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If you want to extend your diving season or just experience the spectacular aquatic life often
found in colder waters; you’ll need to stay warm and that means using a drysuit. If you want the
proper training and practical experience to use your drysuit, you need the NAUI Drysuit Diver
Specialty Course.
During your NAUI Drysuit Course we not only cover the knowledge related to drysuit diving you
get to practice it in confined water. Then once you’ve mastered confined water you make two
open water dives and apply those skills to real life.
Drysuits aren’t just for Great Lakes gorillas, Florida cave jockeys and mid-Atlantic wreck divers
anymore. The current thinking is that any diving with thermal loss decreases comfort and safety
is better performed in a drysuit. That includes long dives, deep diving, dives that involve little
movement (i.e. photography or marine life study) and repetitive diving.)
Hard, Cold Facts:
Water transfers heat away from your body 25 times faster than air. The colder you are, the more
at risk you become for hypothermia, out-of- air emergencies (cold divers use air faster) and
decompression sickness (a 30% higher risk when chilled). Stay dry and you stay warm. With its
system of zippers, attached boots and seals at the neck and wrist a drysuit keeps out all water,
leaving you surrounded by a cushion of air that your body warms to toasty levels.
!!! Great Package Deal: Drysuit class included with a drysuit purchase!!!
Drysuit Course Program: 1 Classroom session
1 Drysuit dive
Drysuit Course Fees: $125 Classroom
Checkout dives are to be scheduled with instructor after successful completion of classroom
materials. Students are responsible for costs incurred by instructor in association with checkout
dives. Drysuit rentals are $45 for the weekend. (no charge for rental if drysuit has been
purchased and is being shipped) If you cannot come to a class you may reschedule it for a
missed class fee of $35. You must complete checkout dives within 6 months of taking a course.
Those people not passing class will be offered a reduced price second class.
Drysuit Training
