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Howard Johnson
4431 W. New Haven Avenue
Melbourne, FL 32904
Reservations:
1-800-356-7432
Phone: 321-768-8439
Fax: 321-768-8666
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Equipment Specialist
Why Equipment Specialist?
Whether it's a regulator problem, a wet suit tear or a broken
mask strap, the Equipment Specialist course can help. This Specialty
course prepares you for the basic equipment maintenance, care and
adjustments you'll encounter every day. In addition, you'll get the
valuable background on equipment repair and purchase, making you
better able to protect your investment.
Topics Covered
- Theory, principles, and operation of how SCUBA equipment works
- Proper maintenence procedures for SCUBA Equipment
- Overhauling a Low Pressure Inflator
- Servicing a Buoyancy Compensator Device
- Procedures for properly adjusting a Back Plate
- Building a efficient Save-A-Dive kit
- Overhauling a Non-Balanced 1st Stage
- Overhauling a Balanced 1st Stage
- Overhauling a Non-Balanced 2nd Stage
- Overhauling a Balanced 2nd Stage
- Procedures for verifying the accuracy of depth gauges
- Procedures for verifying the accuracy of dive computers
- Overhauling a J valve
- Overhauling a K valve
- Procedures for visually inpecting a SCUBA cylinder
- Procedures for hydrostatically testing a SCUBA cylinder
- Procedures for tumbling a SCUBA cylinder
- Procedures for O2 cleaning of SCUBA equipment
- Procedures for properly assembling doubles
- Care and maintenence of neoprene products
- Procedures for repairing neoprene products
- Care and Maintence of Dry Suits
- Procedures for repairing dry suits
What will I do?
During your Equipment Specialist program, you'll familiarize
yourself with the operation and maintenance of your personal
equipment. Your instructor might also provide the opportunity to
review new or unfamiliar dive equipment.
The program is not an equipment repair program but it does give
you:
 | Theory, principles and operation of dive equipment
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| Routine recommended care and maintenance procedures
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| Common problems with equipment and recommended professional
maintenance procedures
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| Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations
and an introduction to new equipment |
What will I need?
| The Scuba Equipment Care & Maintenance book |
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How much will it cost? $249.00
and includes all schematics, guides, use of all tools needed, parts for the equipment being overhauled. Each student will recieve a cd with all schematics, forms and white papers utilized in the course plus much more.
Due to the limited sets of equipment available for the practical excercises, this class will be limited to the first 12 persons registered. Participants will be certified through their agency of choice, PADI or SSI, or both for and additional $45.
Most of the topics covered are actual hands on excercises.
Class begins at 9:00am. This will be a 2 day course .Due to the extensive hands on trainig and the content of this course, we have to limit this course to the first 12 folks to signup.
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