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Do you want to really extend your dive season and enhance your dive skills?
The Aquatic World Ice Diver Course keeps you diving during those long upstate New York winter months.
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The course will consist of a classroom session and 1 weekend of open water dives. Three dives under the ice are required for certification. We supply the specialty equipment. Dives will be done as a group working as support personnel, divers, tenders, and safety divers. Divers under the ice will learn to control buoyancy, navigate under the ice, and keep in contact with the lead diver and tenders via line pulls.
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The PADI ICE DIVER Course will include topics such as reasons and opportunities for ice diving, equipment considerations, equipping the diver for ice diving, ice diving procedures, equipment problems and management, and many others.
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| Advanced open water scuba diver or above, 20 or more logged dives with prior cold water experience. |
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| Students are responsible for providing a complete SCUBA equipment package including mask, fins, snorkel, boots, appropriate exposure protection, (students wishing to use dry suits must show proof of dry suit certification or they may elect to use Aquatic World’s dry suit option for the course), hood, mitts or gloves, BCD with LPI , regulator with octopus or alternate air source (not a "Spare air"), SPG, depth gauge, timer or watch, compass, weight system, knife, whistle, RDP and log book. Note: some of the very basic equipment items may be available for rental; however items such as masks, fins, snorkels, timers, knives, and whistles must be purchased. All safety and ice diving equipment will be supplied by instructors. Minimum age is 18 years. Advanced certification is required. |
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| Download Course Information (69KB PDF) |
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