Who this course is for:

• The certified diver looking for more information about the different full face masks available and how to determine the correct one to meet their needs

Course prerequisites:

• SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent

What you can expect to learn:

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

• Purpose
  • Diver safety
  • Communications
• Advantages
  • Increased diver safety
  • Communications
  • Corrective lenses
• Disadvantages
  • Increased air consumption
  • Buoyancy
  • Bulky
• Types
  • Appropriate/inappropriate
  • Scuba quick connect/disconnect
  • Surface supplied
• Techniques/procedures
  • Donning
  • Diving with a full face mask
• Underwater Communications
  • Types of communication equipment
• User/field maintenance and care
• Authorized servicing/preventive maintenance
• After use

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

• Dive plan
• Equipment set up
• Proper donning and adjustment
• On the surface, switching from open to close
• Proper weighting
• Establish buoyancy and demonstration of buoyancy control
• Equalization techniques
• Clearing a partially flooded mask
• Remove and replace full face mask underwater
• free flowing full face mask
• Successfully switch to a back up mask
• Remove mask and utilization of alternate air source
• Alternate air source ascent
• Ascent and 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

*Note: Junior divers (ages 10-14) must participate in diving activities with a parent, guardian, or dive professional.

Also, the SDI Full Face Mask Diver certification counts towards a single specialty rating to achieve the SDI Advanced Diver Development Program.

What’s Included in the Course Fee

Our course fee includes the following:

• Classroom 
• Pool session
• Two open water dives
• SDI Specialty certification fee
• Use of Full Face Mask
• Use of tanks and weights

What’s Not Included

• Personal equipment - (mask, snorkel, boots, and fins) We offer a student discount on purchase these if you do not own them. 
• Basic life support equipment. If you do not own your own wetsuit or dry suit, regulator, or BC, we do provide a discounted student rate for you to rent these items. 
• Entrance fees to dive sites. Fees to dives sites, charters, etc. are not included.