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Our Award Winning Brock University Scuba Diving Course Run Evenings at Brock All Year round. Weekend Courses run monthly. Please read below for more details. For more information about us and why you need to take our Award Winning Scuba Programs Click: COURSE DETAILS

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SCUBA DIVING COURSES

PADI OPEN WATER Brock Scuba Diving Course (more details....)
Our Award Winning 5 Star Scuba Diving program runs
Wednesday evenings for 6 weeks through the fall, winter and spring from 7-10pm with our summer program running 4 weeks (including open waters) Tuesday/Thursday
evenings from 5:30-9pm at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario

August 12th-31st Tuesday/Thursday 3 weeks 6-10pm (open waters on a weekend)

September 15th, 2010 Wednesday nights at Brock

PADI Weekend Open Water Scuba Diving Course (more details...)
Our Award Winning Weekend Open Water Scuba Diving Course is offered on Weekends for those who cannot make our Weeknight Courses. Courses run Friday PM for orientation, all day Saturday and Sunday here at our store and one of the Niagara Region local pools.

August 13/14/15, 2010
September 3/4/5/6 Fully Certified
September 24/25/269, 2010
October 22/23/24, 2010

PADI Advanced Open Water Dive Course (more details...)
When you take a course from us with the title Advanced, we will offer you a truly advanced program, click on the above icon to see why our PADI Advanced Open Water Scuba Course is the Most Advanced and the Most thorough one in the dive industry. Students can participate on weekend long or by the dive courses. The by the Dive option is very popular, but weekend format gets it done in 2 full intensive days.

July 31/Aug 1, 2010 local
August 20/22, 2010 Brockville
August 28/29, 2010 local
September 11/12, 2010 local
October 1/2, 2010 Tobermory

Enriched Air Nitrox (more details...)
Nitrox is something many people have the wrong idea about. It's NOT for Deep diving or technical diving. It is however, for EVERYONE! It allows divers to do more dives per day without feeling the common fatigue that diving compressed air offers.

August 10/12, 2010
September 14/16, 2010
October 18/20, 2010

PADI Rescue Diver (more details...)
This is a course many would call their most Memorable PADI course. Students will gain skills to save themselvesand other divers from a potentially dangerous situation and test their own personal limits as well.

September 18th, 22, 29, October 2nd, 2010
NTEC: The Naui Technical Equipment Configuration Course (more details...)
A Modern Dive Course for the Open Minded, Modern Diver who wants to benefit from utilizing the most modern gear configuration and methods in diving. Course features an informative classroom presentation, pool session which introduces rudimentary skills and techniques. Course is videotaped for divers to review and debrief eachother in a positive manor.
coming soon

NAUI Intro to Tech: A Rudimentary Elements of Diving (more details...)
The Naui Intro to Tech course offers the diver a Fundamental approach to refining and mastering the rudimentary skills such as Buoyancy, Fin Technique/Propulsion Methods, Improving Diver Trim, Breaking BAD Habits, Diver Communication, Problem Solving abilities, Risk Management, Dive team Planning, Dive Equipment Streamlining, Horizontal Out of air sharing and more.

This Program has become one of Diving's Most Popular Courses for good reason. We feel Intro to Tech is the BEST Diving course on the market today. Step up to the plate and challenge yourself to be the best diver you can be.

June 24-27, 2010

July 22-25, 2010

August 13,14,15, 2010

September 23-26, 2010

PADI Wreck Diver Specialty (more details...)
Not your typical PADI specialty, we do it our way. Students will learn about hazzards of wreck diving, use of a guideline, reel handling techniques, using gas reserves, redundant equipment, anti silting kicks, use of a 7ft hose, External Survey and much more. A serious course for serious divers taught by the most experienced wreck divers around.

Florida Keys March 6-13 2010

Brockville August 16-20, 2010
September 27-30th, Lake Huron

PADI Deep Diver Specialty (more details...)
Not your typical PADI specialty, we do it our way. Divers will learn about the advantages of planning deep dives properly and safely, utilizing proper equipment that we consider mandatory deep equipment, including large capacity single tanks, bail out botles, 7' hose, reel, surface marker bags, bail out tables and more.

Our PADI Deep program is the most informative and intensive deep diving program you'll find anywhere in the world for a reason.

Florida Keys March 6-13 2010

July 12-16, 2010 Lake Huron

August 28/29, 2010 local

NAUI Wreck Penetration Diver (more details...)
Divers can take what they learned in their basic wreck course and improve their skills, knowledge and understanding of wreck diving. Divers will also begin to engage in wreck penetration and exploration. This is the most complete wreck program you'll ever find.

July 12-16, 2010 Lake Huron

August 16-20 2010 Brockville

PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty (more details...)
Learn how to take quality Digital Photographs with the NEW PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty.

Digital u/w Photography Course available upon request

PADI Equipment Specialist (more details...)
Divers will learn about care and maintenance of scuba equipment which will outline basic field repairs and modifications on equipment. This is NOT a repair Course, but will teach divers the inner workings of regulators, bcd inflators, tank valves, spgs and more. It's an excellent program for divers of any certification rating.

January 301th, 2010

February 13th, 2010

PADI Drysuit Diver Specialty (more details...)
Diving in Canada? Diving Deep? Staying in the water long or doing multiple dives each day? Divers need to dive dry. It's warmer, more comfortable, more flexible and allows divers to do more diving per day. Reduce diver drop out and dive dry.

Wednesday May 26th, 2010 7-10, open water dives to follow

Cavern Diver Course (more details...)
A must for anyone beginning their traverse into the realm of diving in an overhead environment. Our Cavern Course covers hazzards of diving in an overhead environment, use of guideline, reel handling skills, redundant equipment, anti silting kicks, using gas reserves, use of a 7ft. hose, streamlined equipment configuration using a hogarthian philosophy, prepares students for a Cave Course. The Course is based on the NSS Cavern Diving Program.

November 2010 Florida

January 2011 Mexico

PADI Divemaster Course (more details...)
A Divemaster is a rolemodel who is experienced in the full spectrum of what recreational diving has to offer. Candidates will learn about Physics, Physiology, Decompression Theory, Equipment, Supervision techniques, The aquatic realm, and much more. 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.

Fall 2010

PADI Assistant Instructor (more details...)
Dan's A.I. course is tailored around you working in the industry teaching discover scuba's, assiting openwater classes, co-teaching with one of our experienced instructors and getting you up to par for your Final Step, the Padi Instructor Course.

Dan will conduct this Course Privately with Each Candidate!

PADI IDC OWSI Open Water Scuba Instructor (more details...)
The Journey is near Complete all you need to do is complete our OWSI classroom sessions, a series of Pool Sessions, Complete a number of Lectures, Write your sample exams and upon successful completion of all of this you'll be eligable to participate in the Padi Instuctor Examination where some of the heads from PADI HQ will evaluate your teaching style, watermanship skills, demonstation abilities and academic knowledge.

OWSI/IE Starts 2010

PADI Emergency First Aid Responder (more details...)
The Emergency First Response courses build lay rescuer confidence to provide care when faced with a medical emergency. Students learn and practice the same patient care techniques and principles used by medical professionals, but at a lay person level.

Upon request

PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle DPV Specialty Course (more details...)
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, maintenence, 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 Halcyon HDV T-16 Diver Propulsion Vehicles.

Upon Request.

Ice Diver Specialty (more details...)
The course will encompass how to safely plan and conduct dives under the ice in an overhead environment with the use of tenders on surface who communicate with the divers they are tethered to, as well as emergency and contingency planning.

2011

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