Bubblemaker

The PADI Bubblemaker program is for boys and girls age 8 and above. It’s fun, easy and safe. The PADI Bubble maker program is a way for youngsters to join in the family fun of scuba diving or even start a trend! Children should be OK in the water, but they don’t have to be super swimmers since the maximum depth is only 2m/6 ft.

Discover Snorkeling

• Experience the underwater world.
• People snorkel because they want to see and interact with the underwater world.
• Snorkeling is easy and safe; formal, lengthy training is unnecessary.
• Snorkelers may not want to be scuba divers.
• No minimum age. If you can get wet you can snorkel!

Discover Scuba

• Discover diving in a safe, controlled, enjoyable.
• Discover Scuba provides non-divers with an opportunity to actually scuba dive in the safe confines of a swimming pool.
• The experience presents diving in a pleasant and exciting way.
• Discover Scuba helps overcome common misconceptions held about scuba diving.
• You must be 12 years of age or older.

Discover Scuba Diving

• Experience scuba diving under direct instructor supervision in ideal conditions.
• Participants will demonstrate mastery of specific information, concepts and scuba motor skills in the classroom and pool before the open water scuba dive.
• Knowledge and skills are developed by taking participants through a performance-based learning sequence prior to the open water experience.
• You must be 12 years of age or older.

Discover Local Diving

Discover Local Diving is the optional open water experience for the PADI

Scuba Review program. It is an underwater guided tour designed to:

• reintroduce divers to the open water environment after an extended period of
• diving inactivity, and/or
• orient divers to unfamiliar aquatic conditions.

Discover Local Diving provides certified divers with a fun, safe, supervised open water experience.

When Discover Local Diving is used to orient divers to an unfamiliar aquatic environment, items of interest and potential hazards are identified for the participant. This increases diving safety and enjoyment for those unfamiliar with a specific aquatic environment. Through this experience, divers may be oriented to many different diving environments. These may include, but are not limited to:

• aquatic environments with differing physical characteristics (temperature, water movement, salinity, ambient light and visibility).
• aquatic environments with differing bio-geography (coral ecosystems, kelp ecosystems, sandy bottoms, etc.).
• aquatic environments with differing topography (walls, submarine canyons, etc.).
• artificial aquatic environments (piers, wrecks, large aquariums, etc.).

You must have proof of certification.

Scuba Review - Welcome Back to Diving!

Review and update your diving knowledge and skills. The experience is particularly valuable to certified divers who have had an extended period of diving inactivity. A recommended open water dive provides participants with the comfort of supervised diving as well as an environmental orientation for a particular aquatic area (see Discover Local Diving, section Three of this guide).

A recognition decal for Scuba Review can be affixed to a participant’s certification card to show completion of training. See also the Discover Local Diving course.

You must show evidence of certification.

Skin Diver

PADI Scuba Diver and Junior Scuba Diver

Open Water Diver and Junior Open Water Diver

If you’ve always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now’s the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever.

In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way.

At your own pace, you can complete the knowledge development portion of the PADI Open Water Diver course online with PADI eLearning.

Earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification is just the beginning. As a certified diver, fabulous dive destinations, exciting people, unparalleled adventure and uncommon tranquility await you. And, as you continue your adventure and gain experience through higher training levels, your opportunities expand. For more details on the PADI Open Water Diver course,  Click here.

• Number of Dives: Five Confined Water Dives and Four Open Water Dives
• Knowledge Development: Five sessions
• Prerequisites: 10 for Junior Open Water Diver and 15 for Open Water Diver. Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water.
• Materials You’ll Need: PADI Open Water Crew-Pak, PADI Open Water Video or DVD, Log Book.
• Equipment you’ll use during the course includes: mask, fins, snorkel, tank, regulator, buoyancy compensator, submersible pressure gauge and exposure protection as required by the local environment.

10 for Junior Open Water Diver and 15 for Open Water Diver. Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water.

Advanced Open Water Diver and Advanced Plus and Junior Advanced Open Water Diver

Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and much more. These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non professional certification in recreational diving.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from more than 15 Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can go diving at night, check out the local wrecks in the area or even fly through the ocean on a diver propulsion vehicle – all during your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver) 
• Number of dives: Five dives 
• Adventure Dive options include altitude diving, AWARE-fish identification, boat diving, deep diving, diver propulsion vehicle use, drift diving, dry suit diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater nature study, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography and wreck diving
• Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course
• Materials: Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak, Adventures in Diving manual and video and logbook

Rescue Diver and Junior Rescue Diver

Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken. You'll cover:

Master Scuba Diver and Junior Master Scuba Diver

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

Divemaster

Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. 

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises.

Drift Diver

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty Course introduces you to the coolest magic carpet ride you’ll ever experience. This course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by "going with the flow," staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.

PADI Dry Suit Diver

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then stay out of the water. What? Stay out of the water? Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water. In the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you’ll learn how to use a dry suit. And that keeps you warm! Even in very cold water.

Wreck Diver

You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet.

Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.

Underwater Naturalist