Adaptive SCUBA
About 15% of people are classified as handicapped by accident or disease. Many of them can dive. We teach to Handicapped Scuba Association Physical Performance Standards and a multilevel certification system that covers paraplegia, quadriplegia, blindness, and high-functioning brain injury.
12+
Minimum age
A / B / C
HSA levels
How levels work
Proficiency is based on your ability to assist another diver.
- Level A — certified to dive with one other person
- Level B — dive with two able-bodied divers
- Level C — two buddies, and one of them must be rescue-trained
- The extra buddy on B and C is there for the A-level (or above) diver that a B or C diver cannot assist
- Marine life ID: describe and identify one form on each of five certifying dives
Prerequisites
Completed medical questionnaire. Minimum age 12. Level A, B, and C divers can continue to Advanced after Open Water.
Dive Buddy course
For certified divers who want to learn disabilities, accessibility, and how to dive with people who have disabilities.
- Open Water certification
- 40 logged dives in the two years before the course
- HSA rescue and air-sharing performance standards, or equivalent