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Recreational Training Courses
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Emergency First Response (1st Aid & CPR)
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
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Core Diving Courses
Open Water Training– Course fee $450 plus $65 equipment rental for 4
days of in-water training. This course is the full Open Water training
program and includes the classroom, confined water, and open water
sessions. This course is designed to give the student the maximum
amount of time in the water that PADI standards will allow. The goal of
this course is to give the student diver more confidence and become
more comfortable in the water. This is done by conducting 6 open water
dives over the course of two (2) days. Practice is what hones a person's
diving skills. This program doesn’t sit the student diver on a platform and
do skills. I will have you preform the required skills in a real world diving
scenario, not just having you kneel on a platform. I will take you diving on
every dive, isn’t that what you are here for? The maximum number of
students accepted per instructor is four (4). This will allow the student
diver to have more time with the instructor for maximum learning. If you
want to become the best diver possible, and not just another “newbie”,
then this course is definitely for you. This course also includes the
Enriched Air Nitrox specialty. I will also discuss how to properly plan a
dive. Contact me for more details.
Advanced Open Water– Course fee $350 and includes the course
manuals and one (1) tank of Nitrox. Students are expected to provide their
own equipment. Full set of equipment can be rented for $65. This course
is designed to provide the student diver with all the correct tools needed
to take their diving skills and comfort to the next level. The classroom
portion of this course will discuss dive planning and proper gas
management. There are five dives required for this course. There will be a
deep, navigation, Nitrox, and buoyancy dive. The student can choose the
last elective dive of their choice. This course includes the Advanced Open
Water and Enriched Air Nitrox certifications all wrapped up into one
course. I offer the Enriched Air Nitrox certification because Nitrox is an
extremely useful tool to help the diver extend their bottom times. Why have
a dive cut short due to the no decompression limits? Enriched Air Nitrox
can extend those limits significantly. I include a Peak Performance
Buoyancy dive in this package since the most important skill in diving is
buoyancy. Nothing can make a dive less enjoyable than having buoyancy
issues. Buoyancy problems can also lead to diver injury. Different pricing
is available if you already have the Enriched Air specialty.
Rescue Diver – Course fee $250 and includes course manual. Students
are strongly urged to own their equipment at this level. However, a full set
of equipment can be rented for $65. This course is one of the best
courses in the PADI course catalog. Up till now, most rescue skills taught
have been self-rescue skills. The Rescue Diver course will teach you the
necessary rescue skills to help your buddy or another injured diver. This
course is conducted over two days and requires the Emergency First
Response (or equivalent CPR/First Aid) certification prior to enrolling in
the course.
Emergency First Response – Course fee $100. What better way to help
our fellow human beings by learning CPR and First Aid? This course is
designed to give the student the skill needed to provide CPR and basic
first aid. This course is not directed to divers specifically, but to
babysitters, life guards, dental hygienists, or anyone wanting to learn how
to preform this life saving skill. Included in this course is how to perform
CPR and first aid to children, including infants. For divers, this course is
required to enter the Rescue Diver and Dive Master programs.
Specialty Diving Courses
Boat Diver – Course fee $100 plus boat charter fees. This course is
designed to teach the student diver the subtle skills for boat dive
planning, organization, terminology, and procedures.
Deep Diver – Course fee $200 and includes the course manual. This
course is designed to show the student diver the skills needed to safely
dive to the recreational limit of 130 feet. This course will cover proper dive
planning, nitrogen narcosis, and redundant equipment needed for deep
dive exploration. I provide additional information that isn't found in the
PADI standards for this coarse. This includes calculating rock bottom turn
pressures and tank capacity base lining, to name a few.
Dry Suit Diver – Course fee $150 includes the manual and a confined
water session (if there is no prior dry suit experience). The student is
required to provide their own dry suit. I may be able to help the student
diver rent a dry suit if possible. Ask any Great Lakes diver and they will tell
you that the water temperature in Lake Michigan below 40 feet is cold.
Water conducts heat away from the body 20 times faster than air. You can
prevent hypothermia and enjoy diving in the Great Lakes by learning how
to dive in a dry suit. An excellent time to take this course is during DUI’s
annual demo days. Contact me for more details.
Enriched Air Nitrox (TDI and/or PADI) – Course fee $125 includes the
course manual, tables, and one Nitrox tank. The primary time limiting
factor in diving is nitrogen. Too much nitrogen in our bodies during a dive
and we have to decompress in order to off gas the nitrogen. This is why
we stay within the no decompression limits for recreational diving.
Enriched Air Nitrox is an outstanding tool to help extend your bottom time.
After all, you want to remain in the water a long as you can for maximum
enjoyment. Enriched Air Nitrox will definitely help you do just that. This
specialty is the only one that can be combined with other training dives.
Contact me for more information.
Equipment Specialist - Course fee $150. As avid divers, we are at a
significant disadvantage if we don't have a good understanding of the
operation and maintenance of our equipment. This class helps eliminate
that disadvantage. The course is designed to develop the your practical
knowledge of the theory, principles, and operation of modern diving
equipment. It enables the student to perform the routine, recommended
user care and maintenance procedures necessary to keep equipment in
top working order. The class also provides a deeper understanding of
how equipment should be stored and gives new insight into various
methods of equipment configuration. We will go over your own personal
equipment to show you how to troubleshoot and perform common
maintenance. We will dive deeper into different types of equipment, like
backplates and wings, how to size a harness, the long hose, double
tanks, different manifold/valve types and exposure protection. I will also
discuss the pros and cons over the various equipment choices. I am not
here to sell you equipment, I only want to give you plenty of information to
make an educated decision when you are ready to rent or purchase
equipment.
Ice Diver - Course fee $250 includes the use of an ice diving harness,
ropes, and ice cutting devices. Dry suit is are highly recommended.
Everyone who lives in the Chicago area knows that the winters become
bitterly cold. Why wait until the summer months to go diving again. Avoid
the hassle of crowded dive sites and dive all year round. The ice diving
course will give you a wonderful, unique experience of diving under ice.
You will learn new skills to dive under the ice and how to properly plan for
safe ice diving. This is as extreme as it can get. Contact me for ice diving
dates.
Peak Performance Buoyancy – Course Fee $125. The most important
skill in diving is buoyancy. Without good buoyancy control, divers would
bounce off the bottom, stirring up silt and damaging delicate marine life,
or shoot to the surface which can lead to possible diver injuries. During
this course, our instructors will go over proper weighting and weight
placement for proper trim. I will also work with the student divers on
breathing patterns to prevent them from relying so much on their BCD to
control their buoyancy. This course is strongly recommended for divers of
all levels.
Underwater Navigation – Course fee $150 includes course manual.
During your open water course, were you curious to how the instructor
could lead you around and still find the way back to the original starting
point? Ever curious to how dive masters in the Caribbean can lead you
back to the boat’s anchor line? The answer lies with good underwater
navigation skills. I can show you how to navigate yourself underwater by
using a compass and the use of natural navigation techniques.
Underwater Videographer – Course fee $200 includes the use of a video
camera and underwater housing. This course is designed to show the
recreational diver how to shoot underwater video. Topics in this course
will cover camera and housing types, correct lighting, story board creation,
filtering, buoyancy, body position, camera angles, and editing. Three dives
are required and can be completed in as little as one day.
Wreck Diver – Course fee $250 includes course manual. Does not
include charter fees, if required. Did you know that there are thousands of
shipwrecks in the Great Lakes? There are only a few hundred found and
even fewer identified. I specialize in wreck diving. This is what I do for fun.
During this course you will learn the proper techniques for navigating on a
shipwreck, new fin kicks to prevent silting, proper equipment required for
wreck diving, and the use of line reels for shipwreck penetration. This
course can be conducted at the local quarries, but it is more fun to
actually dive on real shipwrecks in Lake Michigan. Contact me for more
details.
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