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1. When your vehicle arrives at BTH, welcomed and greeted by a doorman then escorted to the reception desk for follow up.

2. You will be escorted to Dive Walker room then the receptionist asks you to fill in a consultation form about your health records.

3. After the form is completed, the Diver will give you instructions about the procedures of Dive Walker activities.

4. BTH provides special Dive Walker dive suits and boot shoes which you must wear before doing the activity. The purpose of the suits & boot shoes is to protect you from animal sting like jellyfish, etc.

5. Go to pontoon dive walker location using boat with duration of around 10 minutes.

6. Dive walker location is a pontoon around 3.5 x 9 m (or 3.2 x 8.3 yards) where all dive walker equipments are available, like helmets, oxygen, supporting panels, reeling to roll the hose and many others.

7. The configuration for guide accompaniment is 2 (two) divers are accompanied by 1 (one) guide/diver whom is using diving equipment (not dive walker helmet) for easier control of under the water activity.

8. At arrival venue of pontoon, operator will provide a helmet with oxygen in it.

9. You are prepared to down the stairs in the water until your shoulder level then the helmet will be put onto your head slowly by the operator. Please ensue that the oxygen runs smooth inside the helmet.

10. The air in the tank and emergency pony tank is high pressure air and it is purely filtrated air, not the air from the compressor, where when inhaled it will be felt comfortable.

11. After using the helmet, you will go in the water by stairs and accompanied by a guide who is already in the water.

12. While being in the water and there’s a pressure in your ears, do equalizing techniques below:
a. Swallow the saliva many times
b. Move your jaw
c. Take long inhale and exhale followed by swallowing the saliva
d. Put in one hand in the helmet with head’s up then press your nose
with your thumb and fore finger, exhale from the nose
Do the steps above as many as you need until you feel comfortable.

13. While being in the bottom, you will be accompanied by a guide to enjoy the beauty of the sea and feed the fish, for about 35 minutes.

14. To ease your movement in the bottom of the sea, a railway is provided for you to use so you will feel secure and comfortable.

15. During in the water activity, you are not allowed to be out of the designated area.
16. Operator and guide will always check the air hose so it will not be strangled among the divers.

17. After doing the activity in the water, you will be guided to go up to the surface by the provided stairs slowly.

18. After arriving at the water surface and around your shoulder level, your helmet will be opened slowly by the operator.

19. Go back to the departure venue using boat to cleanse up and change clothes.

The Equipment

1. Helmet –> 6 units
2. Hose & reel –> 6 units
3. Air banks –> 6 units of 15 litres/3,300 psi = 90 litres or 600 cf
4. Panels and emergency tank on the boat –> 3 units each with 12 litres/3,000 psi = 36 litres, 240 cf
5. Emergency Pony Tank (to be carried by the diver for emergency use underwater) –>6 cf/3,000 psi size
6. Air panels –> 1 unit of 6 inlets
7. Regulator panels for oxygen filling in the helmet –> 6 outlets

How to prepare Dive Walker equipment:
1. 6 units of air bank are connected to each air panels.
2. 3 units of emergency tank are connected to each panel.
3. Open the air panel one by one by the valve, so that the air pressure could be seen through the pressure controller placed by the air and regulator panels.
4. Emergency tank which consists of 3 valves remain on closed position. 3 units of emergency tank only can be used for emergency.
5. Check all regulator panels, whether the air supplies are functioning well or not. When all are functioning well, do the next step.
6. Place each regulator one by one connected with the hose and helmet, then open the valve one by one to ensure the air gets inside the helmet. When all functions well, then close the valve again so the air would not be a waste.

Wet Suit
Wet suit or skin suit is special attire for dive walker activity to protect divers from jellyfish stung or other sea animals. How to use:

1. Guest should wear swimsuit for easier use of wet suite.
2. There are 2 kinds of wet suit: long sleeve with long leg size and short sleeve with short leg size with zippers at the back or in front. Please see carefully before putting it on.
3. Put your legs first until it gets to the knee point, then put your arms in and pull the zipper up. This will be assisted by the guide.

Emergency Pony Tank
1. Small oxygen can, used for emergency situation both on and in the water.
2. The can is placed on the right side of guest’s waist with Velcro for easier use during emergency situation. It’s placed vice versa if the guest is left handed.

Booties
Booties are special footwear for dive walker activity as feet protector from the corals and sea animals’ stung. How to use:
1. Find the ones match to your feet size
2. Put your feet in by pulling the booties until the ankle part
3. Booties are placed right underneath wet suit pants

Helmet
Used as head protector against the sea water and as well as to keep the air when being underwater.

Hand Signal 1
While being underwater, we only can communicate using hand signals

When there is an emergency situation like breath difficulty or lack of oxygen, do the following steps (could be done by guest or assisted by guide):

1. Immediately take off your helmet by holding the bottom part of the helmet with two hands and hold your breath for a while. This will be assisted by guide.
2. Leave the helmet out and pull the regulator (Octopus) from the Emergency Pony Tank on your right side, put it on your mouth and start breathing with your mouth.
3. You will be guided up to the surface slowly by the guide with maximum time limit of 15 minutes. The oxygen from the Emergency Pony Tank is only limited for up to 15 minutes.
4. The other anticipation action is that every guide you are with also has the octopus with the same function as the one from the Emergency Pony Tank.
5. When you are panicking, you will be guided up to the surface immediately.