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Title: The Master Scuba Diver Programme


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The PADI Master Scuba Diver ProgrammewithDiverC
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  • The Black Belt of Scuba Diving
  • Expand and enhance your scuba skills and
    knowledge
  • Become one of the privileged
  • Highest level a diver can reach
  • Denotes Superior achievement and proficiency

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Requirements
  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
  • PADI Rescue Diver
  • Any 5 PADI Specialty ratings
  • Proof of 50 Logged dives
  • A sense of adventure, exploration,
  • excitement and a passion for diving

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Which Speciality?
Deep Diver, Equipment Specialist, Night Diver,
Research Diver, Search and Recovery Diver,
Underwater Navigator, Underwater Photographer,
Wreck Diver, Boat Diver, Drift Diver, Dry Suit
Diver, Multilevel Diver, Underwater Naturalist,
Peak Performance Buoyancy, Distinctive
Specialist (varied).
  • Its entirely up to you. If you dive mainly in
    the UK we recommend the Brit 5
  • Deep, Wreck, Dry-Suit, Enriched Air Navigation

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PADI recommends that you
  • Try out the most popular
  • specialty diving activities
  • Increase your underwater
  • experiences
  • Explore new environments

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A Few Facts signing on, timeand popular
specialities .
  • Chat to a DiverCity Instructor, a diving
    education specialist, they will advise you how
    to embark on this programme
  • Completion can take anything from several weeks
    to several years. You will decide the pace of
    your Master Scuba Diver programme
  • Many divers choose to complete the 50 dives and
    several speciality courses on one of the
    DiverCity trips.
  • Which is the most popular speciality
    course? the one that appeals to you!

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Start today with Discover Enriched
Air Nitrox
  • Course Overview
  • Can be run during the Open Water Diver Course or
    any other.
  • Knowledge Development
  • Enriched Air Dive Planning
  • Care for Equipment
  • Hazard Management
  • Use and application of Enriched Air
  • Course Completion allows.
  • You to dive on a 32 O² mix within the no-stop
    limit of the air RDP or air based computer
  • Max 30m/100ft
  • Indirect Supervision of DiverCity Professional
    who is Enriched Air Certified.
  • Please note that you will be required to purchase
    a manual for this programme as it can be used for
    future reference and full certification

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Rescue Diver
  • Course Overview
  • Crucial step in expanding knowledge and
    experience beyond recreational level.
  • Rescue divers learn to look after themselves and
    to consider safety well being of other divers.
  • Training prepares you to prevent problems and if
    necessary, manage dive emergencies using a
    variety of techniques.
  • Five knowledge development sessions
  • Rescue skills
  • Practical rescue scenarios
  • Exam with 50 questions
  • Curriculum is performance based.

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Enriched Air Diver
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of enriched air diving
  • Analyse Enriched Air Cylinders content
  • Extend your no-stop limits beyond the normal
    limits of diving with air
  • Learn what colour coding, stickers and tags
    Enriched Air cylinders should have
  • Risk factors when diving with Enriched air -
    Nitrox

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Deep Diver
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of deep diving
  • Risk factors and decompression-tables review
  • Safety stops and emergency decompression
    procedures
  • Special equipment, decent lines and
    buoyancy-control considerations
  • Procedures for flying after diving and high
    altitude
  • Orientation to recompression chambers

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Wreck Diver
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of wreck diving
  • The preparation and use of lights, air supplies,
    special equipment, penetration lines and reels
  • Limited visibility diving techniques and
    emergency procedures

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Underwater Navigator
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of underwater navigation
  • Methods of estimating distance underwater
  • Natural navigation techniques
  • Using underwater patterns
  • Dive site relocation techniques
  • Compass navigation techniques

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Underwater Search and Recovery
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of underwater search and
    recovery diving
  • Limited visibility diving and underwater
    navigation techniques
  • Proper techniques and safety considerations for
    object location, including the use of various
    search patterns, lines and reels
  • Proper technique and safety considerations for
    recovery of
  • objects using various lifting
  • devices

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Night Diver
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of night diving
  • Proper procedures for buoyancy control,
    navigation and communication
  • Use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques
  • Disorientation
  • Emergency procedures
  • Orientation to nocturnal aquatic life

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Dry Suit Diver
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of dry suit diving
  • Proper procedures for buoyancy control
  • Ascent and decent technique training
  • Routine, user-level, preventative maintenance and
    performance checks on dry suits

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Underwater Photographer
  • Overview
  • The planning, organisation, procedures,
    techniques, problems and hazards of underwater
    photography diving
  • Photographic principles, composition, film types,
    flash/available light photography and camera
    handling techniques
  • The preparation, care and maintenance of
    photographic equipment

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Equipment Specialist Course
  • Overview
  • Theory, principles and operation of diving
    equipment
  • Routine, recommended care maintenance
    procedures and equipment storage
  • Common problems with equipment and recommended
    professional maintenance procedures
  • Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment
    configurations and an
  • introduction to new
  • equipment

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Boat Diver Course
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and boat diving hazards
  • Boat Diving etiquette storage of personal
    equipment, personal conduct and considerations
    for care of the boat.
  • Basic common boat diving terminology
  • Specific Boat Diving Laws and/or ordinances
  • Overview of emergency/safety equipment needed
    on-board private diving vessels

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Drift Diver Course
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of drift diving
  • Special equipment, floats, lines and reels
  • Proper procedures for buoyancy-control,
    navigation and communication.
  • Site selection and overview of aquatic currents
    causes and effects.
  • Techniques for staying close to a buddy or
    together as a group.

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Underwater Naturalist Course
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of diving in different
    aquatic environments
  • A basic overview of major aquatic life groupings
    (kingdoms and phyla)
  • Factual information to dispel myths about
    potentially dangerous aquatic life
  • An overview of basic aquatic life interactions
    and associations
  • Responsible human interaction with aquatic life
  • Diving techniques used to help preserve bottom
    dwelling aquatic life and minimize aquatic life
    disturbances

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Peak Performance Buoyancy Course
  • Overview
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy fundamentals
  • Use of PADIs Basic Weighting Guidelines
  • An opportunity to polish buoyancy control beyond
    the Open Water Diver level

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Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) Course
  • Overview
  • Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
    problems and hazards of diving with a underwater
    propulsion vehicle
  • Equipment considerations including but not
    limited to, battery care, maintenance and
    precautions
  • Procedures for determining a turnaround point,
    vehicle failure, runaway motor, descents
    ascents and avoiding propeller entanglement
  • Techniques for avoiding harming fragile aquatic
    life.
  • Techniques for entering and
  • exiting the water with a DPV

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  • Increase your diving experience, fun and explore
    new environments. Contact DiverCity today.
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