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Dive Bonne Terre Mine

Dive Bonne Terre Mine 

Dive Bonne Terre Mine with DDS this spring and dive into history and get ready for the 2017 dive season!  Imagine walking down into a mine filled with multiple trails, lined with enormous pillars supporting a rocky ceiling above, wooden stairs, an elevator shaft, abandoned carts and railroad lines…Now imagine it full of water from a 100 billion gallon underground lake, full of the largest thickest support pillars made of rock. Now imagine it 10 times larger than what you’re picturing. Now do you want to Dive Bonne Terre Mine?  If you’ve seen the movie Lord of the Rings descending into Bonne Terre mine is very reminiscent of the scene between Gandalf and the Fire Demon, except you shall be allowed to pass!

Join us from May 5-8, 2017 for adventure and excitement dive the incredible Bonne Terre Mine, the world’s largest underground lake! It’s a unique subterranean cavern-like diving experience that’s suitable for Open Water Divers right through to Advanced or Technical Divers.

This is NOT a Cave Diving Trip, but there are some swim-through’s and open water throughout the majority of the site.  Light can be seen through state of the art stadium lighting throughout the trails and the surface can be seen as well.

Cost: $560 USD includes 3 nights accommodation at the historic 1909 Depot, 5 guided dives, and welcome session.

This trip is filling up fast so grab one of the few remaining spots by this Friday. You won’t be disappointed!! Call the shop, come in or buy your spot today.  PS we will attempt to change our original graphic that has last years date on it.

1 Spot Available!

Check out a great video from one of our previous years:

 

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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.