Ice Diver

Course Fee: $235.00

Ice diving opens a new and different view of familiar dive sites. During the PADI Ice Diver course, you will dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialties recreational diving offers. If you like fun, people, and a challenge, you’ll love the PADI Ice Diver Specialty course.

What you will learn:

• Learn to plan and organize ice dives.
• Practice the procedures and techniques for handling the problems and hazards of ice diving.
• Site selection, preparation, and hole-cutting procedures.
• Use specialized ice diving equipment, safety lines, signals, communications, as well as line tending and line-securing techniques.
• Learn about the effects of cold, emergency procedures, and safety-diver procedures.
• Explore the unique aquascape found only under ice.

Prerequisites:

• Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
• Minimum age: 18 years old
• Dry Suit certification beforehand is highly recommended, but not required.

Required Materials:

• None - You will receive a handout during class.

Number of dives: Three open water training dives conducted over two days*

* This is a PADI Training Standard

Class and Pool Session: March 16th at 6PM

Open Water Training Dives: March 18th - 19th (location is TBD)