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Dec 30, 2024
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PED 332 - Scuba Level II This course is a specialty (level 2) open water diver program designed to teach advanced diving skills in the areas of underwater navigation, diver stress and rescue and night diving. Completion of classroom, pool and open water work will lead to internationally recognized Specialty (level 2) Diver certification. Prerequisite: PED 232. Notes: This course is usually a quarter course offered seasonally. 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 competency in knowledge and skills of individual pieces of equipment, its applicability and its maintenance and care.
- Apply dive planning practices to demonstrate safe diving with a qualified partner.
- 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 the advanced 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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