Kung Fu Divers Drills
This is our Scuba Social monthly event, designed for Certified Divers who want to practice selected skills (from the 24 skills list) with Dave, our lead Instructor.
We practice simple breathing techniques with Maca after setting up dive gear and before the pre-dive check, which allows us to enter a calm state of mind before jumping in the water.
We have a different, fun and empowering syllabus at each new session, spiced up with teaching and practicing a few more advanced skills such as tying knots, deploying DSMBs and more!
Kung Fu Divers Drills targets Professionals Divers and Recreational Divers who want to practice their skills and gain confidence in performing them if and when needed. Safety to us is always first!
Proof of Certification, Liability Waiver and Medical Clearance are required.
New Divers Chicago, class of 2024
Through September 2024 we will be heavy on Open Water Scuba Certifications here in Chicago. The waters are warmer and local divers are outside enjoying the weather and wrecks, building up a joyful and supportive atmosphere to new divers.
We have been exploring Pearl Lake in South Beloit with its underwater attractions, and we find it ideal for new divers to explore and discover the airplane, submarine, steam shovel, and more! We drive together to the site to take advantage of some extra time to dive deeper into the knowledge reviews and talk about all sorts of topics related to SCUBA.
Our Open Water Certification includes:
- PADI materials: eLearning and Logbook
- 3 hrs. of classroom time with Dave
- 6 to 8 hrs. of confined water time
- 4 open water dives
- Tanks, weights, BCD, regulator, computer, and 7 mm wetsuit/hood/gloves *
- Caribbean Ecology Class- 1 hour with Maca
- 15% discount to join our monthly Kung Fu Divers Drills to continue the practice of your skills for 6 months
- Photographic record of your experience on surface and underwater
- Maximum scheduling flexibility
- Transportation assistance
* Does not include mask/snorkel and boots/fins combo.
Price: $850.00
The Florida Experience
it is a 4-day course for future divers who plan to travel to an inspiring destination and explore the underworld with us.
With Kung Fu Divers
WE TRAVEL WITH YOU!
All dives - Pool and Open Water dives - are completed In Florida at and around the renowned Blue Heron Bridge, and on one of Pura Vida Divers boats off the coast of Palm Beach.
We are ambassadors to the Aquatic Realm and merit time to Educational Programs: ocean awareness, waterways conservation and preservation, marine biology, and sustainability of resources.
The Florida Experience includes:
- PADI Open Water Certification E-learning ($230)
- Pool session
- Check-out dives
- Nitrox Certification ($212)
- PADI Aware Class
- Caribbean Ecology Class with Maca
- Photographic record
- Two art-worked photos for printing
- Air and Nitrox tank fills
- 2 tanks Charter to the beautiful reefs of Florida
- BCD, regulator, wetsuit, and weights included.
CPR, AED, AND FIRST AID PROVIDER PROGRAM
The CPR, AED, and First Aid Provider Program is designed to provide course participants with foundational knowledge and teach skills needed to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other lifesaving skills.
In addition to covering the basics of cardiovascular disease, shock, asphyxia, and external bleeding, this course addresses additional circumstances that may require EMS intervention.
The material covered in this section gives you academic knowledge in the areas of Scene Safety, Assessments, How to move injured and ill persons, bleeding management, splinting, specialized injuries, burns, temperature-related issues, and medical emergencies.
You can choose between Emergency First Response or Divers Alert Network as your agency for this curriculum (price will vary).
After you have completed the required e-learning and the skills-development portion of the course, your instructor will process your credentials. Certification will be valid for 2 years.
PADI Rescue Diver
Most certified PADI Rescue Divers look back on their training as one of the most challenging, sometimes demanding, and therefore most rewarding programs they've taken. The subject is serious but the training is fun!
When you first learned to dive in the PADI Open Water Diver course, you focused primarily on yourself and mastered knowledge and skills for taking care of yourself underwater. In this course you are about to enter the next stage, in which your focus broadens further to include other divers.
Become mentally and physically prepared to handle emergency situations with a variety of techniques. Accurately assess a situation and intervene a problem that could potentially become more serious. Improve your skills and confidence as a diver, and prepare to move on to the PADI Master Scuba Diver and PADI Divemaster levels!
Advocates of the Blue Realm Ambassadors of the land
In our efforts to spread the love and respect for the animals we see when we dive, we have combined the PADI Aware specialty with Maca's own Ecology Class.
- Learn who fish are: Something is going on in their heads. Ocean animals are INDIVIDUALS because of the relationships they build, they are SENTIENT entities whose world is worth contemplating.
- Who we are to them: Do you know what UMWELT means?*
- We all live here: tips on how to COEXIST. The PADI AWARE Specialty course equips you with tangible actions and opportunities to bring about positive ocean change.
This course is a unifying and leveling force for professional and recreational divers, kids and teens, and everyone else! We invite you to stop, pay attention, and observe.
* UMWELT= The mind and the world are inseparable because it is the mind that interprets the world for the organism. Because of the individuality and uniqueness of the history of every single organism, the umwelten of different organisms differ.