Courses and Pricing
I offer several levels of scuba certifications at a minimum of cost. All prices include instructor fees, books, dive tables, and rental gear. The only gear I require you supply is mask, fins, and snorkel. These can be purchased at local dive shop. I do have a couple pairs of mask, fins, and snorkel for your use if need be.
Discover Scuba 35.00
1-2 hour pool session in full scuba gear.
Great for those of you wanting to know if scuba is your new favorite hobby! Cost will be applied to open water certification course cost if you choose to continue with full certification.
Open Water Scuba Diver 405.00
3 knowledge development sessions, 5 instructional pool dives, 4 open water dives.
This is your first level scuba certification. It is recognized worldwide and will allow you to rent dive gear, obtain air fills, and dive with a buddy at nearly any dive site.
Advanced Open Water 225.00
1 knowledge development session, 5 open water dives.
This certification gives you more experience under instructor supervision and vastly improves your dive skills. Deep dive and navigation dive are required. Three remaining dives are electives of your choice! See Padi website at the bottom of this page for more info on other dives offered.
Rescue Diver 295.00
Divemaster 375.00
Enriched Air Nitrox 125.00
This course will certify you to use Enriched Air which allows for longer bottom times. This course can be piggybacked with any of the above courses and requires 2-3 hours of class time and an open water dive or simulated dive using a tank filled with enriched air.
More on these courses can be found on PADI's website linked at the bottom of this page. PADI is the most recognized scuba certification agency in the world!
FACILITIES
POOL
All pool sessions will be done in a local in ground pool.
My parents pool is 18'x36' and runs from 3 feet in the shallow end to 10 feet in the deep end. I limit my classes to five students at a time to ensure there is enough room for each student to freely move about and also give the best instructor supervision.
The majority of the classes will be done in my pool in my backyard. This is also an 18'x36' inground pool.
Myself and my little brother in my parents pool.
Pool in my backyard with scuba class of typical size (4-5 students).
CLASSROOM
Classroom knowledge development sessions can be done at several locations. I am very flexible and can travel to many locations to perform these. Most likely they will be done at my house so we can move right to the confined water (pool) portion in my backyard.
OPEN WATER
Again, several sites for open water portions of your course. These include Falling Rock Park Quarry in LaGrange KY, Laurel Lake, Herrington Lake,
Lake Cumberland, Pennyroyal Quarry...etc.
I am also open to travel to complete a course. Many students opt to travel to Florida to complete their course in freshwater springs found all over the state(additional fees apply).
Falling Rock Park Pictures (May 25, 2011):
This is one of my recent students during an open water checkout dive.
Another happy diver by Lexington Dive!
Curious bass.
You never know when you'll have to go!
