Refresh Your Skills and Go Diving

Haven’t been diving lately and want a quick scuba refresher? The Refresher course is the perfect way to update your dive skills and knowledge from the Open Water Diver Course before jumping back into the water. Whether you want a few reminders or need to go over the basics, this course is personalized for you. It’s quick and easy, and a good way to prepare for your next course or get ready for a diving vacation. 

Prepare, Educate and Practice

The classroom portion of refresher training generally covers:

• Dive planning

• Use of dive tables and computers

• Other knowledge and theory per your training agency’s standards 

For your first dive after a period of inactivity:

• Do not dive alone. Consider diving with a divemaster or instructor

• Dive at a familiar site

  • Shallow

  • Minimal or no currents

  • No major hazards

  • Choose a site that is not remote

Practice your skills in confined water before you dive in open water. Good skills to practice include:

• Predive checks

• Buoyancy checks (proper weighting)

• Buoyancy 

• Mask clearing

• Mask removal and replacement

• Recovering and clearing your regulator

• Shared air ascent

• Emergency swimming ascent or controlled emergency swimming ascent (depending on what your training agency teaches)

Recommended if you’ve been out of the water for 6 month - 5 years.

If it’s been longer than 5 years, please contact us about the Reactivate Course or other requirements we may suggest.