Boat Diver - Drift
Diver - Dry Suit Diver - Multilevel
Diver - Underwater Naturalist - Deep
Diver
Equipment Specialist - Ice
Diver - Night Diver - Research
Diver - Search & Recovery Diver
Underwater Videographer - Enriched
Air (Nitrox) - Underwater Navigator -
Underwater Photographer
Oxygen Provider - Fish Identification
- Altitude Diver - Peak Performance
Buoyancy - Project 'A.W.A.R.E.' Full
Face Mask Diver - Wreck Diver /Cavern Diver
Boat
Diver
Ideal preparation for holiday diving from boats. You'll learn how to act
safely on board, usual procedures concerning equipment stowage, safety
equipment on board, and planning dives from a boat. During 2 open water
dives you learn the correct ways to enter the water, safely aproaching
the boat, exit techniques, and equipment handling on board.
Drift Diver
Like boat dives, drift dives are very popular on holiday destinations.
Just float with the current, while the boat follows you! Theory covers
planning, surface floats and marker buoys, navigation techniques, and
the mechanics of currents. During 2 dives, you learn to achieve neutral
buoyancy in a current, navigation, and the use of surface marker buoys.
Dry
Suit Diver
Theory about types of dry suits, maintenance and repairs, and special
diving techniques. During 2 dives practice of buoyancy, safety measures,
skills, and reacting to buoyancy problems. Own dry suit is required! When
purchasing a dry suit from us, special conditions are granted when combining
with the course!
Multilevel
Diver
The technique of extending your dive time by ascending systematically
to shallower depths when required or desired, can be performed as well
with diving computers as with RDP. Theory about safe planning, use of
dive computers, decompression theory, and special circumstances. During
the 2 open water dives, you learn to plan and perform multilevel dives
with the "Wheel-RDP", and eventually your personal diving computer.
Underwater
Naturalist
Theory covers the different life forms and their identification, interaction
between divers and nature, and ecosystems. During 2 open water dives,
we practice searching and identifying life forms and ecosystems.
Deep
Diver
Training for depths up to 40 m! Review of dive tables, special circumstances,
safety procedures, and explanation about recompression facilities. During
4 open water dives you learn to safely plan and conduct deep dives, and
study effects of increased pressure.
Equipment
Specialist
Cleaning and small repairs of several equipment items, followed by a real
maintenance.
Ice
Diver
Theory session about safe planning, special equipment considerations,
marking techniques, safety lines and special procedures. Practical experience
during 3 open water dives.
Night
Diver
Theory session about planning and conducting night dives, use of torches
and signaling, navigation, and nightly underwater life. 3 open water dives
with navigation and communication techniques, and night life determination.
Research
Diver
Self authored course about oceanography, techniques for population counting
and behaviour study, chemical analysis with simple means, and filing and
visualizing the results. During 2 open water dives you'll learn to mark
research areas and perform population counts, and to take water- and bottom
samples at all depths. Followed by a workshop for analysing and filing
the results.
Search
& Recovery Diver
Search and recovery of small and medium-sized objects (lost diving equipment
etc...) up to 40 kg/80 pounds. Theory covers planning, equipment considerations,
and research patterns. During 4 open water dives, you get familiarized
with 4 different search patterns, the use of lifting devices and surfacing
objects.
Underwater
Videographer
Theoretical knowledge about basics of videography, behaviour of light
underwater, image composition, and diving techniques with a video camera.
During 2 open water dives, you'll learn the skills of diving with a camera
and taking images, eventually with artificial light.
Enriched
Air (Nitrox)
Lowering the nitrogen percentage, by replacing it with higher oxygen concentration,
reduces nitrogen absorption by the body, allowing longer diving times.
In case of deeper diving on wrecks, or reefs during holiday dives, your
actual no-decompression bottom time can be doubled, sometimes up to 90
minutes. Two theory sessions familiarize you with equipment considerations,
worldwide nitrox availability, and use of the adapted Recreational Dive
Planner. During 2 open water dives you learn the practice of oxygen measuring
and planning your dives with surface intervals.
Underwater
Navigator
Theory about compass and natural navigation, underwater mapping, and the
use of special equipment such as the "Nav Finder". During 3 open water
dives you learn to swim complex patterns, mapping areas and using the
"Nav Finder'.
Underwater
Photographer
Theory about the basic principles of photography, special light circumstances,
image composition, and special diving techniques with a camera. During
two open water dives you'll learn landscape and close-up photography.
Oxygen
Provider
Advanced Oxygen administration in emergencies. Also interesting as a complement
to Medic First Aid course. Theory includes physiological approach of oxygen
benefit, when and when not to administer oxygen, and several types of
oxygen sets. During the practical part, you learn to prepare the set,
applying safety measures, the selection of the right type of mask, combination
with CPR, and the fully assembly and disassembly of the set.
Fish
Identification
Theory about anatomy and determination technics by means of books and
aquatic identification slates. 2 open water dives, with description and
determination of all fish we meet.
Altitude
Diver
Returning to lower atmospheric pressure when diving at altitude, requires
knowledge about adapted planning, buoyancy, repetitive dives, and traveling
after diving. During 2 dives you learn to deal with these factors, planning
safe dives. Specialty offered during eventual club travel to locations
above 300 m, or as theory referral for application during personal travel.
Peak
Performance Buoyancy
Deals with the "fine art of buoyancy", and is even interesting for the
experienced diver, due to the great number of detailed information about
all factors influencing your balance. During 2 dives we apply hovering
techniques under all circumstances.
Project
'A.W.A.R.E.'
Theoretical course about interaction between diving and the aquatic world,
influence of people and industry on the environment, and 'rules of thumb'
for aquatic world protection. Ideally combined with the Research Specialty,
and also suitable for non-divers.
Full
Face Mask Diver
Self-authored course, officially recognized by P.A.D.I., about the use
of full face masks. Perfectly adapted to recreational diving, the FFM
provides widened angle of view, warmer diving conditions during winter
and the possibility of in-built communication systems. Theory about maintenance,
different types, small repairs, and safety procedures. One pool dive for
skills and safety exercises. Practice of safety exercises and skills during
2 open water dives.
Wreck
Diver /Cavern Diver
Exploring wrecks and caverns is very beautiful and exciting when performed
under strict safety measures. Because of the actual lack of 100 % safe
training environments in our region, we only cover extended theory about
planning, special equipment, safety rules and penetration techniques.
You'll be provided with a referral form, allowing you to do the open water
dives under safe conditions, e.g. in clear and obstacle-free environment
during holidays.
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