Scuba Classes -- A Diver's World - Lakeville, Minnesota

Search & Recovery

Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.

In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.

Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organization)
Must be at least 12 years old
Number of Dives: Four
Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery
Materials: You’ll Need Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual and the Search and Recovery video.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.

Classroom Wednesday evening 6-9pm
Lake dives Sat & Sun - 4 dives total over the 2 days

Date	Location
May 2008 dates	Weather dependent
June 7-8, 2008	Perch or Square Lake
June 21-22, 2008	Lake Wazee
July 5-6, 2008	Perch or Square Lake
July 19-20, 2008	Crosby Mines
Aug. 2-3, 2008	Perch or Square Lake
Aug 16-17, 2008	Lake Wazee
Aug 30-31, 2008	Upon demand
Sep. 13-14, 2008	Ore-Be-Gone/ Biwabik/Perch
Sep. 27-28 , 2008	Crosby Mines
Oct 11-12, 2008	Perch or Square Lake

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