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This is the summer to really expand your dive skills! Take our Tri-Dive-
Challenge, learning a multitude of dive skills in a combined format that will maximize
your training with a minimal amount of effort and time.
By combining Advance Certification, Drysuit Seminar and Nitrox Certification, you can double up several skills and drill during one dive. i.e. use a drysuit while practicing compass navigation skills, dive with Nitrox while learning night dive technique, etc.
As usual, each course may be taken separately, but why not challenge yourself to so much more!
#1 Advance Certification:
This is the perfect class for newly certified divers and those who feel a little rusty. It is the next logical step after your basic certification. With one of our instructors, you’ll get a chance to sample six different types of dives and review skills from your beginning class. In fact, in many ways this course is better than a Refresher Course.
There are three core dives: night dive, deep dive and underwater compass navigation. But, that’s just the start. You’ll also set personal goals such as improving your air consumption rate, maintaining better buoyancy control and reducing the amount of dive weight needed for a dive. Next, rescue skills are reviewed and a fun, yet challenging snorkeling course is done. Finally, you’ll choose an elective dive, something of interest. This could be using an underwater camera (bringing home pictures of your dives), trying a full-face mask (perfect for coldwater diving) or learning how to use lift bags to raise a sunken object.
Schedule: Advance Diver consists of two evening lectures at Sub-Aquatic Sports and one weekend of diving at Gilboa Quarry in Ohio.
Classroom Times: 6:30-9:30pm for 2 Tuesdays
Cost: Option #1: Advance Only $139
Includes: Instructor fees, NAUI registration and certification fees, and use of specialty equipment like U/W cameras, full face mask and lift bags.
Option #2: Advance Deluxe $279
Includes: All the above as mentioned in Advance Only plus hotel accommodations on Friday and Saturday night (based on double occupancy), two days of entrance fees into Gilboa Quarry, all hotel taxes, hotel breakfast daily, and a shared campground site at the quarry as home base for the weekend.
#2 Drysuit Seminar:
Prior to the second meeting of the Advance class, we will hold a one-hour drysuit seminar. The seminar consists of a drysuit fitting, regulator configuration and a short talk about the maintenance and donning procedures of drysuits. Then, on Wednesday, you’ll meet up with your instructor for a drysuit orientation dive at Gull Lake. Here, you will get properly weighted out, practice air dumping techniques and work on buoyancy control. This orientation dive is your first taste of drysuit diving because you’ll keep the rental drysuit until the end of the Gilboa Weekend. Please sign up as soon as possible; we have a limited number of drysuits in each size.
Cost: $99 (a $209 value!) This includes the Tuesday seminar and fitting, Wednesday dive with instructor and the 6-day drysuit rental.
Schedule: Classroom and drysuit fitting on Tuesday 5-6:30pm, with Gull Lake Dive on Wednesday at 6:00pm
#3 Nitrox Certification:
Nitrox is perfect for maximizing your bottom time. It is ideal to use on dive trips and for a multiple dives/day scenario like on our Advance Diver weekend. When using Nitrox, you’ll have shorter surface intervals and still be diving conservatively. How is this possible? Take this one-day course and learn all about it.
Cost: $99 when combined with an Advance Class or Master Diver class. Regular price $119. NAUI Nitrox kit additional.
Schedule: Saturday lecture10am - 5pm with two dives on Nitrox done in Gilboa with Advance Dives.
This is the perfect class for newly certified divers and those who feel a little rusty. It is the next logical step after your basic certification. With one of our instructors, you’ll get a chance to sample six different types of dives and review skills from your beginning class. In fact, in many ways this course is better than a Refresher Course.
There are three core dives: night dive, deep dive and underwater compass navigation. But, that’s just the start. You’ll also set personal goals such as improving your air consumption rate, maintaining better buoyancy control and reducing the amount of dive weight needed for a dive. Next, rescue skills are reviewed and a fun, yet challenging snorkeling course is done. Finally, you’ll choose an elective dive, something of interest. This could be using an underwater camera (bringing home pictures of your dives), trying a full-face mask (perfect for coldwater diving) or learning how to use lift bags to raise a sunken object.
Schedule: Advance Diver consists of two evening lectures at Sub-Aquatic Sports and one weekend of diving at Gilboa Quarry in Ohio.
Classroom Times: 6:30-9:30pm for 2 Tuesdays
Cost: Option #1: Advance Only $139
Includes: Instructor fees, NAUI registration and certification fees, and use of specialty equipment like U/W cameras, full face mask and lift bags.
Option #2: Advance Deluxe $279
Includes: All the above as mentioned in Advance Only plus hotel accommodations on Friday and Saturday night (based on double occupancy), two days of entrance fees into Gilboa Quarry, all hotel taxes, hotel breakfast daily, and a shared campground site at the quarry as home base for the weekend.
#2 Drysuit Seminar:
Prior to the second meeting of the Advance class, we will hold a one-hour drysuit seminar. The seminar consists of a drysuit fitting, regulator configuration and a short talk about the maintenance and donning procedures of drysuits. Then, on Wednesday, you’ll meet up with your instructor for a drysuit orientation dive at Gull Lake. Here, you will get properly weighted out, practice air dumping techniques and work on buoyancy control. This orientation dive is your first taste of drysuit diving because you’ll keep the rental drysuit until the end of the Gilboa Weekend. Please sign up as soon as possible; we have a limited number of drysuits in each size.
Cost: $99 (a $209 value!) This includes the Tuesday seminar and fitting, Wednesday dive with instructor and the 6-day drysuit rental.
Schedule: Classroom and drysuit fitting on Tuesday 5-6:30pm, with Gull Lake Dive on Wednesday at 6:00pm
#3 Nitrox Certification:
Nitrox is perfect for maximizing your bottom time. It is ideal to use on dive trips and for a multiple dives/day scenario like on our Advance Diver weekend. When using Nitrox, you’ll have shorter surface intervals and still be diving conservatively. How is this possible? Take this one-day course and learn all about it.
Cost: $99 when combined with an Advance Class or Master Diver class. Regular price $119. NAUI Nitrox kit additional.
Schedule: Saturday lecture10am - 5pm with two dives on Nitrox done in Gilboa with Advance Dives.
- Tri-Dive Challenge Dates:
June Challenge:
Advance: Lecture June 7 & 14
Gilboa Dives: June 18 & 19
Nitrox: June 11
Drysuit: June 14 & 15
July Challenge:
Advance: Lectures July 5 & 12
Gilboa Dives: July 16 & 17
Nitrox: July 9
Drysuit: July 12 & 13
August Challenge:
Advance: August 9 & 16
Nitrox: August 13
Gilboa Dives: August 20 & 21
Drysuit: August 16 & 17
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