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Learn SCUBA with United Divers

At United Divers, our objective is to provide you with the knowledge and skills for you to experience the joy, fun, and excitement that is scuba diving. Our instructors share a passion for the sport and are trained to teach you to enjoy the underwater world with safety and comfort.   

Overview: Discover Scuba is an orientation to diving that allows non-divers to experience diving in a pool or open water, under the direct supervision of a dive leader, with a minimal amount of instruction and classroom time.

Knowledge: The academic session focuses on the immediate needs of divers such as equipment adjustment, equalizing pressure, breathing, moving through the water and orientation.

Skills: So you can start diving as soon as possible, you'll practice a reduced skill set with United Divers? Comfort Through Repetition teaching method in a pool/confined water session.

Equipment: With the goal being to develop a working knowledge of scuba equipment, divers will receive an introduction to basic scuba equipment with an emphasis on equipment handling.

Results: Upon completing the Discover Scuba program, divers can apply their experience and receive credit for their Discover Scuba course when they enroll in the Open Water Diver Program.

It is important to have the knowledge and skills to truly enjoy swimming on the surface with a snorkel (snorkeling) and diving below the surface without scuba - the sport of skin diving. The whole family can get more out of the underwater world once they learn how to properly use a mask, fins, and snorkel. Discussion of techniques to dive below the surface to enjoy to the beauty of the sea in shallow water, to explore marine life, or collect underwater objects.

Knowledge: In the pool session focuses on the immediate needs of skin divers such as equipment adjustment, equalizing pressure, breathing, surface diving, moving through the water and orientation.

Skills: You'll practice in a pool/confined water session. Skills you will learn include:

» Proper Equipment Selection and fitting
» The easiest ways to enter and exit the water
» Getting water out of your mask or mask clearing
» How to clear your Snorkel
» Surface Dive Techniques for skin diving
» Kicking Techniques
» Equalizing Techniques

Equipment: United Divers provides mask, fins, and snorkel for the course. Students may bring their own own equipment, and for students who wish to purchase their own own United offers a large selection of masks, snorkels, and fins. Stop in so we can educate you and so that we can make sure that you get the proper fitting equipment

Results: Upon completing the Skin Diving Course, divers can apply their experience and receive credit for their Skin Diving course when they enroll in the Open Water Diver Program.

Open Water Certification Course is a two-part process. The first part is Why & How of scuba diving i.e. classroom & pool training, which usually takes one Saturday and Sunday weeken or 6 evenings (Tuition $340), or private lesson times. The second part is 4-open water dives which you can do with us locally or on your vacation(Tuition -$165.00).

Overview: Diving offers a lifetime of exciting adventure and the ideal way to begin that adventure is with United Divers Open Water Diver course. Under the guidance of a professional United Divers Instructor, you will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to enjoy a lifetime of underwater exploration.

Knowledge: United Divers' modular, six-session teaching system includes a video, manual, study guide, DiveLog and dive tables. And with United Divers' home study approach, you will be able to minimize your time in the classroom allowing for more time in the water developing ability and comfort.   
   
Skills: In multiple pool and open water session, you will practice scuba skills with United Divers' exclusive Comfort Through Repetition teaching method. Some of the skills you will learn include:

» Moving in the water with ease
» Breathing normally under water
» Controlling buoyancy so you neither descend nor ascend
» The easiest ways to enter and exit the water
» Getting water out of your mask or mask clearing

Equipment: Since you can't dive without equipment, there is extensive information on scuba equipment including:

» Selecting the best diving equipment for your needs and budget
» Maintaining and adjusting your equipment to extend its life and improve performance.

Tuition $75, Three hours on a weekend or evening

Overview: Recapture that feeling of total confidence by updating the diving skills you learned in your Open Water Diver course.

Knowledge: Your Scuba Skills Update Dive Leader will review the knowledge you learned in your Open Water Diver class as well as cover any new material. You will review dive planning, dive tables and dive execution.

Skills: In the Scuba Skills Update you will have the opportunity to practice and review the scuba skills you learned in your open water diver class and learn techniques that that may have changed since you took your class. You will have the opportunity to refresh your memory and motor coordination and practice your self-aid skills, all with the guidance of a dive leader.

Equipment: The scuba skills update is a great opportunity to re-learn your current equipment, or the perfect time to learn about and adjust your new equipment with the guidance of a dive leader.