Entry Level Open Water Scuba Diver Course

The Open Water Diver course is an entry-level scuba certification program.

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Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver

Advanced Open Water Diver scuba certification opens a whole new world, one with many different environments.

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Rescue Diver

The Rescue Diver Program provides the Recreational Diver with important self-rescue skills,

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Professional Leadership Instuctor Courses

We offer leadership training courses from Divemaster all the way through Technical/Cave Instructor ratings.

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Cavern Diver

Cavern Diver Course

Cavern diver classes are held over 2 days and a minimum of 4 dives is needed to complete the coursework.

Prerequisites

Open Water Certification.
Minimum age 18.

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Intro/Basic Cave Diver

INTRODUCTION TO CAVE DIVING

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  • Cavern diver certification.
  • Minimum of 25 logged non training dives.
  • Minimum age 18.

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Cavern/Introduction to Cave Combo Course

This combination course is probably the most popular course that is being offered here at "Cave Country". The first day is classroom & the next 3 days we dive all day. Day one we will also look at your gear and make any adjustments/recommendations to get your gear squared away for the cavern/cave environment.

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Apprentice Cave Diver

Education of the student in proper cave diving techniques and procedures, cave awareness and conservation, dive planning and dive execution is emphasized at the Apprentice level of training.

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Full Cave Diver

Advanced cave dive planning, the practical execution of different types of cave systems and scenarios divers encounter are presented.

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DPV Pilot

Purpose:

• This Program is designed to provide advanced training in cave diving skills to the experienced, certified, responsible cave diver
  who wishes to conduct dives that warrant DPV use and techniques.
• Expose cave divers to conservation concerns and ethical responsibilities that present themselves during DPV uses either for
  extended penetration, touring, or exploration.

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Advanced Nitrox/Decompression Procedures

Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures

(4 days) 1 full day of classroom and 3 days of diving for 6 dives minimum. These are actually 2 separate courses and can be taught separately but they mesh very well being taught together.

Cavern & Basic Cave with Advanced Nitrox Decompression Procedures Course

Cavern & Basic Cave with Advanced Nitrox Decompression Procedures Course (7 days)

This is one of our most commonly requested courses. There are 14 dives required at a minimum in order to complete this set of courses. All divers must be certified at least to the Advanced Open water level and nitrox prior to participation in this course.

Stage Cave Diver

Stage Cave Diver (2 days)

This course is designed to teach divers how to safely extend penetration distance into cave systems using single or multiple stage bottles.

Entry Level/Normoxic Trimix

Entry Level/Normoxic Trimix (4-5 days)

4 dives minimum. Prerequisites: Advanced Nitrox & Deco Procedures and/or Extended Range.

Advanced/Full Trimix

Advanced/Full Trimix (4-5 days)

4 dives minimum. Prerequisites: Entry level/normoxic trimix.

Tec Nitrox and Trimix Blender

These courses train and qualify you to blend all the different mixes that recreational and technical divers use....

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Closed Circuit Rebreather

CCR classes are now available from one of our in-house instructors, Jim Wyatt. The CCR class is a six or seven day long class.

You will spend time in the classroom covering the theory of rebreathers, how and why they work, how to put one together, take it apart, clean it, diagnose and repair problems.

You will spend lots of hours in the water diving the rebreather and learning how to solve problems as they happen and more importantly how to prevent the problems from occurring in the first place.

rEvo CCR Training - Open Water

Learn to dive the rEvo Closed Circuit Rebreather

Learn to dive the rEvo CCR with Jim Wyatt in the crystal clear freshwater springs of North Florida. Even though North Florida is most well known for cave diving there are lots of great places to learn CCR diving in North Central Florida. Fresh water springs that are not caves which vary in depth from waist deep to 240 feet, and much in between. These springs give us many great places to learn to dive the CCR. No boat diving with time constraints and crew members rushing you into and out of the water. We set our dive schedule not the boat crew.

Jim Wyatt is one of two rEvo CCR instructors in the entire state of Florida. You can purchase your rEvo through Jim and get all your rEvo training and certifications through Jim. Jim is also a CCR Cave instructor through the National Speleological Society-Cave Diving Section (NSS-CDS) and IANTD, should you decide at a later time to becom CCR cave trained. Jim is also certified to teach you how to ride a DPV in the cave environment.

Jim lives in North Florida and will not have to charge you travel fees, lodging fees or any other travel related fees that many instructors who live out of state have to charge you. Jim also has a few nice rental properties so he can provide nice, private lodging for you while you are in North Florida.

To learn more about Jim's diving history and qualifications please look at Jim's Diving Resume'

The rEvo certification program is typically a five day program at minimum standards. Jim requires seven days for this program. The reason for the extra two days is to ensure there is plenty of classroom and in-water time to make you more comfortable diving the rEvo rebreather. (The rEvo crossover program requires three days.) Please feel free to call Jim to discuss why the class is extended for an extra two days.

Successfull completion of the air diluent course allows the diver to dive to a depth of 120 feet.

Max decompression allowance depends on the previous certification of the diver, and agency standards, but can never be more than the current OC/CCR decompression limits the diver had before the course. Total course duration: minimum 5 full days by standards, Jim requires seven days. Total in-water time minimum 480 minutes.

Crossover rules: only crossover from other CCR certification is allowed, no credits are given for previous SCR certification.
- Total course duration: minimum 2.5 days - Total in-water time minimum 240 minutes.

General Discussion:--Why seven days instead of five.

For the brand new rebreather diver we will be discussing in detail the theory of rebreathers, why and how they work. We will discuss some of the history of rebreathers design and some of the early thinking. We will discuss normal operations and failure modes. Jim will make sure you are thinking like a rebreather diver, which is different from an open circuit diver in many regards,

We will dissect the rEvo so as to thoroughly understand the way it works, and its advantages over other rebreathers. By the time you complete seven days with Jim you will feel confident in your ability to take the rEvo apart and put it back together again, even if you are not a mechanically minded person.

You will understand and be able to intelligently discuss Constant Mass Flow, you will have a better than average understanding of the way oxygen sensors work and fail, and why they fail and how to know when they are suspect.

When you complete this class you will know and understand how to use the Shearwater Predator and the rEvo Dreams. These pieces of electroinic gear are the heart of the rEvo CCR and Jim will make sure you can use these to their maximum potential.

Jim is a reltatively new CCR diver/instructor with about 300 hours on the unit. Jim remembers vividly the challenges both academic and in the water that came with switching from open circuit to closed circuit and is better able to identify with these difficulties and because of this is better able to relate these personal experiences to you. There are many more experienced CCR instructors out there. There are none that will teach you a more thorough class.

Jim does deep cave and technical diving with his rEvo CCR on a regular basis. Jim will not be training you to do deep cave technical diving but will ensure that the habits you develop from day one in the water will better prepare you for the eventuality that you decide to pursue cave and/or technical diving in the future. Jim will not allow you you to develop habits early on in your CCR training that will have to be 'broken" in the future in the event you pursue more advanced CCR training. Jim will help you configure your gear in a fashion that will facilitate future diving circumstances. Jim will not just allow you to dive it without knowing why each piece of gear is configured. Jim will also insist that YOU participate in that decision making process.

Training materials:
- rEvo III manual available from the rEvo website
- rEvodream chart available from the rEvo website
- rEvo check lists
- article on oxygen sensors
- article on constant mass flow
- shearwater predator manual

Theory topics/duration during the course
- General rebreather design
- Physiology: hypoxia, hyperoxia and hypercapnea
- How to dive rebreathers ‘when all goes as planned
- Diving rebreathers ‘when all goes wrong’
- Dive planning and decompression calculation
- Oxygen sensors
- Constant mass flow theory
- rEvo scrubber rotation system and why

Practical work:
-Build-up of the rEvo rebreather
-Use of the rEvodreams
-Maintenance (disassembling/assembling) of the DSV (* if the DSV does not have greasing holes)
-Use of the shearwater computer/controller
-Changing batteries in rEvodream, controller battery

 
Also take a look at:
Cave Dive Florida's rEvo website for more up to date information. 

Call Jim at 352-363-0013