PADI Surface Marker Buoy COURSES at GO-DIVE, Your Favourite Dive store

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Professional development beyond
regular scuba instructor training

SURFACE MARKER BUOY (SMB)

Want to help the dive boat follow you during a drift dive, or to have a useful visual reference during an ascent in the blue? What you need is a delayed Surface Marker Buoy (SMB), and the training to use it safely.

During the one day course (2 open water dives) you will learn:
    * The effects of tides and currents.
    * Types of surface marker buoy.
    * Types of reel.
    * Methods of delayed SMB deployment.
    * Risks and Hazards of SMB use.

During the dives you will deploy SMB’s for real, firstly while sitting on the bottom and then whilst hovering mid-water. You will get practice at diving whilst towing an SMB, and also ascending using the line as a reference while you reel it in.

Go Dive price: £75