Ken has been teaching entry-level diving for over 40 years and has safely and effectively trained thousands of new divers, including youngsters as young as 10 taking the course with a family member.
Dennis is also a long-time, experienced NAUI diving instructor who teaches his classes in south Florida. His classes feature shore diving under the Blue Heron Bridge and boat diving off his dive boat where divers will enjoy learning to do drift dives.
Both Dennis and Ken are endorsed by the National Association of Underwater Instructors, and students receive internationally accepted NAUI Open Water Diver certification after completing their courses. Our Entry-level Open Water Scuba courses meet and exceed requirements for certification, and all of their diving courses have an emphasis on instruction that is excellent, thorough, safe, and enjoyable. The Open-Water Course includes online and ZOOM classroom instruction including diving equipment, diving physics, medical aspects of diving, dive tables, dive planning, and preserving the underwater environment. Pool instruction includes use of fins and mask, buoyancy compensation, equalizing ears and sinuses, sharing air, diver rescue, navigation, entries, exits, and more. Skills are practiced again with dive training dives at a nearby site or the diver can elect to do Open Water training dives in clear, warm water on one of our trips. Scuba diving does not require the student to be a trained athlete, but some medical conditions preclude diving. Also, the prospective student should be comfortable in the water in order to enjoy the course and diving.
Orientation and welcome: Course administration. Go over Education Packet and contents. Go over NAUI logbook and contents. Introduction to SCUBA (what is it and what does certification mean). SCUBA risks and diver/student obligations.
Diving equipment: Skin diving equipment: functions, characteristics, care. SCUBA diving equipment: functions, characteristics, care.
Diving science: Air. Hearing, heat loss, drag. Density. Buoyancy. Pressure. Direct effects of pressure. Gas laws. Dive tanks and temperature. Indirect effects of pressure.
Medical effects of diving: Squeezes. Lung overexpansion injuries. Indirect effects of pressure on the body.
Decompression: Medical Effects of diving: Oxygen toxicity, Nitrogen Narcosis, Decompression Sickness. Dive tables. Flying after diving. Diving above sea-level. Dive computers overview.
Dive planning and recording: Quiz. Long-range planning. Short-range planning. Preparing to dive. Conducting the dive (group planning, individual planning, in-water planning). Recording your dive.
Dive environment: Boat diving. Physical characteristics of a dive site. Water conditions. Moving water. Marine life. Conservation.
Boat diving: Preparing to dive, rigging gear, entries and exits, navigation, etiquette, currents and returning to the boat
Course exam is included along with helpful quizzes in the online education.
