Mark Rausch

This course is the HSA Open Water Buddy Certification Course. It is designed to prepare certified Open Water SCUBA Divers, and above, to be effective and safe dive buddies for certified Scuba divers with wide variety of disabilities.

This course is identical tot he HSA Basic Open Water Scuba Diver Course. This course is a complete entry-level certification course in SCUBA diving for youths 10 – 14 of age.
(3) Three levels of certification are offered based on the student’s ability to fulfill the HSA performance requirements.

This course is the basic HSA entry-level certification course in SCUBA diving, It is designed to accommodate a wide variety of disabilities while maintaining a high level of safe diving practices.

Based on the student’s ability to successfully challenge the HSA Physical Performance Standards, we developed the Multilevel Certification, a performance-based method of assessing and accommodating the disabled diver’s specialized needs.