GO SOLO
Solo Divers have elite diver skills ! Great training for photographers and divers who want freedom to explore
GO SOLO
Solo Divers have elite diver skills ! Great training for photographers and divers who want freedom to explore
The SDI Solo Diver course gives experienced recreational divers the tools and skills to be a self reliant diver. In Bohol, Philippines we have amazing wall dives – the perfect sites for solo diving.
What are the fundamental skills? What will you learn?
- Planning and judgement – not ever dive or every day should be a solo dive
- Carrying a redundant air system. A pony bottle, or better yet sidemount or twin tanks
- Fine tuning buoyancy, trim, awareness and bail-out skills
The course is not for everyone. You must have 100 logged dives to start the course. If you want to solo because you constantly get lost from dive groups then you probably need to improve your judgment and awareness first !
Check out the 3 Great Package options below
SDI Solo Diver
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Duration: two days
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Number of dives: Three
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Study: E-learning
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Tech rental gear: Included
Study SOLO at home
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
- Advanced Open Water or higher
- minimum 18 years old
- In good health and fitness. Normal health and good fitness is important
- 100 or more logged dives.
Getting wet - all about your dives
The Solo course standard is for two dives. At Frontier Tech Divers we prefer to teach the course as a three dive course. More fun, extra practice and the last dive will be truly solo
All dives are no-deco within the limits of your current training. On every dive you will be practising skills to develop you as a diver and fine tune your current skills
The first dives is a skills dive. You’ll be practicing in shallow water and we include more skills than the course outline.
- Buoyancy and trim – helicopter turns
- No air swim 15m
- No mask swim
- Out of air – bail out
- Out of air – gas sharing ! What’s this? Yes, we are training you to be a better buddy too !
- SMB deployment from depth
- Deep stops and extended safety stops
The second dive applies your skills on a wall dive in Bohol. You will have a chance to tour so bring your camera. The third dive will be a solo dive. We follow on the surface and will give you a final bail-out, but other than that you are alone to explore.
Carry redundant gas – many divers combine the course with Sidemount training
Schedule
Most divers can complete the SDI Solo Diver course in two full days. Consider combining with TDI Intro to Tech and use tech gear and twin tanks or TDI Sidemount diver and get certified as a sidemount diver at the same time.
In the classroom we will give practical examples of how to apply what you have learned on your eLearning. Emphasis is on good judgment and planning. At the end of the day it is your skills, your decisions that will affect your dives and safety
Now you are going to have to be your own back up brain !
- Day 1 – Dive planning | Equipment setup | Skills dive
- Day 2 – Dive planning |AM dive to 30m | PM dive to 30m
What to bring
We make it easy by including redundant tank and regulator, or tech gear for Intro to Tech or Sidemount options. Just bring you basic dive gear.
inclusions
We include redundant gear for Solo divers as well as tech gear for Sidemount / Intro to Tech
- Stage tank
- Stage regulator
- back up bottom timer
- SMB & spool
what to bring
As an experienced diver please bring your regular dive gear including a redundant computer if you have one
- wetsuit and boots
- BCD and Reg
- mask and fins
- wrist slate and cutter/knife
- dive computer [+ back up]
- SMB & spool if you have one
3 great package options
gain confidence and new tools for diving
SDI
solo diver
$295
- 2 days -3 dives
- E-learning
- Redundant air system
SDI solo diver plus SDI Sidemount diver
$495
- 4 days - 6 dives
- E-learning
- Redundant air system
- SDI Sidemount diver course
- Sidemount eLearning
- Three extra dives to 30m
- Full sidemount rental equiment
SDI Solo diver plus
TDI INtro to tech
$495
- 4 days - 6 dives
- E-learning
- Redundant air system
- TDI Intro to Tech diver course
- Intro to Tech eLearning
- Three extra dives to 30m
- Full tech rental equiment
SOLO DIVER contact form
Brgy.Tangnan, Panglao Island, Bohol
+63 917 540 8410
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