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Technical diving is a form of scuba diving that exceeds the typical recreational limits imposed on depth and immersion time (bottom time). Tech diving involves accelerated decompression and/or the use of variable gas mixtures during a dive. Therefore, this advanced method of diving requires additional experience, training and equipment.
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This course (Intro to Tech) introduces recreational divers to the rigors and discipline of technical diving, and is a great preparatory course if you are considering specific technical diver training, such as cave or decompression diving, or are interested in streamlining your equipment configuration for maximum efficiency. Learn about dive planning, physics and physiology, decompression, decompression associated with technical diving, buoyancy control, and side-mount configuration.
If you’re like most divers, you’ll love exploring at night even more than during the daylight.
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At night the reef comes alive as many of the daylight inhabitants retreat to the safety of dens and ledges while nocturnal creatures take over the reef during the nighttime hours. The Night Diver course focuses on the specific skills and knowledge needed to increase your enjoyment and minimize the risks of diving at night.
Minimum age for this course is 15 years plus certification as a Scuba Diver or equivalent. (Junior certification is allowed for ages 10-14.). Just ask your Louisville Dive Center Instructor on how to sign up.
Louisville Dive Center offers a full range of specialty courses designed to enhance your enjoyment of the underwater world while minimizing risks associated with scuba diving. Continue your training by choosing from over 50 courses or enroll in the Master Scuba Diver course.
Does the thought of deep diving fascinate you?
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If you are at least 18 and have an Advanced Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent, you can enroll in a Deep Diver course where you'll gain the knowledge and skills to plan and make enjoyable deep dives while minimizing risks of deep diving. Although this is not a decompression techniques course, you will learn about decompression procedures including nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness, and the use of dive computers including avoiding the need for stage decompression. Your course will also include teachings on the purpose, problems, hazards, planning, preparation, equipment, air supplies, personnel, techniques, gas management, emergency procedures, and depth limits for recreational diving. Deep diving is defined as dives made between 60 feet (18 meters) and 130 feet (40 meters).
Minimum age for this course is 18 years plus certification as an Advanced Diver or equivalent... Just ask your Louisville Dive Center Instructor on how to sign up.
Divers who especially enjoy deeper dives will be interested in the Wreck Diving Specialty. The more intact wrecks are usually at deeper depths.
In the Underwater Photographer course you will be taught the skills, techniques, and tricks of underwater photography including lighting, use of photographic equipment, the fundamentals of photography, underwater camera techniques, and underwater photo problems.
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Minimum age for these courses is 15 years plus certification as a Scuba Diver or equivalent. (Junior certification is allowed for ages 10-14.). Just ask your Louisville Dive Center Instructor on how to sign up.
For added interest, you can combine other diving courses or activities during your Underwater Photography course or Underwater Videography course to provide additional imaging opportunities to document your underwater adventures. With a little bit of practice, you just might be the next Emmy Award winning underwater explorer!
In the Underwater Videographer course you will master the skills and knowledge needed to safely enjoy making underwater videos.
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Your instructor will help you master the camera techniques and underwater camera controls to produce videos to share with family and friends.
Minimum age for these courses is 15 years plus certification as a Scuba Diver or equivalent. (Junior certification is allowed for ages 10-14.). Just ask your Louisville Dive Center Instructor on how to sign up.
For added interest, you can combine other diving courses or activities during your Underwater Photography course or Underwater Videography course to provide additional imaging opportunities to document your underwater adventures. With a little bit of practice, you just might be the next Emmy Award winning underwater explorer!
If you possess the desire to assist in the training of other divers, a Training Assistant specialty course might be for you.
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This course will qualify you in the skills and knowledge necessary to perform as a training assistant during diver training courses overseen by a certified Instructor.
As a certified Training Assistant, you will be qualified to temporarily directly supervise students while an instructor conducts skills with other students; escort students on the surface or on underwater tours; and assist an active-status Instructor with other tasks, all under the direction of a Instructor.
As a Training Assistant, you will learn more about underwater navigation, communications, how to escort and assist divers during an open water training dives and how to assist with problem management during diver training evolutions.
Training Assistant is not a Leadership course but it will lead you in that direction.
Minimum age for these courses is 18 years plus certification as a Advanced Scuba Diver or equivalent, Rescue Scuba Diver or equivalent and current certification in first aid and CPR. Contact your Louisville Dive Center Instructor for more information and how to sign up.
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