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Dec 21, 2024
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PED 232 - Scuba Level I This course is designed to teach beginning diving skills starting with snorkeling and basic swimming skills and progressing through basic scuba skills to emergency procedures. Students will receive certification under Recreational Scuba Training Council standards and to dive safely. Notes: Fee information can be obtained from the department.(1 cr. hr.)
Frequency code A = offered every semester
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate safe use of underwater diving equipment and recognize individual pieces of equipment divers wear and how to judge its applicability, safety, and its care and maintenance.
- Differentiate between the properties of air and water and how these differences affect the human body.
- Explain and describe the medical aspects of diving (cause, symptoms, treatment, prevention of various diving maladies) and the psychological considerations of diving (stress reduction and panic prevention).
- Demonstrate safe dive planning and Scuba diving with a qualified partner.
- Demonstrate the skills learned in confined water during open water training dives in local aquatic environments under the direct supervision of a certified diving instructor.
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