Continuing Education with MidCoast Scuba Center - Omaha, Nebraska
COMPUTER DIVER COURSES
Full Computer Diver Certification Course
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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 Tranmitter
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
- The 3 Different PDC Configurations
- Features to look for when purchasing a PDC
- The importance of checking a PDC for proper mix settings
- The Advantages of Air Integrated PDC's
- Using PDC's to Read your NDL's for Single and Repetitive Dives
- Back-up and contingency dive planning using PDC's
- Ten Rules for Using PDC's Safely
- The Six Most Important Reasons for Using a PDC
- An Overview of Using PDC'S with Enriched Air Nitrox
- The Good and the Bad of Forward, Reverse, Saw-tooth and Square Profile PDC Dives
- Reading Safe to Fly Times and Slow Ascent Warnings of PDC's
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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.
Prerequisite Certification: Open Water Diver Student in Training, or Open Water Diver
Minimum age: 10
Workshop session fee (includes PDC use) |
$49.95 |
Workshop session fee* (includes PDC use) |
$29.95 |
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PDC Specialist Program Workbook |
$19.95 |
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PDC Specialist Program Workbook* |
$14.95 |
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Certification SDI Soft-card diploma (optional) |
$7.50 |
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* Price for MidCoast Scuba Center Students or have purchased your PDC from MidCoast Scuba Center |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Diver Ratings
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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
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
Workshop session fee (includes PDC use) |
$49.95 |
MidCoast Scuba Open Water Diver students (includes PDC use) |
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Text SDI Deep Computer Diving |
$25.95 |
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PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook |
$19.95 |
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SmartTRAK User Guide and workshop (if requested) |
$29.95 |
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Open water evaluation dives (includes PDC rental) |
$79.95 |
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Certification processing, card and diploma |
$27.50 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Diver Ratings
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Enriched Air Nitrox Computer Diver
The Enriched Air Nitrox Computer Diver Specialty course is our most popular specialty course for diver continuing education. Diving with Enriched Air Nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limit for air.
Diving with enriched air means more time underwater - but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.
Whether
you're into underwater photography or wreck diving, on a vacation in some
tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive
site, the Enriched Air diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving
you more time underwater.
Completion of the PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook to level 1 (if not previously completed from lower level workshops) is required.
The text is SDI's Easy Nitrox Diving.
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this course you will learn to plan your enriched air dives using enriched air
capable dive computers as your nitrogen loading will differ significantly
compared to diving air. Down there everything is different. It takes additional
training. Here's what you get:
Experience longer dive times beyond 60 feet
Learn to analyze cylinder contents
Plan enriched air dives using dive computers
Safely increase your no stop time
Certification counts toward your Advanced and Master Diver Ratings
Prerequisite Certification: Open Water Diver
Minimum age: 15
Theory and Oxygen Analyzer Workshops (includes PDC use if required) |
$149.95 |
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Text SDI Enriched Air Computer Diving Student Kit |
$59.95 |
| PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook |
$19.95 |
| Certification processing, card and diploma |
$27.50 |
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Diver Ratings
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Sophisticated advanced PDC's, such as
the Uwatec Smart TEC, Smart Z, and new Galileo Sol, allow the diver
to gas
switch up to three different Enriched Air Nitrox Cylinders. Advanced
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.
Each function of the PDC is reviewed and explained
- Operating scheme and operation of all controls
- Setting, diving and determining Micro-Bubble levels (MB)
- Diving procedures, reading dive messages, warnings and alarms
- Functions during the dive
- Functions at the surface
- Diving at altitude
- Diving in gauge mode
- Diving with more than one gas mixture
- Dive planning
- Logbook functions
- Downloading to and use of SmartTRAK
- Much more!
The texts used are the PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook Level 3, SmartTRAK User Guide and SDI's Deep Computer Diving.
Workshop session fee (includes PDC use if required) |
$79.95 |
| Text SDI Deep Computer Diving |
$25.95 |
| SmartTRAK User Guide and workshop (if requested) |
$29.95 |
| PDC Specialist Program Computer Assisted Multi-Level Diving Workbook |
$19.95 |
| Open water evaluation dives (includes PDC rental if required) |
$79.95 |
| Certification processing, card and diploma |
$27.50 |
Prerequisite Certification: Open Water Diver
Minimum age: 15
Certification counts toward your Specialty Diver, Advanced Diver and Master Diver Ratings
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For information on any of our products, services, courses or trips please call or contact Terry Hurley using the information provided below.
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