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| Wednesday, 04 June 2008 | |
Where are you located?We are located in North Florida near Marianna. However, we don't have a dive shop. We offer dive instruction only. Classroom sessions are arranged at a location convenient to both us and our students. Confined water and open water sessions occur at Merritt's Mill Pond, Morrison Springs, Vortex Spring, and the St. Andrew Jetty in Panama City. Other possible dive locations are Peacock Springs State Park and Troy Springs.Why Chipola Divers?We are independent instructors that personalize our courses to our students. We don't teach large classes. We don't have set schedules. If you need more time to work on a skill, we give it to you. We have been trained by some of the best divers, for recreational diving, technical diving, and cave diving. In addition to our own knowledge of diving gained from our experience, we also bring you the knowledge we have gained from our trainers. We are out there diving on a regular basis. We log over 100 non-training dives each year with even more hours underwater. We are not only teaching you how to do open water, decompression, and cave dives, we are out there doing our own dives on a regular basis. We do at least twice as many non-training dives every year than training dives. Diving is our life and our passion. You will easily see that when you meet us. You will also get the most for your time and money with us. While most other instructors are packing up their gear and heading home, we're still conducting class. We run full dive days that start at 8 or 9 in the morning and usually don't end before 5 in the afternoon. It's not that we're slow. We are thorough.What will I need for the cave/tech classes?Take a look at the requirements for the individual courses under the Courses link. If you still have questions, e-mail or call us. We are always available to answer questions. If there is any gear you don't have, we probably have it and can loan it to you during the course.How much is it going to cost to get my open water certification?Total approximate costs for the course: Course fee $345 for 2 or more studentsOpen Water Crew-Pak * $60-80 Wet suit and Gear # $200 + Total costs range from $600 to about $900 depending on which options you choose. * If more than one student is going to use the CD-ROM crew-pak, you must order additional Logbooks for each diver. # Gear includes mask, snorkel, fins, and booties. You can get a great deal on a package that includes a bag to carry these items at Cave Adventurers for only $99! What is the schedule for the Open Water course?We conduct personalized courses. The Open Water course is the most personalized because it is your introduction to diving. It also builds the foundation for the rest of your courses. With the small classes we have, courses usually end up taking about 24-30 hours to complete. Half of that is spent in classroom and confined water. The other half is spent doing open water dives.In other words, it all depends on you, the student diver. We can't tell you a set schedule until we see how well you adapt to the underwater world. Plan on at least 4 full days of instruction, with the possibility of more. What dives are done during the Advanced Open Water course?We like to do Peak Performance Buoyancy or Simulated Decompression (agency dependent), Search & Recovery/Rescue, Night, along with the required Deep and Underwater Navigation dives. Make sure you complete the knowledge reviews or quizzes for each of these in the Adventures in Diving Manual or CD-ROM )PADI) or Advanced Open Water manual (IANTD/PSAI/SDI). We'll work on your buoyancy during every dive. You'll be a lot closer to neutral buoyancy and having your buoyancy tuned in by the end of the course!If you are completing the AOW course and Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty course together, we do the first of the two buoyancy dives on day 1. We follow that with the navigation dive. We then do the night dive. The next day we begin with the deep dive, follow it with the search & recovery dive, and end the course with the second buoyancy dive. We recommend everyone complete AOW and Buoyancy together and guarantee you will see an improvement in your bouyancy control if done this way. |
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