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About SDI Open Water Diver Certification - by SDI SKU: Open-Water-Certification
Dive Right In Scuba teaches the most thorough open water course, providing you with the most flexible schedule to give you the best dive experience in the area. We are also the only ones doing your training in a drysuit, which keeps you warmer and in the water longer. This all equates to more dive time, and a more enjoyable experience!
Wouldn't you feel safer knowing that our Dive Instructors and Instructor Trainers teach people how to go back thousands of feet in caves, hundreds of feet down on wrecks, and do training for Police, Fire, and Lifeguard Dive Teams? Ours do! It is these Instructors who bring their knowledge and love of diving into your class. We have trained over 1000 new students just like you. If your passion doesn't stop there, we teach a LOAD of classes and can even make you a Dive Instructor!
Are you ready to start your adventure?
We offer the best dive training in the industry by the well known scuba diving agency -SDI! Once you finish,you will have worldwide accreditaion and access to dive! Your new scuba certification will have you certified down to 60 feet (over 16 years of age) or 40 ft (10-15 years old). Remember, your training doesn't stop here, this is a social hobby and we have lots of dive opportunities.
Checkout some of the diving in our backyard! That little pond in Chicago, Lake Michigan, has some of the best wreck diving in the world.
Once your place your order, we will contact you directly and email you your online class code and we will schedule your classes.
Getting Started Is Easy!
The majority of our students do the online course from the comfort of their homes. Get the online code, study at home, then come in for one night of online review. We go over the tests that you completed online, tour the shop, and talk about your upcoming dive adventure! Most people finish the online course in a few hours, it’s comprehensive and fun! For those not comfortable with online study, we do offer a classroom session. You still learn from the books at home and self-study, then come in for one night to complete a review of what you learned and go over your knowledge reviews you have already filled out. The tour and the adventure planning still applies.
Complete academic and pool sessions. Ask questions, enjoy the learning.
Pool Time! Oh yeah, this is where the bubble blowing starts with two nights of pool skills. Time to do what you have read and play in the pool for about three hours each night. You will learn gear assembly and other water skills from your dive instructor.
Complete check out dives for certification. Complete locally or at a vacation destination. Open water Dives- Four dives over a weekend at Haigh Quarry in Kankakee. Take all the skills you learned in the pool and show your dive instructor you can perform them in a deeper environment. Don’t worry about the cold, we are the only dive shop that supplies Drysuits for our open water students so you can stay warm and dry while enjoying the underwater scenery! Sunken boats, military vehicles, planes, fish and much more await you. Oh, we almost forgot, after your last dive we have a cookout, and go do some dives to REALLY sink in what you learned! Let the fun begin, and you are now a certified DIVER!
You're certified as a diver. Now What? Come dive with us and keep learning! I’m certified, now what? – Well, don’t worry about that! Through Dive Right in Scuba, we have lots of opportunities for you. First, we offer you one month of free equipment rental for local diving. We don’t just want to certify you, we want you to dive and enjoy what you just learned! You can go back to Haigh Quarry, join us for Wreck Diving on Lake Michigan, get away on a tropical vacation with us or your family, or meet us on one of our many other adventures. Don’t worry, we have lots of social activities and you will meet lots of new friends!!
What's included:
- Books or online training materials (E-Learning code),
- Training,
- Basic rental equipment,
- Drysuit and undergarments rental,
- Pool time,
- Open Water Quarry time,
- In-store Credit ($50),
- 30 Day Free Equipment Rental after Class.
- Equipment Specialist Course
What's Not Included:
- Your own mask, fins, booties, snorkel, surface marker buoy & finger spool
- Quarry entrance fee
California residents please click here for Proposition 65 WARNING
Proposition 65
Safe Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 – Warnings Required
WARNING: This Dive Right In Scuba product can expose you to certain chemicals which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
We appreciate your decision to purchase Dive Right In Scuba products to provide the best in water experience. We take our job seriously! You may have noticed that our products now show a warning label at point of sale referring to carcinogens and birth defects. You may also have begun to see warnings related to carcinogenic substances or substances causing birth defects prominently displayed in hotel lobbies, hospitals, or other places of business recently. These warnings are required by the State of California, and we believe that an explanation of the California statute legislating the requirement will provide you valuable information regarding the relative risks of the chemicals that may be present in consumer products.
In 1986, the State of California passed the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act; otherwise known as “Proposition 65” or "Prop 65". Prop 65 requires businesses like ours to disclose to individuals the presence of chemicals listed in the Act prior to point of sale. The regulations implementing this Act have been amended over time with the most recent updates will take effect on August 30, 2018. There are more than 900 chemicals on the Prop 65 Chemical List, including many chemicals that are found in components of a wide array of consumer goods or are used to manufacture components that make up consumer goods.
Prop 65 does not establish acceptable concentrations for any listed chemical; however, the agency which enforces it has established what is called "safe harbor" exposure levels for about one third of these chemicals below which warnings are not required. These "safe harbor" are established for listed carcinogens based on the quantity of the chemical that would result in one excess case of cancer in an exposed population of 100,000, assuming lifetime (70-year) exposure at the level in question. A similar process is used to establish safe harbor levels for listed reproductive toxicants. Additional information in plain language on safe harbor levels is available from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment at http://oehha.ca.gov/Prop65/background/p65plain.html
At Dive Right In Scuba, the safety of your in water experience is our highest priority. We go to great effort to select materials that offer superior value, quality, and durability while also being generally recognized as safe and reliable for the full life of the product. Dive Right In Scuba also works closely with many regulatory bodies, such as the US Coast Guard and Underwriter’s Laboratories, to ensure the longevity of your on-water safety through targeted selection of durable, long lasting materials and components that undergo significant validation testing before being used to manufacture end items. Sometimes the safety promise we offer appears at odds with the health and safety requirements of other legislation in certain parts of the world when some regulations are updated ahead of others. To ensure compliance with applicable legal requirements, Dive Right In Scuba has placed a warning on products that contain a Prop 65 listed chemical, either directly or as a part of the raw material supply chain. This allows us to comply with California law and provide our California consumers with the disclosure required by Prop 65, while still promising the safest on water experience possible.
Dive Right In Scuba is working diligently with regulatory bodies and our own manufacturing partners to continue to improve our product performance and reduce the presence of less desirable chemicals. Water is a precious resource we all share that is important to the health and well-being of our planet and all people. Our goal is to continue to enhance your water life experience while reducing our overall impact to the planet and, in particular, its waterways. While it is a bit of a juggling act to achieve, we are confident you will see continued improvement in both the immediate and long term future. We hope this explanation will enable you to understand why you will be seeing warnings on some our products.
Thank you for your continued use of Dive Right In Scuba products.