Calendar of Events

We are very flexible about scheduling your dive training.

Classroom and Pool Training

• Any time of year is perfect. We will work with your schedule and at your speed. We do our classroom work at our location in the Stone River Center, and our pool training at the Rock Island Fitness Center. If you have adequate facilities you would prefer to use, we can travel to any location you like.

Checkout Dives

• Locally
  In the Midwest, we are somewhat limited in when we can do our checkout dives, since they must be done in a lake or quarry. We generally do checkout dives starting in late May and continuing until late September. The season can be somewhat longer or shorter, depending on the weather.
• Referrals
  You can do all of your classroom and pool training here at home on your schedule, and then do your checkout dives in a more tropical location. We will give you documents to take with you, and you will only need to do the four checkout dives while you are on vacation. We also can arrange travel so that we can do your checkout dives somewhere where you don't need an ax to get to the water in January.

Training sequence

• Read the book.
• Answer the knowledge review questions at the end of each chapter.
• Go over the knowledge reviews and any material you would like to discuss with your instructor.
• Take four quizzes and one final exam. Don't worry, they are all multiple choice--some even have pictures.
• Do your pool training dives.
• Do your four open water dives.
• You are now certified!