COURSE COSTS:

$300.00 Tuition

• Classroom Review
• 4hr Pool Session
• 2 Ocean Dives
• SCUBA Equipment Rental

$150 SDI Digital Materials

• Mobile & Web Versions
• Digital Logbook
• Digital Certification Card
• Certification Processing Fees

$27.00 Online Booking Fees
In Person & Phone Bookings do not incur an online booking fee.

Course Subtotal: $450.00 + Tax
$477.00 w/ the Online Booking Fees

The payment of Course Fees guarantees TRAINING, not necessarily certification. Certification is EARNED only by successfully meeting all applicable standards and objectives.

DURATION:

• 1 hour Classroom
• 3 hour Pool
• 2 Certification Dives

OBJECTIVE:
This Dry Suit scuba diving class teaches the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive while using a dry suit. You will learn the special requirements for dry suit diving, how to use your new equipment, the benefits of a dry suit, and how to deal with emergency situations that are unique to dry suit diving.

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TECHNIQUES/SKILLS:

CLASSROOM:

• Sizing of seals
• Proper donning/doffing techniques
• Undergarment fitting/choices
• Dry Suit fitting
• Proper care of Dry Suit zippers

POOL:

• Review gear checks and integrating the additional inflator hose
• Familiarization with Dry Suit inflator and dump valves on surface
• Review of proper weighting
• Descents/Ascents
• Review surface procedures
• Hovering at target depth
• Opening and closing dump valve underwater and using the manual dump
• Inflating and deflating in different positions, observe the most optimal options.
• Trapping a bubble in the suit and moving it around to different areas and observe the effect
• Technique to deal with air trapped in feet malfunction/fail
• Runaway inflator procedures for both slow and fast dry suit LP hose malfunctions.
• Dump valve malfunction
• Options if you were to suffer a catastrophic dry suit flood

CERTIFICATION DIVES:

• Gear assembly, donning, doffing
• Practice controlled team descents down a line to hit target depths
• Hovering in horizontal diver trim at target depths
• Adjusting for buoyancy while monitoring information systems
• Practice various potential dry suit failure scenarios
• Controlled Ascent/Safety stop
• Debriefs/Logging dives

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Your Dry Suit Training journey will begin with a practical class session that discusses dry suit options, care, techniques, and philosophies.
Then we will get you fitted in our rental suits, if you do not already have your own, and we will practice our buoyancy techniques and become accustomed to the extra challenge of managing an additional airspace. Also we will practice various failures and how to deal with them.
Finally we will head to the ocean for a day of diving! You will be required to complete 2 dives and perform comfortably the emergency skills, and show sufficient control of your buoyancy that you can dive safely in this new equipment in order to earn your Dry Suit Certification…. after which we hope you will go forth and enjoy all that Monterey has to offer.

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DIVER PRE-REQS:

• Open Water Diver Certification or higher
• 16 years or older (parent/guardian release is required)
• Mastery of buoyancy control (able to HOVER in horizontal trim at a specific depth within a +/- 1' range for 3-5min.
• Cold water diving experience, ideally at least 10 dives, and within the last year.

DIVER RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Perfect Buoyancy

GEAR REQUIREMENTS (Pool Session):

• Towel
• Mask & snorkel
• Fins (yours may not fit, but we should try)