Classes
Openwater (3 week) - Openwater (Private) - Open Water Referral Academics -
Open Water Referral Ocean - Scuba Review/Refresher - Advanced Openwater - Rescue Diver -
Medic First Aid - Divemaster - DAN O2 - G.U.E -
Instructor
Specialties/Advanced Electives
Altitude Diver - Deep Diver - Drysuit Diver -
Equipment Specialist - Navigation -
Night Diver - Search & Recovery - Underwater Hunter -
Underwater Naturalist - Underwater Photo - Master Scuba Diver
Openwater - 3 week - Your first step into the underwater world. This course teaches you the basics of scuba diving, equipment use and safe diving practices. Classroom and pool sessions are scheduled two evenings a week for three weeks with your certification dives held the weekend following completion of your classroom training. $249. Start Today!!!!
Openwater - Private - This course allows you to get the same great instruction, but is arranged around your schedule. Can be done in just under a week or over several weeks. $449 (includes lessons, books, video, shirt, log book, and rentals).
Openwater - Referral - Academics - Structured to allow you to complete all of your classroom and pool sessions here at Manta Ray in a scheduled class, but then you do your openwater certification dives at the resort of your choice. Great for vacations where you want to include scuba diving! $200 (includes lessons, books, video, shirt, log book, and rentals)
Openwater - Referral - Ocean -Don't forget that Monterey is a great place to do your openwater dives, especially if you're snowed in in your home town. Two days are needed to do your dives. $175
Scuba Review/Refresher - If you have been openwater certified, but it has been a long time since you have been in the water blowing bubbles, this program refreshes your beginning level skills. Just one four-hour session will allow you to dive with confidence again. $75 (optional book)
Advanced Openwater - The next logical stop in your dive education. This program offers experience in five specialty areas. Dives that are included in the course are night diving, underwater navigation and deep diving. Two additional specialties will be chosen the first night of class. There is one classroom sessions with five dives scheduled over one weekend. This is a chance to gather some bottom time under a variety of diving conditions. This course offers you additional skills and the added confidence that you can dive safely under any circumstances. $150.
Rescue Diver - This course emphasizes three separate areas of safety - how to identify problems before they become a rescue situation, how to help a fellow diver in trouble and how to get yourself out of trouble. Two classroom sessions and two days of openwater training over the course of one weekend will make you both a stronger diver and a better dive buddy. $150.
Medic First Aid - Meets the requirements of the American Medical Association for First Aid and CPR. Two classroom sessions offer hands-on training in CPR, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and simple first aid techniques. There's no better way to be prepared for an emergency. $60.
Divemaster - This is the first step in higher education where the diver learns the skills needed to assist an instructor during training activities. Two classroom sessions a week for four weeks gives you instructor level knowledge of diving theory. One weekend of pool training will start you on the right path to assist your instructor with his classes. Then finally you will have some on -the-job training through an internship of two openwater courses working with students and your instructor. Here you will for the first time assume the responsibility of having the welfare of other divers in your charge. Price based on certification level. (Internships also available)
DAN O2 - This course gives you hands on experience in dealing with oxygen in injured diver situations. Topics include handling, storage, and administration of O2 in a safe manner. O2 is the #1 prescribed treatment for all diving accidents. Don't be caught unprepared! $60.
Instructor Courses - available by request.
Altitude Diver - Before you do any diving in one of California's many beautiful lakes, first stop and check the altitude where you are thinking of diving. If your lake is over 1,000 feet above sea level, the altitude diver course is a must. You will learn how to use your dive tables at altitude, how long to wait after arriving at altitude to start your dive, diving physiology and other aspects of freshwater diving and safety concerns.
Deep Diver - The PADI openwater course offers instruction on safe diving practices to 60 feet. If you are ready to dip below that limit, first take this course. Deep Diver emphasizes the skills necessary to conduct safe repetitive deep dives. These topics include: problems and hazards of deep diving, emergency procedures, special equipment and flying after diving. Three classroom sessions with four openwater dives over the course of one weekend.
Drysuit Diver - Did you recently purchase a drysuit? Are you finding yourself stopping by the drysuit rack each time you are in the store, wondering what diving in a drysuit is like? Your will learn drysuit diving techniques from weighting to emergency procedures for flooding. Also covered are basic maintenance and drysuit care.
Equipment Specialist - If you have ever gotten all the way to the beach and had equipment problems, if you've been on your long-awaited dive vacation and your regulator begins to free flow, you could have immediately corrected those problems if you had just taken this class. In just one day during an eight-hour course, you can learn basic Scuba care and maintenance. You will also be able to recognize common problems - remember that free-flowing reg? - and fix them.
Navigation - Topics covered in two classroom sessions are distance estimation, compass navigation and natural navigation. During your three openwater dives over the course of one weekend you will practice each of these new skills along with dive site relocation.
Night Diver - Even the most familiar of dive sites looks completely different once the sun sets! This course is designed to help you overcome that first-time uneasiness that you feel. You will learn proper procedures for buoyancy, nighttime navigation, communication and the selection and use of dive lights. There will be one classroom session followed by three openwater dives over the course of one weekend.
Search & Recovery - Familiarizes you with the techniques and skills necessary to effectively plan, organize and conduct search and recovery dives. Limited visibility diving, recovery of objects using various lifting devices and navigational techniques are all covered during your three classroom sessions followed by four openwater dives over the course of the weekend.
Underwater Hunter - An introduction of underwater hunting techniques which includes equipment needed for hunting, safe techniques of spear fishing and preparation of fish and games.
Underwater Naturalist - An introduction to California marine life so that you can identify all of the wonderful things that you are seeing each dive. Not only will you learn facts about some of the local marine life, but you will also be able to recognize potentially dangerous marine life, too. Underwater Naturalists also learn some important information about conservation of our precious underwater resources.
Underwater Photo - You are introduced to the basics of underwater photography. You will learn choices of film, strobe use, proper techniques of underwater photography along with care and maintenance procedures for your camera and housing.
Master Scuba Diver - The Master Scuba Diving rating is the highest recreational diver rating in the PADI program. It denotes superior achievement and proficiency.
