SANTI DRYSUIT COURSE

Earlier this month, we announced the beginning of a working relationship with one of the best-known drysuit manufacturers. We are proud to announce RAID’s partnership with Santi Diving to produce a cutting-edge, brand-specific drysuit training programme. Santi Diving offers a range of premium, handcrafted drysuits, undersuits and heating apparel to extend the possibilities and the joy that diving brings. RAID offers a complete range of online academic programmes married to technologically advanced, hand’s-on diver training that is high quality, safe and inclusive. Both organisations share a passion for creating new benchmarks of excellence within the diving industry. Drysuit diving is becoming more and more common, and drysuits are being used in more diverse environments. Gone are the days when drysuit diving was only for the hardcore enthusiast wanting to brave icy waters. Today, good drysuits offer advanced base layer designs and increased buoyancy control, making them suitable for temperate and even tropical waters. This course has been written specifically for divers who will learn using Santi gear. The training course is a collaboration between the RAID and Santi teams, and the manuals contain generic information pertaining to safe drysuit diving, as well as specific information regarding Santi suits, materials, designs and undersuits. The Santi Drysuit Course supplements RAID’s existing and popular drysuit course. Like all RAID courses, it can be previewed online through RAID’s innovative FREe-Learning platform. The Santi Drysuit Course will operate much like our Rebreather Specialty courses, wherein RAID designs a specific manual for each rebreather on offer. Our partnership with Santi is the first in an ongoing process of developing brand-specific programmes for more mainstream scuba products.

“Here at Santi Diving, we believe that sharing knowledge and cross-collaboration with leading training organisations and other top equipment suppliers, is key to elevating diving’s profile to potential customers and the sports and recreational community in general,” explained Agnieszka Hrynkiewicz, COO and Managing Director at Santi Diving. “We teamed up with RAID as one of the leaders in modern approach to diving training, and, together, we have created an updated drysuit course manual for those who are looking for great skills development and extending the limits of their diving – which is exactly what a drysuit is for.”
She added: “The Santi drysuit manual combines RAID’s knowledge of the theory and practice of diving a drysuit, with information from us covering Santi-specific features. The course guides students to understand how to choose the best drysuit, and how to use it properly for the maximum comfort and benefit. It took hours of discussions and knowledgesharing and now I strongly believe the course will be a great tool for Instructors to teach and for divers to learn the Santi Drysuit-specific RAID course. I hope this input will serve well the RAID and Santi Diving community.”

As a RAID Drysuit Instructor, you are certified to teach the Santi programme with no further training. The generic knowledge, quizzes, exams and all skills in the Santi programme are identical to those in the generic RAID Drysuit course. Because of this design, divers that certify as Santi Drysuit divers will not need to certify again for a generic drysuit course.