PADI Open Water Scuba Course March Weekend 2020
Learn to scuba dive this winter and explore the amazing dive sites in your own backyard with our PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course March 2020. Get your PADI Open Water Diver certification and you will enjoy the greatest sport in the world.
Learn to scuba dive with one of North America’s most respected, most experienced, most progressive and visionary dive shops. At Dan’s we teach you the right way to dive from day one of our PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course. More knowledge and higher skills are just the start.
At Dan’s we offer you a more thorough and modern approach to your scuba diving education. We believe in teaching you how to maximize your potential and see where the tides take you.We pride ourselves on offering you a higher level of training aimed at taking you further through the life long adventure sport of scuba diving.
DDS Divers are the most skilled and respected recreational and technical divers in the water because they are taught to be more comfortable, utilize precision buoyancy, possess higher skill and techniques underwater, with more academic and team awareness.
Prerequisites:
Minimum age 12yrs old. Must be able to swim non-stop 200 meters free-style or 300 meters with mask, fins, snorkel and be able to tread water for 10 minutes.
Agency:
Class Schedule
You complete the Open Water Diver Course classroom component on eLearn . We will have you complete all academic portions of the PADI Open Water Diver Course and videos at your own pace and will meet up for Classroom with your Instructor as we fill in many of the gaps left in traditional dive training with a more informative and beneficial dive training experience. Students will complete additional classroom and Pool Training sessions on March 14 & 15 and then complete the PADI Open Water Certification Dives in the spring on June 13 & 14th, 2020.
Saturday March 14, 9am-9pm
Sunday March 15, 9am-2pm
Saturday, June 13, 2020, 9am-4pm
Sunday, June 14, 2020, 9am-4pm
Costs:
PADI Open Water Referral Course $350+HST
PADI Open Water Scuba Diver Course $500+HST
PADI Jr Open Water Scuba Diver Course $600 + HST
Our Course prices are ALL INCLUSIVE, no hidden fees. Course Price Includes: PADI eLearn with Deluxe Multimedia Crewpak (digital dive tables, virtual log book with PADI Scuba Earth and more!) additional classroom, pool training, open water dives (not included in Referral Course), full scuba equipment rental (no snorkelling gear), certification fees and more.
We also have Private Courses available at an additional fee.
What gear will you need?
All DDS students need to purchase their own Mask, Strap Fins, Snorkel, Boots. You’ll want to buy the right gear, so please have a read through our DDS Student Diver PDF and learn more about the specific gear requirements and training differences we offer, as well as some incentives. Many of our students prefer to purchase the rest of their kit too. Please know you don’t need to purchase a weight belt and weights, at DDS we do not believe in over weighting our students. In your course you will learn how to use little to no weight. Weight belts are an outdated piece of gear that has not been used by us in training since the late 1990’s.
Financing is available: Finance your course, snorkeling gear and even your scuba equipment package at a very reasonable rate. Ask staff for details and learn diving in the best equipment you can…..your own personal dive gear, or ours. DDS will include all scuba equipment for the course. However, you will enjoy your diving experience much more in your own personal dive equipment.
How can you enroll?
Come visit us at 329 Welland Ave in the heart of St Catharines. Call us at 905 984 2160 or email info@dansdiveshop.ca.
PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Course Weeknights at Brock University May 2020
Start summer 2020 off right and learn to dive with our PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Course Weeknights at Brock University. Enjoy the fun and adventure as you become an underwater explorer with Dan’s Dive Shop, Canada’s Oldest, Most Respected Scuba Diving School. The course runs every Wednesday Night starting May 6 to June 3, 2020 from 7:00-10pm over 5 weeks with your Open Water Certification Checkout Dives to follow in June.
Learn to scuba dive with one of North America’s most respected, most experienced, most progressive and visionary dive shops. At Dan’s we teach you the right way to dive from day one.
Learn how to Scuba Dive and spend your life exploring local and exotic locations. Dive Ontario and the rest of this amazing world underwater as a DDS Diver. There are tons of great dive sites both locally and away, as well as exciting wrecks and beautiful aquatic life.
At Dan’s we offer you a more thorough and modern approach to your scuba diving education. We believe in teaching you how to maximize your potential and see where the tides take you.
We pride ourselves on offering you a higher level of training aimed at taking you further through the life long adventure sport of scuba diving.
DDS Divers are the most skilled and respected recreational and technical divers in the water because they are taught to be more comfortable, utilize precision buoyancy, possess higher skill and techniques underwater, with more academic and team awareness.
Prerequisites?
Minimum age is 10 years by PADI standards, however we strongly recommend 12-14 years (Unless accompanied by a parent).
How can you enroll?
Complete the academic portions of the PADI Open Water Diver Course and videos at your own pace with eLearning followed by 6 new classroom sessions with your Instructor who will introduce many revolutionary diving concepts not taught in more traditional dive training for a more informative and beneficial dive training experience.
Training Agency:
Additional Details:
Class Schedule
Pool & Classroom on Wednesdays 7:00pm -10:30pm every week from May 6 to June 3.
Open Water Certification Dives on June 27 & 28th, 9:00am – 4:00pm both days.
Costs:
PADI Open Water Pool/ Class Only $350+HST
PADI Open Water Course Full Certification $500+HST ALL INCLUSIVE eLearning activation code and PADI Deluxe Multimedia Crewpak (digital dive tables, virtual log book with PADI Scuba Earth and more!). Includes class, pool, open water dives, full scuba equipment rental (no snorkeling gear), certification fees and more.
PADI Jr Open Water Course $600+HST ALL INCLUSIVE
What gear will you need?
All students will need to purchase their own Mask, Strap Fins, Snorkel, Boots, however many of our students prefer to purchase the rest of their kit too. You’ll want to buy the right gear, so please have a read through our DDS Student Diver PDF and learn more about the specific gear requirements and training differences we offer, as well as some incentives.
You don’t need to purchase a weight belt and weights, at DDS we don’t believe in over-weighting our students. Weight belts are an outdated piece of gear that has not been used by us in training since the late 1990’s.Our divers are taught to use little to no weight.
Financing is available: Finance your PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Course, snorkeling gear and even your scuba equipment package at a very reasonable rate. Ask staff for details and learn diving in the best equipment you can…..your own personal dive gear, or ours.
DDS will include all scuba equipment for the course, however, you will enjoy your diving experience much more in your own personal dive equipment.
Our Cancellation Policy: If less than 14 days notice is given there is a $100 fee to cancel or reschedule. No shows forfeit all course fees. Redeemed eLearning is non-refundable.
PADI Drysuit Course June 2020
Taking the PADI Drysuit Course opens you up to a world of better diving with more comfort and warmth. Drysuit Divers enjoy a substantially longer dive season (12 months of the year vs wetsuits 3-4 months). Complete the pool and classroom session on June 3 with Open Water Dives to follow. Option to pair it with our July Tobermory Trip Advanced Course.
No more freezing on the bottom, you can wear thermal undergarments, don and doff your exposure suit easier than a wetsuit and have more fun above and below the water with a drysuit.
What will you learn?
Have you ever really enjoyed diving cold?
Are you excited to dive in cold water in a wetsuit?
Do you smile after a dive like we do?
Drysuit Diving is simply easier than 5-7mm wetsuit diving, more fun, more comfortable and you’ll dive more often!
Want to stay warm? Want to extend your scuba diving season? Then its time to dive dry.
A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. There are more incredible dives, vibrant colours and adventure in the world’s cooler regions and in some areas, conditions are even better in colder months. Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often, with more comfort and enjoyment.
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.
Availability:
Stop into DDS to enrol in the course and pick up a PADI Dry Suit Diver Manual. We’ll arrange a course with you and setup a time for class and to watch the PADI Dry Suit Diving video or you can purchase the video crewpack. By reading the manual and watching the video before class, you’ll be ready to get into the water with us and start practicing with your drysuit or one of our rentals if you haven’t decided which suit to go with yet.
Training Agency:
Additional Details:
Reduce Diver drop-out and enjoy diving locally as well as away on trips.
Cold water diving is the most exciting type of diving you’ll ever experience, especially here in Canada with the worlds best shipwrecks, amazing wall diving, drift diving, ice diving, deep or technical diving and the most vibrant colours you’ll see diving places like B.C. or Les Escoumins, QC., Iceland and so many other cold water places that offer the most exceptional visibility. It’s not uncommon to have 100-200′ visibility in Tobermory, Lake Ontario, etc.
You don’t have to dive wet and you don’t have to dive cold! It’s no fun and it’s more work.
A properly fitted drysuit and appropriate drysuit underwear system should give you the ability to dive in any thermal environment more comfortably and more enjoyably than a wetsuit.
Drysuits are easier to put on than wetsuits.
Drysuits last longer than wetsuits. 20 years versus 2-4 years.
Drysuits allow you to dive year round.
The first thing you’ll discover is how much more comfortable drysuits are to wear. Dan’s has a full rental fleet of mens and ladies DUI Drysuits (the best drysuits on the market) and we’ve focussed on offering you the most comfortable suit and underwear combinations.
Next, you’ll learn how to take care of your dry suit. During two dives, in addition to a confined water dive, 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.
The first dive of this Specialty Course can count as a dive credit PADI Advanced Open Water certification.
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 is necessary along with your basic scuba equipment.
Additional weights, likely a larger pair of fins.
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.
Dive Thousand Islands June 2020
June 5 – 7, 2020
Dive the Thousands Islands with DDS! Great trip for June in the Brockville/Rockport/Ivy Lea area diving the USA and Canadian shipwrecks.
Join the fun with DDS as we take the plunge to the epic shipwrecks and wall dives of the Thousand Islands region this season.
This Trip will be featuring the many great American based shipwrecks including Keystorm, Vickery, America, and more. Passports Required.
Warm, clear water awaits you, as we dive some of the largest fresh water shipwrecks in the Thousand Islands Region.
We’ll be based out of the Canadian Side of the Saint Lawrence. The Seaway is constantly moving water, which mixes the water top to bottom giving even temperatures even past recreational dive depth limits.
Join us for 2 nights accommodations and 2 days of diving Saturday and Sunday diving from Ivy Lea to the US area wrecks near Alexandria Bay, NY, Departing from right across the street with Wayne Green and Thousand Island Pleasure Diving to Bolt Castle and then to the awesome wrecks in the area.
Technical and Recreational Diving activities will be permitted during this trip. Minimun Advanced certification to join.
Cost is only $350 + HST. Trip price includes 2 days of 2 tank boat charters, and shared accommodation Friday & Saturday night.
Not included: gear, gas fills, meals & gratuities.
PLEASE NOTE: ALL DIVERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE AND BRING A VALID PASSPORT OR NEXUS CARD. We will be going through US Customs prior to diving. If you do not have one and you sign up for this trip and are denied entry to the US wrecks there will be no refunds.
DDS TRIP CANCELLATION POLICY ALL TRIP PAYMENTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. If the trip goes full, or you are able to fill your spot, you will be reimbursed for everything except your non-refundable trip deposit of $100. To protect yourself against pre-trip cancellation or travel emergencies, we highly recommend you purchase Trip Cancellation Insurance. Travel Insurance is available from our Flight Independent Travel Consultant. Contact fawn.messer@fcitravel.ca for a quote.
PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course June 2020
Learn to scuba dive this summer and explore the amazing dive sites in your own backyard with our PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course June 2020. Get your PADI Open Water Diver certification and you will enjoy the greatest sport in the world.
Learn to scuba dive with one of North America’s most respected, most experienced, most progressive and visionary dive shops. At Dan’s we teach you the right way to dive from day one of our PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course. More knowledge and higher skills are just the start.
At Dan’s we offer you a more thorough and modern approach to your scuba diving education. We believe in teaching you how to maximize your potential and see where the tides take you.We pride ourselves on offering you a higher level of training aimed at taking you further through the life long adventure sport of scuba diving.
DDS Divers are the most skilled and respected recreational and technical divers in the water because they are taught to be more comfortable, utilize precision buoyancy, possess higher skill and techniques underwater, with more academic and team awareness.
Prerequisites:
Minimum age 12yrs old. Must be able to swim non-stop 200 meters free-style or 300 meters with mask, fins, snorkel and be able to tread water for 10 minutes.
Agency:
Class Schedule
You complete the Open Water Diver Course classroom component on eLearn . We will have you complete all academic portions of the PADI Open Water Diver Course and videos at your own pace and will meet up for Classroom with your Instructor as we fill in many of the gaps left in traditional dive training with a more informative and beneficial dive training experience. Students will complete additional classroom and Pool Training sessions on June 6 & 7 and then complete the PADI Open Water Certification Dives on July 25-26 weekend.
Saturday June 6, 9am-9pm
Sunday June 7, 9am-4pm
Saturday July 25, 9am-4pm
Sunday July 26, 9am-4pm
Costs:
PADI Open Water Referral Course, Class/Pool Only $350+HST
PADI Open Water Certification Course Only $500+HST ALL INCLUSIVE
PADI Jr Open Water Certification Course Only $600 + HST ALL INCLUSIVE
All Inclusive Open Water Course Price Includes: PADI eLearn with Deluxe Multimedia Crewpak (digital dive tables, virtual log book with PADI Scuba Earth and more!) additional classroom, pool training, open water dives, full scuba equipment rental (no snorkelling gear) and certification fees.
Private Courses available at an additional fee.
What gear will you need?
All students will need to purchase their own Mask, Strap Fins, Snorkel, Boots, however many of our students prefer to purchase the rest of their kit too. You’ll want to buy the right gear, so please have a read through our DDS Student Diver PDF and learn more about the specific gear requirements and training differences we offer, as well as some incentives.
You don’t need to purchase a weight belt and weights, at DDS we don’t believe in over-weighting our students. Weight belts are an outdated piece of gear that has not been used by us in training since the late 1990’s.Our divers are taught to use little to no weight.
Financing is available: Finance your course, snorkeling gear and even your scuba equipment package at a very reasonable rate. Ask staff for details and learn diving in the best equipment you can…..your own personal dive gear, or ours.
DDS will include all scuba equipment for the course, however, you will enjoy your diving experience much more in your own personal dive equipment.
How can you enroll?
Come visit us at 329 Welland Ave, St Catharines or call 905 984 2160 or email info@dansdiveshop.ca.
PADI PEAK PERFORMANCE BUOYANCY
Excellent buoyancy control is what every diver should strive for. It defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air, ascend, descend or hover perfectly still and perfectly horizontal almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings, they don’t stir up silt on the bottom because they frog kick and have great trim. You can achieve this style of diving too.
Our PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates you towards the next level. Join us Saturday June 13, 2020 from 9am -5pm.
Prerequisites:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course.
Cost: $150+HST
Additional Details:
During two scuba dives, you’ll learn how to:
- Determine the exact weight you need, so you’re not overweight, this will improve your trim.
- Trim your weight system and scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water and redistribute your weight off the hips if possible.
- Streamline to save energy, use air more efficiently and move more smoothly through the water with the right fin kicks.
- Hover effortlessly in a horizontal position.
What scuba gear will you use?
It’s best to use your own scuba equipment so that you fine-tune your buoyancy in gear you’ll use on every dive.Our Staff will help you find the equipment that is best for you and your diving.
Where can I go from here?
Here are some popular examples of courses commonly taken by graduates of this course:
- DPV Diver
- Enriched Air Nitrox
- Cavern Diver
- Deep Diver
- Wreck Diver
- Digital Underwater Photography
- Intro to Tech
PADI Advanced Open Water Course June 2020
Our PADI Advanced Open Water course is the most thorough and progressive PADI Advanced Open Water Course available in the dive industry. The PADI Advanced Open Water Course introduces divers how to be more aware and how to participate in bigger, better dives utilizing more precision techniques, while exposing you to multitude of different diving environments.
The training dives are designed to allow you the opportunity to gain experience under the direct supervision of one of our PADI Instructors.
What’s unique about our Advanced Open Water course is that we also allow you to complete your class in a Drysuit if you would prefer to stay warmer and more comfortable than you would in a wetsuit.
Pre-requisite
Open Water Diver with 10 dives minimum over the age of 15yrs.
Junior Advanced may also be conducted to a maximum depth of 70′ for students under the age of 15.
Training Agency
Additional Details
Our course allows students to experience a multitude of different styles and types of diving including: Deep Diving, Wreck Diving, Boat Diving, Drift Diving, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy Dives, Underwater Navigation, Discover Enriched Air Nitrox, Search and Recovery, Diver Propulsion Vehicle Adventure Dive and more. Attention is paid to proper buoyancy and fin techniques, air management, specialized equipment, proper gas reserves and dive planning.
Drysuit Option: Dan’s Dive Shop also offers all of our Advanced Open Water Course participants the opportunity to take advantage of a Drysuit Upgrade Option where divers can take your entire Advanced Open Water Course in a DUI Drysuit (requires an additional orientation dive session).
Cost:
$350+HST and includes PADI Advanced Manual and certification card
Additional Costs:
Scuba rental equipment, boat charter fees and park entry fees are not included.
PADI standards now suggest that all students have an smb (surface marker buoy) and a whistle. We’d also suggest for safety a reel to attach to the smb to deploy in an emergency situation from depth. All students must have a Dive Computer for the Deep and Wreck Dives, if you don’t own one, one will be provided for you. Students will also need a minimum of 2 lights (1 primary and 1 backup).
PADI Drysuit Specialty Option includes use of drysuit, undergarment, larger fins, but does not include any additional rental equipment as many of our divers already have begun to purchase some or all of their dive gear package.
Tiller Wreck Dive Charter
The Tiller Wreck is one of our favourite Lake Ontario shipwrecks. This is a beautiful and fragile wooden schooner 100′ long by 25′ wide. The ship is in great shape and even features 2 beautiful masts, a gorgeous rudder, cargo holds, a picturesque bow, windlass, anchor and stove.
Divers must be minimum Advanced certified with cold water dive experience. Drysuit is recommend. Max depth 113ft.
Cost is only $75, two tank dive. We have a morning and afternoon charter available for 9:00am departure and 2:00pm departure. Please arrive at least 30 minutes early to load.
2020 Tiller Charters:
Sunday April 12
Sunday May 24
Sunday June 21
Sunday August 9
Sunday September 13
Sunday October 11
Space is limited, book your spot today. First Come, First Serve.
Emergency First Response Course
The Emergency First Response Course focuses on Primary (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) with or without Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
Add PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider conducted the same night for only $117.00+HST. PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Course is regularly $140.00+HST.
Know how to respond to emergencies – just in case. Statistics show you’re more likely to give first aid to someone you know than a stranger. When minutes count, you’ll be the person to give the necessary aid to a family member, dive buddy or co-workers, before Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrive.
The Emergency First Response (EFR) Primary and Secondary Care course is an accredited CPR and First Aid program that helps divers advance their knowledge, providing the skills they need to potentially save a life.
The course builds the confidence and skills needed to provide basic emergency care. You won’t just watch a video, you’ll get hands on practice with a CPR mannequin, simulate bandaging, role play an emergency scenario and other skills. You’ll get to practice each skill until you feel comfortable.
While the material taught in this course is serious, it’s taught in a positive, upbeat environment.
Here’s what you’ll learn in the Emergency First Response Course:
- BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
- AED (automated external defibrillator) use (optional)
- Preventing and caring for shock
- Spinal injury management
- Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk
- Basic first aid: Illness & Injury Assessment, Bandaging, Management of fractures & dislocations, and first aid kit considerations
After you complete the program, you’ll have the skills necessary to help others should it be necessary. By inviting friends or family members to sign up with you, those you care about the most will be better prepared in case of an unexpected emergency.
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.
This course is a prerequisite for PADI Rescue Diver and PADI Divemaster.
This course is also available privately for individuals and groups. Please contact us for more details.
PADI Advanced Open Water Tobermory July 2020
Join us and take your PADI Advanced Course in beautiful Tobermory, Ontario on July 10-12, 2020. Our PADI Advanced Open Water course is the most thorough and progressive PADI Advanced Open Water Course available in the dive industry. The PADI Advanced Open Water Course introduces divers how to be more aware and how to participate in bigger, better dives utilizing more precision techniques, while exposing you to multitude of different diving environments.
The training dives are designed to allow you the opportunity to gain experience under the direct supervision of one of our PADI Instructors.
What’s unique about our Advanced Open Water course is that we also allow you to complete your class in a Drysuit if you would prefer to stay warmer and more comfortable than you would in a wetsuit.
Pre-requisite
Open Water Diver with 10 dives minimum over the age of 15yrs.
Junior Advanced may also be conducted to a maximum depth of 70′ for students under the age of 15.
Training Agency
Additional Details
Our course allows students to experience a multitude of different styles and types of diving including: Deep Diving, Wreck Diving, Boat Diving, Drift Diving, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy Dives, Underwater Navigation, Discover Enriched Air Nitrox, Search and Recovery, Diver Propulsion Vehicle Adventure Dive and more. Attention is paid to proper buoyancy and fin techniques, air management, specialized equipment, proper gas reserves and dive planning.
Drysuit Option: Dan’s Dive Shop also offers all of our Advanced Open Water Course participants the opportunity to take advantage of a Drysuit Upgrade Option where divers can take your entire Advanced Open Water Course in a DUI Drysuit (requires an additional orientation dive session).
Cost:
$350+HST and includes PADI Advanced Manual and certification card
Additional Costs:
Tobermory Trip accommodation, boat and meals is additional.
Scuba rental equipment is not included.
PADI standards now suggest that all students have an smb (surface marker buoy) and a whistle. We’d also suggest for safety a reel to attach to the smb to deploy in an emergency situation from depth. All students must have a Dive Computer for the Deep and Wreck Dives, if you don’t own one, one will be provided for you. Students will also need a minimum of 2 lights (1 primary and 1 backup).
PADI Drysuit Specialty Option includes use of drysuit, undergarment, larger fins, but does not include any additional rental equipment as many of our divers already have begun to purchase some or all of their dive gear package.
