SSI SPECIALTIES or PADI SPECIALTIES ADVENTURE DIVES

Learn how to detect and prevent stress in yourself and your diving companions, while mastering the rescue skills necessary to help a diver in trouble. Course is open to all certified divers.
• This Course is Required for MASTER DIVER Certification by SSI & PADI •

Training Objectives:

• Buoyancy Control Procedures 
• How Stress Can Be Created And Prevented In Divers 
• Ways To Recognize Stress In Divers 
• Possible Ways To Deal With Stress In Divers 
• Possible Ways To Deal With Stress In The Water 
• Diver Rescue Techniques 
• Simulated Emergency Medical Evacuation 
• Accident Management 
• Search & Recovery Techniques 
  

Prerequisites: Must be a certified open water diver or above for SSI current EFR Primary Care (CPR) (or other qualifying CPR certification), PADI/DAN Oxygen First Aid (or other qualifying certification) and 12 years old. (for PADI must be Advanced OpenWater )
Includes: Instruction, Dives, Certification Fees, Tanks and Air
Certifications: Stress & Rescue and/or Search & Recovery Specialties
Course Fee: $400.00(plus online fee)Required Text• SSI: Stress/Rescue On Line - $49.95• SSI: Search and Recovery On Line - $39.95• PADI Rescue Diver: Rescue Diver On Line $85.99 Cal 314-209-7200 for more info

Bonne Terre Mine is owned and operated by Deep Earth LLC.

You can learn in two days, all you need to know to explore underwater caverns, in the most beautiful adventurous environment in the USA!

Cavern diving is defined as diving within the light zone of a cave, the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible. If you want to explore secrets hidden in caverns around the world, you'll need your PADI/SSI Cavern Diver certification
Cavern diving is spectacular and rewarding. It challenges our ability to plan and execute dives in a controlled and environmentally sensitive way. Caverns often hold the secrets of our past. We can sometimes find fossils and rock formations which have laid undisturbed for millions of years. The PADI/SSI Cavern Diver Specialty Course will enable you to develop your practical knowledge of the cavern environment and organize exploration in safety.
During your first open water dive you will practice line handling, use of reels, and emergency procedures in an open water environment. Your final three dives are conducted in the cavern environment. Your cavern penetration training dives limited to within the light zone and 130 feet total distance of the surface.
Prerequisite: SSI or PADI Advanced Open Water (or other qualifying certification) and 18 years old
Price: $700.00Course fee does not include rental equipment. (price subject to change)

The program covers the knowledge and techniques of cavern diving and describes the dangers involved with cavern diving. The following is included in your PADI Cavern Diver 

Course:

• The planning, organization procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of cavern diving.
  
• Special equipment considerations including, but not limited to: lighting, guidelines, reel handling and redundant breathing systems.
  
• Proper body position and buoyancy control, air-consumption management and emergency procedures.
  
• Information that describes the specific hazards of cavern diving should include, but not be limited to: silting, line entanglement and breakage, disorientation from permanent lines and emergency situations unique to cavern diving.
  

• Masks & Fins with straps taped
• Regulator with submersible pressure gauge
• Octopus second stage on 7' hose
• BCD, Weights
• Exposure Suit (wet or dry)
• Dive Computer
• Slate with pencil
• Two (2) submersible lights
• Knife, Line Cutter
• Reel with 150' line