Wreck Diver Course - Cost £175

 

Overview

 

The purpose of the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and excitement of diving on wrecks. The Wreck Diver Specialty course is intended as a safe, supervised introduction to wreck diving, with emphasis on fun and safety. The goals of PADI Wreck Diver training are:

 

1. To demonstrate practical wreck diving knowledge, including recognizing and avoiding potential hazards, and planning procedures that make wreck diving fun.
2. To explain the historical value of wrecks, social and legal issues surrounding that value, and describe some of wreck diving’s implications, including the pros and cons of removing artefacts from wrecks.
3. To plan and organize dives to safely explore wrecks found within depths and conditions as good as or better than those he has been trained in.
4. To identify the hazards of wreck penetration diving and demonstrate the techniques and procedures required to minimize those hazards.

 

 

Course Requirements

 

• To take the course students must be: PADI Adventure Diver (or have a qualifying rating to that of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver).
• The minimum age requirement is 15 years.

 

The course includes four scuba dives. Penetration-training dives may not extend beyond the light zone and or beyond 40 linear metres from the surface, vertical and horizontal distance included. Out-of-air skills may not be practiced in the overhead environment. The maximum depth for any training dive is 30 metres, 40 if students have PADI Deep Diver certification.