Basic Scuba Diving skills in the course
Equipment assembly: Learn to assemble and disassemble your diving equipment. Pre-Dive Safety Check to check (BWRAF): Check each others scuba equipment to ensure everything is working fine before the dive. Deep Water Entry: Enter the water safely using an appropriate deep water entry. Based on condition use either giant stride, controlled seated entry, backward roll or belly flop entry. Regulator recovery and clearing: Remove your scuba regulator from your mouth, put it back and clear it. Master techniques that will help you to recover your regulator at the time you droped it from your mouth. Snorkel to Regulator Exchange: Exchanging your regulator for your snorkel at the surface. Clear snorkel using the blast method. Clear a Partially Flooded Mask: Half flood the diving mask and clear it while still remaining underwater. Clear Fool Flooded mask: Fully flood your mask and clear it while still underwater. Air depletion exercise: Simulate running out of air, signal it to your instructor. Alternate air source use stationary: Out of air practice, signal to your buddy, secure alternate air source, breath from it, signal ok, put back your primary air source and return alternate air source to your buddy. Alternate Air Source assisted ascent: Simulate being out of air, signal to your buddy, secure alternate air source, make contact with each other and ascend while breathing from the alternate air source. Mask removal, replacement and clearing: Flood your mask, remove it, breath without mask, put it back and clear it. Free-flowing regulator breathing: Breath from free flowing regulator while under water. Disconnect Low-Pressure Inflator: Simulate free flowing low pressure inflator and disconnect it. Buoyancy check: Adjust your weights to be properly weighted. Five-point ascent: Five proper steps for ending your dive. Five-point descent: Learn the PADI way of descent. Fin Pivot: Learn to find neutral buoyancy using your BCD and the air in your lungs. BCD Oral Inflation: Inflate your BCD orally. Hover: Find neutral buoyancy, remain neutrally buoyant in the mid water. Use only BCD and Lungs. Remove and replace weight system underwater: Take off your weights under water and put them back. Remove and replace weight system on the surface: Remove and replace your weights while floating at the surface. Scuba Unit Removal and Replacement: Remove and replace scuba unit on the surface and underwater. Underwater swim without a mask: Swim with no mask under water. Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent: Practice out of air emergency no buddy around, ascend on one breath at a safe rate while constantly exhaling. Cramp Removal: Remove cramp for your self and for your buddy. Tired Diver Tow: At the surface learn to help a tired or an injured diver. Skin Dive: Learn vertical headfirst skin dive with snorkel, swim under water, clear snorkel using the displacement and blasting method. Hand Signals: Learn the standard diving hand signals.