Getting Narq'd in South Florida
Eric Taylor - Instructor
As a full-time ICU nurse, I bring decades of error-mitigation research into all of my diving, especially my classes. Under water, I focus on details of stability, but above water, learn effective communication, detailed dive planning, and quality debriefing.
Curated Courses
I specialize in Sidemount education and preparatory courses, used for further technical training or just more stable/relaxed/enjoyable recreational diving.
Your training is personalized to your needs and timeline with equal focus on the class-specific skills and overarching safe-diving practices. After learning all specific skills in the classroom and in the pool, I am only then an invisible scrutinizer, because students lead every open water dive until they are competent to do it without me: this is true certification.
Sidemount Diver
With years of self-practice and world-wide instruction, I specialize in Sidemount training. Quality training separates the comfortable and competent Sidemount diver from the self-taught "experts" boat captains ban. I use this configuration for deep ocean dives, shallow shore dives, long decompression cave dives, and you can too.
Sidemount lends itself to stability naturally, but we will fine-tune your kit and skills so that you are unwavering in the water. Sidemount is inherently redundant, with the use of two independent tank, making it much more unlikely to run out of air on a dive, but it is also scalable, meaning you can bring one, two, three, or more tanks on a dive using the same gear. This flexibility not only enhances your diving experience but also sets you up for future technical courses if you decide to take your skills further.
Miami Specials
Supervised Diver
The Art of Stability
The Art of Stability
Explore the world where wildlife swims up to you while you drift along weightlessly under the helpful eye of a Divemaster.
This One-Day path to become a diver consists of three parts: self-paced online academics, skill mastery in a shallow pool, and two open water dives to solidify the learning.
The Art of Stability
The Art of Stability
The Art of Stability
The Art of Stability, using the SDI Advanced Buoyancy Diver material and standards, does not certify you to go deeper or stay longer, but it builds the wide, unfaltering foundation that most divers lack. Through no less than 6 dives, we will master your rudimentary Open Water skills, grasp the Adv Buoyancy skills, and ingrain dive planning and situational safety through the brief/debrief/rebrief model.
Deep Diver
Deep Diver
Deep Diver
For those of us wanting to explore safely below 100ft, we love teaching the art of going deep. This is the prerequisite for Technical Diver, meaning you are invited to take this course in doubles, although it is not required. Because this course focuses on dive planning, has few in-water skills, and is the last step before tech diving, we prepare you as a cautious, technically-minded, thinking diver.
DPV Diver
Deep Diver
Deep Diver
A class of almost exclusively fun and excitement, the DPV Diver course is the most fun you will have underwater, until your next DPV dive.
So that all your dives end with smiles on the boat, we review gas and battery planning, driving skills, and safety maneuvers.
Because we require this certification for purchase of a Blacktip DPV, it is included for free with any DPV purchase.
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