Welcome to Chipola Divers - Scuba Diving Instruction & Mentorship
Written by Administrator
Monday, 26 April 2010
Cave Diving Courses - Ready to check out the fresh water springs of North Florida? Well then do it safely by getting the proper overhead diving training. Available through IANTD, NSS-CDS, PSAI, & TDI. [more info]Technical Diving Courses - Maybe you're ready to make the move onto longer & deeper dives? Come learn about decompression & mixed gas diving. Available through IANTD, PADI TecRec, PSAI, & TDI. [more info]Recreational Diving Courses - Want to learn how to dive? Maybe you're already certified & want to advance your skills? Check out the recreational courses we offer. Available through PADI & SDI. [more info]Chipola Divers is Rob Neto & Jen Neto. We offer recreational, technical, and cave scuba diving instruction and mentorship personalized for you. We offer scuba diving courses through IANTD, NSS-CDS, PSAI, PADI, SDI, and TDI in small (no more than 6 students per class, 4 for open water diver) or private classes. We are independent scuba instructors offering quality dive instruction with the personal touch you won't find in many places. And we not only teach the courses, we do the dives. We do more personal dives than instructional dives and will always keep it that way. * We operate out of a local shop where you can get any type of cylinder fill from air to trimix to oxygen and even argon and choose from hundreds of scuba diving gear.
Welcome to Chipola Divers!
Whether you dive a single tank, backmounted manifolded doubles, or sidemounted cylinders, Rob & Jen Neto can offer you the best training possible in all types of diving.
Post dive briefing to mixed class
Located in Marianna, Florida, we offer scuba diving instruction in the Florida panhandle, Lower Alabama, and Peacock Springs State Park.
Make sure you check out our Courses page for information on our teaching philosophy and our Course Fees page for an easy reference table layout of our scuba diving courses.
Do you want to cave dive but don't want to dive doubles? Would you rather go right into a sidemount configuration when you do your cave diving training? We can do that for you. While not all agencies or instructors can offer cave diving training in sidemount, Rob & Jen Neto can. Don't waste your money on gear for manifolded doubles just to do your training. Go right into sidemount. Contact Rob & Jen to find out about all the benefits of sidemount diving. And save money!
We also offer CPROX, American Red Cross CPR, First Aid, and Oxygen Administration courses. For more information on our courses, visit the Courses Page.If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at 850-594-7991, 850-272-7484, or
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Last Updated ( Monday, 31 May 2010 )
Are you ready to decompress??
Written by Administrator
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Extend your bottom time or take it deeper, or both! Learn how to plan and execute decompression dives the proper way. We offer a few entry level decompression courses that will teach you how to conduct decompression dives and know what you're doing. Unfortunately, a lot of divers simply dive their computers or run a profile in one of the various decompression programs but they don't really know why they are doing what they're doing. Take Decompression Procedures and pair it up with Advanced Nitrox or Advanced Recreational Trimix. In our Advanced Nitrox course you'll learn how to plan and execute dives at depths shallower than 130'. In our Advanced Recreational Trimix course, you'll learn how to plan and execute dives at depths up to 160'. And right now we're offering a special break in course fees on these courses. E-mail us at
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or call 850-272-7484 for more information.
Take a look at what we're doing over the next couple of months.
7/11-12 - NSS-CDS/TDI Cavern course 1 space available 7/11 - TDI Nitrox course 5 spaces available 7/19-20 - PADI Open Water course 2 spaces available 7/28 - PADI Open Water course In progress 8/14-15 - NSS-CDS/IANTD Intro/Basic Cave course Full 8/16-18 - IANTD Advanced Nitrox/TDI Decompression Procedures course (Intro Cave level) Full 8/28-29 - IANTD Sidemount course 2 spaces available 9/11-14 - NSS-CDS/IANTD Cave Diver Course 1 space available 9/20-21 - IANTD Sidemount course 3 spaces available September TBA - NSS-CDS/IANTD Intro/Basic Cave course 2 spaces available TBA - IANTD Normoxic Trimix course 3 spaces available TBA - NSS-CDS/IANTD/TDI Cavern course 3 spaces available TBA - PADI/SDI Open Water course 3 spaces available Don't see a course you want to take? Contact us and we'll get it scheduled!
Hole in the Wall 6/10/10 -
Got back into the downstream section. This time no scooters. We did a swim dive back to about 1000' and spent a lot of time just searching the perimeter for passages. We did find a couple of jumps we weren't aware of and that aren't on the map (more survey work to be done, hopefully those lines are knotted!). We turned around and headed back, finding another small passage we also weren't aware of. Before ending the dive it was time to complete some unfinished work from the last dive. We put in almost 500' of knotted line in the side passage that was surveyed last weekend. Didn't quite make it to the end before running out of line so at least one more dive in there. Counted knots on the way back and updated the survey data from last week. Distance estimation was amazingly pretty close! Another dive or two and that project should be done and we can move onto the next jump.
Chipola Divers is Rob Neto & Jen Neto. We offer recreational, technical, and cave scuba diving instruction and mentorship personalized for you. We offer scuba diving courses through IANTD, NSS-CDS, PSAI, PADI, SDI, and TDI in small (no more than 6 students per class, 4 for open water diver) or private classes. We are independent scuba instructors offering quality dive instruction with the personal touch you won't find in many places. And we not only teach the courses, we do the dives. We do more personal dives than instructional dives and will always keep it that way.
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If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at 850-594-7991, 850-272-7484, or
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