Scuba and Snorkel Center & Motor City Scuba

Training

PADI Ice Diver

If the spirit of adventure and unusual, challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under the ice.

During the course, you dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialties recreational diving offers.

The Fun Part

Explore the unique aquascape found only under ice. You can be one of the few that have ever dived under a solid ceiling of ice. Plus, imagine the look on your Divemaster’s face on your next Caribbean trip when you flash your PADI Ice Diver certification.

You might get a chance to play with your exhaled air bubbles on the bottom of the ice or an opportunity to try the unique sport of upside down, bottom of the ice, skiing.

What You Learn

You will complete a minimum of three ice dives for your certification. Dives are typically done as a group working with support personnel, divers, tenders, and safety divers. You are under the ice to learn to control buoyancy, navigate under the ice, and keep in contact with the lead diver and tenders via line pulls.

You learn:

To plan and organize ice dives
Reasons and opportunities for ice diving,
Equipment considerations
About site selection, preparation and hole-cutting procedures
How to practice the procedures and techniques for handling the problems and hazards of ice diving
To use specialized ice diving equipment, safety lines, signals, communications, line tending and line-securing techniques
How to manage equipment problems
About the effects of cold, emergency procedures and safety-diver procedures

The Scuba Gear You Use

You use your basic cold water scuba diving equipment, dive knife, and a redundant air source (recommended, not required: doubles or pony bottle). It is important that your regulator is in good working order to function under colder temperatures.