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PADI Open Water - DVD
Info. below is my personal
interpretation so please double check with your centre before booking.
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Overview
Predive safety check
Deep water entry(s)
Snorkel clearing – blast method
Snorkel – regulator exchange
Descents
Surface swimming with scuba
Mask removal
replacement and clearing
No mask breathing
Disconnect low pressure inflator
BCD oral inflation and deflation at the surface
Proper weighting
Air depletion exercise
Weight removal at the surface (quick release)
Equipment removal at surface and exit
Performance Requirements:
By the end of this confined water dive
the student will be able to:
- Perform the predive safety check.
- Demonstrate appropriate deep-water entry(s).
- Clear a snorkel of water by using the blast method and resume breathing
through it without lifting the face from the water.
- Exchange snorkel for regulator and regulator for snorkel repeatedly while
at the surface without lifting the face from the water.
- Swim a distance of at least 50 metres/yards at the surface
while wearing
scuba and breathing through the snorkel.
- Demonstrate a descent using the appropriate five step method.
- Completely remove
replace and clear the mask of water while underwater.
- Breathe underwater for not less than one minute while not wearing a mask.
- Demonstrate the response to a leaking low pressure inflator by
disconnecting the low pressure hose from the inflator mechanism in shallow
water (either underwater or at the surface.)
- At the surface in water too deep to stand in
orally inflate a BCD to at
least 1/2 full and then fully deflate it.
- Adjust for proper weighting
which is defined as floating at eye level at
the surface with an empty BCD and while holding a normal breath.
- React to air depletion by giving the out-of-air signal in water too deep
to stand up in.
- Demonstrate an ascent using the appropriate five step method.
- Remove weights at the surface with minimal assistance using the weight
system’s quick release mechanism.
- In water too deep to stand up in
remove the weights
scuba unit and fins
(if necessary)
then exit using the most appropriate means. (Buddy assistance
may be provided.)
Highly Recommended: Why not do
your PADI Open
Water Course at Aquarius Red Sea Diving
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