1. Sport diving is a recreational activity, and therefore should be enjoyable.
2. Learning to dive well can add immeasurable joy and excitement to your life.

Learning to dive is an experience involving home study, scuba skills training in a swimming pool, and five dives done under an instructor's supervision somewhere out in the real world. (These real-time, real-world dives are called "certification dives".)

We design our scuba instruction around these concepts:

1. Your time is valuable.To that end, we stress the on-line home study aspect, allowing you to be fully prepared prior to attending each class session. (We do have standard SCUBA textbooks available, also, if you prefer reading a book to reading your computer screen - just let us know.) Further, we offer a variety of schedules in a serious attempt to minimize any potential scheduling conflicts you may encounter.

2. You must be comfortable. We maintain a full range of sizes in our good-quality, well-maintained school equipment, so we can assure the best fit possible (no large stuff on small people...). Further, we keep our own on-site, indoor, heated pool clean, clear, and at 87 degrees (No swimming pool blues...). We noticed a long time ago that comfortable people learn better and have more fun.

3. Scuba skills development needs plenty of practice under attentive supervision. Our classes are small, with never more than 8 students per instructor, and most of each session is spent in and under the water.

It seems to us that it works like this: You are making a financial and time commitment to learn to dive. And you are trusting us to provide that learning opportunity. So it is our responsibility to make that investment pay off by helping you discover that sport scuba diving is amazingly fun, wonderfully healthy, socially stimulating, and worth at least ten times what you've put into it. We absolutely guarantee your satisfaction with our dive instruction program.

Here's our current class calendar:

• The Standard schedule (the most economical, but with fixed times.)
• The Custom course ( Designed to your schedule, attended only by you.)
• The Hybrid (A little of both of the above.)

There are some reasonable prerequisites for enrolling in a scuba program:

• You need to be 12 or older (10, if your parents are divers or are going to be learning with you).
• You need to be in basic good health. You will be asked to complete this medical history form, and may be directed to get your doctor's approval if indicated by your history. (There are physician's guidelines arrached to the form, if you want to consult with your MD.)
• You need to be comfortable in water deeper than you are tall. Conditioning is transitory, but basic water comfort is essential to good diving.
• You need to play well with others. Seriously - diving is a co-operative activity, rather than a competitive one. This is actually a very good thing, because if you don't have any witnesses, no one will believe the adventures you're going to have...<G>