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Steel City Sport Divers Inc. : Why Train With Steel City?

Scuba training is your passport to the last and greatest frontier on earth. Three-quarters of the surface of our planet is water. Beneath the waves, very little has been explored. Welcome to this divers' universe.

It is impossible to describe the thrill of swooping weightlessly from pinnacle to peak over an alien landscape. And make no mistake about it; this is an alien world, from its unusual and unexpected vistas to the myriad of exotic beasts that you will encounter on your underwater adventures. Careful training is vital to ensure you are both comfortable and safe as you explore, study, photograph and play.

Not too long ago, SCUBA diving was limited to the relatively young and very fit. Advances in SCUBA equipment and training have opened up the underwater world to anybody in normal physical condition with ordinary swimming ability, just as long as they have proper instruction. Todays certified diver needs to be trained in the classroom, the pool, and in open water. That's where we come in, STEEL CITY SPORT DIVERS, INC.

Steel City is one of the largest SCUBA and social clubs in Hamilton. We also have one of the most active SCUBA training programs, which is also open to non-members. Member or not, we will train you to be one of our regular diving buddies. That means we are preparing to put our own safety in your hands!

So for our sake as well as yours, Steel City doesn't stop training at the minimum requirements for SCUBA certification. We feel that all-important safety depends on your self-confidence in the water, and that comes from a rigorous fourteen-week training program.

Of course, fourteen weeks might mean that we just take eight times as long as some instructing organizations who claim to be able to train you properly in a weekend. We feel that good, SAFE instruction cannot be rushed and that time and repetition makes for competent skills that will last a lifetime. When was the last time you took a rushed, one or two day course and actually remembered anything or felt competent coming out of it? There is a difference!

Check out our instructor qualifications. We've got eleven full open water instructors and sixteen teaching assistants, not to mention a host of supporting club members, who pitch in to support our training program. We all do it because we believe it's important to get good training and we all love diving.

We are an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization, and all your fees go to repairs, maintenance, insurance, manuals and other expenses needed to keep the club and it's members, safe and functioning well.

All this adds up to fourteen weeks of excellent classroom instruction, one-on-one pool training in a friendly club atmosphere. It will turn you into a safe, conscientious and confident diver. How will you know? Two ways!

When you've finished your course, Steel City will give you two kinds of certification.

• One is the official kind, a 'C' card from ACUC International that means you are qualified to dive safely anywhere in the world.
   
• The other certification we will give you is a simple invitation: come join our club and dive with us. After you successfully complete our course, any one of our club members will be your dive buddy. Diving buddies look after each other in the water, so we'll be offering to put our safety in your hands. Whether you accept our invitation or not, you'll have to go far to find a more sincere endorsement of your SCUBA training.

More information: "Course Outline & Pictures"