PADI Ice Diver Course
If the spirit of adventure and unusual, challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under the ice. During the course, you dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialties recreational diving offers.
The Fun Part:
Explore the unique aquascape found only under ice. You can be one of the few that have ever dived under a solid ceiling of ice. Plus, imagine the look on your Divemaster’s face on your next Caribbean trip when you flash your PADI Ice Diver certification.
You might get a chance to play with your exhaled air bubbles on the bottom of the ice or an opportunity to try the unique sport of upside down, bottom of the ice, skiing.
What You Learn:
You will complete a minimum of three ice dives for your certification. Dives are typically done as a group working with support personnel, divers, tenders, and safety divers. You are under the ice to learn to control buoyancy, navigate under the ice, and keep in contact with the lead diver and tenders via line pulls.
You Learn:
To plan and organize ice dives
Reasons and opportunities for ice diving,
Equipment considerations
About site selection, preparation and hole-cutting procedures
How to practice the procedures and techniques for handling the problems and hazards of ice diving
To use specialized ice diving equipment, safety lines, signals, communications, line tending and line-securing techniques
How to manage equipment problems
About the effects of cold, emergency procedures and safety-diver procedures
Prerequisites:
You must be:
A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
(or qualifying certification from another training organization)
At least 18 years old
The Scuba Gear You Use:
Environmental Sealed Regulator
Computer or gauge package
SCUBA Cylinder
Pony Bottle w/regulator
Dive Knife
Mask
Fins
Snorkel
BCD
Drysuit or Wetsuit
Primary Dive Light
Back-up Dive Light
Signaling Devices
Ice Screws
Locking Carabiner
Your Next Adventure:
Although some ice divers dive in a wetsuit; you’ll probably find that you are more comfortable in a dry suit. The PADI Dry Suit Diver course can help you become familiar with the nuances of using a dry suit.
While you’re brushing up on your specialty diving skills, you should also take the Rescue Diver course, which puts you just on step closer to the Master Scuba Diver rating.
When Can you Learn:
| Start Date |
Training Dives |
| January 20, 2010 |
January 23 & 24, 2010 |
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Classroom will be held at 6pm at Aquatic Adventures of MI.
Required dives will be held at Union Lake in Commerce Township.
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