Padi Reactivate: How to refresh your diving skills

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Usually I'm the weakest diver in the group. After I almost broke off my first dive in Vanuatu and stopped the Padi Open Water Diver Course, I was finally certified in Colombia five months after my first attempt - and that was not easy. I handed over five meters deep into my lung machines and then back to the boat. When I came back to our room, I was so tired that I fell asleep in my wet bikini and woke up dazed two hours later.

Imagine my surprise when I was confronted with a weaker diver on the first excursion of Atlas & Boots on the Galápagos. The diver, a gentleman at the end of 40, had not been immersed in 10 years and had major problems with his tariff and breathing. It was clear that he had benefited from a Padi Reactive course.

If your skills are rusted, you should take this refresher course yourself.

What is Padi Reactive?

Padi Reactive is the new, optimized version of the Scuba Review program. In this respect, it is more tailor -made than aiming at skills and areas that you have to struggle with.

The course includes an interactive quiz and a refresher meeting in the water with a Padi professional. After completing the course you will receive a new certification card with your "reactivation date" on the back.

whom Padi Reactive?

PADI Reactivate is for certified divers who need refreshment. This can be because you are planning to dive on your next vacation because you need an assessment or just because you want to keep your skills up to date before an advanced Open Water Diver course.

Padi recommends the course for those who have not been immersed in six months. Excitable divers can possibly extend this, but should not leave it for more than a year.

In order to log on to Padi Reactive, divers have to provide proof of the pretense and fill out a medical padi questionnaire.

Why complete Padi Reactive?

Security

Can you remember the maximum safe ascent speed? Do you remember how to plan a dive based on tables, calculate the residual nitrogen periods and test for correct weighting? Can you carry out a controlled emergency swimming ascent or remember emergency compression procedures?

If not, Padi Reactive will help you to refresh your safety skills and to ensure that you are fit again.

pleasure

It is natural that after a long diving break you are a little afraid when you return to the water. Padi Reactivate helps you to check your skills and knowledge so that you can dive with confidence.

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What you can expect from Padi Reactive

PADI REACTIVATE consists of two parts:

Theory

First you have to complete a knowledge review meeting to refresh your diving theory. You can do this via your local Dive Center, which gives you access to Reactivate online (browser -based learning) or Reactive Touch (an interactive app for cell phones and tablets).

The review-which you can carry out at your own pace-presents you with a number of realistic diving scenarios (text or video) and asks you to answer multiple-choice questions for each scenario. If you answer properly, get to the next scenario; If you answer incorrectly, you will receive the correct answer and will then be tested in similar scenarios to ensure that you understood them.

As soon as all scenarios are completed, you must complete the Reactivate quick examination according to which you will receive a certificate that confirms the conclusion.

Practical

As soon as you have completed the theory, you can book a practical session in your local diving center. During this session, put your diving equipment together and repeat the five mandatory skills with your diving instructor.

  • Remove, replace and clean the mask
  • become neutral floating and hover
  • Use the quick closure of the weight system to get a positive buoyancy in water, which is too deep to stand
  • climb with an alternative air source and produce a positive buoyancy on the surface
  • lead a controlled emergency swimming ascent (Cesa) by

Then focus on all other skills that you think or your instructor require attention.

Reactive sessions can take place in limited or open water (depending on the diving base) and be different. One -hour sessions are common, but your teacher ensures that you have enough time to practice until you are safe again.

recertification

As soon as you are finished, your diving instructor will edit your PADI reactivation. You will receive a new certification card with your reactivation date on the back by post.

next steps

  • Visit the Reactivate page at Padi.
  • complete the theory: Contact your local Dive Center to get access to Reactivity Online or Reactive Touch.
  • Book a practical session at your local diving center.
  • Book your next vacation!

PADI Reactivation costs: approximately £ 40 GBP / $ 60

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