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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 surprisingly 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 quarries, lakes, sinkholes and caves etc.
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.
What You Learn
Gain the knowledge and skills to safely don, dive with, doff and store a dry-suit. Get introduced to the different types of suits so you can make a very informed decision if considering purchasing a dry suit.
You will learn:
Dry suit buoyancy control skills
Dry suit maintenance, storage and basic repair
Undergarment options- fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit.
Practical skills you will 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 belt on the surface
Exit techniques· Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance
The Scuba Gear You Use
You will use cold water scuba diving equipment including a drysuit plus all the basic scuba gear, depending on what type of area you will be doing.
You may also want to use underwater photography equipment, DPV's (underwater scooters), a dive torch, a dry suit, lift bags, dive float, line or other specialty gear.
The Learning Materials You Need
The PADI Dry Suit Diving crewpak (DVD and manual) is the owner’s guide you didn’t get with your dry suit.
Topics include:
Basic dry suit repairs,
How to pack a dry suit to prevent damage
Maintenance tips
Additionally, the course materials preview skills and activities you will practice in the PADI Dry Suit Specialty course including
Handling and avoiding potential problems
Buoyancy control.
Prerequisites
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver.
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 whilst altitude diving.
Many technical divers wear drysuits 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.
If technical diving is something that interests you, check out the Discover Tec Diving experience.
