Dive Buddy Program

This program offers able-bodied divers the opportunity to expand their underwater world to include divers with disabilities.

The course covers a multitude of disabilities and disability issues including;

• accessibility,
• traveling for people with disabilities and
• special considerations for diving with a disability

This knowledge is valuable in and out of a scuba diving setting. everyone should have some of it!

By the end of this program you should be able to act as a primary buddy for a HSA C level diver (a diver with a disability who can not act as an adequate buddy and requires some level of assistance: these divers must have two buddies, one of them must be HSA dive buddy or higher). A large portion of this course is designed to improve your skills as a diver, you will be a much more solid diver by the end of this program.

In order to take this course you will need an open water certification and proof of thirty-three dives in the last two years.

Freedom at Depth Canada does not regularly schedule stand-alone HSA buddy courses but offers them as a subset of the HSA Instructor Training Course (ITC). The student will attend the ITC but be given the Buddy Course materials and exam that are a subset of the ITC, the student will also receive additional one on one coaching and help. FADC may teach a private buddy course to someone in an immediate position of helping an HSA C level diver.

Like the ITC, the Dive Buddy Program combines classroom instruction with confined and open water exercises.

Please contact us for more information on how you can become a dive buddy for the disabled.

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