Increase your awareness of divers' varying abilities and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving with a buddy with a disability.

Do you want to learn how to best support a dive buddy who has a physical or mental challenge?   Through knowledge development and two diving workshops - one in confined water and one in open water - you'll learn useful techniques that will increase your ability to become a better dive partner to a diver with a disability. You'll gain insight and practical experience as you learn about:

1. Becoming more aware and mindful of individual considerations when diving with people with disabilities.
2. Adaptive techniques that can be applied while diving with buddies with mental and/or physical challenges.
3. Equipment adaptations and specialised equipment that can be used by divers with specialised needs, and how to adapt your diving to accommodate those.

Prerequisites:

• Minimum age for this course is 15 years old.
• Minimum level of certification of Open Water (or equivalent) is required to enrol in this course.
• A current level 2 First Aid certification is also required.
• It is also recommended that you complete the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course beforehand so that you have better awareness of trim.

The Adaptive Support Diver course is run as an integrated part of our PADI Rescue Diver program at Aquatic Adventures, or alternatively it can be run separately.

When run separately, and with a minimum of 4 participants, this course costs: $300.00 per person.

Private courses are available.

This course can be scheduled on demand. Please email us to enquire about this course.