Dear Future Scuba Diver:

Thank you for your interest in Aqua Specialists concerning recreational Scuba Diving Classes. Aqua Specialists is both a PADI Sanctioned Dive Center and NAUI Professional Facility and is the only dive shop in Ohio to earn both. Together, PADI and NAUI issue at least 75% of all scuba diving certification cards in the United States. We have been teaching recreational scuba diving in the Cleveland area since 1968.

Our staff of professional instructors have a wide and varied background in sport, research, technical and commercial diving, and hyperbaric medicine. Their diving experience extends from Lake Erie to the Caribbean and Canada to the South Pacific.

John Norris is a part-time faculty member teaching scuba diving at Baldwin-Wallace College, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, and John Carroll University. He has also been employed by NASA to teach diving to the designers of the Freedom Space Station. Bill Masler and Alan Ameida assist with teaching scuba diving classes at community programs in Cleveland Heights, Mayfield Village, Rocky River and Shaker Heights.

Included in your course is the following:

• · 6 to 10 Lecture Sessions with Instructor (minimum of 12 hours)
• · 6 to 10 Pool Sessions with one Instructor for every five students (minimum of 16 hrs)
• · Use of scuba tanks with air, regulator w/gauges and dive computer, buoyancy compensator jacket, weight belt and weights, & wet suits for all pool sessions. Note: Most diving schools do not provide computers and/or wet suits with  their pool training sessions, or they charge extra to use this equipment.
• · PADI and/or NAUI referral letter is available for open water dives elsewhere. Note: Not all diving schools will provide  you a referral letter.
• · Instruction, classroom, and pool fees. (No add-on extras)
• · Large three-ring notebook with over 100 pages of supplemental material.

Students must provide:

• · Their own mask, snorkel, and fins; student discounts of 10% to 15% are available at Aqua Specialists. Please wait  until after the first class session before purchasing, or stop by Aqua Specialists for needed information.
• · PADI Open Water Diver Manual (copyright 2006) with Recreational Dive Planner ($43.56).
• · Dive Log Book (Six different styles available from $3.50 to $30.00). 
• · Scuba equipment for two days for the five open water instructional dives. Rental equipment is available for $35.00
    to $45.00 per day. (See Rental Prices)
• · PADI and/or NAUI Certification Fee at @$30.00 each.
• · Five open water instructional dives. One snorkel dive, four scuba for $89.00.

You are invited to stop in and visit us to find out more about diving. You may sign-up for a one-session Discover Scuba lesson to sample the sport, or sit-in and observe one classroom and pool session.

Sincerely,
Aqua Specialists, Inc.