Training/Classes:
Open Water Certification   Referral Certification Dives   Scuba Review 
Specialty Diver Certifications   Advanced Open Water Certification
Rescue Diver Certification   Public Safety Diver Certifications

2010 class registration is available. Call or email us to sign up and reserve your dates!!  With our flexible pool scheduling, you will find it convenient and easy to complete your confined water dives prior to your selected Open Water dates!
        
Class Descriptions & Rate Sheet 2010

Need college credit? Classes are available for college credit thru Quincy University or John Wood Community College. If you are already certified we can assist you in applying for ACE college credit.
 

Open Water Certification
Open Water Certification is the first level of scuba diving certification.  It requires that the student successfully complete both Open Water Book and Pool and the Open Water Certification Dives.  The minimum age is 10 years old.

Step 1 - Open Water Book and Pool - $150.00

 PADI open water video is available

Includes: PADI or SDI Open water crew-pak (Open Water Book, Logbook, etc.), pool sessions conducting Confined water dives 1-5. All gear rentals needed to complete course! Student is prepared to complete Open Water certification dives at Mermet Springs or other PADI facility of choice.

Step 2, Opt 1 - Open Water Certification Dives (w/our shop) - $150.00

$150.00 is payable when you reserve your Open Water dates (see Events/Travel page for available dates)

Includes: Instruction, entry fees, air fills, certification fee, and equipment.

4 Open Water dives are required and must be completed over at least 2 days.  These will be conducted at Mermet Springs or other approved sites.

Step 2, Opt 2 - Open Water Certification Dives (w/Mermet staff)

The 2009 cost was $165.00 if you took our equipment with you.  When you arrange for your Open Water dates, we will call for the current rate.

We have teamed up with the staff at Mermet Springs to make more certification dates available to our customers.  If our Open Water dates are not convenient for you, you can complete your Open Water Book and Pool work with us, and then we will arrange your Open Water dives with the Mermet staff. We have been diving with Mermet Springs for years and can guarantee that their facilities and staff are among the finest in the Midwest!

You can visit their website at www.mermetsprings.com.

Step 2, Opt 3 – Open Water Certification Dives at other facility

If you wish to complete your certification dives somewhere else, let’s just say in WARM water on VACATION, we will be happy to help you make arrangements!

Certification Dives -                                $40.00 each

This option is for referral students who need to complete certification dives.

Includes instruction only. Equipment and entry fees not included.

Scuba Review -                                           $50.00

Has it been a while since you’ve been scuba diving? Do you feel like your scuba skills and knowledge are a bit rusty? The Scuba Review Tune-up is just the refresher you need.  It reacquaints you with diving so that you're back to feeling comfortable in the underwater world in less than a day.

Includes instruction and gear rental.  Entry fees not included.

Specialty Courses -                                 $75.00-$170.00

We offer the following specialty diver certifications:

Crime scene diver, Deep diver, Dry suit diver, Enriched Air(Nitrox) Diver, Equipment Specialist, Night Diver, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Project Aware, Search and Recovery, and Under water navigator.

Advanced Open Water Certification

Exploration, Excitement, Experiences.  
They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the Open Water Certification course.  The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water.  This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI instructor.  This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.  With Advanced Certification, you also increase your certification depth from 60 feet to 130 feet.

Advanced Open Water Diver -                            $175.00

$75.00 Deposit, $100.00 day of first dives

Includes instruction for 5 open water dives including Deep, Navigation, and three other adventure dives.  PADI Advanced open water crew-pak, and PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification.  Gear Rental available at a discounted rate.

Rescue Diver Certification

“Challenging” and “rewarding” best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course. Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur.  The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them. Most divers find this course both demanding and rewarding, and at the end, say it’s the best course they’ve ever taken.

What You Learn

• Self rescue
• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
• Emergency management and equipment
• Rescuing panicked divers
• Rescuing unresponsive divers

Rescue Diver -                                      $200.00

$100.00 Deposit, $100.00 day of first dives

Includes instruction for five training dive sessions and PADI Rescue diver crew-pak and PADI Rescue Diver Certification

Public Safety Diver Certifications

The diving environment qualifies in every area as a HAZMAT site.  Add fuels and oils from a submerged vehicle and we have put multiple hazardous chemicals around the diver.  Additionally, those chemicals will destroy the diver’s life support system if they are inadequate for the job.  Place the diver inside the vehicle to do a recovery and we have added confined space rescue in a HAZMAT environment to the picture.  How many department administrators would take a person off the street with no formal training and place them in that situation above water?

Public Safety Diver Certification is the first step in providing the training needed by Emergency Response dive teams.  Scuba Adventures offers 2 levels of certification for Public Safety Divers: Emergency Rescue Diver I (ERD I) and Emergency Rescue Diver II (ERD II).  In addition, ERDI instructor Rob Tipton is a public safety diver himself; he has been a member of the Quincy Fire Department dive team since 1993.

ERD I -                                                   $300.00

This entry level emergency response diving course is designed to give the public safety diver the fundamental skills needed to safely function as part of a public safety dive team and is OSHA and NFPA compliant. Topics such as problem solving, tender skills, search patterns and evidence handling are covered just to name a few. Dive skills include executing search patterns, victim recovery, emergency procedures and decontamination procedures among others. ERD I also serves as a prerequisite to ERD II ERD Component courses.

Pre-Requisites: Open Water certification, CPR certification, oxygen provider or equivalent, minimum 18 years old

Includes instruction only.  The public safety organization is required to furnish training sites and equipment.  Discounts given for classes of 5 or more divers.  Please call 217-653-4640 for additional details.

ERD I Line Tender -                                           $300.00

The ERD Tender course trains team personnel to properly line tend and participate within the public safety dive team in a non-diving role. ERD Tender is also part of the ERD I course curriculum so that an entire team can participate and train to their individual needs. Crime scene recognition, search patterns and decontamination procedures are some of the topics covered. In addition, ERD Tender students learn and master tending skills in both confined water and open water settings.

ERD II -                                                  $300.00

This course enables the public safety diver to develop detailed knowledge and advanced skills in emergency response diving. Among the topics covered are manner of death, physiological changes a submerged body undergoes, mechanics of drowning, handling of remains environmental issues, encapsulation, full face mask and drysuit use. As part of the certification requirements during the six dives, students will also master drysuit and full face mask skills.

Pre-Requisites:  same as ERD I, ERD I certification, 10 or more public safety dives (or Training Dives) with a recognized public safety team.