Ocean Quest Scuba

Now is the time to dive into the PADI Open Water
Diver course, the most popular dive program in the
world! We offer a complete line of certification
courses, but the open water is where you start!! You
will learn the basic fundamentals of scuba diving. You
will participate in both academic and pool sessions.
Then onto your open water dives!!! Your classmates
will be a wide variety of marine fish, turtles, eels and
rays. All of our boat dives are done off of West Palm
Beach aboard our very own dive boat "Sandy's Sunday".
You'll enjoy our training dive sites as they are some of
our most popular dive sites with all of our divers.
Check out our favorite dive site page to read about
Breakers Reef and Flower Garden. This course can be
completed in as little as three days if your on a tight
schedule.

Looking for the ultimate adventure? You found it!
PADI's Adventures In Diving program fine-tunes your
dive skills and allows you to explore all that diving has
to offer. It's your dive - go for it! We offer the
advanced course every weekend, so come down have
some fun and go home with your advanced
certification. Of course, you can take this course on
any schedule that works for you. Our instructors are
available seven days a week.

This course is a great way to get experience doing
different types of diving, while under the guidance of
an instructor. There are five dives in this course, two
of which are Deep and Underwater Navigation. Then
you get to select from a wide variety of topics for
your other three dives. Wreck dives, U/W Naturalist
and Night dives are very popular. If taking pictures is
your thing, there is a section for U/W photography
and we will even provide you with the camera.!!!

The PADI Rescue Diver program develops your
knowledge and skills so you can effectively perform
diver assists and rescues, manage diving accident
situations and render first aid. The program is an
important step in expanding your knowledge and
experience as a diver. PADI Rescue Diver (or equivalent)
certification is also a prerequisite for all PADI leadership
programs.

Our Rescue Diver program is taught by a former member
of the United States Coast Guard, and rescue training is
her specialty….our comprehensive program is the best!!

self-rescue and diver stress

diving first aid

emergency management and equipment considerations

swimming and non-swimming assists

panicked diver response

underwater problems

missing diver procedures

surfacing the unconscious diver

in-water artificial respiration

egress (exits)

first aid procedures for pressure related accidents

dive accident scenarios

Entering the professional world of scuba diving brings exciting challenges and endless
possibilities: There is the chance to explore nature’s fascinating underwater creatures, and
the opportunity to share your professional knowledge and experiences with students who
want to learn. Scuba diving is quickly becoming one of the most popular sports in the
world. Imagine entering a realm that artists can only imagine in their wildest dreams, and
on a daily basis! Getting paid to do something you enjoy is something everyone wants to
achieve. Professional divers achieve this goal, and are both respected and admired for their
hard work and accomplishments. From owning and operating a mainland dive center or
resort, to working, teaching, and traveling across the ocean on a live-aboard dive boat,
professional divers get to take part in a wide variety of fun and exciting experiences – both
on land and under water.

Ocean Quest Scuba's dive master program starts with getting your books. As part of this
course you will receive the Dive Master manual, Encyclopedia of Scuba, Knowledge
workbook, and the RDP Wheel. It is your job to read through your dive master manual,
and fill out the questions in the knowledge review section at the end of each chapter. You
will also work through the Knowledge workbook using the Encyclopedia to help you
answer those questions. We will have academic sessions to review your work and to help
you fully understand the material you have covered. There are a series of eight exams
during the dive master course.

In addition to the academics, you will have pool sessions to fine tune the 18 basic skill of
scuba diving. There will also be four different swim endurance tests and a rescue review and
evaluation. Then we get really busy, you will work with students (real students) both in
confined water training, and open water dives. You will participate in a dive master
conducted program (with real participants), you will watch, observe and learn how to work
a dive boat. I will lead you through a dive masters routine day, until it becomes routine to
you! You will learn how to map a dive site, evaluate conditions and work in the supervision
of certified divers.
Out side the normal curriculum, you will learn how to properly fill tanks, proper radio
communications, boat handling, line handling and much more. Once you have completed
this course you will truly be ready to work as a dive master. If your goal, is not to
necessarily work as a DM, you will still gain great experiences in handling the day in and
day out situations a dive master faces.

Another way my program is different than say a dive shop. Ocean Quest Scuba's course is
all inclusive, once you have paid your course fees, there are no further charges. You will
receive the following as part of your course:

All books: DM Manual, Encyclopedia of Scuba Diving, Knowledge workbook,

RDP/Slates: DM Slates that you will use for your DM conducted programs and the Wheel
version of the RDP

All tanks/fills: During the course I will provide you with the tanks or fills (if you want to
use your own tanks) that you will need.
Photos: You will be provided with the photos you will need for your certification card.