CLASSES

Class Includes

Our open water dive course starts with Forrest teaching another classall class & pool training in our new 50′ foot long, 14′ deep heated indoor pool & includes:
  • All class & pool sessions
  • Complete set of textbooks including
  • Open water dive manual
  • Diver skills records
  • Student workbook
  • Complete audio/visual presentations
  • Having fun in class training gear with your own mouthpiece
  • All air fills for pool & open water training
  • All fees for open water checkout dive
  • SSI Certification card
  • SSDS T-Shirt or tag & patch
  • Fun & adventure for everybody!

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Class Details

BASIC OPEN WATER

We have a wide variety of classes starting soon for Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays. All include a 30 hour course with 8 pool and classroom sessions, plus 2 days of checkout dives in Florida.

ADVANCED OPEN WATER

This course is designed for the newly certified SCUBA diver or any diver that needs more experience. This is a REAL Advanced certification course with classroom sessions & 5 ocean boat dives. Once you have completed this you will be a more Advanced diver. This is an ocean diving course, the dives are not done in a quarry, and all five dives are done from diving vessels. It introduces the diver to several different diving conditions; boat diving, wreck diving, night diving, deep diving and underwater navigation diving. The course fees include the classroom session at The SCUBA School, two days of offshore boat diving in the Panama City, Florida area, 2 nights in a hotel (double occupancy), and Advanced SCUBA Certification. Southern Skin Divers offers this course bimonthly from April until November every year. This is also a great way for already advanced divers to do some good wreck diving in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Passport Member Advanced Certification $395
  • Non-Member Student Price $450
  • Passport Member Tag Along $325

    Must have successfully completed an Advanced Diver Course previously.

STRESS & RESCUE

12 hour course with 1 night classroom session, plus 1 night pool session, plus 1 day boat diving Southern Skin Divers offers this course bimonthly from April until November every year. This is also a great way for already advanced divers to do some good wreck diving in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Passport Member Advanced Certification $395
  • Non-Member Student Price $450
  • Passport Member Tag Along $325

    Must have successfully completed an Advanced Diver Course previously.

ENRICHED AIR NITROX COURSE

Topics covered will be assembly and use of the oxygen analyzers, how to analyze Nitrox cylinders, planning Nitrox dives, using Nitrox computers, Nitrox regulators and dive tables.

A' LA CARTE MENU

For those who do not buy the complete life support package from SSDS.

Basic SCUBA Course

Complete audio visual presentations - Unlimited use of pool & air while a student - Use of SCUBA gear for pool sessions (personal gear must be purchased from SSDS, this includes mask, snorkel, fins, booties, & weight system)

  • Basic SCUBA Course $270

Complete Set of Textbooks

Open water dive manual - Diver skills records - Student workbook - 6-month subscription to Dive Training Magazine - SSDS T-shirt and car tag or patch - Zippered deluxe logbook. Required for each student (no sharing)

  • Textbooks $125

Checkout dives in Florida

Includes 2 days of diving with 5 instructor-supervised dives in all - Worldwide recognized SCUBA certification card.
$50 penalty fee if cancelled or re-schedule.

  • Checkout Dives in Florida $250

SCUBA gear rental

Includes regulator, octopus, gauge, buoyancy compensator jacket & SCUBA tanks.
(Life support must be rented from SSDS for checkout dives)

  • Scuba Gear Rental $60 per day

Refresher Course

Includes pool sessions & tanks while using facility

  • Refresher Course $150