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Scuba Diving Courses

Beginner
$120

Bubblemaker

This course offers an introduction to scuba for young participants: instructions on equipment, breathing rules and equalization techniques.

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Beginner
$120

Discover Scuba Diving

Looking for a chance to explore the underwater world, but not ready to commit to a course? Then this course is made for you!

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Beginner
$340

Open Water

It all begins with the PADI Open Water! This course will give you the fundamental knowledge and skills to dive anywhere in the world without supervision.

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Advanced
$320

Advanced Open Water

The next step in training is the Advanced Open Water. This allows you to enhance your diving skills and explore more recreational dive sites.

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Beginner
$125

Emergency First Response

Take a safety step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver course prerequisites with the EFR course.

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Advanced
$345

Rescue Diver

Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers.

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Professional
$1200

Dive Master

Develop your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities with certified divers and assist instructors with student divers.

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Professional

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Specialties

For certified Divers
$340

Deep Diver

Learn how to plan deep dives, manage your gas supply and how to identify and manage narcosis.

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Deep Diver

The PADI Deep Diver course teaches you the techniques that make recreational deep diving safe and fun. You will learn deep diving limits, and how to stay within them. Your skill and ability as a diver will improve as you practice deep diving techniques. You will find that PADI Deep Diver training opens the doors to new dive sites and new adventures, especially when combined with other interests like underwater photography, wreck diving or observing underwater organisms.

About the course

The PADI Deep Diver course emphasizes diving, and you will make at least four deep dives in open water with your PADI Instructor. You’ll have fun on these dives while developing and refining the skills you need for deep diving.

The course includes the background information that you will apply during deep dives as well as practical skills you will demonstrate. Normally you will cover this information via independent study using E-Learning, and by discussing the material with your instructor prior to your dives.

Prerequisites: To take the PADI Deep Diver course, you must be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization similar to that of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

Time commitment: 3 days, First day Elearning, two days in order to make 4 dives

Minimum age: 15 years or more

Number of dives: 4 dives

E- Learning is included

For certified Divers
$340

Wreck Diver

Learn how to survey a wreck, how to use lines and reels and explore some unknown mysteries

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Wreck Diver

The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course teaches the basic principles for fun, safe wreck diving. 

Many people think “ship” when they hear the word wreck, wreck diving includes other craft, such as sailboats, houseboats, railroad cars, automobiles, aircraft and military craft, ETC

 

About the course

The course was designed for flexibility, so that what you learn applies when diving on both intact wrecks and wrecks that have become little more than a rubble pile. Whether wrecks interest you out of historical curiosity or because they’re artificial reefs with abundant life, this program will help you enjoy wreck diving more and help you avoid potential problems.

Prerequisites: PADI Adventure Diver

Time commitment: 3 days, First step, theory via Elearning, two more days in order to make 4 tanks diving

Minimum age: 15 years or more

Number of dives: 4 dives

E- Learning is included

For certified Divers
$340

Emergency Oxygen Provider

Learn how to be prepared to offer aid to divers and how to admister emergency oxygen

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Emergency Oxygen Provider

Oxygen is vital for all living creatures on the planet. Without this gas humans can die quickly.

First aid with emergency oxygen is useful or necessary as a treatment for many injuries, diseases and intoxications that interfere with oxygen reaching the blood or tissues. For recreational scuba divers, emergency oxygen is the pri- mary first aid given to individuals suffering from a near drowning or decompres- sion illness (lung overexpansion injuries and decompression sickness). 

 

About the course

 The objective of this course is to train all divers (from PADI Junior Open Water Divers and above) also all those in a position to help divers (boat captains, lifeguards, etc.) in the proper use of emergency oxygen. This entry-level emergency oxygen course also teaches the recognition of diving illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. 

Prerequisites:  None

Time commitment: First step, theory via Elearning,  two hours class.

Minimum age: None (must be capable of completing all performance requirements)

Number of dives: No dives required

E- Learning is included

For certified Divers
$340

Enriched Air

Learn how to dive safely with nitrox to lengthen your time under water 

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Enriched Air

This course is designed to qualify recreational divers to use enriched air (“nitrox”) for no stop recreational diving with an enriched air (EANx) compatible dive computer. The program addresses computer-assisted diving while using enriched air with 22 percent to 40 percent oxygen to monitor no stop limits and oxygen exposure. 

About the course

This course allows students to learn how to plan and organize enriched air dives by doing so in hands-on experiences. Student divers will apply the knowledge they gain by interacting with Enriched Air Diver eLearning, or by reading the PADI Enriched Air Diver Manual and watching the companion video, followed by practical application sessions in which they practice the procedures for obtaining and analyzing enriched air. They follow this with at least two open water dives, or two sessions that simulate the predive planning for open water enriched air dives. 

Prerequisites:  PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification. 

Time commitment: 2 days, First step theory via Elearning, one day in order to make 2 tanks diving. Or Predive Simulation Exercises.

Minimum age: 12 years or more

Number of dives: Two dives or Predive Simulation Exercises

E- Learning is included

For certified divers
$340

Night Diver

Learn how to navigate in the dark and experience the underwater world in a new setting

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Night Diver

Night diving can be mysterious, but it is attractive. Familiar dive sites take on a new perspective and a new adventure. Even the flora and fauna differ as darkness covers everything and creatures that are only active at night emerge. 

While night diving sounds strange or perhaps even a little scary to some divers, for others it is the first specialized activity they try. Night diving is not difficult and some safety guidelines and procedures make night diving even more fun.

About the course

During the course, you will do at least three night dives. During these dives, you will practice navigating in the dark, observe how nocturnal aquatic life differs from the creatures you see during the day and practice specific night diving techniques. You will also plan, organize and conduct night dives in situations comparable or better than those in which you have experience and training.

Prerequisites:  PADI Junior Open Water Diver or qualifying certification

Time commitment: 2 days, First step theory via Elearning, one day in order to make 3 tanks diving

Minimum age: 12 years or more

Number of dives: 3 dives

E- Learning is included

For certified divers
$340

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Improve your buoyancy control and reducing air consumption

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Peak Performance Buoyancy

The mastery of buoyancy allows us to enjoy a dive without effort and make it more fun, also increase the time of the dives thanks to the reduction of gas consumption and also prolong the life of the diving equipment by reducing shocks and unintentional contact with the bottom and sharp objects. As well as taking photos, safety stops, penetrating caverns, wrecks, ETC. In addition, divers will have more opportunities to interact positively with aquatic life and help preserve fragile underwater environments, reinforcing their commitment to the PADI AWARE philosoph

About the course

The main objective of the Buoyancy Mastery specialty course is to perfect the diver’s buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level to be more efficient, saving air and energy and to help the diver avoid damaging the aquatic environment. 

Train  divers to fine-tune neutral buoyancy underwater and float effortlessly suspended.

Prerequisites: PADI Junior Open Water Diver or qualifying certification. 

Time commitment: 2 days, First step theory via Elearning, one day in order to make 2 tanks diving.

Minimum age: 10 years or older

Number of dives: 2 dives

E- Learning is included

For certified divers
$340

Search & Recovery

Learn underwater search patterns, improve your navigation skills and how to react in an emergency

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Search and Research

The sea is very large and visibility is very limited. In addition, there are many factors that can affect any search and recovery conducted underwater. For example: surface conditions, underwater visibility, depth, bottom topography, bottom composition, vegetation, accessibility, waves, tides, currents, orientation accuracy, water temperature, pollution and obstacles or hazards. The size, weight and dimensions of the object to be recovered are also of great importance.

Therefore, the planning of the search is the main and most important factor to consider. If the planning is not effective, the search for an object is not likely to be successful.

About the course

The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course aims to teach student divers a systematic method for locating and recovering lost objects, large and small, within recreational limits. Avoiding disturbance to delicate aquatic life. The mechanics of the search is truly an art, while the principles applied to the operation are firmly based in science.

Prerequisites: PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification

Time commitment: 3 days, First theoretical step via Elearning, and 2 days to conduct 4 tank dives

Minimum age: 12 years old

Number of dives: 4 dives

E- Learning is included

For certified divers
$340

Underwater Navigation

Learn how to use a dive compass and navigate longer distances

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Underwater Navigator

Early Polynesian navigators routinely crossed thousands of kilometers/miles of open ocean in outrigger canoes, using only their own senses and knowledge, a tradition passed down from generation to generation. These primitive peoples used natural navigational clues, such as the movement of certain stars, the weather, native animals, the direction of ocean waves, the colors of the sea and sky, and the angles of the harbors they approached, to get from point A to point B across the ocean surface. Today, we still use natural navigational cues to navigate on and under water, but the invention of the compass and other navigational instruments have made navigation a much easier, if still very challenging, task.

About the course

The objective of this course is to teach student divers a systematic approach to the enjoyment of underwater navigation. Students will develop the techniques necessary to navigate underwater within recreational limits and avoid disturbing delicate aquatic life. How to use the compass accurately, navigational aids, navigational instruments and how to interact responsibly with the aquatic life they will see while navigating underwater.

Prerequisites: PADI Junior  Open Water Diver or qualification of another training organization

Time commitment: 2 days, First theoretical step via Elearning, and 1 day to do 3 dive tanks

Minimum age: 10 years old

Number of dives: 3 dives

E- Learning is included

For certified divers
$140

Dive against Debris Classroom

Learn how you can truly make a difference for our oceans, preserve and clean the underwater world

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PADI AWARE Dive against Debris

The PADI AWARE Foundation, a non-profit organization, engages the world’s largest dive community in projects, activities and initiatives that protect and conserve underwater environments. PADI AWARE mission is to drive local mobilization for global ocean conservation.

The Dive Against Debris® programme was launched in 2011. Since then, millions of pieces of marine debris have been removed and reported by divers and ocean enthusiasts like you.

Until Dive Against Debris, researchers and managers knew little about the relationship between the coast and seafloor litter, but this programme has changed that. 

About the course

The objective of this course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to conduct Dive Against Debris surveys, including the removal of underwater marine debris and the submission of the data to the PADI AWARE Foundation for compilation for the benefit of researchers and scientists. Dive Against Debris surveys and the data submitted are essential to help drive change and informed policy.

Prerequisites: PADI Junior  Open Water Diver or qualification of another training organization.

Time commitment: 2 days, First theoretical step via Elearning, and 1 day to do 1 dive tank.

Minimum age: 10 years old

Number of dives: 1 dive

E- Learning is included

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