PADI - Self Reliant Diver
With proper training, equipment and the right attitude to accept the risks involved in independent diving, an experience diver can responsibly engage in dives without a buddy.
Course Type: Continuing Education
Booking Information: We offer this specialised course tailored to your needs. Get in contact with us to schedule your booking.
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About The Self Reliant Diver Specialist Course
Self-reliant diving is an adventure activity that is not for everyone, but does have its place. If you have the mental discipline and commitment to learn and follow self-reliant diving techniques, you'll bolster your skills and confidence when diving alone, in a dive pair or as part of a team.
What Your Learn
Learning how to compensate for situations you would normally handle with a buddy is the focus of the Self-Reliant Diver course. This includes proper dive planning using air consumption rate calculations, life support system redundancy, and independent management of dive emergencies.
Take This Course If You Want To
- Learn about air consumption rates
- how to handle emergency situations
- become a better buddy and diver.
Learn How To
- Performing an air consumption rate swim to gather information for later calculation.
- Switching to a redundant air supply system during simulated emergency situations.
- Swimming without a mask.
- Navigating to various points, including your exit.
Next Steps
Study
Step 1 - PADI eLearning
PADI eLearning makes it easy to fit scuba lessons into a busy schedule. Complete the independent study part of your course whenever, wherever it’s convenient for you.
Work at your own pace, online or offline, using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor for inwater training, or whenever you have a question.
- eLearning time commitment: 2-4 hours
At The Uk Diving Academy
Step 2 - With Your Instructor
During three self-reliant training dives, you'll practice, performing an air consumption rate swim to gather information for later calculation, switching to a redundant air supply system during simulated emergency situations, swimming without a mask, Navigating to various points, including your exit.
- Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification), 100 logged dives.
- Total time commitment: 1-2 days
- Minimum age: 18 years or older
More Information
PADI Self Reliant Diver Specialist Course Prerequisites
- You need to be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
- At least 18 years old
- Have 100 logged dives
- You'll also complete a skills assessment with your PADI Self-Reliant Diver Instructor before diving into the 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 provide the basic scuba diving hear you need for your PADI Discover Scuba experience, including:
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
- Basic Equipment Hire
- Air Fills in the pool. (if required)
- PADI eCertification Card
Additional Costs
- Dive site entry from £15- £25 per day
- Transportation (for you and your equipment) - (we will do our best to arrange lifts if needed)
- Subsequent air fills on open water dives payable directly to site
After This Course
The first dive of the PADI Self Reliant Diver Specialty course may count toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification - contact us today for finds out more about earning credit.
Your PADI Self Reliant Diver certification gets you one step closer to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver™. Only two percent of divers ever achieve this elite rating.
