Specialty courses

Specialty Courses - Diversity and Experience

Equipment Specialty | Deep Diving | Wreck Diving | First Aid/Oxygen Resuscitation | Nitrox

A specialty course can offer you a new outlook on your sport. Nautilus offers one of the most extensive selections of special interest programs available in South East Queensland. Our highly trained and experienced instructors can help you achieve the knowledge and skills to venture into new territory or discover new areas of diving.

These skills are developed through lectures with an experienced instructor who can then take you diving to experience the new challenges first hand. With this knowledge and experience you can then get the most from whatever area of diving you are most interested in.

Specialty courses available include Deep, Night, Wreck, Drift, Buoyancy Control, Underwater Photography, Equipment and many more too numerous to mention.

Equipment Specialty Course

This is the most fun you'll have without getting wet! One of our most popular courses and mandatory for Dive Control Specialists and above, the Equipment Specialty Course will give you that much needed training for maintenance and understanding of Scuba equipment. This course is also the prerequisite for Manufacturers Service Certificates of Scuba Equipment. This course is conducted by Trevor Wilson, our Service Technician and Senior Instructor, and will cover areas including regs, BCD's wetsuits, computers, troubleshooting, torches, knives, tanks, compressors, etc.

Course notes are included as well as morning and afternoon tea.

Investment:

$169.00 for club members and $189.00 for non-members.

Remember, if you are thinking of doing a Rescue or Dive Control Specialist Course, the Equipment Specialty Course is recommended for Rescue and mandatory for Dive Control Specialist!

Deep Diving Course

Diving below 18 metres is considered a deep dive and to safely enjoy and understand dives over 25 metres you should participate in a Deep Diver Course. The theory behind Deep Diving is quite involved with many of our participants reporting that after their course they were looking forward to expanding their knowledge with more in-depth training in other areas.

Wreck Diving Course

Explore Brisbane's magnificent Curtin, Tangalooma or Cementco wreck sites, under the guidance of your Nautilus Instructor. You will be shown reel techniques coupled with the knowledge required to understand this fascinating and popular specialty.

Cost for Deep or Wreck Course:

$150.00 for club members and $160.00 for non-members (plus dive trip and manuals).

 

First Aid/Oxygen Resuscitation Courses

The First Aid Course (1 day & 1 night - Sunday and Monday night), Oxygen Resuscitation Course (2 nights - Monday and Tuesday night) and Oxygen Resuscitation Refresher (1 night- Tuesday) are prerequisites for your Stress & Rescue and Dive Control Specialist Certification. Non divers and other Certification levels are also welcome.

Cost for Senior First Aid/Diving First Aid Course:

$135.00 + manual ($29.95) if required

 

Cost for Oxygen Resuscitation Course:

$99.00 + manual ($29.95) if required

 

Cost for Oxygen Refresher Course:

$79.00 + manual ($29.95) if required

 

Nitrox Course

 

Includes:

Lectures, manual, certification, diploma, Nitrox tank use, O₂, weekend on Big Cat (includes all Big Cat usuals)

 

Cost:

$550.00 club members and $570.00 non-members

 

For all of the above courses:

Please see our dates page for the next course date or send us an email:- courses@nautilusscuba.com.au. Please note that all diving is conducted on our 18 metre vessel NAUTILUS. Courses include lectures, Instructional dives and Certification.

Bookings: Can be made by downloading our booking form and FAXing it back to us or by phone using a credit card. We MUST receive a signed booking form with payment in full to confirm your place before the course commences.

Please note our Cancellation Policy which applies to all courses. No refunds of any kind will be given for any unused portion of a course. If any dive is missed it is gone and a makeup trip will be required for certification!