The Fun Part

Dry suits let you dive more challenging dive sites and extend your dive season. When you have the right cold water scuba diving attire, you can stand up to the elements and take advantage of the generally better visibility offered by winter months—especially at inland dive sites such as quarries, lakes, sinkholes, and caves. As a dry suit diver, you’re equipped to dive some of the world’s most incredible dive sites, even in Earth's coldest regions.

What You Learn

Gain the knowledge and skills to safely put on, dive with, take off, and store a dry suit. Get introduced to the different types of suits so you can make an informed decision if considering purchasing a dry suit. You'll learn:

• Dry suit buoyancy control skills
• Dry suit maintenance, storage, and basic repair
• Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options

Practical skills you’ll master in this course:

• Dry Suit Familiarization
• Safety Checks
• Entry Techniques
• Bubble Check
• Buoyancy Check
• Descent techniques
• Fin Pivot Hover
• Excess gas in feet emergency roll drill
• Stuck inflator emergency drill
• Stuck exhaust valve emergency drill
• Ascent procedure - Remove and replace scuba unit and weight belt on the surface
• Exit techniques - Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance

For all your learning materials and equipment, contact Waterdogs Scuba & Safety.

Your Next Adventure

Scuba diving with a dry suit is useful when diving many different dive sites. A dry suit is necessary when ice diving and sometimes while altitude diving. Many technical divers wear dry suits on almost every dive due to the length of the time spent underwater. The longer the diver is in the water, the more thermal protection is required. If technical diving is something that interests you, check out the Discover Tec Diving experience!

For more information about this or other courses have a chat with one of the Waterdogs Scuba & Safety team members.