This Sunday we will be completing an Advanced Openwater diving course. The last two dives will take place at Ft. Wetherill State Park in Jamestown, RI. The PADI Advanced Course consists of five specialty dives and is designed to fine tune your abilities after completing your Open Water course. Last Sunday in the pool, the students completed the Peak Performance Buoyancy workshop. We worked on proper weighting, specialized finning techniques and hovering. We also spent time learning how to use lift bags and pony bottles. These two pieces of equipment are frequently used on deep and wreck diving adventures. Thursday, we completed the navigation and night diving specialty requirements. On the night dive we saw lobsters and northern sculpin. The objective of the navigation dive was to be able to do some underwater exploration without getting lost in low visabilty conditions.
This Sunday, we anticipate beautiful weather. It may even be........hot!!! This means that the ocean water is getting warmer and more suitable for long comfortable dives. The deep dive is located on a wall and allows us to gradually reach a depth of 80 feet. The wall is covered with gorgeous anemones and it is common to see skates, sea robins, and tube worms. This is also a great dive for the underwater naturalist and photographer specialty courses. For more information on the Advanced Openwater Course, go to our website. http://www.seaviewscubact.com/
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