- Intermediate/Advanced Class
- Dive Control Specialist Class
- Instructor Program
- Scuba Rangers
- Refresher Scuba Class
- Nitrox
- Peak Performance Diving
- Advanced Computer Usage
- Underwater Photography
- Underwater Video
- Rebreather Course
- First Aid and CPR Class
- Oxygen Provider Course
- Handicapped Diver Classes
This is the class to further advance and hone your scuba knowledge and skills…learn to achieve perfect buoyancy control, to navigate underwater, to field repair basic equipment problems, and to plan your dive trip. When you complete this comprehensive program and have logged the required dives, you receive the respected SSI Advanced or Master Diver Certification and Stress/Rescue Certification. The SSI specialties you pickup are Night Diving, Deep Diving, Navigation Diving, and Boat Diving. The class meets one evening a week for five weeks plus one Saturday for Open Water class.
Your practical diving experience does count toward the Advanced/Master Diver Ratings. For example, if you have completed two night dives and you have them logged in your logbook, they count toward the night diving specialty. All you have to do to complete this specialty is read the night diving text, watch the video and take the exam.
The Houston Scuba Academy Dive Control Specialist class is a great way to continue your scuba education. After all, if you are going to help divers enjoy their diving you need to know a good deal about all aspect of this great activity. The Dive Control Specialist Class covers water skills, physics, physiology, and much more. Divers who complete this program are eligible to assist with HSA classes and trips and are qualified to enroll in the Instructor Program.
The Instructor program covers all the SSI and Houston Scuba Academy material required to become a certified SSI instructor. You must have an SSI Dive Control Specialist rating (or its equivalent) and have at least 150 logged dives to qualify for this program.
A Scuba Program for children as young as 8. Included in this class are swimming, snorkeling, scuba, underwater photography, awards, skill demonstrations for family and friends, lunches, ID cards and photos, snorkeling manual, SSI and HSA decals, log book, Scuba Ranger video and the use of mask, fins, and scuba equipment. Please call for the schedule and see the Scuba Rangers Page for more information.
This class includes a review of the dive tables, an explanation of diving with a computer, and as many pool exercises as time allows. It is ideal for the diver who has been away from the underwater world for more than one year. The group class is limited to the first six people who call in.
Nitrox is a blend of oxygen and nitrogen. Air is also a blend of Oxygen and nitrogen. The difference is that Nitrox has more oxygen and less nitrogen than air does. As divers, we know that breathing air underwater adds nitrogen to our bodies. The more nitrogen you absorb, the harder your body works to dissipate this excess nitrogen, causing fatigue and you become more susceptible to decompression sickness. One of the primary reasons to use Nitrox is to reduce the diver’s exposure to the DCS.
The Nitrox class discusses the methods of mixing Nitrox, the effects it has on your body and your dive planning, and the use of computers with Nitrox. No special or additional equipment is necessary to dive with sport blends of Nitrox.
Houston Scuba Academy is a certified Nitrox filling and blending station.
This class was developed for current Open Water and Advanced Open Water divers to continuing their education and to increase their diving enjoyment. Peak Performance Diving (P2D) small class size is designed to enhance the finer points of breathing, buoyancy, proper weighting, and fin control, and to discuss an ongoing fitness program to help improve your diving enjoyment. Our goal is to insure that you have the very best equipment, knowledge, skills, and experience with our total customer focused professional staff. Join us for one of the up coming two night classes. After the class, join your instructor on a dive trip for additional one-on-one assistance to make you a Diving eACE (enhanced Ability, Comfort, and Enjoyment).
Ever wondered what all those numbers mean on your computer? Do you know how to adjust your computer to better match your dive style, or how to download the information from its memory to your home computer? Well, this class is for you. The class will include working with the latest dive computers and PC software to download profiles and evaluate real life and simulated dives. This one night class will be 75% hands on and very interactive. If you are thinking of buying a computer or have one, you need this class. It can save your life, keep you diving longer and safer. A computer is a great tool but you need to understand everything that it is telling you. Suunto and Uwatec computers will be available in class to use. Of course, if you have a computer you are encouraged to bring it.
This class is tailored to the student’s photographic knowledge level and to the equipment he or she owns or wants to try. Photography theory and hands on practical experience in the pool are included. Digital and film equipment is available for purchase or rent.
If you have an underwater video system but have not gotten the results you are hoping for, or if you are considering entering the world of underwater video, this small investment of time will greatly benefit you. Video theory and practical application (pool training) are included. If you haven’t selected equipment yet, we will provide it.
A rebreather recycles your exhaled gases, scrubs out the CO2, adds a little O2, and makes your exhaled gases available to breath again. This gets you a lot more bottom time and is a lot quieter than an open regulator system. It also allows you to take advantage of using Nitrox rather than compressed air. Nitrox certification is required to enroll in this class
This class is open to all divers and Houston Scuba Academy highly recommends that everyone take this class whether they are dive professionals or not. Our instructors and dive masters are required to be recertified in First Aid and CPR every two years.
Learn the basics of providing oxygen in the field.
We teach handicapped people to dive. One of our Instructors, Marjorie Young, is a qualified Handicapped Diver Instructor. She accepts private students, one at a time.
