The Advanced Search & Recovery Specialty has more practical aspects than theory, but that does not make the theoretical background less important. The course leads you through the equipment items and the procedures for various techniques to searching, marking and recovering. Some of the techniques are unique to this course and have been used in real recovery projects.

The course teaches the calculations needed to decide on lift bag size, air supply and surface weight (along with a comprehensive list of specific weights), teaches alternate ways to tie knots, lets your students benefit from the long experience the author has on searches and lifting techniques and provides you with tips to organize a challenging and rewarding practical part of the course.

As part of your training, you get access to the tools needed to teach this course in life presentations. The instructor kit is available on www.scuba-logistics.com. This distinctive specialty is an excellent tool to teach skills to divers that will help them in a great variety of situations. You teach the theory to support those practical experiences.

Divers also have the option to do the theory of this specialty online. They would then come to you for the practical part of the course only. In that case, the procedure is the same as the procedure you are following in your Specialty Instructor course. We are happy to include your name on the consumer version of this program – www.specialty-courses.com. The conditions for this option are listed in a document that can be downloaded here.

The course fee for the theory part of this course is 69 euro. The price charged by Instructor Development Centers for the practical part of your training is listed on their respective internet pages. Once you have completed your training, your access code for the course will stay active for as long as this internet course exists. This way you can always go back to prepare yourself for a course, or to find information that may help you to answer student questions.

Is it common that Specialty Instructor Courses are done via the internet?

Courses on the internet can only be offered by the person or institution who is owner of the copyright of the course content. The number of these entities offering their programs on the internet is increasing. In most cases there is a practical training requirement that requires you to do part of your training with a Course Director. For full-online courses a long and strict review process has to be completed before such permission is granted.