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Low/Limited Visibility Distinctive PADI course.
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Nope. Your insistence on finding this class is just a bit odd. What are you planning on doing after you did said class?
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Very, very different. Night diving is day diving at night, non-silting skills apply. (not being a wiseguy). Low visibility PSD diving is regular pattern searching on the bottom for the object(s) you are 'looking' for. More like 'feeling' than looking and silt is a natural outcome of the search.
The value I took from my PSD courses was to lose all the little demons that used to appear when I couldn't see squat underwater.
Yes! While I am not unfamiliar with low visibility settings...you identify just what I am curious to know what are the skills focused for such a course. ('Night diving is day diving in dark'...I should have phrased it that way originally.)
I'm still following leads for the limited distinctive low vis PADI course!
Thank you @lowviz !
Do ERDI (SDI/TDI) do a low vis course?
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Not as a stand alone. It seems elements of it are worked into ERD1 and another course...not a focused course. I called their headquarters the other week to ask about it from my own curiosity. Thanks @Wibble !Do ERDI (SDI/TDI) do a low vis course?
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SDI has "night/limited visibility".Do ERDI (SDI/TDI) do a low vis course?
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SDI's class is just your basic night-diving class.
That's just minimum standards. Don't forget that SDI instructors can augment the performance requirements. That is a huge plus.
Contact me for a syllabus I've been putting together. I'm not looking for students right now, as I'm focused on an underwater archaeology project in Greece right now, and I need time on my rebreather.
However, I'd be happy to provide you a syllabus that you can take to SDI instructors and say "teach me this."
This syllabus will be a combination of navigation and night/limited viz. When I resume teaching, I will only teach this course in the late April through early June timeframe, when the peak algae bloom occurs in the Puget Sound. Ratio will be 1:1 as the viz is so poor, having more than one student is risky (my opinion).
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