COURSES
Openwater Course
The Open Water Diver Course will certify you to dive all around the world up to a maximum depth of 18m.
If you’ve always wanted to learn how to dive, experience unparalleled adventures and see the world beneath the waves, is where it starts.
You must be at least 10 years old.
The Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
- Knowledge Development to understand basic principles of scuba diving
- Confined Water Dives to learn basic dive skills in the pool
Four Open Water Dives to demonstrate the skills you learn from confined water and exploring the dive sites
For you to gain your certification you will need to spend 3 to 4 days.
On the first day you will begin reading and watching the theory of scuba divnig.
On day 2, after you and your Instructor have reviewed your knowledge development sections, you are ready to start with some practical skills in the swimming pool.
You will learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and oxygen tank, as well as practicing dive skills and safety procedures.
The last 2 days are the most exciting ones!
You get to go for 4 dives in beautiful dive sites. We will take you to suitable places, sheltered from strong currents, where you can gain your confidence and practice some of the skills you have learned in the confined waters.
You will finally see what all the excitement is about and become a part of the magnificent underwater world surrounded by colorful fishes and pristine coral reef – please contact us for more details.
Prices vary depending on the resort and dive center, but most prices will be in the realm of €360 to €480.
The price difference is due to the remoteness of some locations. For example everything is more expensive in Raja Ampat compared to Bali.
Advanced Course
Exploration, Excitement, Experiences!! That’s what the Advanced course is all about. You don’t have to be ‘advanced’ to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your Open Water Diver certification.
The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of professional Instructors.
Develop your capabilities and find new ways to have fun scuba diving while logging dives.
You must be 12 years old or older and have an Open Water Certification either from PADI or any other organization like SSI or NAUI.
If you’re already an Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
For you to gain your certification you will need to spend 2 days with Dive Instructors. There are two mandatory dives for Advanced Open Water – Deep Adventure Dive and Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive – and you can choose the other three, for a total of five dives.
During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving.
The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, learn how to navigate using natural visual landmarks etc.
For the other three dives you can discuss with your instructor what would be best for you.
Once you have completed the Advanced Open Water course you will be more confident underwater and simply be a better diver!!
Prices vary depending on the resort and dive center, but most prices will be in the realm of €290 to €380.
The price difference is due to the remoteness of some locations. For example everything is more expensive in Raja Ampat compared to Bali.
Rescue Diver Course
Scuba divers describe the Rescue Diver course as the most challenging and the most rewarding course they’ve ever taken.
Why?
Because you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, as well as become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed.
During the course, you learn to become a better buddy by practicing problem solving skills until it has become your second nature.
This course is not only fun – it’s serious, but still allows for lots of laughter in between the focused learning.
You must be 12 years old or older, and have completed the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive.
You also need to have Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (EFR, CPR & First Aid) training within the past 24 months.
You can complete this training during the Rescue Diver course.
Please take note that EFR training fee is not including in this course.
The Padi Rescue Diver course prepares you to deal with dive emergencies, both minor and major, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills.
For you to gain your certification you will need to spend 3 days. On the first day you will begin by watching a DVD that covers the five sections of the course while completing the five knowledge development questions. Our Professional Instructors will review with you the knowledge development sections at the end of the day.
On the second day you will start the confined water practice with self-rescue and rescue skills. At this stage, your Instructor will demonstrate the proper techniques and have you practice them over and over until you master them. You will go through all the techniques and progressively start putting them together. You will also learn some rescue techniques outside the water as well as taking your final exam and start preparing your emergency plan.
On your last day you will have to demonstrate the techniques you have learned in open water and participate in several rescue scenarios. These scenarios will be made to recreate real life emergencies with the stress that are involved in them.
You will have a great sense of achievement and self-development as you realise that you are able to do things you never thought possible at the most challenging times.
Thank you! The diving community is now safer by having you as a rescue diver!!!
Prices vary depending on the resort and dive center, but most prices will be in the realm of €360 to €480.
The price difference is due to the remoteness of some locations. For example everything is more expensive in Raja Ampat compared to Bali.
Dive Master Course
- Minimum age 18 years old
- Academic Sessions
- Confined water session –Quantity varies
- Open water dives at least 40 to enroll.
- Number of dives included depends upon the divemaster plan you want. It could be anywhere from 30 all the way up to several hundred dives.
- Written exam
- There are 6 confined sections to be completed.
- These will be grouped together in one or two water training sessions in a protected area in the sea – we have the perfect house reef for this!
- In these sessions you will be taught the various dive skills affiliated with each skill.
- The skills are designed to familiarize you with your diving equipment and to aid you to be comfortable and in control underwater.
You will acquire exemplary diving techniques which teach you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessments, you will develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:
- The role and characteristics of the PADI / SSI Divemaster
- Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
- Diver safety and risk management
- Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
- Business of diving and your career
- Awareness of the dive environment
- Dive setup and management
- Mapping an open water site
- Conducting dive briefings
- Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive
- Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course
- Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs
At the same time, you will develop your knowledge, attitudes, techniques and good judgment to supervise certified divers and help to train divers in Courses.
Demonstrate the following skills
- Equipment assembly, adjustment, preparation,
donning and disassembly
- Predive safety check (BWRAF)
- Deep-water entry
- Buoyancy check at surface
- Snorkel-regulator/regulator-snorkel exchange
- Five-point descent, using buoyancy control to stop
descent without contacting the bottom
- Regulator recovery and clearing*
- Mask removal, replacement and clearing*
- Air depletion exercise and alternate air source use
(stationary)
- Alternate air source-assisted ascent
- Free flowing regulator breathing
- Neutral buoyancy, rise and fall – using low pressure
inflation
- Five-point ascent
- Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent
- Orally inflate BCD to hover for at least 60 seconds
- Underwater swim without a mask
- Remove and replace weight system underwater
- Remove and replace scuba unit underwater
- Remove and replace scuba unit on the surface
- Remove and replace weight system on the surface
- Surface dive while skin diving and clear snorkel
using blast method upon surfacing
- Disconnect low-pressure inflator
- Re-secure a loose cylinder band
- Perform an emergency weight drop
Consider taking Dive Theory Online, an e-learning program that takes you step-by-step through dive physics, physiology, skills, equipment and environment, plus a Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) review. By successfully completing Dive Theory Online, you can get credit for half of the Divemaster Final Exam.
As a dive professional, you’ll want to have all your basic scuba equipment, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During practical skills exercises, like underwater mapping and search and recovery, you’ll use a compass, floats, marker buoys, lift bags and slates.
Ask us for more details about what equipment will be best to bring with for your Dive Master Course.
Prices vary greatly depending on location, accommodation, length of divemaster course etc. Roughly the prices start from €1290 and goes up from there.
Instructor Course
The Instructor course will develop your abilities to prepare academic presentations, as well as confined & open water teaching. You’ll also learn about business and marketing principles, teaching children, risk management, and other important topics relevant for the well equipped dive professional.
The course contains the following:
- Classroom time for presentations about how to teach the courses, and other important aspects of being a diving professional such as marketing and risk management.
- Classroom time to cover the General Standards exam
- Practice exams on all courses and General Standards
- Confined water sessions and open water sessions – in-water teaching sessions that are all about handling students whilst teaching the courses
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have a current medical attesting to your diving fitness signed by a physician within the previous 12 months
- Be certified as a PADI Divemaster. (Or hold a leadership level certification with another training agency).
- Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months;
- Have logged at least 90 dives & show proof of deep, night & navigation dives. (We can help you add any dives you need to meet this criteria);
- Have a valid dive insurance when you start the course. If you don’t have insurance then we can provide you with dive insurance on arrival;
- Complete the PADI medical statement, you can download this here.
- Must have completed an Emergency First Response (EFR) Primary and Secondary Care course, or other sanctioned First Aid and CPR course, within the past 24 months. (If you haven’t taken a CPR and First Aid course within the last 24 months you can take PADI Emergency First Response here before your IDC).
Prices vary depending on the resort and dive center, but most prices will be in the realm of €1400 and up.
The price difference is due to the remoteness of some locations. For example everything is more expensive in Raja Ampat compared to Bali.
Nitrox Course
The Enriched Air course consists of two open water training dives, two practical applications and some theory. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.
- Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox, by using and applying the benefits of enriched air for recreational diving
- Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations
- Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what’s in your scuba tank (analyzing) and how to set your dive computer (if you have one)
- Planning and making no decompression dives using primarily enriched air nitrox blends containing 22 to 40 percent oxygen, remaining within accepted dive table and oxygen exposure limits
- Going through the process of obtaining enriched air from a blending facility, and getting a direct overview of how operations blend enriched air nitrox
- Managing and avoiding possible enriched air hazards
Prices vary depending on the resort and dive center, but most prices will be in the realm of €150 to €200.
The price difference is due to the remoteness of some locations. For example everything is more expensive in Raja Ampat compared to Bali.