Open Water Details

This is your first plunge into the sport of Scuba Diving. You will receive a certification card that allows you to dive off most boat charters and entrance into inland dive facilities (i.e. springs) worldwide. Some of the more difficult dives require advanced or specialty training such as deep wrecks or cave diving. You can also purchase scuba equipment and buy air. Most people see no need to advance and stay at the open water level. The certification is good for life.

The training is geared for recreational diving...In other words...FUN!!!

 You will  have classroom time. We will talk about subjects such as pressure, (why your ears hurt at the bottom of a pool), the "Bends", details on equipment, best ways to purchase equipment, the new environment you will be in, dealing with weightlessness, depth, currents, waves, diving etiquettes and marine life.

Along with the class training you will have pool training.  You will learn how to assemble your equipment, water entries, becoming weightless, get water out of your mask and breathing regulator and get very familiar with your equipment. Then we will deal emergency procedures and rescues. Virtually everyone really digs these sessions...really gets people together.

Then it's the Open Water. The culmination We need to do 4 open water dives. I have an several options which I leave open to the class.

We can do everything on a long Keys weekend, 4 to 5 dives...Most expensive option ... or ... we do Marineland one day and West Palm on another....If it's winter and the Ocean doesn't cooperate we would substitute the ocean with  the springs

What you need...Mask, Fins, Snorkel and Weightbelt and Weights. If you don't have have this equipment...please don't purchase anything until after the first class...I can save you a lot of $$$ plus I want to assure you get what you get exactly really need

Class Cost:

$250 for training...Class supplies (text book, dive tables, logbook, c-card, diploma)...note...I have a "family/group rate" ...$250 for the first person, $200 for the second person and $150 for the 3rd, 4th etc

Equipment (Mask, Fins and Snorkel) cost are a big variable. The Fishing and Diving Center in Cape Canaveral...The charge $130 for a package based on a $30 mask  purchase.

The Open Water Training:

Keys:

$275 .... Boat Charters, Lagoon Dive & 2 nites lodging

West Palm/Marineland

$130 for ...Marineland park fees and Boat charter