PADI - Adaptive Techniques
Are you a PADI®Professional who wants to become more aware of individual considerations when working with people who have physical or mental challenges?
Course Type: Professional Continuing Education
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About The PADI Adaptive Techniques Course
Are you a PADI®Professional who wants to become more aware of individual considerations when working with people who have physical or mental challenges?
PADI Professionals have a long and successful history of working with divers with disabilities. PADI's approach to diver education is (and always has been) inclusive: Everyone who meets a course's prerequisites is welcome to enroll. The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course builds on that foundation by enhancing the training PADI Professionals receive, and preparing them for student-centered and prescriptive approaches when adapting techniques to meet diver needs.
What Your Learn
The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course focuses on increasing awareness of varying abilities, and explores adaptive teaching techniques to apply when training and diving with physically and mentally challenged divers.
The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course will help PADI Professionals:
- Become more aware and mindful of individual considerations when introducing people with disabilities to diving or freediving.
- Explore adaptive techniques that can be applied while supervising and training divers or freedivers with disabilities in PADI courses and programs.
- Properly counsel and direct student divers, based on their abilities, toward PADI certification, PADI experience programs or a disabilities-dedicated diving organization for limited certification programs.
- Learn additional techniques to motivate and encourage student divers with mental and/or physical challenges.
Take This Course If You Want To
- Become more aware and mindful of individual considerations when teaching & supporting diving with people with disabilities.
- Learn from a scuba diving experts
Learn How To
- Apply adaptive techniques that can be applied while teaching and supporting diving with mental and/or physical challenges.
- Be a confident and skilled diver
- Handle common problems
Next Steps
Study
Step 1 - Instructor Lead Learning
Our team of PADI Instructors will teach you about the principles of adaptive techniques used for scuba diving, freediving & mermaiding.
- Learning time commitment: 4-5 hours
At The Uk Diving Academy
Step 2 - With Your Instructor
You will complete four diving workshops, two in confined water and two 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.
- Prerequisites:
- PADI Divemasters or PADI Master Freedivers
- EFR Primary and Secondary Care course within 24 months
- Total time commitment: 2 days
- Minimum age: 15 years or older
More Information
PADI Adaptive Techniques Course Prerequisites
The PADI Adaptive Techniques Course prerequisites:
- PADI Divemasters or PADI Master Freedivers
- EFR Primary and Secondary Care course within 24 months
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Are eligible to take the PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course.
Course Medical Requirements
Scuba diving requires a minimum level of health and fitness. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.
Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. Instructors, divemasters and dive shop staff are not physicians and should not be asked for medical advice; only medical professionals can give medical clearance to dive.
If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).
The Scuba Gear You Will Use During Your Course
We will provide all your core scuba diving equipment during your course including:
- Buoyancy Device
- Regulator
- Scuba Cylinder
- Weight System & Weights
- Scuba Diving Computer
- Scuba Diving Fins
During your course, we will include rental of all of the above core dive gear items only. You will be required to collect your core dive gear prior to the open water training dives from us.
What's Included
- Course Tuition
- PADI eLearning
- Equipment hire
- Air Fills in the pool.
- PADI eCertification Card
Additional Costs
- Dive site entry from £15- £25 per day.
- Transportation for you and your equipment.
- Subsequent air fills on open water dives payable directly to site.
After This Course
Your PADI Adaptive Support Diver certification gets you one step closer to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver™. Only two percent of divers ever achieve this elite rating.
