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Upon signing up for your course and paying your deposit you will be issued
with your crew pack, this includes your student record file, which you must
complete, including the medical statement and your personal details. The main
item is the open water manual; once you get this home you
should begin your own independent study by reading through the
manual and completing all the short quizzes and the five main knowledge reviews,
one at the end of each chapter! The knowledge reviews will be required
by your instructor on the first day of your course, so this independent
study section of the course is very important.
Day 1:
You should aim to arrive at Simply Scuba about
09:15 am. Upon arrival you will meet your instructor and complete any
outstanding course registration paperwork, etc. You will then meet the rest of
the course participants. After a short talk on site health and safety, you will
be shown around the facilities and be introduced to the rest of the staff at
Simply Scuba before returning to the classroom to begin the
formal part of your academic training, going
through modules one and two, including a quick quiz at the end
of each section.
In module one you will learn the principles of
buoyancy, pressure and its relationship to volume, density at depth.
You will begin to look at dive equipment and the buddy
system.
In module two you will look at the effects of being
underwater on sight, sound, heat loss, movement and respiration. You
will take a more detailed look at certain items of equipment and
exposure suits. You will learn about communication signals
and pre-dive safety checks, (BWRAF). You will also look at some of the
water skills you will be learning, and why they are so
important.
Dependant upon the pool start time for day one you will at some point leave
the classroom and go to the kit room where you will be shown how to assemble
your own equipment, this will be followed by a detailed briefing on what is
expected in the first pool session.
During each pool session on the course
your instructor will explain each water skill to you and demonstrate them
clearly, before asking you to perform them. You will soon see that the skills
you practice build up your confidence in the water and in the equipment.
E.g. In pool session one you will practice kit assembly, buddy check,
surface inflation of your BCD, shallow water entry, breathing underwater,
regulator clearing, regulator recovery, mask clearing, buoyancy control, fin
pivots and equalisation of your ears, breathing from an Alternate air
source. You will put into practice some of the signals youve
learnt plus correct ascent procedures and
shallow water exits. Time permitting there are other skills you will be
shown and learn, each one building upon those that you have already completed.
The exact number of skills covered per pool session will depend upon how well
everyone is progressing. Once the pool session is finished its load up and back
to the centre to debrief the pool session and continue the days activities.
The day normally finishes between 18:00
18:30.
Day 2:
Begins with your arrival for 09:30 at the centre, unless otherwise stated,
where after a brief review of the events of day 1, you will move onto academic
modules 3 and 4, hopefully completing both of these including
the quick quizzes by the end of the day. Again at some point during the day,
dependent upon available pool times, you will break off from the classroom and
go to the pool for confined water skills training, again
building upon the skills from pool session one.
In module three you will learn about the dive
environment, dive planning, aspects of boat diving, problem management and basic
general open water skills. You will look at some of the
confined water skills youve completed and some that you will
be doing in pool session two.
In module four you learn more about various dive
equipment accessories etc. You will look at health and fitness
for diving, the effects of breathing air at depth, Nitrogen
Narcosis and Decompression Sickness; you will be introduced to the
recreational dive planner/ tables and dive computers and
special considerations when planning repetitive dives.
In pool session two you will develop your skills, building
upon those you learnt in session one and learning new ones such as, deep
water entry, No mask breathing and swim, disconnecting the low pressure inflator
hose, inflating your BCD orally. You will practice air
depletion exercises and various types of safe ascent
procedures, tired diver tow, cramp removal techniques, weight removal at the
surface and a deep water exit. The day ends with a review of day 2 and
a briefing on the agenda and time table for day 3, usually about
18:00.
Day 3:
Begins at the time specified by your instructor, and this will in great part
depend upon the progress made by the course participants in days 1 and 2. The
aim is that on this the last day of the academic and confined water sections of
your course, you will have only module five academics,
including quick Quiz, to complete before moving onto the final
exam, which is a multiple choice answer paper with a pass mark
requirement of 75%. Again at some point during the day you will once again be
going to the swimming pool to complete your confined water
training and perform your swim tests, (200 meter swim
and 10 minute float).
Module five covers special dive table and computer procedures, using
a dive computer, basic compass navigation and additional study of the
recreational dive planner, dive safety practices and a section on continuing
your diving education.
Pool session 3 covers the remaining water skills including,
weight belt removal and replacement both underwater and on the
surface, Scuba unit removal and replacement both on the surface
and underwater, CESA, and various flexible dive
skills, plus time for you to practice independently or
have another go at any of the skills you found difficult first time round. Once
the session has ended its pack the van and back to the centre for your final
debriefing of this section of the course, signing of your individual training
records and to discuss the next section, going to open
water!!!
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