SDI’s New Scubility© Program

Topsham, Maine, February 6, 2006 — SDI announced today an exciting new addition to its ever expanding course curriculum. Scubility© is a program designed to teach SDI instructors how to work with disabled people who wish to become scuba divers.

“This program allows our SDI Open Water Instructors to offer our very popular open-water programs to a group of individuals that can benefit greatly from the underwater experience,” said Sean Harrison. Harrison, Vice President of Training and Membership Services, went on to explain: “The Scubility© program has been structured to be used in conjunction with our existing SDI open water text. This means that an SDI instructor interested in working with challenged divers, can upgrade as a Scubility© instructor very simply by learning specifically how to best meet the particular needs of this new group of potential divers. The basics of diving and the student materials are exactly the same as they have been teaching their whole SDI careers.”

Materials in the Scubility© program address disabilities such as; amputations, asthma, cerebral palsy, hearing disorders, muscular dystrophy, sight impairment, and many more. The divers will study using the easy to read format of the SDI Open Water Diver manual and a Scubility© instructor guide (SKU 220200) has been written to help the instructor match the course to the divers’ abilities.

“This is another way SDI is meeting the needs of our members, and making sure they can offer a variety of programs to an ever expanding customer base through a single training agency” commented David Burroughs, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for International Training.

Want more information?

• E-mail us at worldhq@tdisdi.com.
• Call SDI/TDI World Headquarters at (207) 729-4201.