Classes

Open Water Diver Course
2012 Dates: Choose from the following dates: Jan.16 or 13, Feb. 6 or 27, Mar. 5 or 26, Apr. 2 or 16, May 7 or 21, Jun. 4 or 18, Jul. 2 or 16, Aug. 6 or 20, Sep. 3 or 17, Oct. 1 or 15, Nov. 5 or 19, and Dec. 3 or 17
Price: $399 All Inclusive (Books or Online Course,SCUBA Gear & DIVES)
If you’ve always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now’s the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever. In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You and up to three others start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (Beach, Gulf of Mexico, Springs, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way. Course Details.

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER COURSE
Date: Choose from Jan.7 or 21, Feb. 4, Mar. 3 or 17, Apr. 7 or 21, May 5 or 19, Jun. 2 or 16, Jul. 7 or 21, Aug. 4 or 18, Sep. 1 or 15, Oct. 6 or 20, Nov. 3 or 17, and Dec. 1 or 15
Price: $350 (Books or Online Course, Adventure Gear & Dive Charter)
Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and much more. These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non professional certification in recreational diving. Course Details

CPR/First Aid/O2 Provider & EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDER
Dates: Last Saturday of each Month 8:30 AM
Price: CPR $50, Medic First Aid $50, AED $50, O2 Provider $100, Child & Infant $50
Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers too.

RESCUE DIVER COURSE
2012 Dates: Choose from the following dates: Jan. 28, Feb. 25, Mar. 31, Apr. 28, May 26, Jun. 30, Jul. 2 or 16, Aug. 6 or 20, Sep. 3 or 17, Oct. 1 or 15, Nov. 5 or 19, and Dec. 3 or 17
Price: $350 (All Inclusive, Books, DVD, First Aid Kit, and Pocket Mask)
Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken. Course Details

SPECIALTY DIVER COURSE
Date: Call for Schedule
Price: $175
BOAT DIVER AWARE FISH ID DIGITAL UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER DIVER PROPULSION VEHICLE DRIFT DIVER DRY SUIT DIVER EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST MULTILEVEL/COMPUTER DIVER NIGHT DIVER PEAK PEFORMANCE BOUYANCY SEARCH & RECOVERY DIVER UNDERWATER NATURALIST Includes: Crew-Paks, air, and beach dives. Add a boat charter to get the most out of your Specialty Course.

ENRICHED AIR NITROX DIVER
Date: Call for Schedule
Price: $195
Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits 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 vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization). Course Details

WRECK DIVER COURSE
Date: Call for Schedule
Price: $400
You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet. Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving. Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old. Number of Dives: Four dives over two day. Materials You’ll Need: Wreck-Pak, which includes the PADI Wreck Diver Manual and Wreck Diving video. Two lights, Cutting tool, Cave Reel or Finger Spool, and Dive Computer. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment. Includes: 2 days of Two Tank Diving on and in some of the best Wreck dives in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Course Details

DEEP DIVER COURSE
Date: Call for Schedule
Price: $400
The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about. In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet. Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it. Must be a PADI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old Experience diving beyond 18 metres/60 feet Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards Four open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 60 - 130 feet. Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. Includes: 2 days of Two Tank Diving, tanks, and contingency air (hang tanks, pony bottles, etc.) Course Details

DSAT Gas Blender
Date: Scheduled upon Request
Price: $250
The Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers. You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.

TEC 40 Diver
Date: Scheduled upon Request
Price: $500 Plus Dives
Are you interested in technical diving? You may consider an "intro" to Tec by enrolling in the PADI Tec 40 course. It is the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver course and consists of the first four dives. Because you can do one of these dives in confined water (such as a swimming pool), many divers start the Tec 40 courses in the winter months, ready to continue in open water when spring arrives. You'll learn to use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 metres/130 feet. Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.Since it's part of the course, your PADI Tec 40 course training credits toward the PADI Tec 45 and Tec 50 courses. Price $500 Sample Schedule Day 1 Knowledge Development and Traing Dive 1 Day 2 Training Dive 2-3 Day 3 Training Dive 4 Please cal For Details on Tec 45 through Trimix.

PADI Divemaster/Assistant Instructor/IDC/PADI STAFF
2012 Dates: Dive Master: Feb. 11, Apr. 14, June 9, July 14, Aug. 11, and Oct. 6 Instructor Development Course: Feb. 15-24, April 19-28, August 16-25, and October 18-26
Price: See course details for individual pricing
PADI Divemaster Course Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. Course Details

CAVERN DIVER, BASIC CAVE DIVER and FULL CAVE DIVER
Date: Call for Dates
Price: $400
The PADI Cavern Diver Course Can you see the light? If you dive within the light zone of a cave–the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible–you're in the cavern zone. The Fun Part The fun part is exploring secrets hidden in caverns around the world and having the knowledge and skills to do it correctly. What You Learn This is a challenging and very exciting course that includes four training dives over at least two days. During your first open water dive you'll practice line handling, reel use and emergency procedures without entering a cavern. But, for your next three dives, you're headed into the cavern, staying within the light zone and 40 metres/130 feet total distance from the surface. You learn about Cavern navigation and line protocols Planning, organization, techniques, problems and hazards of cavern diving Special equipment use, such as lights, guidelines, reels and redundant breathing systems Air sharing, disorientation, silting, line problems and other emergency procedures specific to cavern diving Silt prevention, buoyancy control, air management and emergency procedures Depth and distant limits for cavern diving The Scuba Gear You Use You use all the basic scuba gear plus some specialty gear for cavern diving. This is one of the few diving activities in which you won’t use your snorkel. For Basic and Full Email Jeff

Public Safety Diver Specialty Course
2012 Dates: April 12-15, August 2-5, October 4-7 and can be scheduled upon request.
Price: $495
Public Safety Diver Specialty Course PADI Americas, in conjunction with PADI Members active and experienced in the public safety diving field, are putting the finishing touches on a new Public Safety Diving Specialty program. The program uses proven field techniques and both meets and addresses important National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) guidelines found in NFPA 1006 and 1670. The minimum prerequisite certification for student divers is PADI Rescue Diver. The PADI Search and Recovery Diver course is strongly recommended due to the techniques used extensively in public safety diver training and in the field. Course Details

PADI SIDEMOUNT DIVER
Date: Scheduled upon request
Price: $400 (Includes Sidemount Rental)
Sidemount diving enables a unique way of buoyancy control resulting in a more streamlined profile that reduces drag making finning and moving through the water easier and more efficient. Offers a greater comfort level as sidemount equipment and harness can be custom fit to each individual, accommodating divers of all shapes and sizes. Great for divers with any disabilities, as you carry the cylinder(s) separate from your harness to the water. Whilst within the water you would then attach your cylinders and weights, making the entries and exits to dive sites much easier. Safer option in terms of air management as you have an easier access to your cylinder valve(s), first stage(s) and alternate regulator should a problem arise. One harness and BCD does it all. This statement is now true as the same sidemount equipment you use, can be used for more advanced types of diving i.e wreck, technical and cave diving." Sample Schedule Day 1 Sidemount Equipment Orientation, Confined Water Dives Day 2 Openwater Dives 1-3

PADI PADI Seal Team Kid's Summer Camps and Youth Diving Programs

Date: Twice a month during summer and scheduled upon request through out the year.

Price: Seal Team $250, Jr. Open Water add on $199

The PADI Seal Team is for young divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by doing exciting scuba AquaMissions. Divers are introduced to underwater photography, navigation, environmental awareness and more.

To register: Call or stop by Down Under Dive Shop,1129 GulfShores Parkway Gulf Shores, AL 36542,(251) 968-3483 or call Coach Lila directly for details and questions 334-315-5730

Prerequisite: Children must be comfortable in the water. Parents must be present to sign required paperwork before camp begins. PLEASE arrive 15 minutes early on the first day to sign paperwork.

All camps will run Monday-Thursday at the above listed times, and end the week with a snorkel trip on Friday (11am-1pm )and a fun awards ceremony. Parents may join the snorkel trip for $35 + rental gear. If weather prevents any day of the camp, it will be rescheduled as soon as possible. Underwater photographs will be offered for purchase, with asigned release.

All camps include the PADI “crew pack” (materials), a completion certificate, activity & log book, and a Seal Team decal and badge. All equipment will be provided to include mask, snorkel, fins, tank, BC, and regulator.
Campers may purchase a mask, snorkel, & fin package at a reduced rate from Down Under Dive Shop.

Seal Team members can participate in Master Seal Team or become a certified Junior Open Water Diver (Only age 10 & up) for additional cost. Information will be provided on the first day of camp.

Other Youth Diver Programs:

PADI Junior Adventure Diver and PADI Junior Open Water Diver

Junior Open Water Diver add on (ages 10-14) +$199

Young people can take the full PADI Open Water Diver scuba certification course and upon completion will become Junior Open Water Divers with certain age limitations for scuba diving:

Junior Open Water Divers ages 10-11 years old must dive with a PADI Professional or certified parent/guardian. Dives must not exceed 12 metres /40 feet.
Junior Open Water Divers ages 12-14 years old must dive with a certified adult.

Junior Advanced Open Water Diver(ages 12-14)

Young people can continue the adventure and build their skills by taking the Advanced Open Water Diver course with a few limitations

Junior Open Water Divers ages 10-11 years must complete three adventure dives to become a Junior Adventure Diver. They must dive with a PADI Professional or certified parent/guardian. Dives must not exceed 12 metres/ 40 feet
Junior Open Water Divers ages 12-14 years may complete three Adventure Dives to earn the Junior Adventure Diver rating or five Adventure Dives to earn the Junior Advanced Open Water rating They must dive with a certified adult.

Junior Rescue Diver (ages 12-14) $350

Young divers ages 12-14 rise to challenges and learn how to master them in the PADI Rescue Diver course. Upon completion, they become Junior Rescue Divers. They must dive with a certified adult.