Altitude Diving

• Any time you are diving at 300 to 3000 metres/1000 to 10 000 feet above sea level you are altitude diving. With the Peace River Region ranging from 1600 ft to 2720 ft above sea level, if you plan to dive locally you are planning to dive at altitude and the Altitude Diving course will give you the knowledge you need to dive safely.
  
  In the Altitude Diving Course you will learn the effects of pressure at higher altitudes and how to adjust your dive plan accordingly. You’ll learn altitude dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards; Recreational Dive PlannerTM procedures for diving at altitudes; and safety stops and emergency decompression procedures at altitude.
  
  Although many of you will not plan to dive locally, Amy's Scuba Connection includes in every Open Water Course an Altitude Diving Seminar. This seminar will include the knowledge development portion of the Altitude Diving Course. It will provide you with the information that is necessary to dive locally or anywhere else at altitude. For the seminar you will get the Adventures in Diving manual, this book includes information about altitude diving along with information about many other specialty courses. The Adventures in Diving manual is the text book used for the Advanced Course. This means that when the day comes that your are ready to take you Advanced Open Water Course you will be one step ahead, you already own the manual.
  
  What the Altitude Diving Seminar does not include is the Open water portion of the Altitude Diving Course. This mean that after completion of your Open Water Course, if and when you plan to dive locally you will need to contact Amy and go for a couple of local dives to complete your Altitude Diver Certification. At that point you will receive a certification card  for the course and you will be prepared and certified to dive locally.