Additions to the Discover Scuba Course

[emtdan]

Hey-
I am planning a Discover Scuba Diving course for a club @ school next month. We are a bunch of high school students looking foward to some fun. Me ( a Rescue Diver) and my friend (Adv. OW) are planning this.
We are looking for a way to spice it up. We are looking for things to add on as interesting tasks or challenges. I guess what I may be asking for is a more mature version of what happens at the Seal Team type events.

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks a lot
dEs

 

[partridge]

I dont know man. I have conducted a few DSD courses and I do not think the new diver needs any more challenges. He should have his hands pretty well full with just being under water for the first time. Of course, the OW portion is done in the ocean so he is also pretty well satisfied just looking around at all the little fishies.

I know that you can do a few more open water dives with an instructor after the DSD. Maybe this is where you can make it more challenging. This part is easy. Just go on with the next few skills from the Open Water course. This will make them safer and pique their interest to take a full blown course.

All the best on your project.

 

[Tavi]

If they're going to continue, It has to be fun!!
After we get them down to the deep end and get them playing with neutral buoyancy, we give 'em a couple of Toypedoes and just let them play.

 

[miketsp]

If they're going to continue, It has to be fun!!
After we get them down to the deep end and get them playing with neutral buoyancy, we give 'em a couple of Toypedoes and just let them play.

I thought you were supposed to complete the PADI Explosives Specialist course before playing with live torpedoes? :11:

 

[chip104]

under water rugby match.

or if you want to give them a challenge, split them up into groups and make them perform underwater synchro.

 

[knotical]

I’m not sure about all agencies, but if you’re PADI, the first thing you need to add is someone who is authorized to conduct a Discover Scuba Diving experience. In PADI, that means at least an insured Divemaster who has gone through the internship designed for Discover Scuba. If you conduct it as a Rescue Diver, you place yourself at liability risk, and your buddies at potential injury risk.

 

[emtdan]

I’m not sure about all agencies, but if you’re PADI, the first thing you need to add is someone who is authorized to conduct a Discover Scuba Diving experience. In PADI, that means at least an insured Divemaster who has gone through the internship designed for Discover Scuba. If you conduct it as a Rescue Diver, you place yourself at liability risk, and your buddies at potential injury risk.

Trust me, I am not stupid. We are doing this through a local Dive shop. They are providig the gear and two instuctors.
i am Naive, but not stupid or careless.

 

[Dive_Girl PNW]

Another suggestion if you don't have underwater toys (like the torepedos and such) is to put in a few large hula hoops for bouyancy fun. For safety, only secure them with something like 2lb ankle weights at varying depths. The small weights and large hoops will actually move with the diver if the diver clips them when going through (i.e. no entanglement).

Another simple and inexpensive game you can do is to pick up golf balls and plastic spoons. Have the divers carry the golf balls in the spoon from one end of the pool to the other and pass it off to a second diver. You can run mini-relays with this game.

 

[gangrel441]

I thought you were supposed to complete the PADI Explosives Specialist course before playing with live torpedoes? :11:

ROTFL

Ok, ok...Explosive Specialist course aside, I participated in my first Discover Scuba a month or so ago, two months after breaking 65 dives and completing rescue...after the learning portion, we went down into the diving well and unleashed the toypedoes and neutral bouyancy frisbees. I can definately say that fun was had by all!

 

[knotical]

Trust me, I am not stupid. We are doing this through a local Dive shop. They are providig the gear and two instuctors.
i am Naive, but not stupid or careless.

Oops. I read too much into the phrase "I am planning a Discover Scuba Diving course ".
Sorry to offend.