Dive Deeper

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Computer Nitrox Diver

Use your computer to plan dives using air enriched with extra oxygen to extend your bottom times.

Dive longer and enhance safety with Nitrox certification, the choice gas for discerning divers. Our Computer Nitrox course equips you with the know-how to safely harness Nitrox’s benefits using your recreational dive computer, enriching your dives with gas mixtures from 22% to 40% oxygen. No dives are required for this class, but it is the world’s most popular specialty because of the excellent knowledge and ability graduates gain.

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Advanced Open Water

A fun weekend of sampling different specialties which increase your basic skills and comfort down to 100ft.

Taking Hydra’s Advanced Open Water class offers divers an opportunity to expand the Open Water Diver’s skills, knowledge, and confidence beyond the basic certification level. This course introduces divers to deep diving, DSMB use, night diving, wreck diving, and truly advanced buoyancy. PADI’s AOW certification enhances safety by equipping divers with the skills to handle diverse diving conditions and environments. Overall, the Advanced Open Water class is not just about advancing one's diving credentials but also about broadening horizons, enriching experiences, and becoming a more capable and versatile diver.

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Rescue Diver

Learn how to prevent problems and rescue distressed divers. Discover why countless divers say Rescue Diver is their favorite scuba course. The PADI® Rescue Diver course will change the way you dive – in the best possible way.

Even if you never encounter an emergency while diving, being prepared for such situations is crucial. Rescue diver training equips you with the knowledge and skills to recognize potential issues early and take proactive measures to prevent them from escalating. These added skills will also increase your confidence on dive trips. If you're interested in pursuing a career in diving, such as becoming a dive instructor or dive master, rescue diver certification is often a prerequisite. Even if you're not planning a career in diving, having this certification can open opportunities for leadership roles within dive clubs or organizations.

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Diving First Aid
for Professionals

As a prerequisite for Rescue Diver, first aid training, and incident management skills straight from Divers Alert Network empower any diver to empower people to step up and take action should these situations arise.

Developed by dive medicine physicians and diving educators, DFA Pro includes training in First Aid, CPR & AED, Oxygen Provider, Marine Life Injuries, and Neurological Assessment. We will prepare you to manage injuries related to scuba diving as well as those that occur in other settings. All courses meet current ILCOR and AHA guidelines. Isn’t it worth a few hours one evening or weekend to learn skills that could save a life?

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Sidemount

Do you want better trim, more gas, complete redundancy, and more fluid dive travel? Sidemount can bring you these benefits even in recreation diving. Although originally born in caves, sidemount provides more flexibility than single or double tank backmount in the open water as well. Sidemounting your cylinders correctly provides a more streamlined profile making propulsion, buoyancy control.

And trim easier than backmounted configurations. We also specifically work on these fundamental skills throughout the course, similar to the Intro To Tech course.

Redundancy with two or more sidemounted cylinders provides additional safety in the event of an equipment failure and the potential for greater gas reserves. While this is also the case for backmounted double configuration, sidemounting your cylinders means that your cylinder valves are in view and easily reachable in the event of an issue.

Managing each cylinder individually both in and out of the water means sidemount is easier for those with back or shoulder issues or who simply struggle with the weight of backmounted doubles. And because traditional cylinders can be used, you can dive one, two, or more cylinders even in the most remote diving destinations where twinsets cannot be found.
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Intro to Tech

While students of this course do not leave with a card signifying their new, increased, depth limit, they do graduate to a whole new skill level in diving, whether interested in technical diving or not. This course will tutor the Open Water diver who has 25 logged dives with the rugged equipment, clear underwater communication, and impeccable fundamentals born from technical diving.

We will review and dive twinsets for at least two dives as a true introduction into technical diving, but the following 4 dives only require a backplate/wing style BCD and a regulator set up in long-hose-primary-donate, along with basic SCUBA gear. In either doubles or singles, no dives will be beyond previous limits or use any new breathing gas. However, we will refine the ‘4 Fundamentals’ (Buoyancy, Trim, Propulsion, Breathing) and our ‘7 Heads’ until mastery before certification, even if more than 6 dives are required.

Deep Diver

Dive down to the recreational limit, 130ft, with confidence in your new skills.

Managing each cylinder individually both in and out of the water means sidemount is easier for those with back or shoulder issues or who simply struggle with the weight of backmounted doubles. Sidemounting cylinders also holds the valves in view for opening and closing underwater. And because traditional cylinders can be used, you can dive one, two, or more cylinders even in the most remote diving destinations where twinsets cannot be found.

Wreck

Learn to navigate, identify hazards, and make simple penetrations into worldwide wrecks of the deep.

Underwater Photographer

The SDI Underwater Photographer Diver Course is designed to introduce divers to the equipment, techniques and procedures necessary to take underwater photos with a GoPro or DSLR.

Dry Suit

As either a preparatory course for future technical diving or a means to dive colder water, Hydra’s Dry Suit Diver Course will open up a whole new world of diving to you.

Night/Limited Vis

Individuals that wish to explore the underwater world at night, along with the nocturnal wildlife, or master the use of a dive light in team dynamics.