SSI SPECIALTY COURSE PERFECT BUOYANCY

"Every diver wants to be a "good diver" -  Perfect buoyancy control is the first step in this direction.”

Improving your buoyancy control skills is highly recommended. Every diver who wants to improve diving skills and at the same time wants to perform active environmental protection should take a PERFECT BUOYANCY course.

Nearly every diver who wants to dive on great spots on holiday is requested to do a Check-Dive and buoyancy control is one of the essential skills that has to be performed. This isn't done to stress you out at the start of your vacation. It is done to protect the reefs you will be diving around. The destruction and harm caused by divers with weak buoyancy skills is having an impact on reefs worldwide. Additionally, perfect buoyancy control is a prerequisite for nearly all Specialty Courses.

PERFECT BUOYANCY SPECIALTY COURSE Content:

• The Equipment for Buoyancy Control
• The Basic Knowledge of Buoyancy
• Controlling your Buoyancy in the Water
• Perfect Buoyancy Control as an Active Contribution to the Underwater World

Combine other specialties while taking the PERFECT BUOYANCYcourse! DIGITAL UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY is a great add on. The possibilities are limitless!

Instructors and Dive masters and have long recognized the need for a buoyancy training program which improves safe diving practices and promotes environmental awareness. Divers often think that if they don't crash to the bottom like a rock, or pop to the surface, they have good buoyancy control.

The Perfect Buoyancy course will help you with proper weighting techniques, weight placement and proper attitude in the water. Through the course certified divers will learn to be more aware of proper ascent rates, horizontal hovering, breathing and subtle body movement techniques to control, and be shown what their swimming cross section really is.

This course will teach you the basics to improve your buoyancy control skills and increase your, environmental impact awareness, air consumption and overall comfort in the water.

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Course Fee:
$75.00 - includes all classroom instruction and 2 open water training dives. Does not include books.

Classes are held at Mermet Springs and can also be scheduled for pool training in the winter months.

Questions? Call (618) 527-DIVE (3483).
Contact Glen Faith