Just as an elementary school education isn’t going to cut it in the job market, a beginning diver course can not adequately prepare you to take advantage of the many adventures and experiences diving offers. A good diver is always learning and at Lexington Scuba, we feel strongly that it is important to continue your dive education. We strive to provide every student with the very best training possible and our highly trained instructors and divemasters provide a quality diving education that produces the safest divers possible, only enhancing the highly gratifying experience of diving for our customers.
The world of dive education is constantly growing and there is always a new course to complete, a new place to dive or a new fish to identify. Sometimes diving the same site at a different time of day can lead to an entirely new experience. The list of learning opportunities is endless and fortunately, Lexington Scuba offers a wide assortment of Advanced and Specialty Diver courses that allow you to custom-tailor your education to fit your individual interests and needs. Available courses include:
Advanced Open Water Diver Course
The Advanced Open Water Diver class helps to increase your confidence by improving your buoyancy, navigation and safety skills. You will become a more experienced diver. More experience will lead to greater safety and improved buoyancy skills will allow you to do and see more on each dive. The Advanced Diver class will improve your diving like no other class and is really worth your time and effort. More…
Rescue Diver Course
This course trains divers to manage risks and effectively prevent or handle in-water problems and diving emergencies. Included are: assists, transports, surface rescues and rescues from depth involving both boat and shore based skin and scuba divers. The training emphasizes accident supervision and management with practical applications in open water. More…
Specialty Diver Courses
Artifact Diver
The course of Artifact Diver is designed to be safe supervised introduction to artifact diving. It will place special emphasis on collecting and reporting artifact finds, terminology and how to identify types of artifacts. Lecture and water work will be done in proper identification of types of artifacts, approximate age of artifact, how to locate possible artifact locations and how to care for and protect your artifacts.
Basic Search and Discovery
This course is designed to enable the Advanced Openwater diver to conduct shallow water (10 to 60 feet) search and recovery dives safely. Divers will study Boyles’ Law, the dangers of Search and Recovery and all safety procedures needed to make safe and successful Search and Recovery dives. Search patterns will also be covered in this course.
Advanced Search and Recovery
Advanced Search and Recovery takes up where the Basic Search and Recovery course leaves off. Advanced Search and Recovery students will study in depth all gas laws, diving physics and physiology and Search and Recovery techniques and skills. Students will gain a higher level of safety and skill required to dive and recover objects and artifacts at deeper depths and of larger size.
Basic Underwater Photography
Making a dive and seeing wonders of the aquatic environment can only be topped by taking pictures of it to share with friends and family. The Underwater Photography course allows you to experience some of the special considerations of underwater photography, with a discussion of many areas of interest to the photographer. Your Instructor will assist you in selecting a camera, good buoyancy techniques, lighting, and framing of the perfect shot. Whether you want to use film or digital, this course and your Instructor will teach you what you need to know.
Boat Diver
Scuba diving from boats is an everyday occurrence. Whether on a private vessel or one of the many charter dive boats available worldwide, divers are frequently not aware of the special procedures and etiquette used when boat diving. The Boat Diver course will introduce you to some different types of boat diving and the skills needed to plan and conduct a boat dive with maximum safety. The list of skills and knowledge you will obtain during this course is long an includes:
• Safe entries and exits.
• Proper stowing of equipment.
• Safety procedures.
• Planning boat dives. • Drift diving from live boats.
During the course you will go on two dives and put to use the valuable information you have learned.
CPR 1st Aid Course
The CPR 1st Aid course is one of the two first responder courses that SDI offers. CPR1st, like SDI’s other course CPROX, is a straight forwarded program that teaches what you need to know to respond to an emergency until trained professionals arrive. The course is Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation and First Aid combined in a comprehensive easy to remember format. You will learn the basics of:
Stabilizing a victim.
Using materials that are on hand to respond to injuries.
Administering proper CPR.
CPROX Administrator Course
The CPROX course is a straight forward no nonsense approach to teaching you as the first responder to an emergency how to handle the situation. The course is Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Oxygen administration combined into one program. You will learn how to use what is at your disposal to treat and stabilize victims until medically trained professionals arrive. Subjects that are covered include:
Scene assessment.
CPR.
O2 administration.
Current (Swift) Water Diver
The specialty of Current Water Diver is designed to be a safe supervised introduction to current diving. It places special emphasis on safety and procedures of dealing with diving in currents. Lecture and water work will cover entering and exiting currents, proper diving procedures, current patterns identification and diving in river and ocean currents.
Deep Diver
Some of the best recreational diving takes place in water deeper than 60 feet. Such dives include wrecks and walls. The Deep Diver course builds on the skills you acquire as part of the Advanced Open Water Diver course to help enable you to make these dives safely and more effectively. Altitude diving, flying after diving and hyperbaric chamber access and operation is included, as well as other short- and long-term deep diving hazards.
Limited Visibility Diver
Limited Visibility Diver is an introduction to diving in conditions of silted water or dark water. Limited visibility training is beneficial to have in other types of specialty areas such as collector, artifact, Search and Recovery and salvage. The diver will be trained to deal with little or no visibility, to enter and exit from dark water, to use safety lines. The proper use of diving equipment in dark water conditions and the use of safety precautions will be taught.
Night Diver
Many divers find that night diving is their favorite type of diving. As with all specialty diving applications, procedures are different than those associated with Open Water Diving. The purpose of the Night and Limited Visibility Diver course is to acquaint the Open Water Scuba Diver with the procedures, techniques, and potential hazards associated with diving at night or in limited visibility. By becoming familiar with the use of dive lights and night diving techniques such as navigation, buddy system procedures, communications, buoyancy control, and interacting with nocturnal aquatic life. You will be able to enjoy night diving with maximum safety and comfort.
Nitrox Diver Course
Few things have revolutionized recreational diving in the past decade as much as the introduction of Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx). Nitrox is nothing more than the air you are breathing right now with some additional oxygen added to reduce the concentration of nitrogen. Breathing less nitrogen provides divers with several benefits. Among them:
You enjoy longer no-decompression limits — especially on repetitive dives.
You reduce the risk of decompression sickness compared to making the same series of dives using air.
Further benefits may include improved gas consumption, reduced fatigue and an overall feeling of well being.
Research Diver
Research Diver acquaints the student with underwater environments and the interrelations between the flora and fauna and the different life associated with different environments. This course is an excellent introduction to the basics of research diving for students who may seek careers in marine biology. etc..
Solo Diver
All factors being equal, buddy diving is generally held to be safer and more enjoyable. Nevertheless, there are divers who choose to dive alone — and circumstances in which doing so may be necessary or preferable. This course addresses the additional risks and hazards inherent in solo diving, and how to manage them though the use of proper equipment and procedures.
Underwater Hunter and Collector Course
Underwater Hunter and Collector explains how a sport diver may use hunting and collecting skills to harvest food and other items under water. Students will become familiar with the use of collection devices, identification of different fish and marine life and their habitats, cleaning the catch and preserving collectible item. Laws and regulations governing fresh and saltwater limits on catches will be stressed.
Lexington Scuba offers CPR, First Aid, Automated External Defibrillator (AED) courses. Whether you are a diver or dive professional in need of certification or a non-diver who needs certification for work or for your own piece of mind we offer a full range of courses to meet your needs.
•Courses are conducted weekly at Lexington Scuba
•Special pricing for large groups & on-site training available Contact us for details 785-6060
