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These are the SCUBA Courses offered by SCUBA Adventures QCA, Inc.
BEFORE YOU SIGN UP FOR ANY COURSE, YOU NEED TO TO SEE HOW MUCH IT IS, AND IS THERE ANY EXTRA MONEY YOU NEED TO FINISH THAT CLASS, OPEN WATER & RESCUE CERTIFICATION DIVES ARE DONE LOCALLY, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT OUT EXTRA MONEY FOR HOTEL AND LAKE FEE'S, SO SHOP AROUND TO GET THE BEST PRICE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS! The Advanced Open Water Course is held at Haigh Quary located 60 miles south of Chicago.
Remember, these courses are "Hands On" - You really get to do it...GO TO EVENTS SECTION TO SEE WHEN NEXT CLASS STARTS!
Open Water Diver Refresher Course Advanced Open Water Diver
Rescue Diver Divemaster Assistant Instructor
Wreck Diver Underwater Photography Underwater Navigator
Underwater Videography Ice Diver Dry Suit Diver
Search & Recovery Equipment Specialist Equipment Specialist
Deep Diver Night Diver Advanced Buoyancy
Boat Diver Drift Diver Multi-Level Diver
Medic First Aid DAN Oxygen Provider
Open Water complete with crew pak
Start your underwater adventures by becoming certified as an Open Water Diver. This certification allows you to dive, rent equipment, and purchase air refills anywhere in the world. Classes typically meet for approximately three hours once per week. There are also accelerated and weekend courses available for those who have trouble getting away on a regular basis. Custom schedules can also be arranged. Each class starts with about an hour of formal classroom instruction where you view a video pertaining to a particular aspect of SCUBA. The instuctor then explains the topic in further detail followed by a short quiz.

Then the fun begins. The second half takes place in a swimming pool where you get to practice what you learned in the classroom in a real water environment. At the end of the pool exercises the class is allowed free time to explore the underwater environment at their leisure.

Then you complete your training at a local lake or quarry where you practice what you learned in the classroom and pool in a real dive situation.

The PADI Open Water Diver certification is good for life. It never needs to be renewed - although a refresher course is recommended if one doesn't dive regularly. (See next section)

This class is offered several times throughout the year.

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Refresher Course
Going somewhere with SCUBA Diving on the agenda but haven't dived in a while? No Problem - just sign up for a refresher course. This course will re-aquaint you with the equipment and techniques of SCUBA diving. And - restore your confidence in the bargain. After a couple of hours you will be performing like a pro again.

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Advanced Open Water With Book
If you want to go beyond the level of training offered by the PADI Open Water course, the next step is the PADI Advanced Open Water class. This class will help round-out your training by exposing you to different types of diving experiences. One dive is made in each of 5 specialties. A deep dive - where you dive to a depth exceeding 60 Ft; A night dive - see the different types of underwater creatures that come to life after the sun goes down; and underwater navigation. Two other dives are selected at the groups discretion. They might include a wreck dive - where you plan all the details required to penetrate an underwater structure; boat diving, drift diving, dry suit diving, multilevel diving, search and recovery diving, underwater naturalism, underwater photography - the sky (or the bottom) is the limit.

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Rescue Diver With Book
In this class you learn how to provide critical services to someone in trouble in and out of the water. Most importantly, you learn how to recognize the signs that indicate that you or another person might be having a problem before that problem becomes critical. Learn how to determine a plan of action in an emergency. The open water practical section will give you real-world experience on how to approach a panicked diver or swimmer on the surface; how to recognize and assist a diver with a problem underwater ranging from a diver that is simply panicked or low on air to one that is completely unconscious; and locating and rescuing a lost diver.

Highly recommended. This is one of those, "I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it!" types of classes.

The PADI Medic First Aid or Red Cross CPR class is a prerequisite. This course is required for the Master SCUBA Diver certification.

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Divemaster With Book
If you have decided that you like diving so much that you would like to make it a career this is the first entry into the professional world of diving. This course develops your diving leadership abilities by expanding your diving theory knowledge to a professional level, and by training you to supervise diving activities and to assist with divers in training.

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Assistant Instructor
The PADI Assistant Instructor is your next step toward instructor. Becoming a PADI Assistant Instructor provides valuable hands-on teaching experience with students, all under the direct supervision of a PADI Instructor.

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Wreck Diver
Learn how to safely penetrate an underwater structure such as a sunken ship with the Wreck Diver course. Map out the exterior of the structure using underwater compass and slate. Then determine the safest and best method of entry. This course is lots of fun.

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Underwater Photography
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. How many times have you tried to explain your experiences while underwater. The brightly colored coral, the incredible variety of sea life, the shark that you were only four feet away from... Words alone are not adequate. Learn how to bring these experiences home with you to relive over and over by taking the Underwater Photography class. You learn all the special considerations that must be accounted for when shooting pictures underwater by actually doing so with a professional underwater camera outfit.

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Underwater Navigator
Where am I? Which way was the boat? Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever tried to traverse a lake and missed your planned exit point by several yards? Sharpen your ability to find your way underwater by taking the Underwater Navigator course. The course covers how to estimate distance and direction traveled and how to return to your point of origin.

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Underwater Videography
Still pictures can't capture the way the light travels in waves across a school of siversides as they dart back and forth. If still pictures are not quite good enough for you then you need the Underwater Videography Course. The course teaches you how to manage and operate an underwater video camera.

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Ice Diver
BRRRR! Learn how dive in one of the most extreme environments possible - Ice Diving. It takes special equipment and procedures to dive safely when there's a foot of ice overhead. Learn what you need - Plus, you get to dive year-round without those expensive trips to the Carribean. See also, the section on the Dry Suit Diver course.

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Dry Suit Diver
Dive without getting wet! Learn how to manage a dry suit. This is a must if you plan on doing any ice diving. Many people prefer using a dry suit even in a warm environment. Remember, the water temperature in a freshwater lake below the thermocline can get very cold - even in the middle of summer. You must wear some type of protection - either a wet suit or a dry suit. Many divers prefer a dry suit because it is usually less restricting than a wet suit.

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Search & Recovery
Lost your wedding ring? How about your car keys? Your car? This course teaches the basics needed to locate objects underwater, how to coordinate and manage different types of search patterns, various methods of transporting items to the surface once they are located and how to decide which method is best suited to the circumstances.

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Equipment Specialist With Book
Learn how to correct a free-flowing regulator or how to replace that mouthpiece that fell off when the ty-wrap broke. This course teaches the basic principles of operation of many types of dive gear and simple procedures that will allow you to make minor repairs in the field.

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Equipment Specialist With Encyclopedia
Same as the standard Equipment Specialist course above except with a diving encyclopedia thrown in.

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Deep Diver
Learn the special considerations necessary for diving below 60 ft - how to prepare for before, during and after the dive.

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Night Diver
Learn what goes on underwater after the sun goes down. Some of the most interesting creatures wake up then like squid, octopii and others. Also, since you bring your own light source with you, you get to see the colors of the fish and coral in all their glory, without the usual blue light that causes the reds and yellows to disappear.

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Advanced Buoyancy
Tired of crashing into the bottom or shooting six feet toward the surface before regaining control? Learn advanced techniques of buoyancy control. This is good course to take if you plan to dive in strong currents or turbulance such as are found around some coral atols in the pacific ocean.

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Boat Diver
Learn how to safely enter and exit the water and manage equipment from a boat. Do you know what all those lines dangling from a dive boat are for? Each has a purpose.

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Drift Diver
Diving in the Carribean is one of the best diving experiences around. There can be some strong currents, though - especially around the Gulf Stream. Learn how to dive in currents without wearing yourself out.

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Multi Level Diver
Heard of "The Wheel?" Normal dive tables assume you went to the bottom, stayed a while and then came directly to the surface. They aren't able to adjust for a return to shallower depths later in the dive profile. By learning to calculate a multi-level dive by using The Wheel you can stay down longer and enjoy yourself more.

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Medic First Aid classes at your request
The Midic First Aid class teaches Cardio-Pulmonary Resusitation (CPR) in addition to methods of treating other types of emergencies. It also extends beyond other CPR classes by adding those special considerations involved in diving. This one of the requirements for Rescue Diver and the Master SCUBA Diver certification.

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DAN Oxygen Provider
One of the most effective first-aid procedures after a diving accident is to provide oxygen to the victim. But - you must know how. The Divers Alert Network (DAN) is the authoritative source for dive emergency management. They provide a network of services world-wide; from locating the nearest hyperbaric chamber to arranging air evacuation in the event of an emergency.

DAN members get a discount when taking this class.

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For more Information, call:
SCUBA Adventures QCA, Inc.
324 E. River Drive
DAVENPORT, IA 52801
(563/324-8771 or E-mail us at marsdive51@aol.com)