It’s more than skills A great diving instructor is about much more than teaching skills and handing someone a certification card. A certification tells you that a diver has completed the requirements of a course. It does not necessarily tell you that they are confident, comfortable, or truly understand what they are doing underwater. That
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The Skills That Keep You Safe on Every Dive Scuba diving is an activity built on freedom, exploration, and problem solving. While many divers are introduced to the sport through the buddy system, every diver eventually learns an important truth. No matter how good your buddy is, the most important diver on every dive is
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The Wait is Over! The original Scubapro Hydros Pro has long been one of the most innovative buoyancy compensators on the market, and now it’s getting an upgrade. The Hydros Pro 2 takes everything divers loved about the original and improves on nearly every detail: from comfort and travel convenience to weight management and water
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“My tank o-ring is missing.” This is the most common ‘failure’ every diver will encounter at least one point in their life while setting up their gear. Save-a-Dive Kits (or SADs as we call them) are something the majority of divers forget to add to the items they pack and take with them to the
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Animal awareness is awesome! Learning about the living things that you may encounter while diving is key to ensuring that the interactions you have with marine life are safe and healthy. Within this blog series, we will discuss a variety of animals, as well as how to find them and why they are unique. Here
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First Response Training International is a world class organization providing training for layperson rescuers in schools, businesses, and public areas. FRTI offers cutting edge curriculums designed to prepare individuals to handle emergency situations and save lives. As of today, Extreme Sports is now offering training through FRTI. We have four new FRTI instructors qualified to
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First aid kits are something the majority of divers forget to add to the items they pack and take with them to the lake or even on a dive boat. Obviously not every single Open Water SCUBA diver needs to have the most overkill first aid kit with oxygen and all the items necessary to
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it’s simple, right? Wrong. After a newly certified or advanced diver purchases some new dive gear, the hardest part about maintaining that new gear isn’t actually taking care of it properly, it is being able to locate and find it. Diving is a relatively small recreational sport with about 1% of the world’s population ever
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advanced courses = diving experience After a newly certified Open Water SCUBA Diver finishes his/her course. They might be asking themselves what is next. As an employee of Extreme Sports, I would love to sell every new diver an advanced course right after they complete their Open Water. However, this is not the “Extremeology”,as we
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we’re able to prevent accidents from occuring. One of the most important skills in diving is learning how to be aware of your surroundings on a dive. When it comes to a hose failure, you might have small failures that are barely noticeable; or maybe a hose that decides to ‘split’ open. Both of these
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