As part of the 2014 DDI material updates, we are effective today releasing a new non-professional free when registered scuba diving program to all DDI Assistant Instructors and higher.

The "DDI Adaptive Diver", is an entry level DDI course building on top of regular diving training, designed for disabled diver students and/or their buddies who are learning to scuba dive or recently completed their scuba diving course.

For the student the course teaches him/her how to adapt their own abilities and equipment, before, during or after a scuba/open water diving course from any EUF/ISO certified scuba diving training organization (i.e. DDI, PADI, SSI, NAUI, CMAS, PDA).

For the DDI instructor it is a focused and effective tool, when teaching the disabled diver student and his/her dive buddies how to adapt their diving.

DDI Instructors around the world already use what they learn thru DDI training, to adapt equipment and skills of Open Water students doing their course with DDI and other certified training organizations such as PADI, SSI and NAUI. With the launch of this program, we give the Instructors some additional tools and guidelines to use, as well as give extra value for the student diver.

The "DDI Adaptive Diver" program will be free to use when students are registered, with a free DDI course completion wall diploma.

The program is going thru final review before release and will be available for download shortly. We encourage Disabled Diving instructors (from all organizations) to send in their best tips and tricks on how to adapt disabilities for Open Water programs to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., so we can incorporate them in the new manuals. (The best new tips/tricks used in the manual will have their names added to the manuals.)

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