PADI Dry Suit Diver

Unlike wetsuits, drysuits are filled with air. During your drysuit course, your instructor will teach you how to control the air in your drysuit along with your buoyancy.

What You Learn

During one pool session and two open water dives, you’ll learn how to comfortably and confidently dive in a drysuit. An experienced instructor will help you dial in your buoyancy and shorten the learning curve. You’ll also learn about different types of drysuits, basic drysuit repairs and maintenance.

You’ll practice taking your drysuit on and off, determine how much weight you need, and master basic drysuit skills in a pool before making two open water dives.

Prerequisites

To take this course, you must be:

• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)
• 10 years old or older
• Medically fit to dive

The OTB Diving PADI Drysuit Diver course cost includes:

• PADI Drysuit Diver Manual/eLearning
• 2 qualification training dives
• PADI Certification card
• Rental of all scuba equipment
• FREE use of Dive Computer 

PADI Dry Suit Course Overview

• the planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of dry suit diving
• proper procedures for buoyancy control
• ascent and descent technique training
• routine, user-level, preventative maintenance

The goals of the OTB Diving PADI Dry Suit Course training are:

• to develop the student’s knowledge of dry suits – when to use dry suits, types of dry suits available, dry suit accessories, their maintenance, and how to make minor repairs
• to develop the student’s ability to perform the skills needed, or that may be needed, when diving in a dry suit
• to enable the student diver to plan, organise and conduct dives using a dry suit