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Equipment Hire for Certified Divers

  • Current dive certification (open water or above).
  • Medical Declaration Form must be provided – click here.
  • Certified Diver Form must be provided – click here.
  • Equipment Rental Waiver form – to be filled in at FISH.
  • Recent and regular dive history.
  • Minimum of 20 dives for the participant and their buddy.
  • If diver has not dived within the 6 months, a refresher on the skills in confined water will be conducted by a dive instructor.
  • Dive supervisor will decide if the diving equipment rental is permitted.
  • Participants have not suffered any illness or injury that may affect ability to dive safety.
  • Participants are not taking any prescription medication, other that contraceptive pills.
  • Divers must always have a dive flag on a reel which they can tow throughout the dive when they are diving.
  • Divers must follow the 50/50 rule – On the surface with 50 bar or after 50 minutes whichever is the sooner.
  • Pre Authorisation on credit card.

Refresher Course

Includes:

  • Breathing underwater
  • Regulator clearing
  • Regulator recovery
  • Mask clearing
  • Equalization techniques
  • Inflate and deflate a BCD at the surface
  • Dive supervisor will decide if participants are permitted to go without a guide

Requirements:

  • Medical Declaration Form must be provided – click here.
  • Certified Diver Form must be provided – click here.
  • Participants have not suffered any illness or injury that may affect ability to dive safety.
  • Participants are not taking any prescription medication, other that contraceptive pills.
  • Performed more than 20 dives outside training dives.
  • Divers must always have a dive flag on a reel which they can tow throughout the dive when they are diving.
  • Divers must follow the 50/50 rule – On the surface with 50 bar or after 50 minutes whichever is the sooner.
  • Pre Authorisation on credit card.

PADI Open Water – 3 Day Course

Includes:

  • 3 days of learning techniques for safe diving including:
    • Breathing underwater
    • Regulator clearing
    • Regulator recovery
    • Mask clearing
    • Equalization techniques
    • Inflate and deflate a BCD at the surface
  • All dive equipment, study material and eLearning.

Requirements:

  • Must be at least 12 years of age
  • Medical Declaration Form must be provided – click here.
  • A recreational dive medical AS – 4005.1 is to be provide by participants if
    • They are over 45 years old
    • Has or had any medical conditions mentioned in the declaration
    • Has a Body mass index of more than 30 and a waist circumference of more than 102cm for males or 88cm for females.

Bubblemaker Program

Program Includes:

  • Experience scuba diving under the direct care and supervision of a PADI professional.
  • Students will take their first breaths underwater in water shallower than 2 metres.
  • Learning about and use scuba diving equipment made for children – not adults.

Requirements:

Certified Dives 

  • Must hold current dive certification (open water or higher)
  • Medical Declaration Form must be provided – click here.
  • Certified Diver Form must be provided – click here.
  • Participants have not suffered any illness or injury that may affect ability to dive safety.
  • Participants are not taking any prescription medication, other that contraceptive pills.

Night Dives

  • All ‘Certified Dives’ requirements listed above.
  • 2 person minimum.
  • Must have recently completed a daytime dive with the Fitzroy Island Sports Hub.

PADI Rescue Diver – 2 Day Course

Includes:

  • 2 days of learning techniques for rescue diving. You will learn to:
    • Identify and fix minor problems both underwater and on the surface before they become serious problems.
    • Gain more confidence as a diver and snorkel
    • Improve your navigation skills
    • Use emergency equipment
  • All dive equipment, study material, eLearning and certification.

Requirements:

  • Must be at least 12 years of age (12 to 14-year-old divers may earn Junior Rescue Diver certifications).
  • PADI (Junior) Adventure Diver certification – must have completed the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive.
  • PADI Open Water Divers may participate in Knowledge Development and Rescue Exercises in confined water.
  • Current First Aid Primary and Secondary Care certification – must be within the last 24months. – not included.
  • Medical Declaration Form must be provided – click here.

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