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DRY SUIT DIVER The PADI Dry Suit Diver Course

The PADI Dry Suit Diver course

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then dive dry. Yes!  Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm!  Even in really cold water.

The Fun Part

Dry suits let you dive more challenging dive sites, and extend your dive season. When you have the right cold water scuba diving attire, you can stand up to the elements and take advantage of the generally better visibility offered by winter months—especially at inland dive sites such as our local quarries & lakes. As a dry suit diver, you’re equipped to scuba dive some of the world’s incredible dive sites in the world’s cooler regions that are best enjoyed in a dry suit even in their warmer months.

Take Drysuit Diver with your Advanced Open Water Course for a savings on the Drysuit Course and get to spend 6 dives in the drysuit instead of just 2!

What You Learn

Gain the knowledge and skills to safely put on, dive with, take off and store a dry-suit. Get introduced to the different types of suits so you can make a very informed decision when considering purchasing a dry suit. You'll learn:

  • Dry suit buoyancy control skills
  • Dry suit maintenance, storage and basic repair
  • Undergarment (one or two piece insulating type garments worn under the dry suit) options

Practical skills you’ll master in this course:

  • Dry Suit Familiarization
  • Safety Checks
  • Entry Techniques
  • Bubble Check
  • Buoyancy Check
  • Descent techniques
  • Fin Pivot Hover
  • Excess gas in feet emergency roll drill
  • Stuck inflator emergency drill
  • Stuck exhaust valve emergency drill
  • Ascent procedure; Remove and replace scuba unit and weight system on the surface
  • Exit techniques· Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance

For all your learning materials and equipment, contact an Atlantis crew member at the store.

Your Next Adventure

Scuba diving with a dry suit is useful when diving many types of dive sites. A dry suit is necessary when ice diving and sometimes while altitude diving. Many technical divers wear dry suits on almost every dive due to the length of the time spent underwater. The longer the diver is in the water, the more thermal protection is required.

For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with your Atlantis Aquatics crew member.

Course Tuition:  $299.00

Includes eLearning

Includes rental of Drysuit, Undersuit & Drysuit Boots

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