Who this course is for:
- The certified diver looking for more information about the different full face masks available and how to determine the correct one to meet their needs
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Full Face Mask Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Purpose
- Diver safety
- Communications
- Advantages
- Increased diver safety
- Communications
- Corrective lenses
- Disadvantages
- Increased air consumption
- Buoyancy
- Bulky
- Types
- Appropriate/inappropriate
- Scuba quick connect/disconnect
- Surface supplied
- Techniques/procedures
- Donning
- Diving with a full face mask
- Underwater Communications
- Types of communication equipment
- User/field maintenance and care
- Authorized servicing/preventive maintenance
- After use
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Dive plan
- Equipment set up
- Proper donning and adjustment
- On the surface, switching from open to close
- Proper weighting
- Establish buoyancy and demonstration of buoyancy control
- Equalization techniques
- Clearing a partially flooded mask
- Remove and replace full face mask underwater
- free flowing full face mask
- Successfully switch to a back up mask
- Remove mask and utilization of alternate air source
- Alternate air source ascent
- Ascent and exit
- Log dive
What’s in it for you?
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in diving activities without direct supervision of the SDI Instructor* so long as the following limits are adhered to:
- The diving activities approximate those of training
- The areas of activities approximate those of training
- Environmental conditions approximate those of training
*Note: Junior divers (ages 10-14) must participate in diving activities with a parent, guardian, or dive professional.
Also, the SDI Full Face Mask Diver certification counts towards a single specialty rating to achieve the SDI Advanced Diver Development Program.
How to take this course!
- Find your local Dive Center: here