Dry Suit Diver Specialty
Dry suits can make diving more enjoyable any time water temperatures drop below the mid 70s — and are essential in water below 60°F, or when depths approach 100 feet and beyond. Dry suits open the door to activities such as deeper wreck diving and ice diving, and can extend your diving season well beyond just the warmest months of the year.
Safely using dry suits, however, requires special training. That’s where the PADI Dry Suit Diver specialty course comes in.
Among the many things you will learn as part of this program:
- Dry Versus Wet: How dry suits keep you warm in ways no wet suit can ever hope to match.
- Dry Suits and Accessories: A comprehensive guide to dry suit features and materials, as well as to undergarments, hoods, boots, gloves and other accessories that are unique to dry suit use.
- Using Dry Suits: How to plan and organize dry suit dives, as well as to the specialized procedures for donning dry suits, ascents and descents, and buoyancy control under water (as well as what to do when the unexpected happens).
- Dry Suit Care and Maintenance: Getting the most from your investment in a dry suit.
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Who Can Learn? This course has three prerequisites:
- Possess a minimum of PADI Open Water Diver certification (or equivalent).
- Be at least 12 years of age.
- Be able to answer No to all questions on the PADI/RSTC Medical History form, or secure a physician’s approval for diving prior to the start of the course.
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What is Involved? The course consists of two parts:
- Classroom/Pool Training: This is where you gain a basic understanding of what dry suit diving is all about, and get to develop many of the basic skills that are essential for this activity.
- Open Water Training: Here, over the course of two dives, you apply that knowledge and skills you developed in the classroom and pool, and refine them under real-world diving conditions. Successfully completing both open-water training dives qualifies you for PADI Dry Suit Diver certification.
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Where Do You Learn? Class work takes place at Just Add Water. The pool session is held at the same time and place as our regular Saturday beginning course pool dives. Open water training generally takes place at White Star Quarry.
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When Do You Learn? Starting dates for upcoming courses include:
Contact Just Add Water for times and schedule.
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How Much? There are separate course fees for each part of the course:
- Classroom/Pool: $85 (includes dry suit use).
- Open Water Training (two dives; dry suit not included, but available for rental or purchase): $75.
Students are also responsible for providing the PADI Drysuit Diver manual and DVD.
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Required Equipment: Students are responsible for supplying the following:
- Mask, snorkel, fins.
- Dry suit.*
- One cylinder per dive, per day.
- Weight system, weights.
- Buoyancy Control Device (BCD).
- Regulator/alternate air source.
- Depth gauge/timer or computer.
- Audible surface signal.
- Surface signal (safety tube).
- Cutting tool.
- Slate.
*Dry suit with appropriate undergarments and accessories (available for purchase or rental from Just Add Water).
Required Materials: Students will need to purchase the PADI Dry Suit Diver manual (available from Just Add Water).
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