If
challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under
the ice.
During the course, you dive with us in one of the
most extreme specialties recreational diving offers.
The Fun Part
Explore the unique aquascape found only under ice.
You can be one of the few that have ever dived under
a solid ceiling of ice. Plus, imagine the look on
your Divemaster’s face on your next Caribbean
trip when you flash your Ice Diver certification.
You might get a chance to play with your exhaled
air bubbles on the bottom of the ice or an opportunity
walk up-side-down on the ceiling..
What You Learn
You will complete a minimum of three ice dives for
your certification and 4 confined water dives for
a minimum of 7 confined and open water dives!
Dives are typically done as a group working with support
personnel, divers, tenders, and safety divers. You
are under the ice and expected to have perfected the
art of buoyancy and fin technique in confined water
training successfully.. You will learn how to navigate
under the ice, and keep in contact with the lead diver
and tenders via line pulls, light signals and hand
signals.
You learn:
To plan and organize ice dives
Reasons and opportunities for ice diving,
Equipment considerations
About site selection, preparation and hole-cutting
procedures
How to practice the procedures and techniques for
handling the problems and hazards of ice diving
To use specialized ice diving equipment, safety lines,
signals, communications, line tending and line-securing
techniques
About the effects of cold, emergency procedures and
safety-diver procedures
The Scuba Gear You Use
You use your basic cold water scuba diving equipment,
dive knife, and a redundant air source (recommended,
not required: doubles, pony bottle, spare air). It
is important that your regulator is in good working
order to function under colder temperatures.
Students will learn how to effectively deal
with many different simulated problems including:
- Switching and isolating a malfunctioning regulator,
and practice out of gas sharing with the long primary
hose through a simulated restriction.
- Silt-out/black-water procedures.
- Diver rescue simulation to include management of
a diver out-of-gas scenario.
-Students shall demonstrate proper technique and procedures
for use of harness, and lines, and demonstrate proper
line communication techniques.
- Acting as a tender, with a blacked out mask, for
students shall demonstrate proper line techniques
and constant awareness of diver location.
- Students shall remove and replace scuba unit while
tethered and “free” him/herself from simulated
line entanglement.
- Mask remove and replace under the ice
- Regulator removal and recovery
- Underwater navigation and tendering of line and
much more......
All safety and ice diving equipment is supplied by
Dan's Dive Shop.
There will be approximately 8 hours of classroom,
followed by 4 confined water/pool dives, 3 open water
dives not exceeding 40ffw or 100' of horizontal distance.
Students must demonstrate equipment configuration
and management during open water assessment utlizing
DIR/NTEC double tank configuration and meet the NAUI
ice diver skills check off list requirements prior
to diving under the ice.
There must always be a continuous line to the surface
while teaching in an overhead environment. There must
be a dive tender for each diver in the water as well
as a fully
dressed standby safety diver with 120 feet of line
available as well as a tender for the standby diver.
Tenders must be in constant physical contact with
diver’s line at all times.
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Cost is only $350 +HST
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