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PRTDC Course Descriptions
IANTD & NAUI Courses
Open Water Free Diver/ Snorkeler
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: n/a
Description:The certification programs, offered through IANTD & NAUI's Free Dive Programs, are designed to increase a diver's breath-hold range and comfort in the water. From Snorkel Diver and Open Water Free Diver through the Master Free Diver course, students are taught constant ballast diving techniques. The courses develop a detailed understanding of all aspects of deep breath-hold diving, including history, physics, physiology, psychological factors, breathing techniques and emergency procedures, along with skills and free diving experience.
Try Scuba Diving
Pricing: $110
Prerequisites: Absolutely none!
Description: This introductory dive is a highly supervised, guided scuba dive under the direct supervision of a diving instructor. You will start with a 30-45 minute dry briefing on basic diving concepts and scuba skills. This will be followed by a safe dive on a section of the reef. Your dive will only take you as deep as 12 metres (40 feet) and your diving group will be limited to 4 or less. Generally your dive will last approximately 30 minutes, and during that time the instructor will be with you at all times . . . and if you want, even hold your hand. NOTE: This is not a certifying course, and instruction will only apply to that try scuba experience.
Jr. Open Water Diver--PRIVATE COURSE
Pricing: $375 not including textbooks
Prerequisites:Age 10-14; Ability to participate in activities involving low to moderate levels of exertion
Description:
Jr. Open Water Diver is conducted as a separate course from regular Open Water instruction. It is private course with the instructor. This ensures that concessions are made to the Jr. Diver’s age, skill level, learning ability, and to allow for extra safety precautions for your child.
This program is designed to provide lay people with the knowledge required for diving. You can earn this by completing pool dives, knowledge development sessions and by making open water dives. This program certifies divers to use basic open circuit diving equipment to 60 fsw. You will learn fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques.
Open Water Diver
Pricing: $275 not including textbooks; private courses available at an additional cost
Prerequisites:Age 15+; Ability to participate in activities involving low to moderate levels of exertion
Description:
This program is designed to provide lay people with the knowledge required for diving. You can earn this by completing pool dives, knowledge development sessions and by making open water dives. This program certifies divers to use basic open circuit diving equipment to 60 fsw (21msw). You will learn fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques.
Nitrox Diver
Pricing: $275 not including textbooks
Prerequisites: n/a
Description:
This program provides recreational divers a safer breathing medium for enjoying dives in 40 fsw (12 msw) to 130 fsw (39 msw) depth ranges. The diver may elect to mix on IANTD Nitrox tables or conservatively using their dive computers air tables with an added safety margin. The IANTD Nitrox Diver certification is adaptable to being taught as a single program or combining it with a variety of advanced or specialty courses.
Advanced Open Water Diver
Jr. Advanced Open Water Diver-PRIVATE COURSE
Pricing: $475 not including textbooks
Prerequisites:Age 10-14; Ability to participate in activities involving low to moderate levels of exertion
Description:
Jr. Advanced Open Water Diver is conducted as a separate course from regular Advanced Open Water instruction. It is private course with the instructor. This ensures that concessions are made to the Jr. Diver’s age, skill level, learning ability, and to allow for extra safety precautions for your child.
This program is designed to provide lay people with the knowledge required for diving. You can earn this by completing pool dives, knowledge development sessions and by making open water dives. This program certifies divers to use basic open circuit diving equipment to 130 fsw (21msw). You will learn fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques.
Advanced Open Water Diver
Pricing: $375 not including textbooks; private courses available at an additional cost
Prerequisites:Age 15+; Ability to participate in activities involving low to moderate levels of exertion
Description:
This NAUI/IANTD program is designed to provide lay people with the knowledge required for diving. You can earn this by completing pool dives, knowledge development sessions and by making open water dives. This program certifies divers to use basic open circuit diving equipment to 130 fsw (21msw). You will learn fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques.
Advanced Nitrox
Pricing: $425 not including textbooks
Prerequisites:Nitrox Certification
Description:
This IANTD program is designed to extend the divers knowledge with O2 mixes of up to 1.5 PO2 and teaches one stage cylinder decompression techniques. It further develops diving skills and provides a greater understanding of Oxygen use as well as the Nitrox diving concept.
Deep Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: Advanced Open Water Certification
Description:
This IANTD program has been developed to provide responsible training to divers who plan to dive 130 fsw (39 msw) on air. The IANTD Deep Diver Program trains divers in skills, performance, theory, and planning of deep dives. This program remains within the commonly practiced depth of 130 fsw (39 msw). It is the first sanctioned program to provide proper international training in safe deep diving skills and performance. It is recommended that this program be taught in conjunction with the IANTD Nitrox Diver program.
Rescue Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: Advanced Open Water certification, Current CPR/First Aid
Description:
This IANTD/NAUI program is designed to provide advanced divers with the knowledge required to affect the rescue of another dive or self rescue. You can earn this by completing knowledge development sessions as well as dives in strenuous environments to search for and save another diver. Normally combined with AED, CPR, O2 and remote O2, and Diver First Aid, this will be the most informative class you experience in diving. These emergency life support classes can be taken as stand-alone classes as well. This course is a great deal of labor, but will prove to be the most rewarding class you experience because it leaves you with the ability to help yourself as well as others.
Recreational Trimix Diver
Pricing: $825 not including textbooks
Prerequisites:Advanced Open Water and Nitrox Certifications
Description:
This IANTD program is designed to provide recreational divers with a breathing medium for extending their dives to sport diving depths without any narcosis. By adding helium and establishing Equivalent Narcotic Depths (END) between 40 to 80 fsw (12 to 24 msw), the divers will not feel the effect of the narcosis. The diver may elect to dive the “mix” on tables or computers. The IANTD Recreational Trimix Diver qualification may be taught as a single program or combined with a variety of IANTD advanced or Specialty Diver programs.
Technical/Normoxic Trimix Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites:Recreational Trimix Diver and Deep Diver Certifications
Description:
This IANTD program is designed to train divers to conduct dives to depths of 100 fsw (30 msw) and at the instructors option up to 170 fsw (51 msw) using custom blend breathing gas mixtures;
Cave Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: Cave Diver and Wreck Diver Certification
Description:
The design of this program provides in depth knowledge of the cave diving environment. It involves diving in multiple cave systems and significant penetration. This class improves your knowledge of the ecosystem and safety requirements for endeavoring into the cave domain.
Technical Cave Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites:Cavern Diver and Wreck Diver Certifications
Description:
The design of this program provides in depth knowledge of the cave diving environment. It involves diving in multiple cave systems and significant penetration. This class improves your knowledge of the ecosystem and safety requirements for endeavoring into the cave domain.
Side/No Mount Cave Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing and more information
Prerequisites:
Description:
Overhead Environment Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites:
Description: The Cavern and Wreck training programs develop wreck diving skills and cavern diving skills within limits of light penetration. These programs are designed to ensure divers are aware of self-responsibility and capable of risk management in overhead environments. The programs may be taught using either air or Nitrox.
Rebreather Training
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites:
Description:
- CCR Normoxic Trimix Rebreather
- CCR Trimix Rebreather Diver
- Drager Dolphin Diver
- Drager Ray Diver
- Inspiration Diver
- Azimuth Diver
>- Megalodon Diver
- Poseidon MKVI Diver
Public Safety Diver
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: Advanced Open Water Certifications
Description:These programs are designed to train divers in the use of diving and Nitrox for professional reasons and to operate in waters of limited visibility while employing structured methods in the retrieval of submerged evidence from a maximum depth of 100 fsw (30 msw) and the potential use of this evidence in a court room. This class is normally restricted to fire departments, police and governmental agencies with a need to use diving for work purposes. This is not a recreational diver course.
Diver First Aid & O2 Provider
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: n/a
Description: Participants need NOT be a certified diver to take this course.
Dive Master
Pricing: contact for pricing
Prerequisites: Rescue Diver Certification with specialties
Description: This program is designed to provide responsible training for those persons wishing to supervise standard IANTD>NAUI divers, including Nitrox Divers, Advanced Nitrox Divers and Deep Divers. IANTD/NAUI Nitrox Divemasters may supervise and assist in all open water IANTD?NAUI diver programs but cannot conduct training exercise's unless under the direction of a qualified IANTD/NAUI instructor.
Gas Blender: Nitrox
Pricing: $375 not including textbooks
Prerequisites: Nitrox Diver Certification
Description:This program is intended to teach detailed technical information to mixing and blending technicians. It is intended to explain the standards, properties, equipment, oxygen safety, handling and cleaning procedures for mixing or blending diving gases other than air, such as Nitrox and oxygen.
Gas Blender: Trimix
Pricing: $350 not including textbooks
Prerequisites: Trimix Diver Certification
Description:This program has been designed to train competent personnel in the safe handling of oxygen and the preparation of Trimix.
Deco Software Specialist
Pricing: Contact for pricing and more information
Prerequisites: n/a
Description: n/a
NAUI Specialty Courses
Specialty Diver
Description:
- Boat Diving
- Computer Diving
- Deep Diving
- Digital Underwater Photography
- Equipment Techniques
- Fish ID
- Navigation
- Night & Limited Visibility
- Waves, Tides & Currents
- Wreck Diving
- Search & Recovery
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