To participate in the underwater research part of the projects, our volunteers need to learn how to dive. Teaching them how to dive is one of our objectives. The diving courses are held in Constanta under the standards of Professional Assotiation of Diving Instructors (PADI). The courses are divided in sevaral modules from the entry level to more advenced. The volunteers involved in underwater exploration will attend to thise courses till the level of Rescue Diver. For the most comited volunteers we can expand the training to Divemaster level or even technical diving including Rebreather Courses.

Open Water Diver Course

Knowledge Development.
Using the PADI manual and videos, you develop an understanding of the basic principles of scuba diving. You learn things like how pressure affects your body, how to choose the best scuba gear and what to consider when planning dives.
You briefly review what you have studied in the five knowledge sections with your instructor and take a short quiz to be sure you’re getting it. At the end of the course, you’ll take a longer quiz that makes sure you have all the key concepts and ideas down. You and your instructor will review anything that you don’t quite get until it’s clear.

Confined Water Dives – Scuba Skills Training
This is what it’s all about – diving. You develop basic scuba skills by scuba diving in a pool or body of water with pool-like conditions. Here you’ll learn everything from setting up your scuba gear to how to easily get water out of your scuba mask without surfacing. You’ll also practice some emergency skills, like sharing air or replacing your scuba mask. There are five confined water dives, with each building upon the previous. Over the course of these five dives, you attain the skills you need to dive in open water.

Open Water Dives
After your confined water dives, you and the new friends you’ve made continue learning during four open water dives with your PADI Instructor at a dive site. This is where you fully experience the underwater adventure – at the beginner level, of course.

Advenced Open Water Diver Course

The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving. You will make five dives, each one with a specific target for building more skills:

Performance Buoyancy Dive
Navigation Dive
Deep Dive
Night Dive
Wreck Dive

Emergency First Response Course

Emergency First Response training is learning serious medical emergency response skills in an upbeat, positive environment. You gain the confidence that you are prepared to help in an emergency. You will learn:

BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
AED (automated external defibrillator) use (optional)
Preventing and caring for shock
Spinal injury management
Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk
Basic first aid and first aid kit considerations

Rescue Diver Course

Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur. The Rescue Diver course is the most challenging and rewarding of all. You will learn:

Self rescue
Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
Emergency management and equipment
Rescuing panicked divers
Rescuing unresponsive divers