It's Here! The Schedule for This Summer's Open Water Training!

Here it is, the dates we've all been waiting for. You can now put this summer's open water training schedule on your calendar! Can't wait to see you in Kearney!

May 23-24: The first Open Water certification dives of the season, plus Stress & Rescue and Search and Recovery classes
June 27 & 28
July 25 & 26
Aug 22 & 23

If you've completed your classroom and pool training and need to sign up for your open water weekend, please call or stop by the store. We have a limit to the number we can take each weekend, so please don't wait; the spaces do fill up. Also, it's important that you dive with us on the weekend you sign up for because we schedule our staff based on the number of students registered.

Husker Divers uses one of two different private sandpit lakes for each of our training weekends. The one pictured above is Broadfoot Lake.

Remember, if you're already a certifed diver, you're welcome to come out and dive the lake whenever we're there. And don't forget to contact the store about any specialty classes you'd like to complete over the summer. In a previous article in this blog, we told you about this year's Master Diver Challenge. Completing those Continuing Education courses and logging the required number of dives will enable you to complete the Challenge and maybe even win a dive trip! So come on! Let's go diving!

Know, Really Know, Your Dive Equipment

Does your depth gauge employ a bourdon tube? Do you know how to stop your second stage from free-flowing? Should you own your own container of silicone grease? Can you swap out a mouthpiece or repair a hole in your wetsuit?

Get to really know your dive equipment (and impress the fins off other divers with your knowledge) by taking a fun and super-informative Equipment class with Husker Divers! We'll tear down various pieces of dive equipment so you can learn how they work from the inside out. Learn how to take care of your equipment - everything from bags to BCs. You'll even learn how to do basic field repairs on gear issues that crop up at your dive site.

Just swing by the dive shop to register and pick up the book so you can have the end-of-chapter questions answered before the next class. The cost is just $95, which gets you expert, hands-on instruction, information on all sorts of dive equipment, a specialty certification, and a FREE Save-a-Dive Kit!

Divers know that diving is an equipment-intensive activity. Don't go another season without knowing how your equipment works. It'll make you a better all-around diver, and who doesn't want that?