Description

You’ll meet two evenings a week over three weeks  Monday/Wednesday from 6:00 to 11:00 pm. These six sessions will include classroom discussion time, and swimming pool time to learn your dive skills in a safe, fun environment. On the final weekend of your three week course, you will do two Puget Sound certification dives on Saturday, and two more on Sunday. All SCUBA equipment is provided for this course, except for personally fitted mask, snorkel, fins, boots, and gloves. The best course in the Northwest that provides all the basic skills, diving science, and safe practices in the classroom, pool and open water environment. Minimum age is 10 years. Prerequisites: Average swimming ability, and average health. A physician’s consultation may be necessary for some individuals. Required Materials: Open Water Scuba Diver education system (included). Students are to provide their own personal gear i.e. Mask, Snorkel, Fins, Boots, and Gloves, as these must specifically fit each individual student. Toys and basic snorkeling packages not permitted. All educational kits and personal gear are available at our stores. Upgrades:  Drysuit Upgrade Add $175 When you are warm and comfortable in the water, you are diving safer, more confidently and more enjoyably, and you learn faster. Drysuit divers are more likely to do multiple dives on a given day or trip, and dive year round (the best diving is often in the coldest, wettest months of the year. A SCUBA drysuit is a piece of specialty equipment that requires extra training. You will do an academic and pool session to learn to safely dive your suit, and you will do your four open water dives in your drysuit under the supervision of your instructor. You will receive a Drysuit Diver Specialty certification card upon completion of this course. The upgrade charge includes the rental of the drysuit, undergarment, inflator hose and hood Nitrox Upgrade Add $295.95 Breathing Oxygen-enriched air (Nitrox) on your dives gives you the advantages over regular air of diving longer, and doing shorter surface intervals. Nitrox is the breathing gas of choice for dive travel, allowing more dives per day, letting you maximize your travel dollar. Nitrox is available at Lighthouse, and around the world at all major diving destinations. Nitrox can also be used to greatly lessen your susceptibility to decompression sickness (the bends). This upgrade includes an academic session, and diving Nitrox on 2 of your open water dives.