Microdive Training Programme

The Microdive training programme has been designed as a fast, efficient way of teaching you the fundamentals of diving with a Mini B System. No matter What your swmming ability! A.S.A Staff are available to help you improve your swimming...............if needed.

Simply follow the 3 steps to gain your full Microdive qualification

Step 1: Knowledge based information: Manual + DVD + Quiz + Log Book + Zipper Wallet + Pre-paid Qualification documents £79.95*

Step 2: Quiz review and in-water skill assessment: £85.00
Step 3: Qualification dives: £85.00

The manual contains all of the documents that a dive facility will require to facilitate steps 2 and 3 of the Microdive training programme

Your in water skills assessment can be facilitated by our scuba diving instructors who explain the training programme as in the back of your manual, from a pdf file on your support DVD or you can download them from www.microdive.com

Your instructor has been trained to demonstrate the following list of practical skills to you in a manner, which will allow you to reciprocate to a prescribed standard and can do this as soon as he has revised the answers you have given to the knowledge base quiz.

During the practical training session you will master the following skills:

Surface Skills
•Prepare your equipment / Pre-dive safety check
•Practical surface and underwater signals
•Enter water safely
•Check your buoyancy
•Inflate and deflate your buoyancy control system
•Clear a snorkel of water
•Swim 50 meters in your equipment whilst breathing through a snorkel
•Clear a regulator of water (exhalation and purge button methods)
•Exchange your snorkel for a regulator
•Simulate releasing a cramp from your calf muscle
•Ditch a weight belt
•Exit water safely
•Care for your equipment after the dive

Underwater Skills:
•Descend safely
•Monitor your air and depth gauges
•Simulate coughing and choking through a regulator
•Fin around the pool
•Recover a regulator using the sweep method
•Clear a partially flooded mask
•Remove and replace your mask
•Demonstrate fin pivots
•Hover
•Breathe from a free flowing regulator
•Remove and replace your weight belt
•Demonstrate a normal ascent
•Demonstrate an alternative air source ascent
•Demonstrate a controlled emergency swimming ascent

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•Buoyant ascent

QUALIFICATION:
You will then participate in 3 x 20 minute qualification dives to a maximum depth of 7 metres under the supervision of your scuba diving instructor.

Microdiver qualification:
Once you have completed the above to the instructors satisfaction you will be sent a temporary certificate by e-mail followed by a certificate of completion and credit card sized Microdive qualification card.