buoyancy compensator, submersible pressure gauge and exposure protection as required by the local environment.

Becoming a diver opens a door to a whole new world. Open yours and step through.

Advanced Open Water Diver

Price $250.00

Course Description

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.

PADI Nitrox(Enriched Air Diver)

Price $250.00

Course Description

Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
• Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
• Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
• Safely increase your no stop time.
• Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.

TDI Nitrox

Price $200.00

Course Description

Longer Bottom Times. Shorter Surface Intervals. These are among the many benefits of diving Nitrox — a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen in which the concentration of oxygen is greater than that found in air. You’ve no doubt heard of Nitrox, probably know divers who use it. You also know that using Nitrox safely requires special training and certification.

Traditionally, becoming a Nitrox Diver required long hours in the classroom, learning how to work obscure formulas and use complex dive tables. No more. You’ll learn to dive Nitrox the modern way, using Nitrox-programmable dive computers instead of arcane formulas and complicated tables.

When you are done with the self-study portion of the course, you will meet with your instructor to review your final exam and to take part in a brief, practical application session. Here you will get hands-on experience with oxygen analyzers and Nitrox computers. Your instructor may even provide you with the opportunity to make one or more Nitrox dives.

When you have completed the academic review and practical application sessions, your Dive Center will order your permanent certification card. What could be easier? Nitrox opens a world of possibilities, leading to better, more enjoyable diving. What are you waiting for?

Rescue Diver

Price $350.00

Course Description

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.

Divemaster

Price $450.00

Course Description

Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises.

• Knowledge Development: 12 topics ranging from dive theory to assisting student divers in training.
• Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 20 logged dives, 18 years old.
• Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 60 for certification as PADI Divemaster.

Materials You’ll Need:

• PADI Divemaster Manual.
• Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel and eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets).
• The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving.
• Diving Knowledge Workbook.
• Divemaster Slates.
• PADI Divemaster Video.
• Instructor Guides for the programs that may be conducted by PADI Divemasters.