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What
Every Diver Should Know
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there are four requirements to successful diving: proper knowledge,
proper skills, proper equipment, and experience. |
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Proper Knowledge. There are certain
safety rules that must be learned. With a professional teaching
system (a manual, video, and study guide), you can study this information
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Proper Skills. You must develop ability
with basic scuba skills, such as moving in the water and equipment
handling. The best way to learn is from a qualified Instructor at
a professional scuba school. Review and practice time reinforces
the skills.
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Proper Equipment. The most comfortable,
convenient and enjoyable way to dive is with your own set of properly-fitted
equipment. As you become familiar with your equipment, your ability
level increases. Servicing your equipment annually improves your
equipment's performance, and minimizes malfunctions, which provides
peace mind.
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Experience. While education helps
develop knowledge and skills, the key to becoming a comfortable
and confident diver is simply to dive as much as possible. Your
experience increases as you explore different diving locations,
meet new friends, have new adventures, and explore new worlds. That's
why SSI's motto is "serious diving, serious fun!"
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Diver
Education
~The SSI Difference~
We make learning to dive as easy as 1-2-3
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STUDY ACADEMIC
MATERIALS AT HOME. |
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Start your adventure today with our top-rated home study
program. At your convenience, and in the comfort of your own home,
you review the text, watch a full-motion video, and complete a simple
study guide. |
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COMPLETE ACADEMIC
REVIEW & POOL SESSIONS. |
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After your academic and equipment review session, it's off to the
pool to become comfortable and proficient with your new scuba skills
and equipment under the guidance of a professional SSI Instructor. |
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COMPLETE OPEN WATER
CERTIFICATION DIVES. |
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Let's go diving! You will join your Instructor for two exciting
days of scuba diving. There you will apply all the knowledge and skills
form steps 1 and 2. You can make the dives locally or join a scheduled
trip to a diving destination. A referral can also be arranged if you
already have a vacation planned. |
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Water Diver |
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Diving offers a lifetime of exciting adventure. Experience the
thrilling sensation of flying underwater, and the wonder and magnificence
of inner space. Explore exotic islands, colorful coral reefs, and
the waters near your home. Excel at scuba and you'll discover new
friends, new worlds, and a new passion for life.
The ideal way to begin your adventure is with SSI's Open Water
Diver course. Under the guidance of a professional SSI Instructor,
you'll develop the knowledge and skills necessary to enjoy a lifetime
of underwater exploration.
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Proper
Knowledge
SSI's modular, six-session teaching
system includes a video, manual, study guide, DiveLog, and dive
tables. Some topics include:
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Planning enjoyable, exciting dives |
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Appreciating the underwater world |
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Tips on traveling |
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How to make diving a lifetime of adventure |
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Proper
Skills
In multiple pool and open water
sessions, you'll practice scuba skills with SSI's exclusive Comfort
Through Repetition teaching method. Some of the skills are:
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The easiest ways to get into and out of the water |
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Breathing normally underwater |
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Moving in the water with ease |
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Controlling buoyancy so you neither descend nor ascend |
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Getting water out of your mask |
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Proper
Equipment
Since
you can't dive without equipment, there is extensive information on
scuba equipment, including: |
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Selecting the best diving equipment for your needs and budget |
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Maintaining and adjusting your equipment to extend its life and
improve performance |
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Scuba diving is an exciting, challenging and rewarding
experience. The sport continues to grow year after year and more people
are being enticed into the underwater world. People form all walks
of life are now becoming certified to scuba dive. The days of certifications
being help by predominantly the young and strong military men is a
bygone era. Now the young the old, male and female are partaking in
scuba diving. In the stress and rescue course you will analyze what
causes stress, how a normal dive can turn into a rescue situation
and what steps could have been taken to prevent the situation from
occurring. The stress and rescue program is prevention and solving
problems that could turn a situation into a rescue. |
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EQUIPMENT TECHNIQUES
There are many resources for the sport diver regarding equipment.
The equipment techniques class is not to promote certain brand names,
but rather to give the diver the ability to be better informed when
selecting, maintaining and packing of his or her equipment.
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DEEP DIVING SPECIALTY
Why deep diving?
Deep Diving opens the door to many new dive sites and exciting
dives. The new sites could be, deeper reefs, wall diving or wrecks.
The SSI Deep Diving Specialty teaches you how to dive safely to
depths deeper than 60 ft, giving you the opportunity to explore
deeper depths.
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NAVIGATION SPECIALTY
When a diver learns to navigate the way to and from a destination,
a new sense of confidence and ability is achieved. Simply knowing
that you can find your way back to the boat or shore, relieves the
stress from the dive. The ability to be able to find objects, refs
and wrecks again makes navigation a very important pat of diving.
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NIGHT/LIMITED VISIBILITY SPECIALTY
Why dive at night or in limited visibility?
Night diving allows divers a new perspective to diving. To be able
to explore coral reefs, kelp forests and wrecks at night allows
divers to see different types of underwater life not seen during
day light hours. By using a dive light it allows you to see all
the natural colors normally lost during daylight hours. To be able
to dive in limited visibility safely will also reduce the stress
before and during your limited visibility diving experience.
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ENRICHED AIR NITROX SPECIALTY
Of all the advances made in the last two decades in recreational
diving, non had generated more excitement than diving with enriched
air "nitrox". Nitrox give divers the ability to spend
more time underwater, therefore giving them more opportunity to
explore the other three quarters of the earth that is under water.
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DRY SUIT DIVING SPECIALTY
The ability to dive in cold water opens up an entirely new spectrum
of experiences and challenges for the scuba diver. Dry suit diving
will allow divers to extend their diving season. Cold water diving
also will allow you to explore new sites and see different types
of life not seen in tropical waters. In winter the colder waters
will also offer better visibility than the warmer waters of summer.
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UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY SPECIALTY
The desire to share our experiences with others is something all
divers have in common. Underwater photography provides the best
and most enjoyable means to do so. Taking pictures underwater can
be a richly satisfying experience. - Having your own underwater
Kodak moment.
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COMPUTER DIVING SPECIALTY
One of the greatest innovations of diving equipment is the dive
computer. The intent of this specialty is to educate divers to use
computers safely and to aid in making an intelligent decision as
to which computer would best fit their needs.
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BOAT DIVING SPECIALTY
Boat diving is a different type of diving. Using different type
of boats will allow you to explore new venues and dive sites that
are not available when doing shore dives. One type of boat diving
that is very exciting is the concept of live-aboards, which allows
you the ability to travel to exotic dive sites and to dive in areas
that are only available when using live-aboards.
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