Welcome to the OIT scuba class! We hope this is absolutely the BEST, most fun class you will ever take. Our goal is to make this class enjoyable and train you to be competent scuba divers.

ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. Please contact me if you must miss a class for any reason so we can make up the session.

This is a rough outline of the class schedule. IT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE if we all agree upon a different schedule.

The sample questions at the bottom of this page will challenge you, and may be more advanced than is on the final written examination.

Contacts:

Dan Benson (dan@jsdive.com) Instructor 892 2888

OIT Scuba Classes Spring Term

Date Date Academic Pool Open Water
Week 1

 

 Introduction

Dan and Staff

 None
Week 2

Oct 4 Chapter 1,2

Equipment

Jill and Sarah

 

 Water skills/ Skin Diving
Week 3

Oct. 11 Chapter 3 

Dive skills

Dan

 Gearing up equipment assembly
Week 4

Oct 18 Chapter 4

Physics

Don

 

 Regulater skills
Week 5

 

 Oct 25 Chapter 4

Physiology

Dan/Sarah

 Scuba Skills:mask skills
Week 6

 

 Nov 1 Chapter 5

Dive Table

Trevor

 Scuba Rescue, Emergency ascent. Free flowing regulator
Week 7

 

 Nov 8 Chapter 6

Dive emergencies

 Buoyancy
Week 8

Nov. 15 Chapter 7

Environmnet

Jill/Sarah

 Practice
Nov 22 Thanksgiving!

No class

Week 9

 Nov 29 Chapter 8,9

Dive planning, logging your dives and SAC rate calculation
Week 10

 

 Dec 6 finals/term ends

Sample questions:

1. What is the volume of a 50# lift bag in salt water?

2. This lift bag is fully inflated at 50' in salt water. It slips out of your hands and crashes to 132'. Now what is it's volume?!

3. How many atmospheres (absolute) is 85' salt water?

4. Use the NAUI dive tables:

a. What is the maximum dive time to 70'?

b. What is the ending pressure group after a dive to 61' for 40 minutes?

c. After a SIT of 1 hour (minimum surface interval recommended by NAUI) what is your new pressure group?

d. What is your new Adjusted Maximum Dive Time for a dive to 50'?

e. After the SIT time in 'c' and a dive to 50' for 50 minutes what is your NEW pressure group?

There is an "extreme sport" called apnea diving, which is breath holding.  You think you're good. Check out some of these world records:

Breath holding (not doing anything but floating in pool)

Mens: 8'58", Women 6'31"

Swimming horizontal no fins! 

women 108 meters, men 166 meters!

Swimming horizontal with fins

Women 172 meters, Men 200 meters (for your information, the OIT pool is 25 meters long. This record is the same distance you swam in the swimming part of your class. Only it was underwater. On one breath!)

No limits depth men:171meters, women 160 meters

Several of these records are still held by my heartthrob, Tanya Streeter!

For more information on this interesting sport see:

www.tanyastreeter.com

http://www.aida-international.org

April 13, 2007: Another death in this crazy sport. Please read.