The HSA "Dive Buddy Program" offers Open Water Scuba Divers the opportunity to expand their underwater world by sharing it with divers with disabilities.

The course combines classroom instruction followed by confined water and open water exercises, designed to simulate disabilities. In "acting out" the disabilities, 

Dive Buddies actually experience what it is like to be a mobility or sight-impaired diver, and the special considerations needed when planning and diving with them.

As an HSA certified Dive Buddy you will receive nearly as much information and skill training as an instructor, except the training focuses on recreation, not instruction!

Prerequisites: Open Water Diver certification

Medical certification: may be requested

Duration: 4 days

Price: 280,00 € per person

Included in the course price: 6 dives, tanks, weights, study material, certification. Rental equipment not included.

In the HSA Open Water Scuba Diver course, your HSA Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive.

Our open water training programs for people with disabilities are taught with a high margin of safety because we use teaching techniques developed with over 30 years of continuous research and feedback.

This course builds on what you have learned and develops your skills as you are introduced to new activities and new ways to have fun and explore the underwater world.

While completing your dives you will experience typical recreational dives: Deep diving, Night diving, Wall, Drift or Mid-Water diving, Navigation using a compass and topographic methods and Marine Life Identification.