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 home study aspect, allowing you to be fully prepared prior to attending each class session. 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.)

And here's our standard course costs.

There are some prerequisites for enrolling in a scuba program:
~ You need to be 12 or older.
~ 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. (Here are the physician's guidelines for a scuba diving physical, 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>

To sign up for your life-altering, guaranteed-fun-and-exciting-or-all-your-money-back scuba course at Gypsy Divers, just give us a call -
919/255-1931.