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Monday, 10 October 2011 01:12

Specialty Dive Training in Hawaii

Become a specialty diver in one of the folowing categories on the North Shore and around Hawaii. Get 5 specialties and become a PADI Master Diver.  

Night diver specialty

As the sun sets, you don yourdive gear, slip on your scuba mask and bite down on your dive regulator. A deep breath and you get ge into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light 

The Fun Part
Introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down. See your favorite dive sites from a whole new perspective at night.

What You Learn
  • Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems
  • How to control your buoyance at night
  • Entries, exits and underwater navigation at night
  • Nocturnal aquatic life, since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different
3 Scuba dives total
Price $350.00 It includes all gear 
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification 
 
Wreck diver specialty

Oahu is the capital of wreck diving in all the Hawaiian Island and Hawaii Eco Divers has access to most of them. Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they’re intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.

The Fun Part
The fun part of the PADI Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook. Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognizes that a small hole or open door likely caused the vessel’s demise.

What You Learn
  • Techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards
  • How to research and learn the background of your favorite wrecks
  • Wreck scuba diving equipment considerations
  • Considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks
  • Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four wreck dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
4 Scuba dives total
Price $375.00 It includes all gear 
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification

Deep diver specialty

After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There’s something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts dives. Oahu has amazing shipwrecks and they are all found in deep water.

What You Learn
  • Techniques for diving in the deeper  range of 18-40 metres/ 60-130 feet
    Deep scuba diving equipment considerations
  • Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
4 Scuba dives total
Price $375.00 It includes all gear 
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification
 
Underwater photography specialty diver

Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever. This is why there are actually two PADI underwater photography courses. The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros. The PADI Underwater Photographer course is a more traditional photography course designed for conventional film equipment.

What You Learn
  • How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
  • The PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
  • The three primary principles for good underwater photos
2 Scuba dives total
Price $185.00 It includes all gear and camera
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification

 
Underwater videography specialty diver

Other than taking someone diving, there’s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world: video.

The Fun Part
Show your scuba adventures to your friends and family. Use your editing skills to share your clips with the world through YouTube, Facebook and more. Use your underwater videos to turn more of your friends into dive buddies.

What You Learn
The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again.
  • Selecting, maintaining and caring for your underwater video equipment
  • Videography fundamentals, such as
       · exposure
       · focus
       · shot types
       · moves
       · story line
       · shot sequencing.
  • The post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece.
4 Scuba dives total
Price $350.00 It includes all gear and High Definition video camera
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification
 

Underwater naturalist specialty diver

Look closer to see more on your next dive. Look for symbioses, predator/prey and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life. Learn not just what fish and animals are, but how they interact with each other and the environment.

The Fun Part
Learn about why some creatures behave the way they do and what their role is in the aquatic ecosystem.

What You Learn
  • The major aquatic life groupings, interactions and factual information that dispels negative myths.
  • The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships
  • Responsible interactions with aquatic life
  • The underwater naturalist’s view of organisms and their roles in the environment
2 Scuba dives 
Price $185.00 It includes all gear
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification 

Peak Buoyancy performance specialty

What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who’ve mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a Padi Open Wter diver and elevates them to the next level.

The Fun Part
The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible.

What You Learn
  • How to trim your scuba gearso you’re perfectly balanced in the water
  • Nuances in determining weight so you’re not too light nor too heavy by even a slight degree
  • How to streamline to save air and move smoothly through the water
  • How to hover effortlessly in both a vertical position and a horizontal position
2 Scuba dives 
Price $185.00 It includes all gear
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification

Nitrox diver

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

The Fun Part
You can typically stay down longer and get back the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.

What You Learn
  • Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox
  • Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations
  • Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what’s in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer 
No Scuba dives required
Price $145.00 
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification, Age 12

Fish Identification specialty diver

Have you ever been scuba diving and asked yourself, "What was that?” 20% to 25% of the species of fish found in Hawaii are endemic, which means only found here. The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer.

The Fun Part
You’ll find you enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures that you see. The fun part about this course is you can use the skills you learn on every scuba dive vacation because once you learn the main fish families and characteristics it will help you decipher the species you see all over the world.

2 Scuba dives 
Price $185.00 It includes all gear
Pre-requisites - Open water dive certification
Published in Dive Training
Sunday, 09 October 2011 21:51

Dive Master Course in Hawaii

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Looking for the first step to working with scuba as a career?  Your adventure into the professional levels of recreacional scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a Padi instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and apply your skills at a professional level.

What You Learn

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems as well as help others improve their scuba skills. You put this knowledge into action through a structured internship or series of practical training exercises.

The Learning Materials You Need

The PADI Divemaster crewpak includes everything you’ll need to start the PADI Divemaster program. The complete set of materials includes:
  • The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving - a comprehensive overview of diving physics, physiology, and equipment.
  • Divemaster slates
  • PADI Divemaster Manual
  • PADI Instructor Manual
  • Scuba Tune-Up Guidebook
  • DSD Cue Card
  • Pro Logbook
Scuba dive training on the North Shore and around Oahu, Hawaii.
 
Price $750.00  It includes all books and certification fees.
 
Pre-requisites; Rescue diver, current EFR, 18 years old.

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Sunday, 09 October 2011 20:55

EFR - Emergency First Responder

First aid and CPR are good skills for everyone involved in adventure sports. It's also a mandatory pre-requesition for the Rescue Diver course. The emergency first response is a PADI affiliate that specializes in teaching these life savings skills.
Learn how to administer CPR on an unresponsive person and to provide secondary care for emergencies.  An intensive emergency training course, not only for the diver, but for anyone that has a loved one who could potentially be in need.  You never know when you may need to use it.  
 
Price  $105.00  It includes books and certification fees.


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Published in Dive Training
Thursday, 06 October 2011 02:11

Padi Advanced Open Water Course

Take it to next level, become an advanced diver and discover a fascinating part of our ocean, "The Deep Blue".  

With the advanced open water training, you will have enough skills to dive to deep water, wrecks, drifts, at night, caverns, and more...

Scuba dive the amazing dive sites of the North Shore while working on your scuba certification. Oahu has great shipwrecks and reef dives that requires some level of experience.

Learn how to take underwater pictures and videos, work on an underwater naturalism project to identify different fish family groups and species.

Work on your buoyance skills to avoid crushing and damaging the reef or getting yourself stung by a sea urchin. Perform a search and recovery dive to look for missing objects.

Be able to follow your compass and account for natural navigation as you learn how to lead dives.

These are all the fun dives and important skills you will master in order to accomplish the advanced open water certification.

The course consists of a total of 5 dives and it can be completed in 2-3 days. 
 
Price $325.00 Includes gear, books and certification fees. 
 
 
Pre-requisites: Basic Open water certification


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Published in Dive Training
Thursday, 06 October 2011 00:08

PADI Open Water Course

Complete your Padi Open water certification in Hawaii in only 3 days!
 
 
Do your entire training in the beautiful blue ocean of Hawaii and have a close interaction with the Hawaiian marine life and its ecosystem.  

We emphasize safe dive training practices and marine education throughout our program.  You will learn important tips to help identify different types of life, including the endemic species of Hawaii.

Scuba dive training can be done on the North shore of Oahu, West side and around Waikiki.
 
The course consists of an academic session where students will discuss all information learned from the books, 5 confined water sessions and 4 open water dives. It can be done in three full days. 
 
Price  $350.00  Includes gear, materials and certification fees.

Pre-requisites:  Know how to swim, 10 years old +

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Published in Dive Training
Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:33

Corsair


Depth 107 ft./35 m.  Wreck dive.  The Corsair is the only non-artificial wreck in Oahu.  In 1946, the pilot of this airplane ditched it as it was running out of fuel off Hawaii Kai.  Although he managed to escape and survive, the plane remains intact at the bottom of the ocean at 105 feet.  This is one of a few sites that hundreds of endemic garden eels can be seen, where they are always surrounding the wreck and playing hide-and-seek with the divers.  Large stingrays often visit the area as well.  This site has one of the best visibilities of the island, an average day being 100 feet.   However, visibility reaches close to 180 feet/ 60m. at best!  Intermediate to advanced dive.
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Hawaii Eco Divers & Surf Adventures offers scuba diving, surf tours, kayaking, parasailing, shark diving, hiking, skydiving and helicopter tours on the North Shore and all around the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
From our base near Waimea Bay on the North Shore we have many options for amazing dives. Sharks Cove, Three Tables and Waimea are sure bets for a fun shore dive with lots of features, lava formations and lots of marine life. From the famous boat wrecks around Waikiki like the Sea Tiger, San Pedro and YO-257, to Turtle Canyon, Hanauma Bay, the Corsair wreck, we got the South Shore of Oahu covered! On the West Coast we have some of the best dives on the island mixing reefs, rock formations, lava tubes, boat wrecks, and amazing marine life. Sharks, eagle rays, dragon eels, whale and dolphin watching while on deck, the list goes on! The Mahi wreck, Makaha caverns and Black Rock are some of the best dives in this area.

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