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Padi Specialty - Diver Propulsion Vehicle |
This course is designed to introduce divers to the skills and excitement of using
diver propulsion vehicles. The course familiarizes student divers with the
knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, potential problems
and hazards associated with using DPVs.
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This course include the following:
- 1. The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems,
and hazards of diving with a underwater propulsion
vehicle.
- 2. Equipment considerations including but not limited to battery
care, maintenance and precautions.
- 3. Proper procedures for: determining a turnaround point, vehicle
failure, runaway motor, descents and ascents and avoiding
propeller entanglements.
- 4. Techniques to avoid harming fragile aquatic life.
- 5. Techniques for entering and exiting the water with a DPV.
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Prerequisites
To qualify for the DPV Diver course, an individual must:
- 1. Be certified as a Padi Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water
Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training
organization.
- 2. Be at least 12 years old.
- 3. Submit, to the instructor, medical
clearance for diving signed by a
physician, attesting to fitness to
dive. The medical clearance must
be current within the previous
12 months. The physician signing
the form cannot be the individual.
- 4. Sign the Certified Diver Experience
Programs Liability Release.
- 5. Assumption of Risk form.
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