Through this course students will become competent and highly educated in a variety of diving disciplines to prepare them to work underwater. Students will be exposed to a variety of diving-related topics through a series of lecture and hands-on practical applications. Topics covered are navigation, search and recovery, low visibility, night diving, surface supplied diving, boat driving, accident management, hyperbaric medicine, physics, physiology, working and scientific research methods for diving. Open water certification and college level science course required prior to taking course.