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PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Course Weeknights at Brock University September 2019

Dive Thousand Islands Rockport and Brockville 2019

October 18-20, 2019

Thousands Islands with DDS!  Great trip for October 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.  We will be offering Advanced Nitrox/Decompression Procedures Training this weekend.

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 POLICY To reserve your spot all guests are required to fill out a DDS Reservation & Liability Form and pay a $100 non-refundable deposit. Final payment is due 60 days prior to trip departure.

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 online from our travel partner Fly and Sea Dive Adventures.

PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course October 2019

Learn to scuba dive this autumn and explore the amazing dive sites in your own backyard with our PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course October 2019.  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.

PADI Drysuit Course October 2019

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 October 23 with Open Water Dives on October 26.

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:

PADI

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?

Clearly 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.

PADI Advanced Open Water Course October 2019 Local

Our PADI Advanced Open Water course is the most thorough and progressive PADI Advanced Open Water Course available in the dive industry. This course is available privately for individuals or groups locally or wherever you are located. 

Those wishing to complete the academic portions via the eLearning process may do so by joining our eLearning website click here or can purchase the course with the standard PADI Advanced Open Water materials which are included as part of the course price.

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

PADI

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).

A classroom session will take place prior to deep diving where a thorough understanding of the features, beneifts and safety aspects of deep, wreck diving are covered. Diver’s will learn what advanced diving is all about and what’s required to be an Advanced Diver. Additional training and information is conducted on the dive site prior to the dive.

All students must have a Digital Depth and Timing Device 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).

This is the most through Advanced Course offered in the business and the most enjoyable!

Cost:

$350+HST includes Course and Instructor Fees, PADI Advanced Open Water Crewpak 60303, Certification Fee.

Advanced Open Water “By the Dive” Cost $450+HST.

PADI Advanced Open Water Course with PADI Drysuit Specialty Certification Option $450+HST Not Available “By The Dive”

Minimum Age 15, 10 logged dives is recommended, however, is ultimately up to the instructor.

Additional Costs:

We do not include any scuba equipment rentals in the basic Advanced Open Water course fee.

Any Park entry fee’s or boat charters are additional unless otherwise specified, however, if you join us for your Advanced course on a Trip to Tobermory, Kingston, Brockville, Picton or anyone of our other great local dive destinations, the cost of the trip will include all charter boat dives.

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.

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.

Advanced your dive training in Canada with Dan’s Dive Shop, Canada’s Oldest Most Respected PADI Scuba Diving School.

Great White Shark Diving with Nautilus Belle Amie

Join DDS as we host one of our favourite dive trips…Great White Shark Diving with Nautilus Belle Amie. 

Have you ever seen a shark in the wild?  Have you ever wanted to see them up close and personal?  Great White sharks are one of the most fascinating fish in the sea and hands down the most misunderstood.  See them in their natural habitat as they swim, breech and feast on tuna and maybe even an elephant seal or two.

Diving with sharks is something many people dream about and in 2011 our dream came true the first time as we hosted 2 amazing trips to Guadalupe.  History repeated itself again in 2013 and 2015 and now in 2019  we hope to return to one of our favourite and most spiritual places.

Great white shark encounters at Guadalupe Island are nothing short of spectacular. Guadalupe feels like a remote outpost at the end of the earth but is actually incredibly easy to get to. Our trips meet in San Diego, California with coach transfers to Ensenada, Mexico. It’s the best destination in the world for calm, clear water and a consistently high probability of multiple shark encounters per day in a pair of 30′ submersible underwater cages which allows us to capture breathtaking photos and videos from a different vantage point than just diving from a surface cage.

The sheer number of animals in the bay we dive is jaw-dropping and utterly amazing. We see great whites nearly every series of dives. The bay itself is home to 228 recognized individuals ranging from 12 to over 20 feet long! At times, we have seen as many as nine sharks on one dive—and that’s because Guadalupe is just the sort of place where magic regularly happens in the water.

This once in a lifetime trip offers the largest concentration of Great White Sharks in one place anywhere in the world.

Even the island itself, 180 miles from the Mexico coastline, seems magical. The coast of Guadalupe is 25 miles of rocky cliffs, but above this is dense forest, giving it the feel of an exotic, South Pacific destination. You can expect between 100 and 150 feet of visibility. We can literally see the sharks come in from beyond the anchor line. Nothing but clear, cobalt blue water.

Moreover, this experience isn’t limited to advanced divers. You don’t need to be a certified scuba diver to join us, although we recommend you take a Discover Scuba Diving course prior to your trip, and possess a strong in-water comfort.

All certified divers will have the opportunity for a minimum of three dives per day in the submersible cages—and your trip includes the opportunity for unlimited time in the surface cages. Divemasters are in the water during every submersible-cage dive to ensure your safety. Note that the surface cages open at 6:30 a.m., and diving in the submersible cages begins at 8 a.m. Both are available until dusk.

Our conservation efforts also continue at night when we kick back in the salon and identify who we spent the day with. And should you realize that you hung out with a great white shark not yet catalogued, yes, the naming rights are all yours.  

Tick this amazing trip off your diving bucket list and sign up now.

We are now taking reservations for October 27 – November 1, 2019. A deposit of 25% of the trip price is required to hold your spot and is due immediately.

Triple State Room $2795* US 
Double State Room $3095*US
Superior Suite $3595* US (Sold Out)
*All prices subject to 5% Mexican VAT
$65US Port Fee to be paid on board.
3% credit card processing fee.
Flight to San Diego not included. All meals aboard included.

If you would like to sign up please return our Trip Reservation Form and deposit. Deposits are $950 CAN for the Triple Room, $1055 CAN for the Double Room and $1225 for the Superior Suite.Please note there is limited spots available in the Triple State Room.

Payment schedule is as follows:

• 25% due November 2017
• 20% due May 2018
• 20% due November 2018
• 20% due May 2019
• 15% Balance due 90 days prior to departure

Deposit are refundable (minus $100US) up until 18 months prior to the trips departure. Cancellation policy if less than 18 months before departure is as follows:

• 18 – 9 months prior to departure, 10% of the trip price is forfeit
• 9 – 6 months prior to departure, 20% of the trip price is forfeit
• 6 – 2 months prior to departure, 40% of the trip price is forfeit
• 60 days or less prior to departure, 100% of the trip price is forfeit

Not included: Flight, Gratuity

Financing is available for this trip.

A 20% non refundable deposit is due upon signup.

SIGN UP NOW! You may even have good fortune if you see a great white shark pooping…..

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 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. 

Bahamas Liveaboard Dive Trip with DDS and Blackbeards Cruises 

Join us for a fun and exciting Bahamas Liveaboard Dive Trip with DDS and Blackbeards Cruises.   Dive the Exumas,  Andros and many other spots as we sail around the beautiful Bahamas.  Dive some of the best and most remote dive sites around aboard Blackbeards Cruises.

We’ll be shark diving, wall diving, drift diving, night diving and maybe even diving the blue hole!

This is an experience you don’t want to miss as DDS staff and instructors will be on hand to help you achieve some new specialities, improve your confidence and help you complete more advanced training if you haven’t completed anything above open water certification.

Trip cost is only $995us +$125us Port Tax.  Includes up to 19 dives, meals, alcohol and non-alcoholic drinks.  Sign up today and we’ll even include a series of memories that you will never forget at no extra cost!

Gratuities and Airfare are NOT included.

Sign up today for the most fun you’ll have on the open sea!  Reefs, Fishing, wildlife and DDS Divers!  It doesn’t get any better than this.

November 16 – 22, 2019  Does not include airfare, please feel free to ask us for an airfare quote.

PADI Open Water Scuba Course November Weekend 2019

Learn to scuba dive this winter and explore the amazing dive sites in your own backyard with our PADI Open Water Weekend Scuba Course November 2019.  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.