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Dates: July 24th to 27th, 2014
 

This is an advanced recreational wreck diving course designed to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge to safely dive and explore with limited penetration underwater shipwrecks.


During this course you will learn proper gear configuration including streamlining, redundancy, emergency bailout, and decompression procedures. Also during this course you will learn to mix the best nitrox mixtures for desired depths, decompression gases, and emergency ascent protocols.


Wreck penetration skills will include light redundancy, reel and line techniques, special light and hand communications, fin swimming techniques, and emergency silt out drills.

 
  Wreck Diver Course Minimum Equipment Requirements
Mask, Fins, Booties
Exposure Suit with hood (5mm wetsuit or drysuit)
BCD, Wing style preferred (but not required) (Hollis SMS100 prefered)-----> Hollis SMS 100
2 Aluminum 80 cuft scuba nitrox cylinders and 1 pony cylinder (minimum of 30 cuft)
1 Surface marker bouy - Dive Rite Surface Marker Tube
1 250' plus reel - Golem Gear Explorer Reel
1 Primary handheld light (bigger the better)
1 Back-up light - (small and easy to stow away)
Nitrox Dive Computer
Back-up underwater timer (or spare dive computer)
1 - 90 degree regulator swivels - Golem Gear 98 degree 2nd Stage Swivel
Wet notes or dive slate and pencil
2 Regulator set-ups
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  Wreck Diver Course Schedule
  Day One
  Night classroom - Introduction, liability forms, equipment requirements, basic gas blending, stage tank set-up. Equipment configuration, streamlining, stage tank placement, sidemount attachments, regulator configurations, etc…
 
  Day Two (confined openwater)
  In-Water: Buoyancy control, stage placement and management, swimming techniques, hand and light signals, safety sausage deployment, etc...
 
  Day Three (wreck dives 1 & 2)
  In-Water: Stage tank removal, decompression procedures, emergency management, surface marker deployment, one hand communications, wreck penetration, line procedures.
 
  Day Four (wreck dives 3 & 4)
  In-Water: Putting it all together and executing a successful wreck dive.
 
 
Course Location Options

Florida Keys:

Dive 4 wrecks

 

Course Fee $499.00

Includes: Instructor fee, certification card fee, 2 boat charters with 4 wreck dives.

Does not include, Tanks, gas fills, transportation, hotel accomodations, meals, or drinks.

West Palm Beach:

Drift dive 4 wrecks

 

Course Fee $499.00

Includes: Instructor fee, certification card fee, 2 boat charters with 4 wreck dives.

Does not include, Tanks, gas fills, transportation, hotel accomodations, meals, or drinks.