Who this course is for:

    The certified diver looking for more information about the different full face masks available and how to determine the correct one to meet their needs

Course prerequisites:

• SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent

   

What you can expect to learn:

The SDI Full Face Mask Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:

Purpose

• Diver safety
• Communications

Advantages

• Increased diver safety
• Communications
• Corrective lenses

Disadvantages

• Increased air consumption
• Buoyancy
• Bulky

Types

• Appropriate/inappropriate
• Scuba quick connect/disconnect
• Surface supplied

Techniques/procedures

• Donning
• Diving with a full face mask

Underwater Communications

Types of communication equipment

User/field maintenance and care
Authorized servicing/preventive maintenance
After use

Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:

• Dive plan
• Equipment set up
• Proper donning and adjustment
• On the surface, switching from open to close
• Proper weighting
• Establish buoyancy and demonstration of buoyancy control
• Equalization techniques
• Clearing a partially flooded mask
• Remove and replace full face mask underwater
• free flowing full face mask
• Successfully switch to a back up mask
• Remove mask and utilization of alternate air source
• Alternate air source ascent
• Ascent and exit
• Log dive

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in diving activities without direct supervision of the SDI Instructor* so long as the following limits are adhered to:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training

*Note: Junior divers (ages 10-14) must participate in diving activities with a parent, guardian, or dive professional.