To unsubscribe click here SUCCESS! ALL OF OUR WICHITA STATE SCUBA STUDENTS PASSED THEIR SCUBA WATER SKILLS. THANKS TO OUR LEAD INSTRUCTOR ROYCE TAYLOR, INSTRUCTOR VAUGHN COSSEL, AND DIVE MASTER NEIL GARRETT FOR LEADING THIS GROUP THROUGH A WATER WAS COOL, WEATHER WARM, AND LOTS OF FUN WAS GREAT AND WORTHY JOURNEY. HAD. THANKS TO COURSE DIRECTOR CHRIS HULETT AND IDC STAFF INSTRUCTOR SUSAN HULETT FOR HELPING THESE TWO GET OPEN WATER CERTIFIED SARAH WOELK PADI OPEN CHRIS WOELK PADI OPEN WATER DIVER WATER DIVER WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME TEACHING AND CERTIFYING THIS GROUP FROM A LOCAL CHURCH IN CPR-AED-AND FIRST AID. SCUBA SCHOOL PADI DISCOVER SCUBA OCT 14 WICHITA STATE SCUBA CLASS SCUBA REVIEW—OR JUST COME AND PLAY ANDOVER BRANCH YMCA POOL OCT 16-18 OPEN WATER PART 2, ADVANCED COURSE, AND ANY DIVE SPECIALTY (BEAVER LAKE) SATURDAY OCTOBER 17, 2020 OCT 18 FIRST AID CLASS Why PADI Scuba Review? OCT 21 WICHITA STATE SCUBA CLASS Are you a certified diver, but haven't been in the water lately? Are you looking to refresh your dive skills and knowledge? Are you a OCT 23-25 OPEN WATER PART ONE CLASS PADI Scuba Diver and want to earn your PADI Open Water Diver OCT 24 DISCOVER SCUBA, SCUBA REVIEW certification? If you answered yes to any of these questions then PADI Scuba Review is for you. COURSE, OR JUST COME AND PLAY What do I need to start? OCT 25 FIRST AID CLASS Hold a scuba certification Minimum age: 10 years old OCT 31-NOV 7 ST. LUCIA TRIP What will I do? NOV 6-8 OPEN WATER PART ONE CLASS First, you'll review the safety information you learned during your NOV 7 DISCOVER SCUBA, SCUBA REVIEW initial training. Then, you head to the pool to practice some of the fundamental scuba skills COURSE, OR JUST COME AND PLAY How long will it take? NOV 13-15 OPEN WATER PART ONE CLASS A couple of hours NOV 14 DISCOVER SCUBA, SCUBA REVIEW What will I need? COURSE, OR JUST COME AND PLAY If you don’t have your own gear you will need to rent gear. I don’t want a review, but I want to play? NOV 15 FIRST AID CLASS No problem, Just sign up and come play in the pool for a couple NOV 20-22 OPEN WATER PART ONE CLASS of hours….we want you diving! NOV 21 DISCOVER SCUBA, SCUBA REVIEW • $75.00 for Refresher (includes gear rental and pool fee) COURSE, OR JUST COME AND PLAY No Refresher, don’t have gear, but you want to play? • NOV 22 FIRST AID CLASS Full gear rental $38.00 plus and pool fee. NOV 27-29 OPEN WATER PART ONE CLASS • Have all your gear but just want to play? $15.00 NOV 28 DISCOVER SCUBA, SCUBA REVIEW • IF YOU BOUGHT A SCUBA SYSTEM FROM US, IT’S FREE COURSE, OR JUST COME AND PLAY STARTS AT NOON NOV 29 FIRST AID CLASS CALL TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT MAKE EVERY WEEKEND A DIVE WEEKEND Practice Makes Perfect – Tune Up Your Scuba Skills Some people think it’s time to start their diving hibernation as the winter-long surface interval starts so how do you stay fresh or reacquaint yourself with the skills that may have gotten a bit rusty? “Use it or lose it”, the old adage says, and it's very true, and definitely also for scuba diving. But sometimes, it just isn’t possible to use your dive skills during the fall and winter, even though there is the option for diving during the winter season. So if you’re among the majority of divers, who take the colder months off...DON’T. We offer pool refreshers every Saturday during the colder months. So here are a few fun skills that can help you stay fresh and better yet, WET. 1. Do you ABC’s Take your time to go through your kit, and make sure all is in order, and that you’re being extra thorough in assembling the elements. Haste makes waste. So take your time. 2. Practice your basic water skills Go through the basic dive skills. Do a hover (if you strug- gle, start with the fin pivot), remove and replace regula- tor, remove and replace mask. If you’re really ambitious, you can also remove and replace BCD and weight belt at the surface. And if your buoyancy is top notch, take it up a level and try inverted hovers, trim, etc. If you have the opportunity, also practice a few water entry strategies, such as giant stride. 3. Practice emergency skills Next, move to the more advanced skills, and consider repeating these from time to time, in-season. These include deploying an SMB, out-of-air scenario, and re-surfacing of an unconscious or injured diver. If you dive with doubles, also practice your basic shut- down drills. 4. Work your communication skills Agree with your buddy that at some point during the dive, you both need to communicate something on the dive, preferably rather complex, to the other. Make it scenario based, and make sure you have a sign to communicate that this is in fact just a scenario. Bring two writing slates or wet note books. You or your buddy then communicates a message to the other, who then writes down what he or she believes is communicated. Then you switch. Afterwards, you've compare notes and see how efficiently you've communicated the messages. All of these skills are of course necessary for all scuba divers. These skills are always valuable, and elements of it should be repeated all year long, preferably on easy dives at well-known sites, but unless your rich that’s very difficult. Better yet, come do a“Refresher Tune-up Course” at Amber Waves Diving. The cost is only $75 for a refresher or you can rent our gear and play in the pool. DON’T STOP DIVING JUST BECAUSE IT’S COLD OUTSIDE. ENRICHED AIR CLASS FORMING NOW….CALL 316-775-6688 ENRICHED AIR—NITROX PADI EQUIPMENT SPCIALTY COURSE...IS IT WORTH IT? There are many benefits to using nitrox while scuba diving, as well as Don’t miss a dive due to a scuba gear issue. Whether it's a blown O- risks and considerations for nitrox use. Personally, I feel the benefits ring, regulator problem, wetsuit tear or far outweigh the risks, and use nitrox every chance that I get! a broken fin strap, you can learn how to manage basic scuba equipment ad- 1. Longer Bottom Times justments. Recreational nitrox (21 - 40% oxygen) contains a lower percentage of As a PADI Equipment Specialist, you nitrogen than air. The reduced percentage of nitrogen in recreational are prepared for the basic scuba equip- nitrox allows divers to extend their no-decompression limits by reduc- ment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. ing nitrogen absorption. For example, according to the NOAA In addition, you'll learn interesting background information about how (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association) no- your gear works, how it’s repair and other information that helps you decompression dive tables, a diver using Nitrox 36 (or NOAA Nitrox II) with your equipment investment. may stay up to 50 minutes at 90 feet of sea water, while a diver using air may only stay a maximum of 30 minutes at this depth. Additionally, if you don’t already have your PADI Advanced Certifica- tion, this course counts as one of your dives. More importantly this 2. Shorter Surface Intervals course counts toward a specialty needed for your Master Scuba Diver A diver using nitrox absorbs less nitrogen on a given dive than one Certification. who uses air. This means that the nitrox diver has less nitrogen to off- PADI Equipment Specialty - How does it work? gas during the surface interval, which can shorten the required sur- face interval drastically. For example, a diver using Nitrox 32 can re- To enroll in the PADI Equipment Specialty course in Bali, you must be peat a 50 minute dive to 60 feet after 41 minutes, while a diver using a PADI Scuba Diver (or qualifying certification from another organiza- air must wait a minimum of 8 hours to repeat the same dive (using to tion). No dives are required, so you can take the Equipment Specialist NOAA's no decompression dive tables). course any time of the year. 3. Longer Repetitive Dive Times With the PADI equipment specialty course you will come to our dive center where our Instructor will go through the following with you: Nitrox becomes especially useful for divers who engage in more than one dive per a day. A diver using nitrox will have a longer allowable • Review the theory, principles and operation of scuba diving bottom time on a repetitive dive than a diver using air because the equipment diver using nitrox has absorbed less nitrogen. • Learn about routine, recommended care and maintenance proce- For example, after a dive to 70 feet for 30 minutes, a diver using Ni- dures, and equipment storage trox 32 can stay at 70 feet for a maximum of 24 minutes if he immedi- • How to overcome common problems with equipment and recom- ately reenters the water. However, a diver performing the same se- mended professional maintenance procedures (may include a ries of dives on air may only stay at 70 feet for 19 minutes on his sec- demonstration of repair procedures). ond dive (according to NOAA's no decompression dive tables).