Capital Scuba of Rolesville/Wake Forest, North Carolina: Scuba Dive Training and Certification for Professional Certifications


New gear, upcoming trips, new specials, great news, quarry news, you name it: we'll keep you up to date on what's happening. Training provided from absolute beginners (children 8 and up as well!) to those seeking to achieve professional training levels. What's new, what's cool, what you absolutely have to have! Rentals available from your head to your feet, including DUI drysuits, fleece and the rockboots to go with the suits. We also offer rental of two types of DPVs (scooters!). Why dive dry? Why do you need a "boat specialty"? All the questions answered that get thrown at us. We value your time and will be in touch with you either by phone or email within 24 hours. If you don't have time to keep checking this web site for updates (it get's updated at least once a week), join the newsletter and you'll get everything you need (and nothing you don't!) delivered to your inbox.	Our courses are private to semi-private. We believe that you get a higher level of personalized instruction in private/semi-private classes. You are also able to schedule the classes when you can take them. feels this type of learning environment has the most benefits for our students. Divers taking any specialty courses are expected to have all their basic diving gear. Rentals are available but are an additional charge. Any charters and/or dive site entrance fees are not included. Specialty specific equipment is provided and included in the cost of the course. Please click on the course name for further information. Advanced Adventure Diver: An introduction to diving specialty skills that allows the diver to experience, from one dive each, a variety of five different specialties in one course. Advanced Diver: With SDI, this is not a course. You need to have proof of 25 logged dives and 4 Advanced Adventure Diver specialty courses. Any dives that you do for specialty courses such as Advanced Buoyancy, Computer Diver, Drift Diver, etc. count toward the 25 logged dives needed for this certification. Inactive Diver: A refresher course for those that haven't been diving in at least one year. Rescue Diver: This is one of the most important classes you can take as a scuba diver. Master Diver: You've taken your Open Water, your Advanced Diver, CPR, First Aid and then Rescue Diver. This is the next level of certification without going into the professional realm of diving. Recreational Level Specialty Courses Advanced Buoyancy: Become a more proficient diver by working on one of the most important aspects of diving. Boat Diver: Why take this class? You learn more than just how to do a giant stride off the boat. Computer Diver: The use of a dive computer does not and should not take the place of an understanding of standard dive tables or the use of the tables but it can make keeping track of your dives, temps so much easier. Get the most out of the equipment you own by taking this class. Any person that purchases their dive computers from will receive this specialty course for free! The only fees are the $25 to pay for the c-card from SDI/TDI, air fills, and standard dive site entrance fees. Computer Nitrox Diver: This is the recreational course that allows you to take advantage of all the advantages of diving with Nitrox (air with additional oxygen content to 40%). CPROX: This is a basic CPR course combined with an O2 administration course. These two medical courses are important for all divers, though being a diver is not required of students. Interested friends and family members are welcome to learn these skills, as well. CPR 1st: You can sign up and take this class even if you don't dive! It is a combined CPR and first aid class. Dive Propulsion Vehicle Diver: Try out something just for fun! Cover more distance underwater! Deep Diver: This is a great class for anyone interested in exploring just a bit more. Teaches the benefits and risks associated with deep diving to a maximum depth of 130' (the suggested sport diver limit). Drift Diver: No fighting the current! Drift along a reef or use to dive a wall/ledge. Drysuit: If you get cold easily (even in the summer!) you want to take this course. Be able to dive year-round! Equipment Specialist: Your scuba gear is your life support system underwater. Learn the proper care and storage of your dive equipment. Full Face Mask Diver: Take back the ability to breathe through your nose and* mouth while diving. Full face masks rarely, if ever, fog and if you are diving in colder water or winter months, minimize your skin exposure underwater. Marine Ecology Awareness: Divers get to see things up close and in person that most people can only view on a television screen. This course helps you with fish identification, teaches you where you will see different species and to promote awareness of the underwater world. Maximize the enjoyment of a dive! Night/Limited Visibility Diver: Many divers love the excitement and thrill of night diving. Learn how to dive safely at night using lights and interaction with noctural sea life. Search and Recovery Diver: Learn the basics of search and recovery: conducting search patterns, use of lift bags, entanglement avoidance and more. Solo Diver: The experienced diver will learn how to safely dive without a buddy. UW Navigation: The open water course touches on underwater navigation but this specialty class is very important. Learn how to use your compass, navigate by formations, practice skills and how to read the ocean bottom contours. Always know where you are underwater and on the surface. UW Photographer: Bring your underwater memories home with you. UW Videographer: Being able to capture your own digital movies of what you've seen underwater is priceless. Visual Inspection Procedure: This class teaches you the proper way to inspect scuba cylinders. Wreck Diver: Learn the skills, procedures and safety precautions to dive wrecks. Technical Diving Courses TDI Nitrox: The TDI Nitrox course can be taught to both recreational and technical divers. Qualifies the diver to use up to 40% O2 air mixes after certification. TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver: Examines and qualifies to the student to use an EAN of 21% up to 100% oxygen for optimal depths to 130 fsw. * Decompression techniques may be combined with this course at the discretion of the instructor. TDI Decompression Diver: This course examines the theory, methods and procedures of planned stage decompression diving. TDI Extended Range Diver (Future Specialty to be offered): TDI Nitrox Gas Blender: Gives the diver the ability to mix his own Nitrox blend (to 40% O2). TDI Advanced Gas Blender: Learn the procedures and requirements of mixing your own Nitrox, Trimix and Pure Oxygen. Blend any gas mixture that contains, Oxygen, Nitrogen and/or Helium.	Some academics available as online courses: We offer the academics for the Open Water class online for your scheduling convenience as well as the Recreational level of Nitrox class. ASK US ABOUT GROUP CPR TRAINING! Choose your level: Advanced Adventure Diver Advanced Diver Inactive Diver Rescue Diver Master Diver Recreational Level Specialty Courses You do not need to be Advanced Diver certified in order to take the following specialty classes. As soon as you become certified for your open water certification, you are able to take any of the following courses to build on your dive experience. Advanced Buoyancy Boat Diver Computer Diver Computer Nitrox Diver CPROX CPR1st Dive Propulsion Vehicle Diver Deep Diver Drift Diver Drysuit Equipment Specialist Full Face Mask Diver Marine Ecology Awareness Night/Limited Visibility Diver Search & Recovery Diver Solo Diver UW Navigation UW Photographer UW Videographer Visual Inspection Procedure (VIP) Wreck Diver Technical Diving Courses TDI Nitrox TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver TDI Decompression Diver TDI Extended Range Diver TDI Nitrox Gas Blender TDI Advanced Gas Blender (Future Specialty to be offered) offers a wide variety of adventure, sport, and educational dive courses and certifications. We also offer CPR training for individuals as well as businesses or other groups. Please call us (919-570-DIVE) or email to inquire about class schedules. If you do not see a class listed that you are interested in, please contact us to inquire. ScubaDave is an Instructor Trainer and able to instruct those seeking to become an instructor on all courses listed. In addition to the recreational and technical courses offered,* also teaches Emergency Response Diver (Public Safety Diver) courses.

New gear, upcoming trips, new specials, great news, quarry news, you name it: we'll keep you up to date on what's happening.
Training provided from absolute beginners (children 8 and up as well!) to those seeking to achieve professional training levels.
What's new, what's cool, what you absolutely have to have!
Rentals available from your head to your feet, including DUI drysuits, fleece and the rockboots to go with the suits. We also offer rental of two types of DPVs (scooters!).
Why dive dry? Why do you need a "boat specialty"? All the questions answered that get thrown at us.
We value your time and will be in touch with you either by phone or email within 24 hours.
If you don't have time to keep checking this web site for updates (it get's updated at least once a week), join the newsletter and you'll get everything you need (and nothing you don't!) delivered to your inbox.

Our courses are private to semi-private. We believe that you get a higher level of personalized instruction in private/semi-private classes.

You are also able to schedule the classes when you can take them. feels this type of learning environment has the most benefits for our students.

*Divers taking any specialty courses are expected to have all their basic diving gear. Rentals are available but are an additional charge. Any charters and/or dive site entrance fees are not included.

*Specialty specific equipment is provided and included in the cost of the course.

Please click on the course name for further information.

Advanced Adventure Diver: An introduction to diving specialty skills that allows the diver to experience, from one dive each, a variety of five different specialties in one course.

Advanced Diver: With SDI, this is not a course. You need to have proof of 25 logged dives and 4 Advanced Adventure Diver specialty courses. Any dives that you do for specialty courses such as Advanced Buoyancy, Computer Diver, Drift Diver, etc. count toward the 25 logged dives needed for this certification.

Inactive Diver: A refresher course for those that haven't been diving in at least one year.

Rescue Diver: This is one of the most important classes you can take as a scuba diver.

Master Diver: You've taken your Open Water, your Advanced Diver, CPR, First Aid and then Rescue Diver. This is the next level of certification without going into the professional realm of diving.

Recreational Level Specialty Courses

Advanced Buoyancy: Become a more proficient diver by working on one of the most important aspects of diving.

Boat Diver: Why take this class? You learn more than just how to do a giant stride off the boat.

Computer Diver: The use of a dive computer does not and should not take the place of an understanding of standard dive tables or the use of the tables but it can make keeping track of your dives, temps so much easier. Get the most out of the equipment you own by taking this class.
*Any person that purchases their dive computers from will receive this specialty course for free! The only fees are the $25 to pay for the c-card from SDI/TDI, air fills, and standard dive site entrance fees.

Computer Nitrox Diver: This is the recreational course that allows you to take advantage of all the advantages of diving with Nitrox (air with additional oxygen content to 40%).

CPROX: This is a basic CPR course combined with an O2 administration course. These two medical courses are important for all divers, though being a diver is not required of students. Interested friends and family members are welcome to learn these skills, as well.

CPR 1st: You can sign up and take this class even if you don't dive! It is a combined CPR and first aid class.

Dive Propulsion Vehicle Diver: Try out something just for fun! Cover more distance underwater!

Deep Diver: This is a great class for anyone interested in exploring just a bit more. Teaches the benefits and risks associated with deep diving to a maximum depth of 130' (the suggested sport diver limit).

Drift Diver: No fighting the current! Drift along a reef or use to dive a wall/ledge.

Drysuit: If you get cold easily (even in the summer!) you want to take this course. Be able to dive year-round!

Equipment Specialist: Your scuba gear is your life support system underwater. Learn the proper care and storage of your dive equipment.

Full Face Mask Diver: Take back the ability to breathe through your nose and mouth while diving. Full face masks rarely, if ever, fog and if you are diving in colder water or winter months, minimize your skin exposure underwater.

Marine Ecology Awareness: Divers get to see things up close and in person that most people can only view on a television screen. This course helps you with fish identification, teaches you where you will see different species and to promote awareness of the underwater world. Maximize the enjoyment of a dive!

Night/Limited Visibility Diver: Many divers love the excitement and thrill of night diving. Learn how to dive safely at night using lights and interaction with noctural sea life.

Search and Recovery Diver: Learn the basics of search and recovery: conducting search patterns, use of lift bags, entanglement avoidance and more.

Solo Diver: The experienced diver will learn how to safely dive without a buddy.

UW Navigation: The open water course touches on underwater navigation but this specialty class is very important. Learn how to use your compass, navigate by formations, practice skills and how to read the ocean bottom contours. Always know where you are underwater and on the surface.

UW Photographer: Bring your underwater memories home with you.

UW Videographer: Being able to capture your own digital movies of what you've seen underwater is priceless.

Visual Inspection Procedure: This class teaches you the proper way to inspect scuba cylinders.

Wreck Diver: Learn the skills, procedures and safety precautions to dive wrecks.

Technical Diving Courses

TDI Nitrox: The TDI Nitrox course can be taught to both recreational and technical divers. Qualifies the diver to use up to 40% O2 air mixes after certification.

TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver: Examines and qualifies to the student to use an EAN of 21% up to 100% oxygen for optimal depths to 130 fsw.
* Decompression techniques may be combined with this course at the discretion of the instructor.

TDI Decompression Diver: This course examines the theory, methods and procedures of planned stage decompression diving.

TDI Extended Range Diver (Future Specialty to be offered):

TDI Nitrox Gas Blender: Gives the diver the ability to mix his own Nitrox blend (to 40% O2).

TDI Advanced Gas Blender: Learn the procedures and requirements of mixing your
own Nitrox, Trimix and Pure Oxygen. Blend any gas mixture that contains, Oxygen, Nitrogen and/or Helium.

Some academics available as online courses:

We offer the academics for the Open Water class online for your scheduling convenience as well as the Recreational level of Nitrox class.

ASK US ABOUT GROUP CPR TRAINING!

Choose your level:

Advanced Adventure Diver
Advanced Diver
Inactive Diver
Rescue Diver
Master Diver

Recreational Level Specialty Courses

*You do not need to be Advanced Diver certified in order to take the following specialty classes. As soon as you become certified for your open water certification, you are able to take any of the following courses to build on your dive experience.

Advanced Buoyancy
Boat Diver
Computer Diver
Computer Nitrox Diver
CPROX
CPR1st
Dive Propulsion Vehicle Diver
Deep Diver
Drift Diver
Drysuit
Equipment Specialist
Full Face Mask Diver
Marine Ecology Awareness
Night/Limited Visibility Diver
Search & Recovery Diver
Solo Diver
UW Navigation
UW Photographer
UW Videographer
Visual Inspection Procedure (VIP)
Wreck Diver

Technical Diving Courses

TDI Nitrox
TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver
TDI Decompression Diver
*TDI Extended Range Diver
TDI Nitrox Gas Blender
TDI Advanced Gas Blender

(*Future Specialty to be offered)

offers a wide variety of adventure, sport, and educational dive courses and certifications.

We also offer CPR training for individuals as well as businesses or other groups.

Please call us (919-570-DIVE) or email to inquire about class schedules.

If you do not see a class listed that you are interested in, please contact us to inquire.

ScubaDave is an Instructor Trainer and able to instruct those seeking to become an instructor on all courses listed.

In addition to the recreational and technical courses offered, also teaches Emergency Response Diver (Public Safety Diver) courses.

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