Deploy Surface Markers Like a Pro
Learn to launch safety sausages without entanglement, embarrassment, or sending them to orbit. Essential for drift diving, boat pickups, and looking like you know what you’re doing.
Learn to launch safety sausages without entanglement, embarrassment, or sending them to orbit. Essential for drift diving, boat pickups, and looking like you know what you’re doing.
Why Take This Course?
✔
Builds reel/spool
proficiency
The debate ends here
✔
Required for many dive
sites
No SMB skills? No dive.
✔
Safety first
Be seen by boats in current
Why Take This Course?
✔
Builds reel/spool
proficiency
The debate ends here
✔
Required for many dive
sites
No SMB skills? No dive.
✔
Safety first
Be seen by boats in current
What to Expect
What to Expect

Classroom Theory
Learn why "just inflate and
pray" isn’t a strategy
SMB types decoded (spoiler: cookies are
for eating, not diving)
Shallow Practice
Master reel technique (no more spaghetti
arms)
Perfect your "I totally planned
that" surface launch
Open Water Drills
Deploy like a boss under current (while
others become driftwood)
Boat crew approval guaranteed (or your
money back)
Workshop Highlights:
Surface Marker Types – Sausages vs. cookies vs. tubes
Reel Techniques – Because finger spools are for
beginners
Open Water Deployment – Under current, under pressure

Classroom Theory
Learn why "just inflate and
pray" isn’t a strategy
SMB types decoded (spoiler: cookies are
for eating, not diving)
Shallow Practice
Master reel technique (no more spaghetti
arms)
Perfect your "I totally planned
that" surface launch
Open Water Drills
Deploy like a boss under current (while
others become driftwood)
Boat crew approval guaranteed (or your
money back)
Workshop Highlights:
Surface Marker Types – Sausages vs. cookies vs. tubes
Reel Techniques – Because finger spools are for
beginners
Open Water Deployment – Under current, under pressure
Who Can Join?
All certified divers
(especially if you dive near boats)
Drift diving
enthusiasts
(unless you enjoy swimming home)
Anyone tired of looking like a tangled marionette
Medically ready
Check our [PADI Medical Form] - just follow the simple steps
if you answer "YES" to anything
Everything You Get:
SMB Deployment Certification
(proof you’re not a hazard)
DAN insurance
for the duration of your course (max. 90 days)
Reel vs. Spool Smackdown
(we settle the debate once and for all)
Pro Tips for:
Currents
Low
vis
"Oh
crap" moments
Who Can Join?
All certified divers
(especially if you dive near boats)
Drift diving
enthusiasts
(unless you enjoy swimming home)
Anyone tired of looking like a tangled marionette
Medically ready
Check our [PADI Medical Form] - just follow the simple steps
if you answer "YES" to anything
Everything You Get:
SMB Deployment Certification
(proof you’re not a hazard)
DAN insurance
for the duration of your course (max. 90 days)
Reel vs. Spool Smackdown
(we settle the debate once and for all)
Pro Tips for:
Currents
Low
vis
"Oh
crap" moments