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Dive Experience and Required Certifications
Diving off the Mid-Atlantic is not for everyone. Divers with less than 20 logged dives or divers who have only dove in tropical environments should get some additional experience in local quarries prior to diving on any of our trips. This additional training will get you accustom to cold water / low visibility diving.
We suggest that you have a minimum of an Advanced Open Water Certification with over 20 logged dives to dive any of our wrecks; however we REQUIRE an Advanced Open Water Certification with cold water and low viz experience for anyone diving in Zone 3, 4, and 5 as well as when participating in any of our specialty courses. Divers signing up for Zone 4 and 5 are also required to have 40 logged dives and deep water experience.
We do not provide equipment including tanks on our charters unless reserved and confirmed in advanced. You must bring all your own dive gear in good working order when you come to dive.
Anybody who arrives at the boat the morning of a trip without the proper certification will not be permitted to dive and will not be offered a refund.
What safety equipment should I dive with?
We recommend that all divers carry a powerful dive light, a safety sausage, a cutting tool and a wreck wheel/line. Along with this, you should get the proper training from a qualified and experienced instructor. Pony bottles are highly suggested.
Are the dives guided?
Our dives are NOT guided by our crew. We supervise divers from the boat on the surface. You must dive with a dive buddy when diving off our boat and you must also follow all common recreational dive standards as you learned in your SCUBA certification class.
Granny Line System
OC Dive Boat uses a Granny Line System to easily and safely get you from the surface to the wreck.
Please use this line system for both your descent and your ascent.
Please keep your hands on a line the whole time to and from the wreck and on the tag line at the surface.
NO FREE ASCENTS OR DESCENTS! (Unless in an emergency.) Please control your ascent so you do not pull the whole line up with you.
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