Course Add-On Options
Learn to Dive with MidCoast Scuba Center - Omaha, Nebraska
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Scuba Course Options
Scuba training at MidCoast Scuba Center allows you to
jumpstart your diving interests by continuing your training in a diving discipline of your choice, making you the diver you want to be.
After you have decided on the scuba course that meets your needs, personalize your training by choosing
one or more of the following course options
For example, be ready to record your dive memories and experiences to share with family and friends by
choosing the Digital Underwater Photography Option. Or choose the Dry Suit Option to stay warm and comfortable in a thin and flexible Dry Suit by choosing the Dry Suit Training Option.
Or choose to spend more time underwater and reduce risk by choosing the Enriched Air Diver Option, or choose all three or more options and finish your initial training as a scuba diver with all the knowledge and skills necessary to challenge any reef or diving type. To view a full description of each option, click on your choice of the Options listed below that interest you.
Example: Choosing Course Options
Below is a chart showing the progression of a diver taking simple scuba instruction:
The following course flow chart demonstrates a diver (let's call him Joe) enhancing his scuba instruction with the training options offered by MidCoast Scuba Center. First, Joe is a busy guy, so he chooses the On-Line Option for his Academic Course.
The On-Line Option allows Joe (who travels a lot for his job) to take the academic portion of his scuba lessons 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at his own schedule (for more information on the On-Line Option please click here.
Joe also decides to increase is dive
knowledge and safety by becoming Enriched Air Certified and to learn
more about PDC's (Personal Dive Computers) by taking the PDC Specialist Option.
These are all fun academic workshops requiring only approximately 4 hours of
additional workshop time over the standard course.
For his Confined Water Training Joe chooses the Dry Suit Option as he gets cold easily, and plans to spend a lot of time stationary in the water taking photographs of the marine life he sees (therefore the Underwater Digital Photography Option is a second choice).
Joe's last chosen training option is the Rescue One Option. As he realizes diving most often takes place in remote areas, he wants to be able to assist and help his buddy should the need arise (in the unlikely event something goes awry during their diving activities. Joe also insists his buddy take this initial Rescue Training Option in case he should need any assistance or help himself)! You've got to hand it to Joe, he is one smart cookie!
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Upon completion of his Open Water Training Joe the Diver has earned his Specialty Diver Certification by completing 2 Specialty courses (Enriched Air and PDC Specialist) and has a head start on his Advanced Diver (4 Specialty Courses and 24 Dives), and Master Diver (4 Specialty Courses and 50 Dives) certifications, not to mention his ability to enjoy his dives to the fullest with advanced education in his personal areas of interest!
As a MidCoast Scuba student you have multiple choices to personalize your training. Be like Joe, get the training that makes you the diver you want to be! Review the options listed, or talk to us at MidCoast Scuba Center, we will be happy to help you customize your scuba course to meet your needs.
Open Water Diver Course Options
On-Line Open Water Course Option
Prefer to learn the academics of scuba via an On-Line format? Any of our Open Water Diver Courses may be taken in the On-Line format. Advantages are no time in the classroom, and you can complete your academics portion of the course any where you have internet service. For complete information on our On-Line Programs please click here.
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MidCoast Scuba Center to arrange your On-Line Training and learn SCUBA
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| On-Line / eLearning Course Option | $99.00 | |
| Text and Teaching Materials | No Charge! |
Personal Dive Computer Specialist Option
The Computer Diver Specialist workshop, will teach you how to bring your dive planning, execution and safety into the 21st century! Although many instructors offer no more than cursory information on diving computers, the fact is their use has become mainstream for diving today. And they are not some new-fangled piece of dive kit either. The modern Personal Dive Computer (PDC) has been with us since before the late 1980's.
Modern Air-Integrated PDC
Modern Air-Integrated Hose-less PDC and Sending Transmitter
An additional workshop on Personal Dive Computers (PDC's) may be desired. Diving computers have become commonplace over the last 25 years, yet many divers lack the information on how PDC's may be used to increase their dive safety while allowing additional dive time.
What you will learn during your Personal Dive Computer workshop
Reading Requirement: Completion of PDC Specialist Workbook Level 1
Prerequisite Certification: Open Water Diver Student in Training, or Open Water Diver
Minimum age: 10
Workshop Session fee for MidCoast Scuba Open Water Diver Students (includes PDC use) |
$19.95 |
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PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook |
$17.95 |
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Certification SDI Soft-card and diploma |
$7.50 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Scuba Diver Ratings!
No Open Water dives are required for this workshop, however should certification as a specialty be desired, two dives would be necessary for this workshop to count toward Advanced, or Master Diver certifications.
Full Personal Dive Computer Option
Full Computer Diver Certification requires completion of the PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook to Level 2, the appropriate chapters of the SDI text Deep Computer Diving, and completion of the PDC download workshop (using the SmartTRAK User Guide). Two logged dives demonstrating the proper use of PDC's for dive planning, logging and ascent techniques, including safety stops are required for in-water training.
Operating scheme and operation of contacts (UWATEC SmartCOM / Smart Z / Smart TEC)
Determining, setting and diving Micro-Bubble levels (MB)
Diving procedures, reading dive warning messages and alarms
Functions during the dive
Functions at the surface
Diving at altitude
Use of gauge mode
Dive planning
Logbook functions
Downloading to and use of SmartTRAK
The texts used are the
PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook
Level 2, SmartTRAK User Guide (if requested) and SDI's Deep Computer Diving.
Prerequisite Certification: Open Water Diver
Minimum age: 15
Level 1 Full PDC Workshop Session fee for MidCoast Scuba Open Water Diver Students (includes PDC use) |
$29.95 |
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Upgrade from PDC Specialist workshop for MidCoast Scuba Open Water Diver Students |
$10.00 |
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Text SDI Deep Computer Diving |
$25.95 |
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PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook (for MidCoast Scuba Center Students) |
$17.95 |
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SmartTRAK User Guide and workshop ((if requested) |
$29.95 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Scuba Diver Ratings!
Digital Underwater Photography Option
The Digital Under Water Photography Specialty course offers you
the ability to take only pictures...and leave only bubbles. Digital
has take the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the
action with the MidCoast Scuba Center Digital Underwater Photography
course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with
your camera and on your computer.
During the MidCoast Scuba Center Underwater Digital Photography course you learn to use the SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine.
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not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with you
friends via email or printing, optimize your work with your computer,
photo storage and more.
| The SeaLife DC600 Camera |
In the MidCoast Scuba Center Digital Underwater Photography Course you will learn:
How to choose and use modern digital cameras and u/w housings
How to use the SEA method for getting great shots quickly
How to edit and share your pictures
The 3 primary principles for getting good photos underwater
This is one of our most popular
specialty courses and can even be started during your Open Water
Diver Course or the last dive of
your Open Water Diver Course Evaluation Dives. Ask us how.
Level 1 Digital U/W Photography Workshop & pool session fee (includes scuba equipment rental, Instructor, pool session and digital camera rental if required!) |
$79.95 |
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| Purchase your digital camera from MidCoast Scuba Center and save 25% off the classroom and pool sessions fee or have the difference applied to your camera price at purchase |
$59.95 |
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| Text and teaching materials (photo slate included) |
$39.95 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Scuba Diver Ratings!
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The Dry Suit Diver Specialty Want to stay warm and comfortable on your dives? In our dry suit course you will learn how to use a dry suit to improve your diving comfort and extend your diving season and options.
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Dry Suit skills are a foundation of all Technical Diving |
Do you wish to become a Technical Diver? Dry Suit certification is a foundation of Technical Diving.
In this course you will experience what it's like to
dive and not get wet and cold. Since the dry suit is used for primary buoyancy
control, this is a core skill ability that will improve your overall diving
capability! it takes additional training.
Here are the course highlights:
Level 1 Dry Suit Workshop & pool session fee (includes dry suit rental if required!) |
$79.95 |
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| Purchase your dry suit from MidCoast Scuba Center and save 25% off the classroom and pool sessions fee or have the difference applied to your dry suit price at purchase |
$59.95 |
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| Text and teaching materials |
$59.95 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Scuba Diver Ratings!
MidCoast Scuba Center offers you the option of being 'Enriched Air Ready' for your Evaluation Dives. Just upgrade to the Enriched Air Scuba Program. by signing up for the Enriched Air option with your scuba course you will save dollars and earn your first Specialty diver rating toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Diver certifications. This is not a primer on Enriched Air but the full Enriched Air Diver Specialty Certification course.
Who should use Enriched Air? Any diver who
wants to increase the time they can spend underwater and that
is just about everybody and anybody! Enriched air is of particular benefit to
any diver who has elevated risk of Decompression Sickness such as smokers, older
divers, overweight divers, or anyone with an indicated medical history.
The MidCoast Scuba Center Enriched Air Course is a computer based course structured in an easy to understand manner by making use of a Enriched Air programmable computer (provided). The course covers the use of Enriched Air mixtures from 22 to 40 percent oxygen. Enriched Air as a breathing gas has a lot of benefits for both new and experienced. Among the benefits of using Enriched Air include:
Increased safety margins
Reduced post - dive fatigue
Extended no-decompression limits (more time diving)!
Faster safe-to-fly times
The air used in scuba is the same as you are breathing now, a mix of gasses, primarily Oxygen and Nitrogen, but highly filtered and dehydrated to prevent corrosion in the cylinders. Enriched Air is an optimum blend of these two breathing gasses for scuba use. Enriched Air is also known as 'Nitrox' (short for Nitrogen and Oxygen). Enriched Air has been used by scientific, commercial and military divers for over fifty years. About 1994 Enriched Air started to be used by recreational divers (you and me).
One of the primary topics in your scuba course will be how to keep Nitrogen within acceptable limits. When the acceptable limits are exceeded Decompression Sickness (DCS) is likely. You may have heard of DCS (or the 'bends') from TV shows or movies. Enriched Air raises Oxygen levels and lowers Nitrogen levels in the diver's cylinder.
Using Enriched Air provides many benefits to the diver. The most significant benefit is longer bottom times. For example, a diver using air is limited to approximately 40 minutes dive time at 60 feet. When using the proper Enriched Air that same diver can nearly double the time allowed.
Enriched air is the most requested continuing education program. Ninety five per cent of our scuba course graduates take our Enriched Air Specialty course, most right after certification. By signing up for the Enriched Air Scuba Option you can be 'Enriched Air Ready' plus save $25.00 and take your first step toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Diver ratings!
Enriched Air Option Pricing and Savings
The Enriched Air Course is regularly $150.00. When you say you want to enroll in your scuba course and be 'Enriched Air Ready' you will save over $25.00 on your Enriched Air training. Your Open Water Scuba course will expand to include the text Enriched air Computer Diving, all Enriched Air teaching materials and the Enriched Air Use Practical Application and Oxygen analyzer workshops. Since ninety five percent of our scuba course graduates go on to take Enriched Air Training anyway, you are most assuredly saving money on this option.
| Enriched Air Course Option | $149.00 | |
| Text and Teaching Materials | No Charge! (as an OWD course option) | |
| Rental Use of an Enriched Air PDC | No Charge! | |
| Diploma, Certification Card Processing | $27.50 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Scuba Diver Ratings!
Intro to Technical Diving Option
The MidCoast Scuba Center Intro
to Technical Diving Open Water Diver Option is perfect for divers who have heard
about technical diving and want to find out more about this exciting branch of
advanced recreational diving.
The pool session option walks students through the special techniques, and skills that set technical diving apart from traditional sport diving. You will be shown how to improve your in-water skills and streamline your existing equipment configuration in a comfortable in door pool and fun learning environment.
The specific skills this session will highlight are:
Advanced Buoyancy Control
Twin Cylinder Use
Isolation Manifold Valve Use
Situational Awareness
Trim
Much More!
Should the student choose to continue, the academic session will show you how to improve your dive planning methods and procedures that set technical diving apart form traditional sport diving.
The specific planning and procedures this session will highlight are:
Breathing Gas Management
Situational Awareness
Equipment Configuration and Selection
Much More!
Completion of MidCoast Scuba Center's Intro to Tech pool option and academic option is a useful session for the diver who wants to become a more skilled, more proficient diver regardless of an intention to move on to technical diving. The session serves as the confined water portion of TDI's Introduction to Technical Diving course.
Combined with the academic portion (another option) it may also be used as an introduction to the TDI Advanced Nitrox course and the TDI Decompression Procedures course. And finally, it is also a good refresher for certified technical divers who may want to refresh their skills or have them re-evaluated by a TDI technical instructor.
| Level 1 Intro to Technical Diving Confined Water Session (includes tech rig equipment rental if required!) | $79.00 | |
| Intro to Technical Diving Academic Session | $49.00 | |
| Text and Teaching Materials | $25.95 | |
| Intro to Technical Diving Open Water Evaluation Dives (3 min. req. for cert.) (includes tech rig equipment rental if required!) | $185.50 | |
| Certification Card / Diploma Processing | $27.50 |
Due to the skills discipline nature of Technical Diving Open water evaluation dives for this program need to be completed within 180 days of initial in-water sills training. Time frames outside this limit required a repeat of the pool session.
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