Course Overview
When the buddy system works, it works well, but many divers are often left in precarious situations by a bad diving partner. The purpose of the Self-Reliant Diver programme is to provide exposure to the skills needed to extricate oneself from such a situation and to emphasise the importance of proper dive planning as a means to avoid such situations in the first instance.
What’s Involved
This course has four components: Knowledge development, equipment workshop, skills development and open water dives. The course will cover aspects of dive planning, risk management and equipment for self-reliance. In addition, this course focuses on improving basic diving skills such as buoyancy control and trim. This is a challenging course that will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and develop an awareness of your own limitations.
Course Skills
Out of gas drills, pony bottle deployment, buoyancy and trim, backup mask swap whilst hovering.
Why Do the Course?
This course will appeal to divers wishing to increase their safety awareness whilst diving. The course will also benefit divers wishing to get exposure to technical diving without wanting to commit to a decompression based course.
What’s Included
The course fee covers instructional time, gas fills, certification costs and 4 open water dives ( the first dive covers skills assessment to determine your level of comfort and competence).
What You Need
In addition to standard scuba equipment, students are required to have a spare mask, a delayed
surface marker buoy, a spool/reel with 30m of line and a fully redundant gas supply (e.g. pony
bottle).
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