PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality

Diving in cold water in a dry suit allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places more often. But you need training and unique skills to be a safe drysuit diver.

Included in the price is eLearning, dive insurance DAN when you’re training with us.

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Price includes DAN insurance during training, eLearning, and certification after you have passed all requirements.

In addition to reviewing dive safety procedures when using a dry suit, you’ll learn the following:

Depth: up to 18 meters

Hours Recommended: 12, including eLearning

Minimum Open Water Dives: 2

Instructor: PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty Instructor

Student Diver: Minimum age: 16 years

You must have or rent:

Dry suit (with appropriate accessories)

Your own full scuba gear

Put on and remove a dry suit with the aid of another diver if necessary for that model dry suit.
Demonstrate how to conduct a buoyancy check at the surface while wearing a dry suit with undergarments (when needed) and full scuba equipment.
Demonstrate neutral buoyancy by gently rising and falling controlled during inhalation and exhalation for one minute.
Demonstrate neutral buoyancy by hovering (without kicking or sculling) near the bottom for one minute.
Disconnect and reconnect the low-pressure hose from the dry suit inflator valve while underwater.
Perform a neutrally buoyant ascent from the bottom at a rate no faster than 18 meters.
Demonstrate one technique for recovering from excess gas in the feet.
Remove and replace the scuba unit and weight system while on the surface.

Put on and remove a dry suit with the aid of another diver
Adjust the weight needed to be neutrally buoyant (float at eye level) at the surface
while maintaining a normal breath and when the dry suit and BCD are completely vented of air.
Perform a controlled descent, avoiding suit squeeze.
Moving air in the dry suit
Emergency rool
Legs up – Head down, regain control.
Demonstrate neutral buoyancy by gently rising and falling controlled during inhalation and exhalation for one minute.
Maintain neutral buoyancy near the bottom by hovering (without kicking or sculling) for one minute.
Maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive and avoid accidentally kicking up silt or touching the bottom.
Perform a neutrally buoyant ascent from the bottom at a rate no faster than 18 meters per minute.
Perform a safety stop at 5 meters for at least three minutes.
Remove and replace, on the surface, both the scuba unit and weight system.

Put on and remove a dry suit, with the aid of another diver if appropriate for that model dry suit.
Perform a controlled descent, avoiding suit squeeze.
Disconnect and reconnect the low-pressure hose from the dry suit inflator valve while underwater wearing gloves.
Maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive and avoid accidentally kicking up bottom silt and touching the reef.
Perform a neutrally buoyant ascent from the bottom at a rate no faster than 18 meters per minute.
Perform a safety stop at 5 meters for three minutes