This is a completion of a series of classroom lessons, 5 pool lessons and 5 open water lessons, the award of SSI Open Water Diver prepares the diver to enjoy their diving experience without incurring decompression stops. Kit removal and weight belt removal are included.

Open Water Lessons
5 qualification dives with 5th dive being a pleasure dive. First dive to a Maximum of 12m and subsequent dives to a maximum depth of 18m or 12m if classed as a junior.

From the beginning to end of the course, you will learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including areas such as dive equipment and techniques that will give you the confidence and skill to become a responsible diver.

This is the most popular dive program in the world! And can be your chance to have a lifetime of intense adventures.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

Knowledge Development ( online, independent 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!

The Advanced Open Water Diver program gives you the opportunity to take your diving skill to the next level through three new areas of diving.
You complete your Deep Dive, Underwater Navigation Dive, Night Dive and two other dives for a total of five to attain your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

This certification includes five dives, including the Deep Diver, the Underwater Navigation Diver and three of the following: You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you 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, visual landmarks and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

The SSI Stress & Rescue course develops your ability to prevent diving incidents, manage stressful situations, and respond effectively to emergencies both above and below the surface.

Diver Stress Management: Learn to recognise the signs of stress in yourself and other divers and understand how to prevent stress-related incidents.

Emergency Response: Develop practical techniques for assisting tired, panicked, or distressed divers both at the surface and underwater.

Rescue Techniques: Practise effective rescue procedures, including approaches, assists, exits, and responses to different emergency scenarios.

Accident Prevention: Learn how to identify potential hazards, improve situational awareness, and take action before problems escalate.

The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox course introduces you to the benefits of breathing enriched air, allowing you to extend your no-decompression limits and make more efficient use of your time underwater.

Nitrox Theory: Understand the advantages, limitations, and physiological effects of breathing enriched air.

Gas Analysis: Learn how to analyse your cylinder's oxygen content and verify that the mixture is suitable for your planned dive.

Dive Planning: Calculate maximum operating depths and no-decompression limits based on your selected Nitrox mixture.

Computer Configuration: Learn how to correctly program your dive computer for enriched air and monitor oxygen exposure throughout the dive.

The SSI Deep Diving course expands your underwater boundaries by introducing you to the techniques, knowledge, and safety procedures required to explore depths beyond the limits of recreational Open Water diving.

Deep Diving Techniques: Learn how depth affects your body, equipment, buoyancy, air consumption, and dive planning.

Dive Planning: Master the procedures for planning and conducting safe dives to depths of up to 40 metres.

Safety & Emergency Procedures: Develop the skills required to recognise and manage potential problems associated with deeper diving.

Equipment Management: Understand how to configure and use your diving equipment effectively at increased depths.

The SSI Perfect Buoyancy course helps you master your position and movement underwater, giving you greater control, confidence, and efficiency on every dive.

Buoyancy Control: Learn how to achieve and maintain neutral buoyancy using proper weighting, breathing, and BCD control.

Trim & Positioning: Improve your horizontal body position and movement to become more balanced and streamlined underwater.

Breathing Techniques: Develop controlled breathing patterns to improve buoyancy, air consumption, and overall dive efficiency.

Environmental Awareness: Learn to move through the water without damaging coral, disturbing marine life, or stirring up the seabed.

The most popular PADI specialty course. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

You’ll learn why diving with air that has higher oxygen and lower nitrogen content gives you more bottom time, along with enriched air equipment considerations. During a practical session, and two optional (or required) scuba dives, you’ll:

• Discuss managing oxygen exposure.

• Practice analysing oxygen content in your scuba tank.

• Set your dive computer for diving with enriched air nitrox.

Become a Rescue Diver. A great level to be. You will have the skills to aid your fellow divers in an emergency.

The PADI Rescue Diver course prepares you to deal with dive emergencies, 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. Topics include:

• Self-rescue

• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers

• Emergency management and equipment

• Rescuing panicked divers

• Rescuing unresponsive divers

Drift diving can be relaxing and exhilarating. The course teaches you how to enjoy going with the flow as you scuba dive down rivers and use ocean currents to glide along.

Along with drift diving techniques and procedures, you’ll:

• Receive an introduction to drift diving equipment - floats, lines and reels.

• Get an overview of aquatic currents - causes and effects.

• Practice with buoyancy control, navigation and communication during two drift dives.

• Learn techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group as you float with the current.

Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 40 metres/130ft. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, and buoyancy control.

Your training starts by reviewing reasons for deep diving and how important it is to know your personal limits. During four deep dives with your instructor, you’ll go over:

• Specialized deep diving equipment.

• Deep dive planning, buddy contact procedures and buoyancy control

• Managing your gas supply, dealing with gas narcosis and safety considerations.

Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevate them to the next level.

During two scuba dives, you’ll learn how to:

• Determine the exact weight you need, so you’re not too light or too heavy.

• Trim your weight system and scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.

• Streamline to save energy, use air more efficiently and move more smoothly through the water.

• Hover effortlessly in any position - vertical or horizontal.

The underwater world changes as day creatures retire & nocturnal organisms emerge. If you've wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, enrol in the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.

Scuba diving at night teaches you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, on controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your buddy and on paying attention to details you may overlook during the day. During three night dives, you’ll practice:

• Light handling and communication techniques.

• Entering, exiting and navigating in the dark.

• Identifying how plants and animals differ or change behaviour at night.

Enjoy dives even more when you can recognize and identify fish families and their characteristics.

During two scuba dives, you’ll learn:

• How to identify characteristics of local fish families and species.

• Fish survey techniques and strategies.

• About Project AWARE activities that can help protect aquatic life.

This course helps you expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboard. You'll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat.

The PADI Boat Diver course will expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboard. You’ll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat in your local area and learn :

• Boat terminology.

• Boat diving procedures and etiquette, including how to enter and exit, and where to stow your gear.

• Boating safety, including how to locate safety equipment.
  
  

Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.

The PADI Dive master course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you 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 Dive master

• Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers

• Diver safety and risk management

• Dive master 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.