PADI Open Water Dive Course

During the PADI Open Water Diver course, you’ll learn what you need to know to explore the underwater world using scuba. Most people find it a rewarding challenge.
The PADI Open Water Diver course includes three parts: Knowledge Development, Confined Water Dives, and Open Water Dives. Knowledge Development covers the principles, concepts and terms you need to know for dive safety and enjoyment. During the Confined Water Dives, you learn and practice scuba skills in a pool or water with pool-like conditions. You’ll enjoy making one or more minidives, which take you through the same steps you follow when you make open water dives. To complete training you practice, apply and demonstrate what you learn during four Open Water Dives at a local dive site.
Earning a PADI Open Water Diver certification shows that you met the course requirements. Dive centers and resorts require proof of certification before they will rent scuba equipment, fill scuba cylinders or book dive excursions. As a PADI Open Water Diver, you’ll be trained to a maximum depth of 18 metres/60 feet, and are qualified to dive in conditions as good as, or better than, those in which you trained. It’s just the beginning of a lifetime filled with dive adventures.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
• Knowledge Development ( onlineindependent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
• Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
• Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!

Day 1: 9:00 am to 4 pm theory day (recommend to do online at home). All day in classroom, watching DVD’s and doing tests. With lunch break, bring own lunch / buy locally

Day 2: 9:00 to between 2 and 4pm depending on number of students and speed they pick up the skills. This is a day in the pool learning and practicing the key diving skills. With lunch break, bring own lunch / buy locally

Day 3 and 4: 8:15am – between 1:30 and 2:30pm. These are days on the dive boat, 2 dives each day. Practicing skills and enjoying diving with your instructor

Able to swim; medically fit for diving