Making Scuba-diving accesible for the disabled

Experience scuba

The IAHD Experience Scuba is not a course, but an introduction program towards scuba diving. Doing an introduction dive is highly recommended and often a very good way to experience what it is to go scuba diving. This introduction dive is being conducted by an IAHD professional in very shallow water (2 meters) and takes about 30 minutes.

Pirate Fish

The IAHD Confined Water Diver course (CWD) is an entry-level programme in scuba diving, which provides elemental knowledge and skills for safely diving in a confined water environment. The course is performance based; participants must satisfactorily complete all academic and water-skills requirements for the level to which they will be certified. All skills are designed to be logical, realistic and apply to practical diving situations.

Sport Diver

The IAHD Sport Diver course is an entry-level programme in scuba diving, which provides elemental knowledge and skills for safely diving in an open water environment under direct supervision of a scuba instructor. The course is performance based; participants must satisfactorily complete all academic and water-skills requirements for the level to which they will be certified. All skills are designed to be logical, realistic and apply to practical diving situations.

Because of the wide variety of disabilities that one may encounter when training disabled divers and as all training is performance based, achievement of all, or part of the required objectives will determine the added safety measures that will be required of the individual.

Open Water Diver

The IAHD Open Water Diver course (OWD) is an entry level programme in scuba diving, which provides elemental knowledge and skills for safely diving in an open water environment. The course is performance based; participants must satisfactorily complete all academic and water-skills requirements for the level to which they will be certified. All skills are designed to be logical, realistic and apply to practical diving situations.

Confined Water Diver