Advanced Buoyancy Control
■ Master diving’s most essential skill
■ $300/person
The details
Scheduling
Prerequisites
Price includes
About
Scheduling
This program generally takes one day. With sufficient notice, we can usually offer this course when it’s most convenient for you.
Prerequisites
- Be at least 12 years old
- Be certified to at least the Open Water Diver level
- Be able to answer No to all the questions on the medical history questionnaire or obtain a physician’s approval for diving
Price includes
$300/person includes:
- All instruction
- Self-study materials
You supply:
- Mask and snorkel
- Adjustable scuba fins and wetsuit boots
- Full-length wetsuit (5 mm or more recommended)
- Cylinder
- Regulator system with alternate air source
- BC with integrated weight system or weight belt
- Weights
- Dive computer
- Underwater compass
- Dive knife/cutting tool
- Dive light
- SMB
Items you don’t already own are generally available for rent. Students are also responsible for gas fills and dive site admission.
About
Underwater, there’s nothing like being in control. Divers must be able to master buoyancy and know the care and operation of their equipment.
Imagine yourself at the end of a dive with no rope to hold onto during your ascent. Let’s go one step farther and say that boats are running around overhead. With 1,500 psi or less, aluminum tanks float. Are you confident in your ability to control your ascent?
In class, we discuss how to care for dive equipment and use your weight system, BC and breath control to manage buoyancy precisely. In the water, you will learn to make yourself look like a fish rather than a baboon. This horizontal position keeps your lungs and air supply at the same level and pressure. This way, you move less water, use less energy and conserve air.
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