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 and up to three others 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.

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Five Confined Water Dives and Four Open Water Dives

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. (crew-pak and DVD included in the price above)Equipment you’ll need during the course includes: mask, fins, snorkel, weight system.  Included in the course is the use of a regulator, tank, buoyancy compensator, submersible pressure gauge and exposure suit.

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.

Included with course fee: Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak, Adventures in Diving manual, Nav Planner Slate, Dive Log Slate, Rental Tanks and one six hour two tank Dive Charter.  Try it Online.

Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers too.

Emergency First Response courses encompass:

CPR for adults, children and infants

First aid for adults, children and infants

Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training

The Emergency First Response Instructor Course $400

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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:

Self-rescue and diver stress

Emergency management and equipment

Panicked diver response

In-water rescue breathing protocols

Egress (exits)

Dive accident scenarios

Includes: Crew-Pak and Rental Tanks

BOAT DIVER

AWARE FISH ID

DIGITAL UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER

DIVER PROPULSION VEHICLE

DRIFT DIVER

DRY SUIT DIVER

EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST

MULTILEVEL/COMPUTER DIVER

NIGHT DIVER

PEAK PERFORMANCE BOUYANCY

SEARCH & RECOVERY DIVER

UNDERWATER NATURALIST

Includes: Crew-Pak and Air

Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).

Learn to analyze cylinder contents.

Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.

Safely increase your no stop time.

Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating

Includes: Crew-Pack, DVD, and 2 Nitrox Tanks 32% O2

Online Course Available

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.

Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.

Materials You’ll Need: Wreck-Pak, which includes the PADI Wreck Diver Manual and Wreck Diving video.  Two lights, Cutting tool, Cave Reel or Finger Spool, and Dive Computer.

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.

Includes: 2 days of Two Tank Diving on and in some of the best Wreck dives in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.

In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.

Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.

Includes: 2 days of Two Tank Diving, tanks, and contingency air (hang tanks, pony bottles, etc.)

Gas Blender Course

More people are diving with enriched air and this means the demand for enriched air fills is also increasing.

However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the PADI Gas Blender course comes in.

It can result in one of two certifications: PADI Gas Blender or PADI Trimix Blender.

What You'll Learn

The Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers.  You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.

Tec 40 Course

If you're interested in technical diving, but haven't yet met the prerequisites for the PADI Tec 50 Diver course or PADI Tec 45 course, you can consider enrolling in the PADI Tec 40 course. It is the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver course and consists of the first four dives. Because you can do one of  these dives in confined water (such as a swimming pool), many divers start the Tec 40 courses in the winter months, ready to continue in open water when spring arrives.

You'll learn to

Use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 metres/130 feet.

Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Since it's part of the course, your PADI Tec 40 course training credits toward the PADI Tec 45 and Tec 50 courses.

The Scuba Gear You'll Use

You use recreational scuba equipment, with some minor additions to enhance your ability to deal with tec diving conditions.

The Learning Materials You'll Need

You'll use the Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak, which introduces you to

tec diving lingo

emergency procedures

decompression and stage cylinder handling

gas planning

The pak includes a manual, dive planning checklist and dive planning slate. The optional Equipment Set-up and Key Skills video on DVD is a great tool to help you practice at home in between your tec diving adventures. You'll continue to use the Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak through Tec 50.

Prerequisites

• Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)

• Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)

• Be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)

• Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least
          o 10 dives must be on enriched air
          o 12 dives must be deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
          o 6 dives must be deeper than 30 metres/100 feet

• Have a medical form signed by your physician

PADI Divemaster Course

Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba 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. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications. 

Reccomended: Study Dive Theory  (Physics and Physiology Online)

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course

Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

The Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program is one of two distinct components of PADI’s Instructor Development Course (IDC)—the core of PADI Instructor training. The first portion is the Assistant Instructor course followed by the Open Water Scuba Instructor program.

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Dive Master with DSD Leader Upgrade $800 Plus Books ($538.50)

Assistant Instructor $800 Plus Books

OWSI Upgrade $800

PADI IE $500

Registration Fee $100

Specialty Instructor (Nitrox, Boat, ...Etc) $200 per

EFR Instructor $250 Plus Books

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The PADI Cavern Diver Course

Can you see the light? If you dive within the light zone of a cave–the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible–you're in the cavern zone.

The Fun Part

The fun part is exploring secrets hidden in caverns around the world and having the knowledge and skills to do it correctly.

What You Learn

This is a challenging and very exciting course that includes four training dives over at least two days. During your first open water dive you'll practice line handling, reel use and emergency procedures without entering a cavern. But, for your next three dives, you're headed into the cavern, staying within the light zone and 40 metres/130 feet total distance from the surface.

You learn about

Cavern navigation and line protocols

Planning, organization, techniques, problems and hazards of cavern diving

Special equipment use, such as lights, guidelines, reels and redundant breathing systems

Air sharing, disorientation, silting, line problems and other emergency procedures specific to cavern diving

Silt prevention, buoyancy control, air management and emergency procedures

Depth and distant limits for cavern diving

The Scuba Gear You Use

You use all the basic scuba gear plus some specialty gear for cavern diving. This is one of the few diving activities in which you won’t use your snorkel.

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Enables a unique way of buoyancy control resulting in a more streamlined profile that reduces drag making finning and moving through the water easier and more efficient. Offers a greater comfort level as sidemount equipment and harness can be custom fit to each individual, accommodating divers of all shapes and sizes. Great for divers with any disabilities, as you carry the cylinder(s) separate from your harness to the water. Whilst within the water you would then attach your cylinders and weights, making the entries and exits to dive sites much easier. Safer option in terms of air management as you have an easier access to your cylinder valve(s), first stage(s) and alternate regulator should a problem arise. One harness and BCD does it all. This statement is now true as the same sidemount equipment you use, can be used for more advanced types of diving i.e wreck, technical and cave diving." - www.sidemountscubadiving.com