Hello Divers,
Well things have slowed down a bit at The SCUBA School since our last newsletter. We are not teaching as much as we were a couple of months ago but are still taking groups diving every week somewhere when the weather allows.
Forrest just completed a week of diving in the Turks and Caicos Islands, between the Bahamas and Haiti. We were fortunate to have beautiful weather and calm seas the entire time. We were diving just 4 days after Hurricane Irene was right on top of these Islands so the visibility wasn’t as good as usual but the diving was still very good once you swam off the wall. It is so easy to dive from one of these live-aboards you can usually complete 25 or more dives in just one vacation.
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| Here is Mark and the Fiji divers enjoying some kava one evening. |
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| Steve & Spencer in the cabin with some of this Summer’s gold |
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| Spencer, bringing in his dredge in the Bering Sea. |
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| Forrest and Spencer with some nice Grouper |
SSDS has many trip options in the next few months & you can see the dates here on our calendar. All of these listed have availability right now. If you are wanting to go, please let us know quickly because we are selling them every day.
Continuing Education
October 8, 9:30 am Enriched Air NITROX
Have you ever dreamed of having longer no-decompression limits to take pictures or explore a wreck? Did you ever want to be safer while diving concerning the potential risk of decompression sickness?
Nitrox is the key. Due to the reduced fraction of nitrogen in your breathing gas, your body will have less work and the de saturation times will be reduced.
In your ENRICHED AIR NITROX program you will learn all the necessary rules for planning dives with Nitrox and using Nitrox in a safe way. An important key point in the entire program is analyzing your own tank prior to any Nitrox dive.
October 29th & 30th – Stress and Rescue Course
Stress is a major contributor to rescue situations and diving accidents. Through this course you will learn accident prevention, as well as how to handle problem situations if they occur.
The program is about avoiding, recognizing and solving problems on the surface and under water. The course runs two full days in which you will participate in academic and in-water sessions in the pool and in the open water. As a prerequisite for certification you will also earn CPR & First Aid certificate during this course.
DIVER STRESS & RESCUE SPECIALTY COURSE Content:
* What Is Stress?
* Stress In Diving:Causes And Prevention
* Detecting And Dealing With Stress
* Accident Management
* Skills Needed To Deal With Panic And Rescues
* Conditions That Complicate Rescues
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