Description

Learn responsible techniques for hunting and collecting marine life, with a strong emphasis on prudent, conservative and sustainable practices. This course covers the equipment and methods used for gathering game underwater, along with the safety skills and situational awareness these activities require. Just as importantly, you’ll learn to understand and respect the local regulations, seasons, size and bag limits, and conservation principles that apply to underwater hunting and collection. Done ethically and legally, it can be a rewarding way to enjoy the ocean, and this course helps ensure you do it safely and with care for the marine environment.

The purpose of this specialty course is to actively allow the student to engage in the collection of certain marine objects and to demonstrate and explain the necessary rules of underwater hunting. Prudent and conservative techniques of both aspects must be exercised. The SDI Hunter/Collector Diver Course covers the “how-to’s” of hunting and collection of marine life.

Dives included: 2 open water dives.

Prerequisites

• SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 18; 10 with parental consent
• Complete a medical statement where relevant
• Awareness of and compliance with local laws and licensing

What You Will Learn

• Equipment and methods for hunting and collecting
• Safety skills and situational awareness
• Local regulations, seasons, size and bag limits
• Sustainable and ethical collecting practices
• Handling and securing collected game safely

Required Equipment

• Complete open-water scuba kit
• Legal collection tools appropriate to the region
• Game bag and cutting tool
• Dive computer, compass, and signaling devices

Course Requirements & Standards (SDI)

• Minimum of open-water training dives with an SDI Instructor
• Strict emphasis on legality and conservation
• Conducted within recreational limits

After This Course

Emphasizes responsible, legal enjoyment of underwater harvesting within conservation principles.