SDI Ice Diver

Ice diving can be a serene and beautiful aspect of scuba diving. As a winter activity, ice diving offers the opportunity to enjoy sport diving year round. Diving under ice presents hazards not common to the open water diver, and special training is required. The purpose of this course is to acquaint the diver with the hazards associated with ice diving, as well as how to plan and execute an ice dive.

Who this course is for:

• The certified diver looking to expand their diving season to all year round and experience the serenity of ice diving

Course Duration:

Courses should not be treated as a race or something that can be skipped through quickly. Please remember training does not guarantee certification, we need to ensure you fully understand the training and will be a safe diver on certification. We follow a loved one clause that when certified we would be happy you could safely dive with one of our loved ones.

Course prerequisites & forms:

• SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 18
   

Forms:

Medical Form
Liability Release 

What you can expect to learn:

The SDI Ice Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:

• Effects of the cold
• • Physiological aspects of cold water diving
  • Emergency aspects of cold water diving
  • Special first aid for cold exposure
• Equipment for ice diving
• • Harness
  • Lines
  • Dry suit
  • Hole-cutting equipment
• Surface support procedures
• • Duties and responsibilities
  • Hole-cutting techniques
  • Lines and securing
  • Line tending
  • Communications
  • Signals
  • Ice spokes
  • Lost diver procedures
  • Safety diver
  • Equipment of the safety diver
  • Search and Recovery trained
  • Broken line procedures
• Navigation
• Diving Lights and Their Care
  
  

Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:

• Review of scuba skills on land
• Test lights and equipment
• Set up shelter
• Cut hole in ice and secure
• Dive plan
• Descent and line considerations on land
• Line handling and short line signals on land
• Ten minute familiarization
• Enter water
• Each diver must rotate and practice: surface support, safety diver and diver
• Line handling and simulated lost diver procedures
• Fifteen minute exploring under the ice
• Exit
• Log dive
  
  

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in diving activities without direct supervision of the SDI Instructor* so long as the following limits are adhered to:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training
• Also, the SDI Ice Diver certification counts towards a single specialty rating to achieve the SDI Advanced Diver Development Program.

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Price & Value:

SDI Ice Diver - €200,00

*Fully inclusive of all e-learning, equipment required for the course, training and certification on successful completion.

We focus on and are proud of the skill level, knowledge, decision making, experience and readiness of divers to dive at levels which they have been trained. We want to invest in you, your safety and ability to dive, then come home with amazing stories.

Our courses are priced as such and we do not hide additional costs. We are are very flexible for training, especially in terms of dates or location as we know we all have busy lives and work commitments. However if for reasons outside of weather, illness or other such emergencies a course/training can not be completed in the standard training schedule we will charge for extra days at €150,00 per day.