Dive Training

Are you a certified diver but it has been more than a year since your last dive? If so, then it’s a good & safe idea to enroll in our PADI Scuba Review (refresher) course. Hey…don’t knock it! A good diver knows their limits, so if it has been awhile than come join us for a refresher. Also, keep in mind that a lot of charter operators will insist you take a refresher class if it has been more than 18 months since your last dive. Be proactive and do this before you leave for your vacation. Don’t put yourself in the position of not being able to dive because the charter operator doesn’t have an instructor/divemaster available.

This informal session with an instructor or divemaster will refresh your scuba knowledge in a short classroom session and refresh your basic dive & safety skills in a confined water environment. Usually, these refresher classes are scheduled with an Open Water class so you will also have the opportunity to meet & dive with some cool new dive buddies. Contact us for further details or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and much more. These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non-professional certification in recreational diving.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the Deep and Underwater Navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives to complete your course.

Course Details:
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

Number of dives:
Five dives

Adventure Dive options include boat diving, deep diving, drift diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater navigation, underwater photography and wreck diving

Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course

Study Materials needed: Adventures in Diving manual

For more information on becoming a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, please give us a call or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers too

Emergency First Response courses encompass:
» CPR for adults, children and infants
» First aid for adults, children and infants
» Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training (optional)

Contact us to sign up for an Emergency First Response course today. Or, to learn more, visit the Emergency First Response website.

Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken.

You'll cover:
» Self-rescue and diver stress
» Emergency management and equipment
» Panicked diver response
» In-water rescue breathing protocols
» Egress (exits)
» Dive accident scenarios

Course Details:
Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Rescue Diver)

Number of dives: Five dives

Students must be a certified Emergency First Responder w/ up-to-date CPR training

Study Materials needed: PADI Rescue Diver Crew-pak

For more information on becoming a PADI Rescue Diver, please give us a call or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 50

Minimum qualifications: PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 12 years old, five PADI Specialty Diver certifications.

For more information on becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak to one of our instructors.

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 50

Minimum qualifications: PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 12 years old, five PADI Specialty Diver certifications.

For more information on becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak to one of our instructors.

Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship here at First Coast Divers.

Course Details:
Knowledge Development: 12 topics ranging from dive theory to assisting student divers in training

Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 20 logged dives (at start of training), 18 years old.

Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 60 for certification as PADI Divemaster

Materials You’ll Need:
» PADI Divemaster Manual
» Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel and eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
» The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
» Diving Knowledge Workbook
» Divemaster Slates

Take charge of your adventure. Become a PADI Divemaster.

For more information on becoming a PADI Divemaster, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.

Course Details

Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).

Learn to analyze cylinder contents.

Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.

Safely increase your no stop time.

Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating

Materials Needed: PADI Enriched Air Diving manual, Air RDP table, EAN32 table, EAN36 table, EAD table

For more information on becoming a PADI Enriched Air Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak to one of our instructors.

The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.

In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.

Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.

Course Details

Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old

Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards

Four open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 60 - 130 feet.

Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Materials needed: PADI Deep Diving manual, dive computer (preferred) or RDP

For more information on becoming a PADI Deep Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak to one of our instructors.

You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet

Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.

Course Details:

Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.

Number of Dives: Four dives

Study Materials needed: PADI Wreck Diver manual

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.

For more information on becoming a PADI Wreck Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass. You learn to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.

Course Details:

Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)

Number of Dives: Three

Learn navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation

Dive site relocation

Study Materials needed: PADI Underwater Navigator manual

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Find your way with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.

For more information on becoming a PADI Underwater Navigator, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.

In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.

Course Details:
Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organization)

Must be at least 12 years old

Number of Dives: Four

Study Materials needed: PADI Search & Recovery Diver manual

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.

For more information on becoming a PADI Search and Recovery Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.

During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course, you learn to use the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine. You not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.

Course Details:
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization)

The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.

Study Material needed: PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Crew-pak

This is one of PADI’s most adaptable specialty courses, and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Diver course

For more information on becoming a PADI Digital Underwater Photographer, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the type boat and the location.

Course Details:
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)

Covers techniques for diving from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards

Discusses how dive boats differ from place to place

Gives you focused experience and training for diving from boats in your local area

Covers basic boat safety equipment and use

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

For more information on becoming a PADI Boat Diver, please contact us or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

DAN´s Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries Provider Course was designed to fill the void in oxygen first aid training available for the general diving public.
This course represents entry level training designed to educate the general diving (and qualified non-diving) public in recognizing possible dive related injuries and providing emergency oxygen first aid while activating the local emergency medical services (EMS) and/or arranging for evacuation to the nearest available medical facility.
In DAN´s most recent dive accident record, less than 33% of injured divers received emergency oxygen in the field. Few of those received oxygen concentrations approaching the recommended 100%. DAN and all major diving instructional agencies recommend that all divers be qualified to provide 100% oxygen in the field to those injured in a dive accident.

For more information on becoming a DAN Emergency Oxygen Provider, please give us a call or simply come by for a visit and speak with one of our instructors.

Objectives
The course is designed to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of recognizing diving injury warning signs, response and management. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.
The DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course is not designed to train lay persons to provide oxygen to the general public. While the medical standards and equipment are the same regarding the emergency use of oxygen for both divers and non-divers, the DAN Oxygen Provider course does not prepare individuals to respond to the ill or injured member of the general public by using emergency oxygen.

Learning Objectives
Course participants must be familiar with the signs and symptoms of major diving injuries including near drowning and decompression illnesses (arterial gas embolism and decompression sickness).
Course participants must demonstrate proper deployment, assembly, disassembly, and use of all components of the DAN Oxygen Unit. This includes use of the demand inhalator valve / mask, constant flow (delivering oxygen at least 15 lpm), non-rebreather mask and oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet.
Course participants must complete the DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries examination with a minimum passing score of 80 percent. The instructor will review the examination with each participant to ensure 100 percent understanding of the material.

Skill Performance Objectives
To successfully complete the DAN Oxygen Provider course, participants must demonstrate skill and confidence during deployment, assembly and disassembly of all parts of the DAN Oxygen Unit (or other acceptable units).
The course participant must demonstrate skill and confidence while providing emergency oxygen to simulated injured divers by:
Assessing the scene and oxygen provider safety
Deploying and operating the DAN Oxygen Unit
Selecting and preparing the appropriate oxygen mask
Operating the DAN Oxygen Unit and using these oxygen delivery devices:

• Demand inhalator valve and mask
• Constant-flow, non-rebreather mask
• Oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet
• Identification of the main components of the DAN Oxygen Unit
• Jumbo D cylinder and valve
• Multi-function regulator
• “T” handle
• Handwheel/wrench
• Oxygen washer
• Constant-flow controller
• Intermediate (green) pressure hose
• Pressure activated check valve (in threaded outlet)
• Demand inhalator valve
• Oronasal mask
• Non-rebreather mask
• Oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen