High Sierra Divers:Scuba Schools International Scuba Diving Classes available from High Sierra Divers.

HIGH SIERRA DIVERS
217 Palm Avenue Auburn, CA 95603
(530) 823-6757 E-Mail info@hsdivers.com
Hours: Monday-Friday 10 AM - 6 PM Saturday 10 AM - 4 PM

SCUBA SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONED COURSE DETAILS

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TRY SCUBA

Try Scuba is an orientation to diving that allows non-divers to experience diving in a pool or open water, under the direct supervision of a dive leader, with a minimal amount of instruction and classroom time.

Knowledge: The academic session focuses on the immediate needs of divers such as equipment adjustment, equalizing pressure, breathing, moving through the water and orientation.

Skills: So you can start diving as soon as possible, you'll practice a reduced skill set with SSI's Comfort Through Repetition teaching method in a pool/confined water session.

Equipment: With the goal being to develop a working knowledge of scuba equipment, divers will receive an introduction to basic scuba equipment with an emphasis on equipment handling.

Experience:Upon completing the Try Scuba program, divers can apply their experience and receive credit for their Try Scuba course.

Open Water Scuba Course

Diving offers a lifetime of exciting adventure and the ideal way to begin that adventure is with SSI's Open Water Diver course. Under the guidance of a professional SSI Instructor, you will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to enjoy a lifetime of underwater exploration.

Knowledge SSI's modular, six-session teaching system includes a video, manual, study guide, DiveLog and dive tables. And with SSI's home study approach, you will be able to minimize your time in the classroom allowing for more time in the water developing ability and comfort.

Skills: In multiple pool and open water session, you will practice scuba skills with SSI's exclusive Comfort Through Repetition teaching method. Some of the skills you will learn include: Moving in the water with ease Breathing normally under water Controlling buoyancy so you neither descend nor ascend The easiest ways to enter and exit the water Getting water out of your mask or mask clearing

Equipment: Since you can't dive without equipment, there is extensive information on scuba equipment including: Selecting the best diving equipment for your needs and budget Maintaining and adjusting your equipment to extend its life and improve performance.

Any Agency
Refresher Course

The Refresher Course is designed to update and review the knowledge and skill level of an individual who has not dived in a year or more. The Diver can take the complete course or any portion of our regular Open Water Diver Course. This is a non-certification course and is discounted from the price of the standard Open Water Scuba Diver Course.

Any Agency
Scuba Skills Update (Tune-Up)

Recapture that feeling of total confidence by updating the diving skills you learned in your Open Water Diver course.

Knowledge: Your Scuba Skills Update Dive Leader will review the knowledge you learned in your Open Water Diver class as well as cover any new material. You will review dive planning, dive tables and dive execution.

Skills: In the Scuba Skills Update you will have the opportunity to practice and review the scuba skills you learned in your open water diver class and learn techniques that that may have changed since you took your class. You will have the opportunity to refresh your memory and motor coordination and practice your self-aid skills, all with the guidance of a dive leader.

Equipment: The scuba skills update is a great opportunity to re-learn your current equipment, or the perfect time to learn about and adjust your new equipment with the guidance of a dive leader.

Description This is typically a one evening course with one or two students. Includes classroom and skill performance in a pool with a instructor.

Continuing Educations Ratings

SSI's ConEd Ratings have the highest requirements in the industry. They are not courses per se; rather, they are flexible requirements, that can be met in a variety of ways, allowing you to personalize your continuing education path.

SSI Specialty Diver SSI's intermediate diver rating. Higher than any other agency's advanced courses.

SSI Advanced Open Water Diver SSI's Advanced Diver rating stands alone in the industry with the highest combination of diving knowledge and experience. No other agency's advanced diver level compares.

SSI Master Diver SSI's Master Diver rating is one of the most elite ratings in diving today. Divers that have completed this level have combined the knowledge, skills and experience to truly call themselves Master Divers.

Continuning Education Dive Class

Stress & Rescue

Diver Stress & Rescue is the next course recommended after Open Water Diver, because it helps you gain confidence and makes you a better buddy.

Knowledge You will learn the signs of stress, and how to deal with stress in yourself and other divers before the dive, during the dive and after the dive. Also, you will learn about different personality types and the common actions of each type in stressful situations.

Skills: You will learn skills and techniques to help you and other divers prevent and overcome common stressors associated with diving. You will also learn self aid and buddy aid skills for potentially stressful and/or rescue situations.

Equipment: You will learn about how your equipment can help you to stay relaxed and enjoy every dive, what equipment is required in various rescue situations and how to use your equipment properly in the event of a rescue.

Speciality Classes

Specialty Activities introduce certified divers to a whole new world of diving opportunities. Learning is easy. You can purchase SSI Specialty manuals and videos from your SSI Authorized Dealer, High Sierra Divers. Then enroll in a specialty course, because it is recommended that you practice specialized scuba skills with an SSI Advanced Instructor. Knowledge.

Using the SSI education system you will learn the information about specific types of specialty diving that would take you years of diving to learn on your own.

Skills: Under the guidance of an SSI Advanced Instructor, you will learn the correct skills and techniques associated with the specialties of your choice to make you a more comfortable and confident diver.

Equipment: You will learn how to use an expanded range of equipment to help you make your dives more enjoyable and worthwhile.

SSI Specialty Courses: Boat Diving , Computer Diving , Deep Diving, Diver Stress & Rescue, Dry Suit Diving, Enriched Air Nitrox, Advanced Enriched Air Nitrox, Equipment Techniques, Navigation, Night & Limited Visibility Diving, Search & Recovery, Underwater Photography, Wreck Diving, & Unique Specialties (written by SSI Advanced Instructors).

Open Water Dive Instructor

Learn to be a Scuba Instructor the "SSI Way." Most instructor programs focus only on teaching diving. However, most dive businesses require much more of instructors than merely teaching. The SSI Instructor Training Course (ITC) prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a successful educator, and a valuable dive business employee.

Your training includes:

Techniques for recruiting, teaching and evaluating students
The SSI Education System and Education Philosophy
How dive industry stakeholders interact (manufacturers, media, agencies, retail and travel)
How successful dive retailers and resorts operate
Effective techniques for teaching in the pool and open water
Legal aspects of teaching
The basics of educational sales using SSI's Customer Loyalty Cycle
Why SSI Instructors are More Marketable
SSI Instructors possess business knowledge that instructors from other agencies don't. The expanded course content of the SSI ITC gives you an edge over "teaching only" programs and makes you a much more valuable, well-rounded employee.
SSI Instructors represent the best of both worlds. You are trained to use the award-winning SSI Teaching System and you are trained to be a skilled educator.
SSI Instructors are able to conduct the Universal Referral Program. This program allows you to complete referral dives through six different agencies: IDEA, NASDS, NAUI, PDIC, SSI and the YMCA. This is particularly valuable to resorts that receive customers affiliated with various certification agencies.

What Else Can You Teach? Open Water Diver Passport Diver Program Try Scuba Scuba Skills Update Scuba Rangers (after completing the Scuba Rangers Instructor training) SSI Authorized Scuba Schools and the New Instructor

As a new Instructor, your first few classes can be a little intimidating. When you work for an SSI Authorized Scuba School, you are teaching in an established scuba school with experienced instructors. They can assist with your first few courses and they have a wealth of knowledge to help you progress.

Already an Instructor and Just Need to Crossover? SSI has a convenient crossover program for instructors affiliated with recognized agencies. Our premise is that since you are already an instructor, you only need to learn how SSI's Teaching System and Education Philosophy function.

Dive Control Specialist

SSI Dive Control Specialist is SSI's initial dive leadership level and is considered by many as the "fun" leadership rating. That's because you can do more than any other entry-level dive leader. You can do more because you receive both dive master and assistant instructor training in the SSI Dive Control Specialist course. With other agencies, these courses are separate.

As a Dive Control Specialist you can:

Work on dive boats, at resorts and retail stores, and take people diving
Lead dive trips and tours
Assist SSI Instructors in the pool and open water
Teach skills in the pool under the direct supervision of an SSI Instructor
Teach the SSI Scuba Skills Update program
Teach the SSI Snorkeling program
Teach selected SSI Specialty courses
Teach selected First Aid and CPR programs
Teach Scuba Rangers (after completing the Scuba Rangers Instructor training)

You will study advanced physics, physiology and decompression theory. You'll practice advanced rescue techniques, fine-tune your diving skills and learn the basics of teaching. Plus, there's a high demand for SSI Dive Control Specialists at retail shops and exotic resorts.

Free Altitude Correction Dive Tables
included with each class.

Altitude Diving Course

Dive tables are designed to be used at sea level. Most of us understand thatt flying after diving is dangerous. Altitude diving has similar danger due to the same reason, lower atsmopheric pressure holding the nitrogen disolved in our bloodstream. Learn from the experts who designed the only simple one step altitude tables
In this class you will learn:

Why you need to do conversions to dive at altitude
Why our gauges lie to us at altitude
How to do conversions to equalivant ocean depth
How to use an easy one step conversion table.
Why you need to know conversions even if you have a altitude dive computer.
Why and how long you need to wait before going home after a dive at altitude

This class is taught as part of our basic open water class and as a stand-alone class. Prerequisites:

Basic Openwater Certification. (any agency)

Course Contents:

One evening Lecture
Two dives at Altitude

Nitrox Course

The Nitrox Course is designed to teach you to dive with Enriched Air Nitrox blends between 22% and 40%. It is a lecture only class that will allow you to enjoy the advantages of diving with Enriched Air Nitrox. Enjoy longer bottom times, less fatigue and stay warmer while doing it. Have you ever dreamed of having longer no-decompression limits to take pictures or explore a wreck? Did you ever want to be safer while diving concerning the potential risk of decompression sickness? Nitrox is the key. Due to the reduced fraction of nitrogen in your breathing gas, your body will have less work and the desaturation times will be reduced. In your ENRICHED AIR NITROX program you will learn all the necessary rules for planning dives with Nitrox and using Nitrox in a safe way. An important key point in the entire program is analyzing your own tank prior to any Nitrox dive. "Nitrox for free“ is a slogan in a lot of resorts. This means that you do not have to pay a surcharge for Nitrox, but all diving operators will want to see a valid Nitrox certificate before you can dive. ENRICHED AIR NITROX contains optional dives and therefore it is a perfect “Winter Specialty” before your diving holiday starts. This will allow you to go diving immediately and enjoy the advantages of diving with Nitrox.

Advanced Nitrox Course

This Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use Enriched Air Nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 to a depth of 40 metres/130 feet during dives hat do not require staged decompression. Often taught in conjunction with the TDI Decompression Procedures course, this can be considered the foundation of your technical diving career. Advanced Nitrox is also a great course for those wanting to extend their bottom times in shallower depths such as scientific diver, and a must for SCR or CCR divers. The course covers
topics like

Equipment requirements
Dive planning
Oxygen tracking
Blending methods

You will use the TDI Advanced Nitrox Diving manual for your course, which explains in an easy to understand practical manner the complex information that Advanced Nitrox divers need to know.

CPR, O2 Provider, First Aid Course

The CPR OXYGEN PROVIDER & FIRST AID course is designed to teach you adult First Aid, CPR and Oxygen administration in two evenings.

We feel every diver should know First Aid, CPR and O2 Administration, the three most useful skills in case of a diving accident. The usual deterrent to the acquisition of this knowledge was the time and money required to take these three classes.

High Sierra Divers has offers this truly remarkable program. It cuts to the chase, giving the student the information they need to know in an easy to remember format.

The course is a performance-based program allowing you to master these skills and become a better dive buddy in the process.

We offer the class every other month. On the off month, we offer a free practice session to all alumni of the class.

Cost is only $ 80.00

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High Sierra Divers
217 Palm Avenue Auburn, CA 95603 (530) 823-6757 E-Mail info@hsdivers.com
Hours: Monday-Friday 10 AM - 6 PM Saturday 10 AM - 4 PM