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]Guided Dives - Already trained and just want to dive? Schedule a few days of guided dives with us. We specialize in cave diving, including the difficult, lesser known passages and caves. [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 ( Tuesday, 24 August 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.
8/14-15 - NSS-CDS/IANTD Intro/Basic Cave course Full 8/16-18 - IANTD Advanced Nitrox/TDI Decompression Procedures course (Intro Cave level) 1 space available 8/28-29 - IANTD Sidemount course 1 space available 9/11-14 - NSS-CDS/IANTD Cave Diver Course 2 spaces available 9/20-21 - IANTD Sidemount course 3 spaces available 9/22-23 - TDI Cavern course 3 spaces available 9/30-10/1 - PSAI Twinset course 2 spaces available 10/2-3 - NSS-CDS/IANTD/TDI Cavern course 3 spaces available 10/9-10 - PADI/SDI Open Water course 2 spaces available 11/13-14 - SDI Solo Diver/IANTD Self-sufficient Diver course 2 spaces available TBA - NSS-CDS/IANTD Intro/Basic Cave course 2 spaces available TBA - IANTD Normoxic Trimix course 3 spaces available Don't see a course you want to take? Contact us and we'll get it scheduled!
Springboard 12/3/08 -
We did our first dive in Springboard finally. What a majestic cave! This cave is accessible in one of two ways - either trudge through Spring Lake for about 3 hours having to lift your canoe full of gear over several trees, or do a guided dive there booked through Cave Adventurers. We did the guided dive option.
The cave is accessed through an opening in a spring run that is actually a siphon. The visibility here was about 10'. Not too far in the cave is a duck under that brings you into the actual Springboard system where you will find visibility about 100' or so. We headed to the right at the T just past the duck under and through a large fissure about 40-50' tall. The top part of the fissure is wide enough for sidemount divers. We swam to the end of the line and dropped down to the bottom where the bottom of the fissure extends to both side for about 20' or so under a flat ceiling. There are fossils embedded everywhere in the walls and ceilings of this passage.
We made it back to our T and headed the other way down the Distance Tunnel. This is a tube like passage that goes back for several hundred feet. We made it about 1900' before the dive was turned by a member of our team. Water temperature was 68 degrees. We did about a 90 minute run time with about 20 minutes of deco. This is definitely a cave we'll be going back to!
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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