Central Florida Cave & Spring Dive Trip / Cavern Diver Course

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Indian Valley Scuba

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Central Florida Course Flyer & Trip Sign Up Form: http://www.indianvalleyscuba.com/travel page/Trip pdfs/IVS_2011_Central_Florida.pdf

Are you ready for a new adventure in diving! Join us in Central Florida and get ready for the wonders offered in Overhead Environment Diving! Join us for three days in central FL diving the springs and caves of the area. For those who lack proper certification Instructors Avery Chipka and Dave Valaika will be offering Cavern Diver courses.

Cavern Diver Course Flyer: http://www.indianvalleyscuba.com/training page/Recreation Special/pdf files/RST310-CavernDiver.pdf

This is a challenging and very exciting course that includes four training dives and two fun dives over three day period. During your first dive you'll practice line handling, reel use and emergency procedures outside of the cavern. But, for your next three dives, you're headed into the cavern, staying within the light zone and 40 metres/130 feet total distance from the surface. To conclude each day you will join your instructor on a fun training free dive for some additional practice. During the course you'll learn about:

• Cavern navigation and line protocols.
• Planning, organization, techniques, problems and hazards of cavern diving.
• Special equipment use, such as lights, guidelines and reels.
• Air sharing, disorientation, silting, line problems and other emergency procedures specific to cavern diving.
• Silt prevention, buoyancy control, air management and emergency procedures.
• Depth and distant limits for cavern diving.

For those looking to explore past the cavern zone and into underwater caves the cavern diver course is the first step down this exciting road.

To enroll in this course students will need to be rated as Advanced Open Water divers and should be comfortable with the use of either double cylinders or a redundant air supply such as a sling bottle or pony bottle. Divers who have not been trained on the use of a redundant air supply should consider enrolling in a Self-Reliant Diver or Introduction to Tec course before enrolling in this course. Due to the nature of overhead environment diving this course has special equipment requirements and students will need to meet with the course instructor either via internet video chat or in person to review equipment requirements before the start of the course.

Florida Springs have a year round temperature of just below 70 degrees and provide for a great location for an introduction to diving caverns and caves.

The cavern diver course has a enrollment cost of $300 plus the cost of the trip ($350) which includes lodging and site entrance fees. Total cost of the trip and cavern course combined is only $750!

Space is limited to four divers per instructor so call us today at 215-256-6000 to start your adventure today!

Looking to get the most for your money? Cavern Diver training is included in IVS's Technical Level 1 and Cave Diver Life Time Learning passes. Learning passes included a huge selection of courses, never expire and are one of the best deals around! Additional information on the IVS Technical Lifetime Learning Package can be found here: http://www.indianvalleyscuba.com/training page/Technical/pdf/IVSTecLifeTimeLearning.pdf
 
Shouldn't this be in the retail or spam section?
 
@ucfdiver-Yes- the post is in the right section since we are teaching Tech Specialty classes but thanks for responding to the post!

@Ozwald- thanks for reaching out and look forward to seeing you
 
The cavern diver course has a enrollment cost of $300 plus the cost of the trip ($350) which includes lodging and site entrance fees. Total cost of the trip and cavern course combined is only $750!

Umm, I might be missing something here and bear in mind that I did go to high school in Tennessee and I am attending a public university, but doesn't $300 and $350 add up to $650, not $750?

Kristopher
 
Thanks knfmn
For pointing out our Typo. The total cost of the trip is $650.00 and not $750.00 posted

@ianr33
Cavern Diving is considered a form of technical diving even though listed as a recreational specialty by most training agencies due to the overhead environments and requirement for redundant gear beyond traditional recreational diving.

Come join us and experience the fun!
 
Yes, IANTD considers both Cavern and Intro. to Cave sport diver programs, not technical diver programs as per their standards and procedures. BTW, is this an IANTD class?
 
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