What You Learn

Gain the knowledge and skills to safely dive with and take care of your dry-suit.

Get introduced to the different types of suits so you can make a very informed decision when considering purchasing a drysuit.

• Drysuit Familiarization
• Undergarment options
• Safety Checks
• Entry Techniques
• Bubble Check
• Buoyancy Check
• Descent techniques
• Neutral Buoyancy
• Inverted Diver drill
• Stuck inflator emergency drill
• Stuck exhaust valve emergency drill
• Ascent procedures
• Exit techniques
• Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance

Course Materials

• Drysuit diver online theory

Pre-requisites:

• Open Water Diver certification from a recognised training agency
• At least 12 years old
• Must have dived within the last 12months or attended an in-water refresher

All of the materials, one theory session, one pool session, 2 training dives and certification are included in your course fee. Boat fees and equipment rental including drysuit are not included.

Drysuit rental for course duration is $120. This includes Drysuit, undergarment and hose.

DOCUMENTS

• Diver_Medical_Form_16.pdf
• EQUIPMENT_RENTAL_201.pdf
• DRYSUIT_RENTAL_36.pdf

TESTIMONIALS

Wanted to give you my feedback after trying the suit last night. 
1. Training Absolutely superb. Simon's instruction was awesome, he was really patient and supportive while watching us being silly in the pool and knocking his mask off the face. 
2. Drysuit Awesome and very satisfied with it.

Hi Anna, Andrew and co

I've certainly been visible around here with my Gorillas, and my Legend reg and Cobra 3 have also been much admired (thank you Andrew). The ship supplies good Aqualung gear but no computers, and I've been very glad of my full wetsuit, hood and boots - even tho' the water is a balmy 26-27C plenty of people are feeling the cold (they've obviously never dived in NZ in neoprene!)
I just had to email you to tell you what a wonderful experience it has been for me. Thank you both for your patience in helping me on my diving journey. Only one more dive here then the Poor Knights the weekend after we're home. I need to add that I have been frog-kicking successfully and in much better control of my buoyancy (at long last!) even doing fin pivots just because I could.

Look forward to catching up in the shop next week.

Regards
Ann

 

Hi there
Just wanted to say thanks for a great dry suit course and weekend. Dave was great, very knowledgeable, helpful and patient, even with quite a nervous student!
We’ve been very impressed by everyone’s professionalism, friendliness and helpfulness, as well as the amazing knowledge of the team.
Anna, thanks so much for letting me use your suit.

Thanks so much!!
Sarah and Oliver
P. S. I love my new gear!!! And diving in a dry suit is amazing!!!

Hey there people at GlobalDive,

A huge thank you for organising the dry suit course for us the other day!
Such a fun day learning the gear, Dave was an awesome instructor!

Thanks again and see ya around,
Alex

Hi Anna, Andrew,

A big thanks again from me and Michaela for yesterday - not sure we’d say we enjoyed Lake Pupuke but we enjoyed the course!

Hi Anna,

Me again. I just wanted to let you know that I passed my IE on the weekend. It was a full on 2 weeks that exploded my brain. But made it in the end.

The reason I say this is not to brag, but to say thank you to you and Andrew. I got top marks in all my skills and teaching, which comes down to the way that I was trained. I’m proud to say I came from Global Dive.

The course director told everyone that he could tell I had been trained well. So just wanted to say thank you and pass that on, that your standards are holding high compared with overseas.

Also being around technical divers and having done my dry suit, all that adds up and helped me get through.

So thanks again.
JG