Classic Diving LLC

There will be a live broadcast underwater tour of the USS ARIZONA (BB-39) produced by the National Park Service Underwater Resource Center on Memorial Day at 10:00 am Hawaii Standard Time. For east coast viewers it will be at 4:00 PM

Memorial Day Live Dive

You could be part of the next group diving Mk V at the original Vortex Spring. The next Recreational Standard Dress class starts October 21, 2024 through 24 or 25 October depending on the number in the class. Sign up is at www.classicdiving.com
Try dives will be on the 26th of October and if you are interested in that contact Blue Claw Scuba in Tampa. Contact blueclawscuba.com

Registration for the Recreational Standard Dress Diver Course this October is now open on www.classicdiving.com. There will be a minimum if four students needed by July 31, 2024 this time to make it a go.
Heavy Metal Experiences this time will also be different, Blue Claw Scuba has booked them all and we will be helping him advertise them as well, some time this week we think.

Clarification / Correction
I may have mis written what I thought was to be offered by our Milwaukee First Provider, Trevor Pinkala. Here is a new post on the same subject; the first aid class the evenings of the 5, 6 and 7 March, 2024.

Diving First Aid for Professional Divers (DFA Pro)
Professional divers have unique responsibilities and a duty to respond to unique situations; their first aid training should not be any less unique. DAN’s Diving First Aid for Professional Divers course is designed for commercial, professional, aquarium, and scientific divers, and it provides knowledge and first aid skills specifically for these work environments.
DFA Pro includes all elements of the DAN BLS and EO2 courses and includes material on neurological assessment and first aid for hazardous marine life injuries. In the neurological assessment portion of the DFA Pro course, you will learn how to properly manage injuries with neurological implications. You will learn to recognize these injuries and properly perform a neurological assessment. You’ll also learn what information to collect and relay to emergency medical services. Recognizing symptoms and responding quickly can shorten recovery times and improve long-term outcomes. In the hazardous marine life injuries segment, you will gain the knowledge you need to identify specific types of marine life injuries and the first aid skills to treat them.
DFA Pro is the most comprehensive first aid course in the dive industry. While geared toward dive instructors and divemasters, anyone, even nondivers, will learn an indispensable set of first aid and risk-mitigation skills.

For additional information PM Trevor or me, Greg Davis

The website is being updated and sign up should be available shortly, hope to see you at Vortex in March

John getting ready to go to work...

A couple backstage pics of the crew... Kirk Marshall next to Jake and John Hopkins (left) then Scott Pawlowski and Billy Crowe, both from the Parks Department and Kirk Marshall (John and Kirk from Classic Diving)

2 days to go, work up dive #1

More of this ongoing story

Next Saturday, 9 December, NPS and US Navy divers are hosting a Live Dive of the USS Arizona and we want to hear from you!

What questions do you have for our divers? Comment on this thread and we’ll answer as many questions as we can during the dive.

You can view this special event two ways: at Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Theater 1 or via live stream on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/

Photo Credit: NPS

Alt Text: A National Park Service Diver wearing a wetsuit, snorkel, and SCUBA gear explores Gun Tuerret 1 on the USS Arizona battleship underwater next to coral