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PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty Course
Full Face Masks have long been a favorite of public safety divers, cold water divers and scientists because of certain advantages they have over conventional dive masks.
The ability to communicate and protect a diver’s face from the cold and dangerous contaminants are crucial to these specialized divers.
Full Face Masks offer many advantages to the recreational divers as well…
PROS
- Comfortable Natural Breathing Through the Nose.
- No Mouthpiece to Bite On, No Jaw Pain!
- Offers a Super Wide Field of View.
- Ability to Communicate with Other Divers or the Surface.
- Mask Does Not Leak.
- Mask Does Not Fog Up.
- Protects Face from Cold Water.
PADI Full Face Specialty Requirements:
- Minimum age: 15 years.
- Be an Open Water Diver or Higher.
- Duration: 1-2 Days
PADI Full Face Specialty Schedule:
| Day 1: | 4 Hours | Theory Session and 1 Shore Training Dive. |
| Day 2: | 9am to 4pm | 2 Boat Training Dives |
PADI UW Comms Specialty Requirements:
- Minimum age: 15 years.
- Be an Open Water Diver or Higher and Full Face Mask Certified.
- Duration: 1-2 Days
PADI UW Comms Specialty Schedule:
| Day 1: | 4 Hours | Theory Session and 1 Shore Training Dive. |
| Day 2: | 9am to 4pm | 2 Boat Training Dives |
PADI UW Comms Specialty
3 Dives $ 199
- 1 Theory Session
- 1 Shore Training Dive
- 2 Boat Training Dives
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What's Included:
- Friendly, Patient and Safety-Minded PADI Certified Instructor.
- PADI Certification Fees.
- PADI/OCEAN REEF Student Manuals in PDF
- Snacks & Drinks.
- Lunch Included on Boat Dives
What's Not Included:
- Full Face Dive Mask. (Rent $50/2 days)
- Underwater Electronic Communication Units (Rent $30/day)
- Dive Equipment.
- Dive Computer.
- Photo & Video Services.
- Transportation from your Hotel to the FONATUR Marina.
- Dock Fees if Picked Up at your Hotel.
- Gratuities.
PADI Full Face Mask Specialty Course Details:
PADI Full Face Mask Specialty
PADI Underwater Communication Specialty
PADI Full Face Mask Specialty
- The PADI Full Face Mask Specialty course consists of two main phases:
1. Knowledge development about the history and diving with a full face mask, how to prep, clean and maintain your full face mask.
2. Training dives to make you comfortable and efficient in dealing with any aspects of diving with a full face mask.
Knowledge Development:
1. The theory of diving with a Integrated mask.
2. Integrated mask construction and auxiliary equipment.
3. Why use a Integrated mask for diving?
4. What are the parts of a Integrated mask?
5. How do you breathe underwater with a Integrated mask?
6. How do you equalize wearing an Integrated mask?
7. How do you defog an Integrated mask?
8. How do you flood and empty an Integrated mask?
9. How do you remove and replace an Integrated mask?
10. The planning, organization, and procedures of Integrated mask diving.
11. How do you prepare for a dive with a Integrated mask?
12. How do you enter the water?
13. How do you descend on a dive with an Integrated mask?
14. What is the correct head position when diving with an Integrated mask?
15. How do you ascend and leave the water after a dive with an Integrated mask?
16. The problems, hazards, procedures, techniques, and safety considerations of Integrated mask diving.
17. What kind of inconveniences can occur on a dive with an Integrated mask?
18. What kind of problems and emergencies can occur on a dive with a Integrated mask?
19. Routine, user-level, preventative maintenance and performance checks on Integrated masks.
20. How do you properly maintain an Integrated mask?
Full Face Mask Training Sessions:
- Demonstrate proper equalization and descent techniques.
- Demonstrate proper use of regulator adjustment valve depending on head position.
- Clear a partially flooded mask while underwater.
- Clear a fully flooded mask while underwater.
- Completely remove, replace and clear the mask of water while underwater.
- Completely remove the Integrated mask, put on the spare mask and breathe from your alternate air source.
- Simulate an out of air emergency ascent by completely removing the Integrated mask, putting
on the spare mask and swimming to the surface while breathing from the alternate air source
of your buddy from a depth of 6m to 9m. - Demonstrate proper ascent techniques.
PADI Underwater Communication Specialty
- The PADI Underwater Communication Specialty course consists of two main phases:
1. Knowledge development about the history and diving with underwater communication units.
2. Training dives to make you comfortable and efficient in dealing with any aspects of diving with underwater communication devices.
Knowledge Development:
a) Develop your practical knowledge of diving with underwater communication equipment.
b) Improve your diving ability and provide you with additional supervised experience.
c) Increase your diving skills.
d) Learning a new way to make your and other diver dives safer
Underwater Communications Training Sessions:
- On the surface check the communication device of the Full Face Mask between Buddies.
- On the bottom check the communication device of the Full Face Mask between Buddies.
- On surface check the communication device receiver .
- In deep water, perform Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) being Receiver (SUB – R).
- In deep water, perform Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) being Transmitter (SUB – T).
- If available by the instructor – on land perform Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) being Surface station (SURF – T).
- Being able to interact with divers using receiving units only