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DISCOVER SCUBA
The purpose the discover scuba experience is to introduce the non-diving public to diving in a safe, controlled, enjoyable session and to dispel some of the myths about diving . Discover Scuba can provide the opportunity to actively full-fill a life long, desire, wish or dream to scuba dive, in the safe confines of a swimming pool. This experience presents diving in a pleasant and exciting way. This will instill feelings of comfort and security, and a sense of belonging. Discover scuba will help over come the common misconceptions about scuba diving.
To participate in the discover scuba experience, an individual must!!
- Be 12 years of age
- Complete and sign the Discover Scuba Statement prior to entering the water.
- Enroll today.
- Equipment – You get the opportunity to don some scuba equipment such as fins, mask, snorkel buoyancy-control device (B.C.D), compressed air in a cylinder (Scuba tank) and valve, a regulator and submersible pressure gauge. Appropriate exposure protection and weighting system are to be used as needed at the instructor’s discretion.
What Do I Bring?
You need only bring a towel.
Pen and paper.
Some friends to share the experience with!!
How- In water shallow enough to stand up in you will discover ease of breathing under water and the comfort and enjoyment of being able to see thing under water as well as how to deal with equalizing your ears, so you can deal with the pressures that you encounter under water. Experiencing the weightlessness of inner space, this will be the experience you always wanted to try….
Where and When?
Can be book any time, for a group, and in the summer months, available anytime at the Dive With Mar Diving Facility. So call and book your “Discover Scuba Experience’ to day!!
A whole New World awaits you; the adventures that you will encounter will be some of your life’s greatest moments, “New environments, places and destinations”. New People, soon to become friends, you will meet, The animals, fish and underwater aquatic plant life , are to amazing for words!! Don’t hesitate another day… call today!!
How Long?
Time frame is 2-3 hours
A Deposit Required
Where do you then go from Here?
You will have the confidence to start right in on the next Open Water Scuba Diving Course and have that head start on your friends, call to day. Your Adventure awaits…
For the next course start dates and course rates please call. 1-519-672-3100 or mar@divewithmar.ca
Open Water Scuba Diving – Learn How To Scuba Dive Why Learn to Dive?
Dive Into a Great New World of Inner Space!
"There are between four and five thousand shipwrecks in our Great Lakes. I have been diving for over 19 years and have only scratched the surface of our marine heritage."
"Then add salt. Salt warm water diving differs from opportunities such as cold-water environment. There is the west and east coasts. Then move on down to warm salt-water destinations such as the Caribbean, South America and Pacific oceans including Australia and many more. The underwater marine life will leave you in awe! It does me.'
You will see that snorkeling and Scuba diving is great fun and is a very exciting activity for the whole family. Scuba diving is a year-round activity that can take you worldwide. Learning to Scuba dive is a great way to explore the last frontier.
Your certification card upon successfully completing this Open Water Course, is internationally recognized, weather your choices be SDI, PADI or NAUI and will enable you to rent or purchase gear and explore diving environments worldwide.
The Break down on how your become a diver!
A scuba course will teach you all of the skills you need to know to become a safe and responsible diver. The leaning is always FUN, taught in a safe and enjoyable environment.
The Open Water Scuba course is the first in a series of courses that will let you expand your knowledge as you gain experience.
The Course:
Mar’s open water diver course is specifically designed to guide you step by step through a series of classroom, pool, and then your open water experience sessions. At the successful completion of your course you will be a fully certified Open Water Diver ready to go dive anywhere with in your level of training.
Scuba is in 2 parts (Class and Pool) as one and then the (Open Water Experience). These courses are conducted year round. In Local pools in the city of London and other neighboring towns as well at the Dive with Mar Facility # 1001208 on site in the summer months. Course can be conducted on a 1 night a week for 4-5 nights as well as concentrated in to a weekend or 2 days, for the part one portion, Format. Depending on your schedules, so lets talk!
Which ever way you decide your class to be, the same time spent to teach you on all choices but, in all cases students are required to read their textbook prior to the start of the course. So the best time spent in class and pool is more beneficial for everyone.
What will you need to do to start?
Students are required to provide their own personal equipment for all pool sessions. Mask, snorkel, fins and boots. Weight belt (optional) Personal equipment packages for students are available at dive stores in town, feel free to call me for shopping help!
Open Water Experience . Part Two of the Course. Options for this are available for completing your Open Water Dives, from Tobermory, Ohio, Brockville, Kingston, Sarnia or we could book something exsotic warm waters of the Caribbean and Central America. Even a Referral Program.
Plus, Dive With Mar provides free DAN Diver Insurance to all students enrolled in the Basic Open Water Course!
For dates and pricing please call 1-519-672-3100 or mar@divewithmar.ca any time!
PADI-SDI-NAUI. Referral Program
You are choosing to not do your Open Water Experience here in the great lakes.
Going somewhere warm and would prefer to do the Open Water Experience at your destination? Great stuff. Just do the Class and Pool portion here with Dive with Mar and then upon successful completion, you will have your Referral papers awarded to go south and complete the Open Water Experience. This is easy!
Advanced Open Water Diver
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is a great comprehensive program leading to a "Advanced Open Water", scuba diving certification. This is the next step after your open water, and this will provide divers with additional open water training and experience to becoming a better scuba diver. This can be acquired by SDI (Scuba Diving International) or by PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) and NAUI, (National Association of Underwater Instructors). All world-renowned-diving-certifying agency.
PREREQUISITES...
You must be 18 years old, 15 with junior certification in special circumstances SDI You must be 15 years old, 12-14 with junior certification in special circumstances Padi & Naui You must be certified as an open water scuba diver by any nationally recognized agency. We can discuss your skill level and the time interval since your last dive prior to the start of the course. You need not have done any dives since your basic training.
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS
· Full wetsuit including hood, boots and gloves/mitts
· Buoyancy compensator with power inflator
· Regulator with octopus and depth/pressure gauges & timing device
· 2 tanks each day & underwater light
· Chemical light stick
· Logbook and extra log sheets
· Warm/dry clothes for the boat (weather dependent)
COURSE FORMAT...
· This course includes a combination of about six hours of classroom with open water diving.
· The academic work incorporates information used in the open water dives.
· The weekend consists of one day of shore diving and day 2, boat & shore diving.
· To complete this course you must complete five open water dives. The depths range in the
Course requires 60 ft - 100-ft. Recreational diving depth.
THE MANDATORY DIVES INCLUDE:
· Underwater navigation
· Night dive or low visibility diving
· Deep diving
Some extra dives/ skills include:
· Perform selected rescue
· Boat rescue
· Boat diving
Other information covered includes:
· Use of SAC rate/ how too?
· Strengthen use and knowledge of dive tables
· Cleaning up your equipment to become more streamline.
· Working with your fining techniques.
WHY TAKE AN ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE?
This is a great course for the certified diver who is looking to develop their skills in a supervised open water setting. It is a fun weekend designed to develop diving skills while having a great time.
This course is perfect for:
· New divers wishing additional training
· Divers new to this area
· Divers wishing to meat other divers and looking for new dive destinations
· Divers wishing an introduction to a Variety of types of diving
· Divers who have been out of diving for an extended period of time.
If you have not done a dive in the previous 12 months, please check with Mar prior to signing up for the course.
OTHER SPECIALTIES AVAILABLE...
· Diving rescue techniques
· Underwater environment
- Night Diver
· Deep Diver
· Ice Diver
· Wreck Diver
· Drifting Diver
· Underwater Archaeology
· Nitrox Diver
Divers are also responsible for.
· Air or Nitrox fills
· Transportation.
· Accommodation extra if needed, depending on location of course. Course Fee's Include:
Instructor Responsibility’s
· This includes your Instruction class room, dives & guidance on gear modification.
Extras are:
· The cost of the textbook
· Boat charters. (Prices vary depending where/ when and numbers)!
This course is run at varies time through out the summer. Don't be disappointed. Sign up today
For the next course start dates and course rates please call. 1-519-672-3100 or mar@divewithmar.ca
First Aid Responder –New and improved course
The life you save might be your own!!!
This is the newest version of our cornerstone CPR/first aid program. This exciting new training course helps divers meet the CPR and first aid training requirements for rescue and higher leadership courses.
Course Goals:
Scene Assessment
Assessing Responsiveness
Activating EMS
Assessing Airway, Breathing, Circulation
Foreign Body Airway Obstruction
Rescue Breathing
One Rescuer CPR
Chain of Survival
Debriefing
Control of Bleeding
Shock Management
Ongoing Assessment
Warning Signs (Illness)
Exposure to Heat
Exposure to Cold
Responsive Injured Patient: Major and Minor Mechanisms of Injury
Emergency Moves
Course Requirements:
Any age.
Course Outline:
The course involves two evening in the classroom. Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive your First Aid Responder certification card.
The above course description is general in term. There will be variations on the
course depending on certification agency.
For the next course start dates and course rates please call. 1-519-672-3100 or mar@divewithmar.ca
Rescue Diver
Develop Accident Prevention and Management Skills
The Rescue Diver Course is awesome and is a crucial step in expanding your knowledge and experience beyond a purely recreational level. The Rescue Diver rating is a prerequisite for all leadership training (Dive master, Assistance Instructor, Open Water Instructor).
The Rescue Diver Program is divided into two easy steps:
KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT: This portion develops the principals and information you need for preventing and handling dive emergencies. The knowledge development portion is completed through independent study using the Rescue Diver Manual, Rescue Diver Video, and review session with your instructor.
OPEN WATER TRAINING: During the open water training, you'll apply the knowledge you've learned as you develop rescue skills. You'll spend a morning at the beach where you'll practice skills in an actual diving environment (without the waves and surge of other beach dive sites). You'll also spend the day on one of the local dive charter boats applying your skills and practicing rescue scenarios. Upon completion of the rescue scenarios, you'll be returninghome with your Rescue Diver Certification!.
The following topics will be discussed and practiced:
- Self rescue
- Diver stress
- Recognizing stress
- Management
- First aid implementation
- First aid procedures
- Rescuer function
- Managing an emergency
- Common equipment problems
- Missing diver procedures
- Rescuing the responsive and unresponsive diver at the surface and under water
- Rescue exits with the responsive diver
- Equipment removal and exits with the unresponsive diver
Rescue Diver Certification Prerequisites:
To enroll, you must be certified as a Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent (or Jr. Advanced). To complete the requirements for the Rescue Diver certification, you must also have completed a sanctioned course in CPR within the previous three years. You may complete the CPR training before, during or after the rescue training.
The above course description is general in term. There will be variations on the course depending on certification agency.
For the next course start dates and course rates please call. 1-519-672-3100 or mar@divewithmar.ca
Master Scuba Diver
Gain the in-depth knowledge that will establish you as a recognized authority in your diving club or group. Bring your diving skills to the level of a professional Leader. Thrill to the adventure of open water dives in settings that will test your abilities to their limit while enhancing and expanding your diving capabilities. Then proudly wear the most coveted and respected patch in recreational diving - that of the Master Scuba Diver.
OVERVIEW
The course is a continuing education certification course for divers who wish to increase their understanding and enjoyment of diving. Emphasis is on student participation and practical application of knowledge in open water after a classroom discussion of subjects. This course is an excellent progression toward Leadership roles.
Some subject areas are a review and expansion of material from previous courses. Each subject area is a progression in study not a definitive study in the particular diving activity. However, instructors will specify performance objectives for related course diving activities, for example, The course may be divided and taught in sections with the student’s Diving/Training Log being signed off for each activity until all requirements are met.
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to engage in open water diving activities without supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.
OPEN WATER DIVES
A minimum of eight open water dives is required. A maximum of three dives per day shall be applied toward course requirements.
Required Dives Elective Dives
Emergency procedures and rescue Skin diving
Deep/simulated decompression diving Review of basic scuba skills
Limited visibility or night diving Environmental study or survey
Underwater navigation
Air consumption (practical application)
Search and recovery – light salvage Boat diving, Shore diving, Hunting & collecting,
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING MASTER DIVER COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years.
Diver Certification advanced certification or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Equipment. Students shall furnish and be responsible for the care and maintenance of their own diving equipment. The instructor shall initially assist the student in checking all student gear to insure it is adequate and in proper working order.
The above course description is general in term. There will be variations on the course depending on certification agency.
