Continuing Ed

Education at Scuba Centers of Michigan!

Scuba diving certification at Scuba Centers of Michigan. Learn to dive with lessons that meet your schedule!

Scuba Centers teaches scuba diving and certifies divers all the way up to instructor level.

SSI’s ConEd Ratings have the highest requirements in the industry. They are not courses per session; rather, they are flexible requirements, that can be met in a variety of ways, allowing you to personalize your continuing education path.

SSI Advanced Open Water Diver.

SSI’s Advanced Diver rating stands alone in the industry with the highest combination of diving knowledge and experience. No other agency’s advanced diver level compares. Our Advance Course includes:

Deep Diving
Night Diving – Low Visibility
Navigation
Computer Diving or any other specialty

All Specialties are Home Study, However we still do a knowledge review class to make sure you understand the material.

Open Water dives are included, but if you have documented proof of any required dives, they count! Why would we make you do the dives you already have experience in?

SSI Master Diver. SSI’s Master Diver rating is one of the most elite ratings in diving today. Divers that have completed this level have combined the knowledge, skills and experience to truly call themselves Master Divers.

ADVANCED DIVE PLANNING

Dive planning! An obvious concept, however, why do so few divers know how to plan their dives accurately? One of the primary reasons is that it was not covered fully in their open water programs. The SSI Advanced Dive Planning course will cover the following in full detail:

Understand How To Calculate Gas Usage
Turn Psi
Minimum Ascent Pressures
SafeAir Gas Dive Planning

Dive smarter and more confident as a well trained diver!

WRECK DIVING

Explore the sunken wrecks of the great lakes and around the world with the SSI Wreck diver program. Understand the principles behind penetration and non-penetration dives. Work with primary lights, join lines, lift bags, and wreck reels. Dive on the basic wrecks or prepare for something more interesting. Go back in time as you transcend the different levels of the wreck you choose.

See Scuba Centers of Michigan for known wrecks of the Great Lakes.

NIGHT DIVING

Brings up images of the dark doesn’t it? Actually, you will find night diving the most enjoyable of all the diving done. With your underwater dive light, you will see the true colors of the world of inner-space. And in the tropics all the cool critters come out to play, Crabs, Lobster, Moray Eels and Octopus are just a few neat thing you can come across.

ADVANCED NAVIGATION

Become a true expert with the Advanced Navigation core module course. First spend time in the classroom and pool areas practicing reciprocal, triangulation, and multiple polygons. Then take your practice sessions into open water. Learn how to take your basic navigation skills to the next limit by utilizing conceptual navigation. Go where you want to go and come right back from where you came from. Only the SSI Advanced Navigation course will do this for you.

SPECIALTY COURSES:

Do you find yourself underwater, and think that you have seen it all? Are you tired of the same old same old? Add some excitement to your diving career, and spice up your diving skills with a specialty course! Scuba Centers is proud to announce our 2000 class listing for these upcoming specialty courses and costs.

You asked for more adventure, and Scuba Centers of Michigan delivers it to you!

BOAT DIVING
DRYSUIT DIVING
COMPUTER DIVING
SHARK DIVING & AWARENESS
UNDERWATER NAVIGATION I
UNDERWATER NAVIGATION II
LIMITED VISIBILITY DIVING
SEARCH & RECOVERY
UNDERWATER METAL DETECTING
BOTTLE DIVING & COLLECTING
EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE
INTRO TO FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
INTRO TO REEF ECOLOGY
FREE DIVING
INTRO TO U/W PHOTOGRAPHY
INTRO TO U/W VIDEOGRAPHY
DAN OXYGEN PROVIDER
RIVER DIVING I
RIVER DIVING II
WRECK DIVING I
WRECK DIVING II
DEEP SPORT DIVING
NIGHT DIVING
UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY
ICE DIVING

$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$49.00
$59.00
$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$49.00
$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$39.00
$79.00
$69.00
$129.00*
$129.00*
$189.00*
$119.00
$119.00
$139.00*
$139.00

*INCLUDES BOAT CHARTER FOR THE DIVES

The Professional Staff at Scuba Centers of Michigan have worked very hard developing the best possible specialty courses for your diving pleasure. Most of the above courses do require additional specialty equipment, which is available at Scuba Centers. If there is a course that you do not see, and are interested in taking, feel free to give us a call and we will arrange a specialty course for you. Private courses are available for an additional fee depending on the specialty class.

Enriched Air Nitrox…..

Seen something a little different around the cylinders of divers in the pool, at open water, and on trips? The yellow and green stickers that are wrapped around the cylinders are an indicator the the cylinder contains a mixture called Enriched Air Nitrox!

ATTENTION ALL DIVERS! YOU ARE BREATHING NITROX RIGHT NOW!
In fact, your first breath was nitrox, your first scuba dive was on nitrox, and every breath that you have taken since then has been nitrox! Then what is the big deal you may ask? What we use is called a breathing mixture that is enriched with additional oxygen to create Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx)! Here are some commonly asked questions about EAN, and some good reasons why you should be breathing EAN as well.

What is the difference between Air and Enriched Air?
Air is comprised of about 80% Nitrogen, and 20% Oxygen, and it is technically called normoxic nitrox. Additional oxygen is added to the mixture “enriching” the percentage of oxygen between 22 and 40%, depending on the desired mixture.*

*(NOTE: THERE ARE A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS THAT ENRICHED AIR IS MADE. THESE WAYS ARE COVERED IN THE COURSE ITSELF.)

The most common mixtures of Enriched Air are EAN 32 and EAN 36.

What’s all the fuss?
EANx has many benefits to the recreational diver. Here is a list that may help you in understanding EANx a little better!

	EANx gives you extended no-decompression dive times because of less nitrogen absorption into your system. Because of increased amounts of oxygen in the mixture, very strict depth limits must be observed when diving with EANx.
	Nitrogen fatigue is decreased because of less nitrogen uptake in the system!
	When diving EANx on air diving tables, an increased safety margin is attained, therefore possibly reducing the chances on decompression sickness.
	EANx has been used by the military, commercial divers, scientific divers, and recreational divers for the last 60 years. This concept is only new to the recreational industry over the last 15 years. SSI first approved the use of Enriched Air Nitrox in 1992, and was the first totally recreational organization to do it!

Cost of the course is $199.97, and includes the textbook, workbook and exam, certification card, open water dives, and all instructor fees!

The Enriched Air Fills are a reduced rate to $12.00 for student rentals and/or fills, and are not included in the cost of the course.

CONTINUE YOUR DIVING EDUCATION!