UWM Certification Dives

Open Water Certification dives exclusively for UWM students having successfully completed the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Skin & Scuba course through Aquatic Adventures, Inc. (Jerry Otte, Instructor).  Successful completion of these dives results in the PADI Open Water Diver certification, enabling the diver to participate in many supervised and unsupervised dive activities.

Aquatic Adventures, Inc. requests that the student pick up all necessary gear in person, a day or two before the scheduled dive, to enable our staff to go over the instructions in detail, as well as to have the student fitted with their gear for the course.

Prerequisites: current enrollment in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and successful completion of the UWM Skin & Scuba course with Jerry Otte, instructor.

Location: Pearl Lake, South Beloit, Illinois

Time: Meet at Pearl Lake at 7:30am on both days, Saturday and Sunday

Course cost: $36 -does not include entrance fee to Pearl Lake location, or rental fee for personal gear.  Entrance fee is $20 per diver/day for dive season 2011.  If student does not own personal gear (mask, snorkel, fins and boots) and needs to rent the gear, cost is additional $45.00 per person for rental of personal gear.