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Anthonys Key Resort, Roatan

Join DDS in beautiful Roatan for a seven night stay at Anthonys Key Resort January 23-30, 2022. One of the original scuba diving based resorts, Anthonys Key Resort sits nestled on Sandy Bay beach. Your choice of over the water bungalows on a private key or hillside rooms nesteled in the rainforest. The resort offers pristine diving on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere in a 10,400 square miles protected Marine Park. Anthonys Key Resort focuses on sustainable practices such as Solar Power, No Single Use Plastics, and a Coral Nursery Program making this DDS Approved! The trip doesn’t just offer great diving, but also an amazing resort above water. 

TRIP INCLUDES ALL INCLUSIVE DIVER PACKAGE

7-Nights Hotel Accommodations

Full American Meal Plan (3 Meals Daily)

3 Single Tank Boat Dives Per Day (6 days)

2 Single Tank Boat Night Dives Per Week

Air Tanks & Weights

Shore Diving During Shop Hours

Airport Transfers

Admission to Roatan Museum

Kayaking & Stand-Up Paddle

Day Excursion to Maya Key

Island Fiesta Night on the Key

BUNGALOW OPTIONS

Key Superior overwater bungalows feature warm hardwood floors that invite your bare feet to walk on, and Honduran hardwood furnishings elegantly arranged throughout. These bungalows in Honduras are air-conditioned, weather-sealed, and fitted with high visibility glass windows for spectacular ocean vistas.  Access to the key is by island taxi boat, traveling back and forth in the lagoon.

Hill Superior bungalows are nestled within the lush tropical foliage of the hillside on the main island. They feature warm wood floors and Honduran hardwood furnishings that are elegantly arranged throughout. All superior bungalows are air-conditioned, weather-sealed and fitted with high visibility floor to ceiling glass windows for spectacular views. A large private deck connects all four bungalows in this category and is a great place for groups to relax and enjoy time together. Access to the hillside is approximately 60 steps up from the dock.

RATES

$200US Deposit Required at booking. Trip Balance Due November 1, 2021. Prices are in USD, include 19% tax and are double occupancy. Airfare not included.

Hillside Superior All Inclusive Diver’s Package $1279US

Hill Superior All Inclusive Non Diver Package $1100US

Key Superior All Inclusive Diver’s Package $1487US

Key Superior All Inclusive Non Diver Package $1309US

CANCELLATION POLICY You have until November 1, 2021 to cancel. The $200US deposit is non-refundable.

Questions about Covid 19 & travel to Roatan? Contact Fawn for full details. Travel Insurance is strongly advised.

PADI Divemaster Course 2024

Join Dan’s Dive Shop September 2024 and take the leap to become a Dive Professional in the PADI Divemaster Course

The PADI Divemaster Course is your first step onto the professional diving world. It is very hands on and covers a wide range of responsibilities and rewards. As a career (or even part time career), Divemasters are an essential part of the dive industry.  As a Divemaster, you not only get to dive a lot, but also experience the joy of seeing others have as much fun diving as you do. You will work closely with our Instructors and be a role model to students, certified divers with the experience of the full spectrum of what recreational diving has to offer.

PADI DIvemaster Course

What to expect

This course starts at home with the PADI Divemaster eLearning. From there you will start learning hands on in the classroom and water with DDS’s team of experienced PADI Instructors. Lots of time is spent in the pool preparing Divemaster Candiates for their role. From there you are required to audit and participate in real world training and dive scenarios. Much of this course is completed at your own initiative. We will provide you will all the dates but you are required to commit the time and energy if you want to get the most out of your Divemaster training.

Your role in this course is less as a student and more as a mentor/mentee. Your Instructor will guide your through the course and prepare you for acting as a dive professional once certified. During this course you will be working with real student divers who will look to you for guidance and assistance.

Some of the skills you’ll develop in your PADI Divemaster Course include: supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers, diver safety and risk management, business of diving, dive setup and management, conducting dive briefings, organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive.

Candidates will also learn theory about diving related physics, physiology, decompression theory, equipment, the aquatic realm and much more.

Prerequisites 

Logged a minimum 60 scuba dives. 

Certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver.

Completed EFR Primary and Secondary Care or equivilant training within 24 months.

Medically evaluated and cleared for diving by a physician within 12 months. 

Be familiar and comfortable in your scuba gear.

Demonstrate good buoyancy, trim and fin kicks

Prepared to swim 400 meters.

To make sure you are prepared for your Divemaster Course DDS includes free pool time up to 3 months prior to the course start date. Come out and practice your buoyancy, practice your OW skills or swim laps.

PADI Divemaster Course Outline

Expectations of a Divemaster Candidate

PADI Divemaster is a Professional Level course. Candidates are expected to come to every session prepared. Tips for being prepared include:

Review corresponding eLearning components prior to each session.

Familiarize yourself with crew pack materials, teaching slates & PADI Instructor Manual.

If needed, practice swimming laps and OW skills prior to assessments.

Be familiar with your equipment, have in water comfort and adequate dive skills.

Independently review the Open Water, Rescue, ReActivate and Discover Scuba course materials prior to corresponding practical applications.

Certification Requirements

Divemaster candidates must meet course performance requirements and:

Complete Knowledge Development segments through Divemaster eLearning and pass the Divemaster Final Exam.

Create an Emergency Assistance Plan and Map for a designated dive site.

Complete all Waterskills Exercises

Complete a Diver Rescue Assessment.

Complete the Dive Skills Workshop and Assessment.

Complete Divemaster-Conducted Programs Workshops.

Complete Practical Application skills.

Complete Practical Assessments.

Meet the professionalism criteria.

Read and agreed to the PADI Membership and License Agreements.

Equipment Requirements

HP Single Tank, Doubles OR Redundant air supply Pony Bottle (minimum volume 30ft3) on open water dives. Rental tanks available for use.

Safety spool and surface marker.

2 Lights (primary and backup – Canister style is most recommended w/ derlin backup)

Dive Computer (wrist mounted preferred).

DIR/ NTEC Hose Configuration (5-7’ primary reg, 22-24” alternate, 24-26” HP hose with single brass SPG & S/S Bolt Snap).

Course Schedule 2024

SEPTEMBER 9th: Classroom 5pm – 9pm

Topics covered will include: Course Orientation, The Role and Characteristics of a PADI Divemaster, Supervising Diving Activities & Assisting with Student Divers. Please complete eLearning prior to course start date.

TBA:  Pool

Waterskill Exercise: 400 Metre/ Yard Swim

Waterskills Exercise: 100-Metre/Yard Inert Diver Tow

Dive Skills Workshop Part 1 (see below)

TBA: Pool

Waterskill Exercise: 800 Metre Yard Mask/ Snorkel/ Fin Swim

Waterskills Exercise: 100-Metre/Yard Inert Diver Tow

Dive Skills Workshop Part 2 (see below)

Skin Diver Course and Snorkeling Supervision

Scuba Review/ ReActivate

TBA: Pool

Waterskill Exercise: 15-minute Tread

Waterskills Exercise 5: Equipment Exchange

Diver Rescue Assessment

Bring a friend Discover Scuba Workshop

FALL 2024: Open Water Dives 1 day

Search and Recovery Scenario

Discover Scuba Diving Program – OW

Discover Local Diving in Open Water

FALL 2024: On Course Practical Skills and Assessments

To be completed by Divemaster candidate’s own initiative over the 2024 season:

Dive Site Set Up and Management

Dive Briefing

Mapping Project & Emergency Assistance Plan

Deep Dive Scenario

Open Water Diver Students in Confined Water

Open Water Diver Students in Open Water

Continuing Education Student Divers in Open Water

Certified Divers in Open Water

Dive Skills Workshop

You will be required to demonstrate all Open Water Diver scuba and snorkeling skills. Scoring at least a 3 on each skill and scoring at least 82 points total, with at least one underwater skill to a 5. Your instructor will review and demonstrate every skill prior to assessment.

Scoring Criteria

Score 5: Exercise performed correctly, slowly and with exaggerated movement – appeared easy. Demonstrate skill while neutrally buoyant.

Score 4: Exercise performed correctly, and slowly enough to adequately exhibit or illustrate details of skill.

Score 3: Exercise performed correctly, though too quickly to adequately exhibit or illustrate details of the skill

Score 2: Exercise performed with significant difficulty or error.

Score 1: Candidate unable to perform exercise.

Dive Skills

1. Equipment assembly, adjustment, preparation, donning and disassembly

2. Predive safety check (BWRAF)

3. Deep-water entry

4. Buoyancy check at surface

5. Snorkel-regulator/regulator-snorkel exchange

6. Five-point descent, using buoyancy control to stop descent without contacting the bottom

7. Regulator recovery and clearing*

8. Mask removal, replacement and clearing*

9. Air depletion exercise and alternate air source use (stationary)

10. Alternate air source-assisted ascent

11. Free flowing regulator breathing

12. Neutral buoyancy, rise and fall – using low pressure inflation

13. Five-point ascent

14. Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent

15. Orally inflate BCD to hover for at least 60 seconds

16. Underwater swim without a mask

17. Remove and replace weight system underwater

18. Remove and replace scuba unit underwater

19. Remove and replace scuba unit on the surface

20. Remove and replace weight system on the surface

21. Head-first surface dive, snorkel out of mouth

22. Disconnect low-pressure inflator

23. Re-secure a loose cylinder band

24. Perform an emergency weight drop

Ready to Sign up?

If you’ve got the drive, proper mindset and discipline to succeed in a course of this magnitude, we’d be happy to have you. If you want to go the professional route in scuba diving this is the course for you.

Start your eLearning now. With PADI eLearning you can complete the academic portions of the course online prior to the course start date.

Costs

$1250 HST for classroom, pool and open water sessions

Includes PADI Digital Divemaster with Slates & Pro Bag at “Member Pricing”.

Additional Costs: EFR (if applicable), any additional equipment rentals, boat charters (if applicable) or specialized gear. PADI Divemaster Application Fee payable to PADI upon course completion.

Course Benefits

Free Air for the Season
Free DDS Dive Team Shirt

Save on PADI Specialty Training while taking your DM Class, choose from Deep Diver, Search & Recovery, Gas Blender, Oxygen Provider, Equipment Specialist, Emergency First Responder, Sidemount Diver, Self Reliant Diver.

Exclusive Discounts on the best gear

Sign Up Now

PADI Drysuit Course 2024

Take the PADI Drysuit Course and enter a world of warm, comfortable diving.

Drysuit Divers are happy divers! No more freezing on the bottom, or missing dives because you’re cold. A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. In a drysuit you can wear thermal undergarments, don and doff your exposure suit easier than a wetsuit and stay warm between dives above water. Dive all year long, dive deeper for longer and have more fun!

With a drysuit you can enjoy a substantially longer dive season (12 months of the year vs wetsuits 3-4 months).

Drysuits also open up tons of new diving locations! Is popular not only in Ontario but if you want to travel to amazing destinations such as Canada’s east coast, British Columbia, California, the Galapagos, Europe, Iceland etc. There is incredible cold water diving with vibrant colours, intact shipwrecks and adventure in the world’s cooler regions. The possibilities are endless in a drysuit.

Are you excited to dive in cold water when your in a wetsuit? If the answer is No! than take your PADI Drysuit Specialty and open up a new world of diving. Come up with a smile after your dive instead of a shiver.

Take this course as part of your Open Water Course or your Advanced Open Water Course.

The first dive of this Specialty Course can count as a dive credit PADI Advanced Open Water certification

Prerequisites:

If you’re at least 10 years old and certified as a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher, you can enrol in the Dry Suit Diver course.

To set you up for success in this course please make sure your diving skills are current and you have fresh water diving experience. All students must have dived in the last 6 months and dived in Ontario or similiar conditions before.

If you haven’t been diving recently or you’re a warm water diver looking to jump into Canadian diving, please contact us and we can get you there with the PADI ReActivate or Discover Local Diving programs.

Spring Course Dates:

April 20, 21, 2024 from 12pm-6pm both days

May 10 – 11, 2024 from 4pm – 9pm both days

July 9 – 10, 2024 from 4pm – 9pm both days

Training Agency:

PADI

Course Details:

When you enroll in the course you begin your PADI eLearning at home prior to your course start date.

On the first day you will meet at Dan’s Dive Shop for a Drysuit Fitting including proper care of a drysuit. From there you will head to a local pool where you will learn how to use a drysuit in the water.

On the second day you will meet your Instructor at a local dive site and complete two open water drysuit dives to practice your skills.

During your course you’ll practice: Putting on and taking off your dry suit with minimal assistance. Mastering buoyancy control using your dry suit. Dive safety procedures when using a dry suit.

Cost For Certified Divers:  $350+HST Includes eLearning, digital certification card and drysuit rental. Save $100 if you own a drysuit.

Cost For Open Water Students:$175+HST as part of the PADI Open Water Course or PADI Advanced Open Water Course.

Required Equipment:

A drysuit, additional weighting and drysuit whip is necessary along with your basic scuba equipment.

Where can you go from here?

Anywhere

Cold Water Diving

Deep Diver

NTEC

Ice Diver (after Intro to Tech)

Technical Diver

Cave 1

Sidemount Diver

Underwater Photographer

Anything you do will be more fun in the right drysuit, so start enjoying better, warmer, drysuit dives today. Experience diving smarter, not harder! Dry is more comfortable, less effort, warmer and extends your dive season!

dry suit divers
happy dry suit diver

PADI Rescue Diver Course

PADI Rescue Diver Course 2024

Join us for what many of our students call their most favourite PADI Scuba Course, the PADI Rescue Diver Course.  Let us take you through the most exciting core PADI scuba diving course and help prepare you better mentally, physically and emotionally for what can be some of the most serious, rewarding and smartest way to scuba dive.

Join us Saturday & Sunday June 8/9, 2024 or August 24/25, 2024 or October 5/6, 2024. Both days are from 9am – 6pm.

Start your course by completing your eLearning at home. Then over the two course days you will complete all classroom and dive training sessions.

The PADI Rescue Diver Course is the most essential scuba diving course and the minimum level we would recommend all divers achieve, and rest assured that after we’ve added a little bit of our own insight and experience you’ll have a new outlook on diving.

Most dive accidents are a direct result of human error, and many accidents that happen often happen to the least experienced or less aware divers, learn more about prevention, anticipation, rescue techniques and much more.

What will you learn?

You will learn how to prevent, assess and control problems above and below the water.

You should know how to handle a situation when things go wrong underwater or on the surface.

Make diving safer for you and everyone with the most fun PADI course – Rescue Diver

This is the one dive course that many graduates would call their favourite and most Memorable PADI dive course.

If you’ve got the Advanced Open Water Program under your belt, this is your next step towards your PADI Master Scuba Diver Rating.

Students will gain life saving skills that will help them to save themselves and other divers from a potentially dangerous situation and test their own personal limits and comfort.

Training Agency:

PADI

Details of what you’ll learn:

Dan’s Rescue program encompasses advanced dive theory, rescue techniques such as prevention, readiness to respond, First Aid, CPR, decompression injuries, underwater search and recovery, specialized equipment, equipment care and maintenance, and open water sessions.

There will be a weekend of Open Water Training Scenarios where Divers will experience simulated “real life” situations that they could encounter in a real diving situation such as out of air divers, missing divers, a panic diver, diver with a pressure related injury, diver requiring immediate first aid, unconscious diver and many other scenarios.

What gear do you need?

You will need your personal scuba equipment, along with a surface marker, safety reel or spool 100′-150′ of line, waterproof notebook or dive slate, cutting tools, CPR/O2 pocket mask, audible surface signalling device.

DDS will supply all oxygen related first aid equipment, rescue throw bags, etc.

Prerequisites:

Divers need to be certified Advanced Open Water, and have current First Aid/CPR training (within 2 years). Emergency First Response and Oxygen Provider Courses are available near course date. Minimum age is 15 years old.

Cost

Only $395 + HST and includes PADI Rescue elearning and Certification Fee

Bundle and Save $$

Add PADI Emergency First Response and PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider and Save $ doing these great classes together with the Rescue Dive Course.

Where can I go from here?

Here are some popular examples of courses commonly taken by graduates of this course:

Master Scuba Diver

PADI Divemaster

Enriched Air Nitrox

Intro To Tech

Solo Diver

PADI Drysuit Course

Take the PADI Drysuit Course and enter a world of warm, comfortable diving.

Drysuit Divers are happy divers! No more freezing on the bottom, or missing dives because you’re cold. A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. In a drysuit you can wear thermal undergarments, don and doff your exposure suit easier than a wetsuit and stay warm between dives above water. Dive all year long, dive deeper for longer and have more fun!

Drysuit Divers enjoy a substantially longer dive season (12 months of the year vs wetsuits 3-4 months). Drysuit Diving is popular not only in Ontario but if you want to travel to amazing destinations such as Canada’s east coast, British Columbia, California, the Galapagos, Europe, Iceland etc. There is incredible cold water diving with vibrant colours, intact shipwrecks and adventure in the world’s cooler regions. The possibilities are endless in a drysuit.

Are you excited to dive in cold water when your in a wetsuit? If the answer is No! than take your PADI Drysuit Specialty and open up a new world of diving. Come up with a smile after your dive instead of a shiver.

Prerequisites:

If you’re at least 10 years old and certified as a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher, you can enrol in the Dry Suit Diver course.

Take this course as part of your Open Water course or your Advanced Open Water Course.

The first dive of this Specialty Course can count as a dive credit PADI Advanced Open Water certification.

Availability:

Join DSS this fall with two separate courses running on September 9-10 and October 7-8, 2022.

Course times are Friday 3pm-9pm and Saturday 10am-2pm.

Training Agency:

PADI

Course Details:

When you enrol in the course you will recieve the PADI Dry Suit Diver Manual to read at home prior to your course start date. On Friday you will meet at Dan’s Dive Shop at 3pm for a classroom session and drysuit fitting including proper care of a drysuit. From there you will head to a local pool where you will learn how to use a drysuit in the water.

Saturday morning you will meet your Instructor at a local dive site and complete two open water drysuit dives from 10am -2pm to practice your skills.

During your course you’ll practice: Putting on and taking off your dry suit with minimal assistance. Mastering buoyancy control using your dry suit. Dive safety procedures when using a dry suit.

Cost For Certified Divers:  $350+HST Includes Manual, certification card and drysuit rental. Save $100 if you own a drysuit.

Cost For Open Water Students:$175+HST as part of the PADI Open Water Course or PADI Advanced Open Water Course.

Required Equipment:

A drysuit, additional weighting and drysuit whip is necessary along with your basic scuba equipment.

Where can you go from here?

Anywhere

Cold Water Diving

Deep Diver

NTEC

Ice Diver (after Intro to Tech)

Technical Diver

Cave 1

Sidemount Diver

Underwater Photographer

Anything you do will be more fun in the right drysuit, so start enjoying better, warmer, drysuit dives today. Experience diving smarter, not harder! Dry is more comfortable, less effort, warmer and extends your dive season!

dry suit divers
happy dry suit diver
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PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Specialty Course

PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Specialty Course DPV

The PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Specialty Course DPV is one of the most fun ways to spend time breathing underwater is to do so exploring with a DPV.

Diving with a DPV is simply more fun, fast and makes any dive more exciting!  Cover more distance on a dive and use less air while smiling ear to ear when you dive with an underwater scooter.

Learn about the different types and features of DPV’s, maintenance, transportation, dive planning and safety, DPV diving procedures, as well as basic techniques of using a DPV, problems, hazards and more as you complete 2 open water dives with a SUEX or Halcyon Advanced Dive Vehicle (ADV) or Diver Propulsion Vehicles.

This course is available privately for individuals or groups locally or wherever you are located.

Pre-requisite

Certified Junior Open Water Diver and higher

Training Agency

PADI

Additional Details

Course will run 12pm-9pm on August 22/23, 2023. Full day of class/dry land and surface drills, followed by the open water dives!

Our PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Specialty Course (DPV) is a lot of fun!

DPVs offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They propel you through the water without kicking. Whether making a shore dive or diving from a boat, a DPV is a great way to see more and have a blast doing it.

One of the most fun ways to spend time breathing underwater is to do it on an underwater scooter. Diver Propulsion Vehicle’s are fun, fast and makes any dive more exciting!

Learn about the different types and features of DPV’s, maintenance, transportation, dive planning and safety, DPV diving procedures, as well as basic techniques of using a DPV, problems, hazards and more as you complete 2 open water dives with one of our VRX, XJS or XK Diver Propulsion Vehicles.

We use only the highest quality diver propulsion vehicles, as the cheaper lower quality units are always leaking, breaking down or just don’t give you the ride you deserve. For this reason we have chosen SUEX   as our choice for quality and reliable diver propulsion vehicles.

Ride in style with us and learn the right way to dive and the right way to scooter around your favourite dive sites.

Using a DPV can benefit you when diving large bodies of water like Sherkston Quarry, or takes you off shore wrecks like the Kinghorn in Rockport, or the Raleigh off of Sherkston Beach, as well as large wrecks like the Empress of Ireland or the Roy A. Jodrey. Diver Propulsion vehicles are a tool to take you somewhere cool, be it quarries, wrecks, reefs or caves, a DPV is a lot of fun and you won’t want to leave home without one, so rent or buy yours from us today.

Diver Propulsion Vehicles also cut back your air consumption giving you more bottom time to explore (within NDL).

Minimum age 12yrs old.

Course Cost is $250 +HST includes PADI DPV Manual, certification fee.
Upgrade to PADI eLearning $350+HST

Course cost does not include charter fees or park admission fees.

Course will run 12pm-9pm each night for 2 weeknights or can be conducted over a full day of class/dry land and surface drills, followed by the open water dives.

Group or Semi-private or Private courses are available.

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PADI Sidemount Diver Course

PADI Sidemount Diver Course Recreational

The PADI Sidemount Diver Course introduces recreational divers to Sidemount Diving  and the basic gear configuration, foundational skills and techniques utilized by more progressive sidemount divers.

Sidemount was once thought to be only for the advanced cave diver, but now open water divers are experiencing this wonderful style of diving, which adds redundancy, simplicity and a more streamlined diver profile.

Our Sidemount configuration is more modern, more streamlined and better laid out.  Many of the leading brands of equipment have endorsed our Sidemount configuration.

Learn about the development, configuration and techniques needed to safely dive sidemount as a stand alone workshop or as part of a specialty diver course.

Sidemount Courses are available weekdays with notice or on scheduled weekends.  This course is available privately for individuals or groups locally or wherever you are located.

Recreational Sidemount Pre-requisites

Open Water Student (PADI)

NAUI Technical Sidemount Course Pre-requisites

Open Water
25 dives minimum
Intro to Tech certification
Training Agency

PADI
NAUI

Diving Sidemount was once thought to be only for the advanced cave diver, but now open water divers are experiencing this wonderful style of diving, which adds redundancy, simplicity and a more streamlined diver profile in the water.

DDS staff have been exploring caves and wrecks for years long before Sidemount was the newest coolest way to dive, as it is one of the best tools an explorer can use when diving a range of different environments.

Learn about the development, configuration and techniques needed to safely dive sidemount as an open water diver.

We use the Halcyon Zero Gravity and Contour systems as our main sidemount systems, as well as Dive Rite and xDeep systems, but we have experience using Armadillo, Hollis SMS100, SMS50, Katana II, Razor and have worked on various other configurations.

What You will learn:

The history of sidemount diving
Reasons and opportunities for sidemount diving
Equipment considerations and rigging for sidemount diving
How to manage equipment problems
Skill refinement including buoyancy, trim, weighting, fin techniques, gas management, air sharing, emergency procedures, SMB deployment and more.

You will complete 1 academic session, gear rigging session, confined water pool session and 2 dives TDI/SDI, 3 dives PADI, 4 dives NAUI.

Cost:

Recreational Sidemount Course is only $350 +HST Does not include any park or dive charter fees. Students can save $50 when purchasing your entire Sidemount kit from DDS (Harness, Regulator packages, Tanks).

We love sidemount diving and have been hosting sidemount workshops and educational experiences since 2007.

Students from dive stores, clubs and individuals located out of town can benefit from this course as we can come to you or you can do the course on site with us.

Divers are required to have a complete STEC (Sidemount Technical Equipment Configuration) a standardized sidemount configuration promoting the same principles as our backmounted gear configuration NTEC (NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration).

Learn to Sidemount Dive better, more streamlined and get ready for more fun shore diving, cave diving and explorations.

PADI Drysuit Course 2024

Take the PADI Drysuit Course and enter a world of warm, comfortable diving.

Drysuit Divers are happy divers! No more freezing on the bottom, or missing dives because you’re cold. A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. In a drysuit you can wear thermal undergarments, don and doff your exposure suit easier than a wetsuit and stay warm between dives above water. Dive all year long, dive deeper for longer and have more fun!

With a drysuit you can enjoy a substantially longer dive season (12 months of the year vs wetsuits 3-4 months).

Drysuits also open up tons of new diving locations! Is popular not only in Ontario but if you want to travel to amazing destinations such as Canada’s east coast, British Columbia, California, the Galapagos, Europe, Iceland etc. There is incredible cold water diving with vibrant colours, intact shipwrecks and adventure in the world’s cooler regions. The possibilities are endless in a drysuit.

Are you excited to dive in cold water when your in a wetsuit? If the answer is No! than take your PADI Drysuit Specialty and open up a new world of diving. Come up with a smile after your dive instead of a shiver.

Take this course as part of your Open Water Course or your Advanced Open Water Course.

The first dive of this Specialty Course can count as a dive credit PADI Advanced Open Water certification

Prerequisites:

If you’re at least 10 years old and certified as a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher, you can enrol in the Dry Suit Diver course.

To set you up for success in this course please make sure your diving skills are current and you have fresh water diving experience. All students must have dived in the last 6 months and dived in Ontario or similiar conditions before.

If you haven’t been diving recently or you’re a warm water diver looking to jump into Canadian diving, please contact us and we can get you there with the PADI ReActivate or Discover Local Diving programs.

Spring Course Dates:

April 20, 21, 2024 from 12pm-6pm both days

May 10 – 11, 2024 from 4pm – 9pm both days

July 9 – 10, 2024 from 4pm – 9pm both days

Training Agency:

PADI

Course Details:

When you enroll in the course you begin your PADI eLearning at home prior to your course start date.

On the first day you will meet at Dan’s Dive Shop for a Drysuit Fitting including proper care of a drysuit. From there you will head to a local pool where you will learn how to use a drysuit in the water.

On the second day you will meet your Instructor at a local dive site and complete two open water drysuit dives to practice your skills.

During your course you’ll practice: Putting on and taking off your dry suit with minimal assistance. Mastering buoyancy control using your dry suit. Dive safety procedures when using a dry suit.

Cost For Certified Divers:  $350+HST Includes eLearning, digital certification card and drysuit rental. Save $100 if you own a drysuit.

Cost For Open Water Students:$175+HST as part of the PADI Open Water Course or PADI Advanced Open Water Course.

Required Equipment:

A drysuit, additional weighting and drysuit whip is necessary along with your basic scuba equipment.

Where can you go from here?

Anywhere

Cold Water Diving

Deep Diver

NTEC

Ice Diver (after Intro to Tech)

Technical Diver

Cave 1

Sidemount Diver

Underwater Photographer

Anything you do will be more fun in the right drysuit, so start enjoying better, warmer, drysuit dives today. Experience diving smarter, not harder! Dry is more comfortable, less effort, warmer and extends your dive season!

dry suit divers
happy dry suit diver

PADI Rescue Diver Course

PADI Rescue Diver Course 2024

Join us for what many of our students call their most favourite PADI Scuba Course, the PADI Rescue Diver Course.  Let us take you through the most exciting core PADI scuba diving course and help prepare you better mentally, physically and emotionally for what can be some of the most serious, rewarding and smartest way to scuba dive.

Join us Saturday & Sunday June 8/9, 2024 or August 24/25, 2024 or October 5/6, 2024. Both days are from 9am – 6pm.

Start your course by completing your eLearning at home. Then over the two course days you will complete all classroom and dive training sessions.

The PADI Rescue Diver Course is the most essential scuba diving course and the minimum level we would recommend all divers achieve, and rest assured that after we’ve added a little bit of our own insight and experience you’ll have a new outlook on diving.

Most dive accidents are a direct result of human error, and many accidents that happen often happen to the least experienced or less aware divers, learn more about prevention, anticipation, rescue techniques and much more.

What will you learn?

You will learn how to prevent, assess and control problems above and below the water.

You should know how to handle a situation when things go wrong underwater or on the surface.

Make diving safer for you and everyone with the most fun PADI course – Rescue Diver

This is the one dive course that many graduates would call their favourite and most Memorable PADI dive course.

If you’ve got the Advanced Open Water Program under your belt, this is your next step towards your PADI Master Scuba Diver Rating.

Students will gain life saving skills that will help them to save themselves and other divers from a potentially dangerous situation and test their own personal limits and comfort.

Training Agency:

PADI

Details of what you’ll learn:

Dan’s Rescue program encompasses advanced dive theory, rescue techniques such as prevention, readiness to respond, First Aid, CPR, decompression injuries, underwater search and recovery, specialized equipment, equipment care and maintenance, and open water sessions.

There will be a weekend of Open Water Training Scenarios where Divers will experience simulated “real life” situations that they could encounter in a real diving situation such as out of air divers, missing divers, a panic diver, diver with a pressure related injury, diver requiring immediate first aid, unconscious diver and many other scenarios.

What gear do you need?

You will need your personal scuba equipment, along with a surface marker, safety reel or spool 100′-150′ of line, waterproof notebook or dive slate, cutting tools, CPR/O2 pocket mask, audible surface signalling device.

DDS will supply all oxygen related first aid equipment, rescue throw bags, etc.

Prerequisites:

Divers need to be certified Advanced Open Water, and have current First Aid/CPR training (within 2 years). Emergency First Response and Oxygen Provider Courses are available near course date. Minimum age is 15 years old.

Cost

Only $395 + HST and includes PADI Rescue elearning and Certification Fee

Bundle and Save $$

Add PADI Emergency First Response and PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider and Save $ doing these great classes together with the Rescue Dive Course.

Where can I go from here?

Here are some popular examples of courses commonly taken by graduates of this course:

Master Scuba Diver

PADI Divemaster

Enriched Air Nitrox

Intro To Tech

Solo Diver

PADI Drysuit Course 2024

Take the PADI Drysuit Course and enter a world of warm, comfortable diving.

Drysuit Divers are happy divers! No more freezing on the bottom, or missing dives because you’re cold. A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. In a drysuit you can wear thermal undergarments, don and doff your exposure suit easier than a wetsuit and stay warm between dives above water. Dive all year long, dive deeper for longer and have more fun!

With a drysuit you can enjoy a substantially longer dive season (12 months of the year vs wetsuits 3-4 months).

Drysuits also open up tons of new diving locations! Is popular not only in Ontario but if you want to travel to amazing destinations such as Canada’s east coast, British Columbia, California, the Galapagos, Europe, Iceland etc. There is incredible cold water diving with vibrant colours, intact shipwrecks and adventure in the world’s cooler regions. The possibilities are endless in a drysuit.

Are you excited to dive in cold water when your in a wetsuit? If the answer is No! than take your PADI Drysuit Specialty and open up a new world of diving. Come up with a smile after your dive instead of a shiver.

Take this course as part of your Open Water Course or your Advanced Open Water Course.

The first dive of this Specialty Course can count as a dive credit PADI Advanced Open Water certification

Prerequisites:

If you’re at least 10 years old and certified as a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher, you can enrol in the Dry Suit Diver course.

To set you up for success in this course please make sure your diving skills are current and you have fresh water diving experience. All students must have dived in the last 6 months and dived in Ontario or similiar conditions before.

If you haven’t been diving recently or you’re a warm water diver looking to jump into Canadian diving, please contact us and we can get you there with the PADI ReActivate or Discover Local Diving programs.

Spring Course Dates:

April 20, 21, 2024 from 12pm-6pm both days

May 10 – 11, 2024 from 4pm – 9pm both days

July 9 – 10, 2024 from 4pm – 9pm both days

Training Agency:

PADI

Course Details:

When you enroll in the course you begin your PADI eLearning at home prior to your course start date.

On the first day you will meet at Dan’s Dive Shop for a Drysuit Fitting including proper care of a drysuit. From there you will head to a local pool where you will learn how to use a drysuit in the water.

On the second day you will meet your Instructor at a local dive site and complete two open water drysuit dives to practice your skills.

During your course you’ll practice: Putting on and taking off your dry suit with minimal assistance. Mastering buoyancy control using your dry suit. Dive safety procedures when using a dry suit.

Cost For Certified Divers:  $350+HST Includes eLearning, digital certification card and drysuit rental. Save $100 if you own a drysuit.

Cost For Open Water Students:$175+HST as part of the PADI Open Water Course or PADI Advanced Open Water Course.

Required Equipment:

A drysuit, additional weighting and drysuit whip is necessary along with your basic scuba equipment.

Where can you go from here?

Anywhere

Cold Water Diving

Deep Diver

NTEC

Ice Diver (after Intro to Tech)

Technical Diver

Cave 1

Sidemount Diver

Underwater Photographer

Anything you do will be more fun in the right drysuit, so start enjoying better, warmer, drysuit dives today. Experience diving smarter, not harder! Dry is more comfortable, less effort, warmer and extends your dive season!

dry suit divers
happy dry suit diver