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PADI DrySuit Diver Specialty Course

PADI DrySuit Diver Specialty Course

PADI Drysuit Diver

The PADI Dry Suit Specialty course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to dry suit diving. The centre staff possess a wealth of experience training divers how to use dry suits in the Open Water and have valuable knowledge of dry suit design and repair, gained from local dry suit manufacturers. This one day course contains a dry suit diving presentation, an orientation in the sea, followed by two Open Water Dives.

The course focuses on:

Developing your 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

Developing your ability to perform important Dry Suit skills

Enabling you to plan, organise and conduct safe dives using a Dry Suit

  • Duration: 1 day
  • Pre-requisite PADI Open Water Diver & min age 15yrs
  • Recent UK Sea Diving experience
  • Open Water training dives: 2
  • PADI Drysuit Diver Specialty Course Price: £150 (50% discount for club members when purchasing a new or secondhand Dry Suit & Undersuit from Looe Divers)
  • Equipment required: Mask, Fins, Snorkel, drysuit, hood & gloves
  • BCD, Regulator, Cylinder and weights may be rented
  • PADI Drysuit Diver Specialty Manual
  • Please arrange with Dive Centre for your Dry Suit fitting at your earliest convenience (recommended atleast one month prior to course dates). We can schedule a personalised fitting service for a new suit at the Polar Bears Dry Suit factory (allow up to five weeks for a new suit to be made). The Looe Divers' Polar Bears Voyager Package can save you £££'s

    + get a PADI Dry Suit Specialty for 1/2 PRICE

    (excludes PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty Manual)

    Have a suit made to fit YOU, made in Cornwall by the Dry Suit experts, so you will be DRY for years!