Learning to Scuba Dive with CPA

Lectures for SAA Qualification Levels

Different levels of diving ability demand different levels of knowledge. The club gives all trainees the first 12 lectures -- covering Snorkel Diver and Elementary Diver -- as a minimum. The lectures average a little under an hour or so each. From then on, the diver is encouraged to do lectures at ever higher standards for higher qualifications. This is done at the diver's pace. The bullated items in the tables below are those things that all CPA trainees would normally do as standard.

Snorkel Diver

Introduction to SCUBA & basic equipment

Ears, sinuses and air-filled spaces

Respiration and circulation

Protective clothing

Accident avoidance and rescue

Basic first aid, artificial ventilation & CPR

Elementary Diver

Physics and the diver

Principles of SCUBA

Open water diving

Buoyancy jackets - ABLJ/Stab/wings...

Avoiding decompression illness

Personal diving computer

Club Diver

Diving air and deep diving

Diver rescue

SAA Bühlmann tables

Underwater navigation

Boat diving

Dive planning

Dive Leader

Decompression illness – condition & treatment

Burst lung – condition & treatment

Search diving

Advanced diving

Dive leadership

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