Poseidon Adventures is the most experienced Scuba diving center in Tulsa

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course can be completed in as little as one weekend. You'll make 'core' underwater navigation, deep dives, and then do 3 'elective' dives. This allows you to participate in more advanced diving activities with a maximum recommended depth limit of 100 feet, in addition to the qualifications listed for PADI Open Water Divers. The price for all of this is only $150.

From assisting a tired diver to handling emergency scenarios, you'll practice applying the knowledge and skills that can make the difference in the unlikely event problems do arise. To get into the PADI Rescue Diver program, you'll need to be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent. And, you will also need to have successfully completed a sanctioned program in CPR within the past three years. After successfully completing Rescue program, you'll receive the internationally recognized PADI Rescue Diver certification card.

With this certification in hand, you'll have reached the highest recreational diver accomplishment in the PADI System of diver education. The PADI Master Scuba Diver rating denotes superior achievement and proficiency in dive skills, experience and underwater activities. Isn't that what you're all about? To put yourself on top and reach the PADI Master Scuba Diver level, you need to be at least 12 years of age and complete the PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent, PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Rescue Diver, and any five PADI Specialty Diver certifications. Or, if you're a PADI Divemaster, or PADI Assistant Instructor, complete any five PADI Specialty Diver Ratings.

Whether it's a missing o-ring, wetsuit tear or a broken fin strap, the PADI Equipment Specialist course teaches you to manage basic repairs and adjustments. You'll also learn more about how your gear works, making you more comfortable with it and better prepared to take care of your investment.

If you dive within the light zone of a cave, the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visibly, you're cavern diving. You need to be an Advanced Open Water Diver or higher and the minimum age is 18 years old. This is not a cave diving course and does not result in a cave diving certification. It does prepare you to enter a cave diving program.

To do this you want to be trained in proper techniques and this is where PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course comes in. During your PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you'll not only cover the background knowledge related to dry suit diving, you'll be able to put that theory into practice applying that knowledge, including dive planning, organization, techniques, problems and buoyancy control. You will need a Dry Suit kit, which includes manual and video.

Evey dive location takes on a new personality at night, as many underwater creatures and plant life (which differ from those you see during the day) are active. You will need to be an Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old. You'll learn night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also learn how to control your buoyancy, navigate and communicate at night. Since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different, you'll also get an introduction to nocturnal aquatic life. So you can experience nightlife in a whole new way.

The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. You will need to be an Advanced Open Water Diver. You'll learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also cover limited visibility, search patterns and safe object recovery using lift devices.

The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course will help you become more proficent at finding your way underwater. You need to be an Open Water Diver to start the course. During your PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you'll learn underwater navigation dive procedures, techniques, planning, organization and potential problems. You'll also be introduced to natural navigation, underwater patterns, distance estimation and further your compass navigation skills. You'll put these into practice during your three open water dives.

The PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty course can help you learn how to take your fist underwater photographs or fine tune your existing skills to produce photographs that will stun your friends. You'll learn the basics of underwater photography such as composition, film type and camera handling, with special emphasis on practical techniques. You'll learn underwater photography dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also learn how to care for and maintain your camera equipment. Two dives over one day are required.

If you dive to 50 feet on air, you can gain up to 95 additional minutes of no decompression time by diving on enriched air rather than on air. Completion of your Enriched Air Nitrox allows you to dive within the EAN no decompression limits using less than 40% nitrox. For Enriched Air Nitrox you must be at least 15 years of age and be at least an Open Water Diver. You’ll learn the procedures and preparation necessary to safely dive using enriched air. You'll need your PADI Enriched Air Specialty Diver kit and DVD.

Learn how to handle depth past 60 feet. Work with wet or dry suits and get comfortable in the area below the thermocline. See what the beginning of nitrogen narcosis does to your coordination.

This is a First Aid and CPR course, for divers and nondiver’s alike. It is a requirement for the Rescue Diver Class and is just plain common sense for everyone else. Get up to speed with the new CPR guidelines.

As a recreational diver, you can receive training to provide vital first aid that can make a difference to a scuba diver with decompression illness. The DAN Oxygen Provider Course provides entry-level training in the recognition and management of possible diving-related injuries using emergency oxygen first aid.

Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them. Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.

This is the second half of the Open Water course in the class and pool. You will be taking tests and evaluations in the pool also.

Once you learn to recognize what types of fish you see, you’ll find it easier to reference the exact species after a scuba dive. For example, a butterfly fish in the Caribbean has a similar shape to a butterfly fish in Southeast Asia, but colors and markings may be wildly different. If you know what fish family it belongs to, you can more easily look up the local name or at least be able to intelligently ask the local scuba instructor what you saw.

From composing and taking the picture to editing and printing out the end result. This course will help you bring those pictures to life.

The first few times, you sense the mystery and exhilaration of discovery. Once you get to know it, each dive rings with familiarity, reminding you of the last time you visited. The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course teaches the basic principles for fun, safe wreck diving. Whether wrecks interest you out of historical curiosity or because they're artificial reefs with abundant life, this program will help you enjoy wreck diving more and help you avoid potential problems.

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The course includes academics, skill practice in confined water and actual scuba diving in open water, all under the guidance of a Poseidon PADI instructor. The price is $250 with the purchase of mask, fins, snorkel and boots. See us at our facility for an enjoyable, non-strenuous 2 week or weekend class, scheduled for your convenience and tailored to enter you into the WORLD OF SCUBA!