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Dive The Historical Whiskey Wreck with Down Under Dive Shop

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  The Whiskey Wreck is a shore dive from Gulf Shores located roughly 150 yards due south of the beach and Bahama Bob’s CafĂ©. It lays just beyond a sandbar offshore, and that sandbar provides a useful landmark and staging area. The wreck is a 200-foot rum runner boat in less than 20 feet of water. That depth is shallow enough for snorkelers, non-divers on a Discover Scuba Dive, and Open Water divers alike to enjoy the wreck.
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Tec 40 3 days $699 Welcome to PADI Tec 40 This web page provides links to the materials you will need to prepare for and complete your PADI Tec 40 course. Any questions you have regarding this material should be emailed to our technical instructor padi190853@gmail.com  This material is not appropriate for anyone who is not enrolled in the PADI Tec 40 course and should not be used in place of formal technical dive training. Course Description PADI Tec 40 is an entry level technical diving course designed to teach gas switches and extended no decompression diving using air or enriched air up to depths as deep as 40 metres/130 feet. In this course, you will learn to make decompression stops up to 10 minutes in length and how to prepare for and respond to foreseeable emergencies that may occur in technical diving. Course Prerequisites Student divers must meet the following training prerequisites before starting the PADI Tec 40 course: Certified as

Maldives Live Aboard Feb. 27 thru March 6th 2022

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Welcome to the Maldives from Aggressor Adventures on Vimeo . Maldives General Information The Maldives Islands lie Southwest of India. Scattered across the equator in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the gem-like islands of the Maldives depict the rare vision of a tropical paradise. Palm fringed islands with sparkling white beaches, turquoise lagoons, clear warm waters and coral reefs teeming with abundant varieties of marine flora and fauna, fascinates visitors as it has for thousands of years. The Maldives are a tropical destination for liveaboard scuba diving with a year-round sea breeze. There are three distinctly different types of scuba diving at the Maldives: inside the atolls, outside the atolls and inside the channels or passes, which is where the currents are strongest and you'll find the greatest congregation of fish life. Most intriguing are the cleaning stations, found around every corner and under every ledge. Groupers, Snappers, Surgeonfish, Eels, Parrotfish

Instructor Exam Knowledge Development Teaching Presentation

PADI IDC Course Guide IDC Classroom Presentations dive theory class presentations Initially you teach a ‘topic' which we call micro-teaching then you progress to prescriptive teaching (using the PADI prescriptive Lesson Guides) Microteaching Example of a ‘micro teach' on ‘Staying Warm', that if delivered interestingly and confidently will score an overall 5 in the classroom. Tips: When you put your lesson together, don't write a script.  You will lose points if you read something parrot fashion, rather write yourself bullet points and enlarge on them.  This has been written this way in order to show how the lesson would proceed. Involve your students by getting them to read the whiteboard and asking questions, you will have to ask some to score the points, but don't just leave it at the minimum. It's important that you don't ‘over teach' a subject.  In other words don't teach to Divemaster standard on your Open Water course.  Just teach what's i