Scuba Diving Courses PADI
As a certified PADI Open Water Diver, the most widely recognized and respected rating in the world, you have the freedom to dive with a buddy independent of a professional. If you already tried a PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience or are PADI Scuba Diver certified, check with your instructor/staff to see how credit from these courses may apply to the open water program. If you are interested in doing your studying online before joining us in the pool, check out our online open water program. PADI offers the e-Learner program and the touch program, which is more geared towards tablets and mobile devices.
- Beginner Divers & Kids
- Specialties
- CPR & First Aid
- Core Classes
- Technical
- Professional
Discover Scuba Diving
A quick and easy introduction into what it takes to explore the underwater world. Although this is not a scuba certification course, you'll learn all the steps it takes to be a PADI certified diver.
Price: Only $99.00
Learn MoreOpen Water
Diver certification begins here. Start with PADI's online eLearning course. Move to the pool and practice your new skills. Then experience four open water (quarry/lake) dives.
Price: Only $749.00
Includes: eLearning Course Materials, Training, Certification Fees, Free Frental Gear for 1 Month, & the Equipment Specialist Course.
Open Water Private
This is one-on-one instruction for your open water certification. You pick the dates and the time. Start with PADI's online eLearning course. Move to the pool and practice your new skills. Then experience four open water (quarry/lake) dives. This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. It's titled PADI Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.
Price: Only $1299.00
Includes: Materials, Rentals, Private Pool and Open Water Dives, Free Specialty of Your Choice (Drysuit, Peak Performance Buoyancy, or Nitrox) and the Equipment Specialist Certification
Referral
PADI Referral allows you to complete most of your scuba training at home and finish your certification dives anywhere in the world. Avoid studying during your vacation and support your local dive shop at the same time.
Price: Only $399.00
Includes: Materials, Rentals and Training.
Private Referral
This is one-on-one instruction for your open water referral. You pick the dates and the time. The PADI Referral allows you to complete most of your scuba training at home with us and then finish your certification check-out dives anywhere in the world. Avoid studying during your vacation and support your local dive shop at the same time.
Price: Only $599.00
Includes: Materials, Rentals, and Training.
Bubble Maker
What a great way to introduce children to scuba diving in a pool in less than six feet of water. Celebrate a birthday by throwing a memorable, exciting Bubblemaker party with friends and family.
Price: Only $ Please call for groups
Includes: Books, Classes, Training, All Dives, Equipment, and Certification Card
Seal Team
The PADI Seal Team is for kids age 8-9 and is a course designed to take them through the steps to prepare them for what they will do when they're ready to begin their training to become scuba divers. There is classroom study along with pool sessions where they will take small steps that will get them ready for being a fully certified diver. This program starts with five aqua missions, each focusing on a different underwater skill set. Once they complete the first set of Aqua Missions, they are qualified to start into the Master Seal Team where they will do ten more Aqua Missions advancing their skills and even learning about and practicing skills beyond that of a normal open water diver. Children who complete these two programs tend to go on to become very skilled and responsible divers with more training and knowledge than just the basic open water diver receives.
Price: Only $400 for 5 Aqua Missions
Includes: Equipment, training, completion certificates
Requirements: You should own your own mask, fins, snorkel, & boots.
Learn MoreScuba Parties
Looking for the best Party idea? Why not let your kids (8 years and older) scuba dive and have a pizza party! For groups of 4 or more. Great for any group or occasion whether it's just a group of friends and family wanting to try the experience, company team building, birthday parties, or any other function. We can provide food or the group is welcome to bring their own. Additional cost for photo or videos of the event.
Price: Call for Pricing
Includes: Equipment, training, pizza, underwater Birthday Video
Adaptive Support Diver
Increase your awareness of divers’ varying abilities, and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.
Price: Only $200.00
Does not include rentals
Boat Diver
This course helps you expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboards. You'll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat.
Price: Only $250
Does not include rentals
Cavern Diver
Gain the knowledge and skills to explore caverns correctly and safely. This course guides you to enter far enough for adventure but stay within the light zone for an easy exit to open water.
Price: Only $500
Does not include rentals.
Deep Diver
Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 40 metres/130 ft. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, and buoyancy control.
Price: Only $325
Does not include rentals.
Dive Against Debris
Pay the ocean forward by helping clean it up on your next dive. Learn about the problems of marine debris, conducting Dive Against Debris surveys, and how divers are a part of the solution to keeping our oceans clean.
Price: Only $125.00
Does not include rentals.
Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)
Propel your way through the water and glide over reefs, buzz around a large wreck or weave through a kelp forest. You must be at least 12 years old and a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher.
Price: Only $300
*Includes materials and scooter rental.
Dry Suit Diver
Becoming a drysuit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often. This suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.
Price: Only $275
Does not include rentals.
Enriched Air (Nitrox)
The most popular PADI specialty course. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.
Price: Only $225.00
*Includes materials
Equipment Specialist
Learn to manage basic scuba diving equipment repairs and adjustments. Understand routine care and maintenance procedures and how dive gear works.
Price: Only $150.00
Does not include rentals.
Full-Face Mask
Diving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.
Price: Only $225
Does not include rentals.
Historian Diver
Learn about the early pioneers of diving and gain perspective on the current state of the sport.
Price: Only $125
Includes materials
Ice Diver
Ice diving is one of the most adventurous scuba specialties. Learn the roles and responsibilities of support personnel, tenders and safety divers. See beauty few others ever experience.
Price: Only $275
Does not include rentals.
Night Diver
The underwater world changes as day creatures retire & nocturnal organisms emerge. If you've wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, enroll in the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.
Price: Only $300
Does not include rentals.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevate them to the next level.
Price: Only $250
Does not include rentals.
Project AWARE
If you want to learn about the plight of worldwide aquatic ecosystems and how you can protect them, this Specialty course is for you. This non-diving Specialty course may also be conducted in conjunction with other PADI Specialty Diver courses.
Price: Only $100.00
Includes materials
Project AWARE - Coral Reef Conservation
Everyone likes to scuba dive or snorkel in warm, clear water on a vibrant coral reef, yet many people know little about what they’re seeing or the importance of reef ecosystems. The Coral Reef Conservation Specialty course helps you appreciate the complexity of these habitats and teaches you how you can help conserve these vital systems.
Price: Only $100.00
Includes materials or rentals.
Search & Recovery
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost treasure? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. 4 Dives.
Price: Only $300.00
Does not include rentals.
Advanced Search & Recovery
The Advanced Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface using several methods and different types of lift bags. 2 Dives
Price: Only $200
Does not include rentals.
Self-Reliant Diver
Although diving with a buddy is the norm, there are reasons for an experienced diver to develop self-reliance and independence while diving. Learning to carry out dives without a partner can make you a stronger diver in most dive situations.
Price: Only $300
Does not include rentals.
Sidemount
A sidemount configuration (scuba tanks alongside of the diver) offers more flexibility and better steamlining options. Learn about the many benefits of diving with a sidemount configuration.
Price: Only $500
Does not include rentals.
Underwater Naturalist
Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites.
Price: Only $185
Does not include rentals.
Underwater Navigator
Fine-tune your underwater observation skills and learn to use your compass more accurately. This course may count towards college credit, ask your instructor.
Price: Only $300.00
Does not include rentals.
Advanced Underwater Navigator
The Advanced Navigation Specialty course will take you a step further and help you become a pro at finding your way underwater.
Price: Only $250.00
Does not include rentals.
Underwater Photographer
The most popular diving specialties course. It’s easy and fun to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.
Price: Only $275.00
Does not include rentals.
Underwater Videographer
Capture the sights, sounds, and the dynamic motion of the underwater world as a videographer. Cover the fundamentals and create interesting, entertaining video worth watching again and again.
Price: Only $150.00
Does not include rentals.
Wreck Diver
Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery.
Price: Only $350
Does not include rentals.
Emergency First Reponse (EFR) Full Course
Bundle Class combining Primary & Secondary Care with AED and Emergency O2 Provider. Teach skills based on internationally recognized emergency care guidelines and learn how to present course content while encouraging student self-discovery.
Price: Only $200
EFR Primary Care
Discover simple to follow steps for emergency care. This course focuses on building confidence in lay rescuers and increasing their willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency.
Price: Only $175
EFR Secondary Care
Secondary Care (first aid) covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. Participants focus on secondary assessment and first aid through knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.
Price: Only $175.00
EFR Airborne Pathogens Awareness
The EFR Airborne Pathogen Awareness course provides participants with a fundamental understanding of diseases such as influenza (flu), SARS, COVID-19 and tuberculosis that are transmitted primarily through respiration and the respiratory system.
Price: Only $75.00
PADI Dive Medicine
PADI Dive Medicine for Divers is for individuals interested in better understanding dive physiology and dive safety. It includes topics not normally addressed in dive training, including fitness to dive, safety planning and basic physical examinations.
Price: Only $200
PADI Marine Life Injuries
Serious Marine life injuries are rare. However, most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with Marine Life at some point in their diving career. Lionfish, fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures are common throughout popular diving destinations. The PADI Marine Life Injuries course teaches divers to minimize these injuries and reduce diver discomfort and pain.
Price: Only $125.00
EFR Emergency Oxygen Provider
Immediately recognize scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen and be prepared to offer aid. There are no prerequisites or age restrictions. This course is open to everyone.
Price: Only $175.00
Does not include rentals.
DAN Basic Life Support - First Aid & CPR
Learn emergency skills and help save a lift. There are no prerequisites or age restrictions. This course is open to everyone.
Price: Only $175
PADI Neurological Assessment
This course is a must for every diver. ​While diving injuries are rare, unfortunately they do happen. ​​A large majority of divers with decompression illness also show evidence of damage to their nervous system, and according to the CDC "Every year, ​ ​more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke​." ​​The​ Neurological Assessment​ course will train you to spot the subtle signs of ​Neurological injuries before they get serious.
Price: Only $125
EFR Instructor Course
During the Emergency First Response Instructor course, you will build on your skill as an Emergency Responder and focus on developing your instructional abilities to teach these skills to others. The Instructor course provides you with the additional training necessary to teach the Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR), Secondary Care (First Aid), Care for Children, CPR & AED courses.
Price: Only $525
Does not include materials.
ReActivate
Haven’t been diving lately and want to refresh your dive skills? The ReActivate® program is the perfect way to regain your confidence and update what you learned in the PADI Open Water Diver Course before jumping back into the water.
Price: Only $175
Learn MoreAdventure Diver
Complete three Adventure Dives (underwater photography, fish identification, etc.) and earn the Adventure Diver certification, a subgroup of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.
Price: Only $300
Learn MoreAdvanced Open Water
This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. It's titled PADI Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.
Price: Only $375
Learn MoreRescue Diver
Learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver. It's challenging, yet very rewarding.
Price: $375
Learn MoreMaster Scuba Diver
Join the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.
Price: Ask
Learn MoreTEC 40
Consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four training dives. Designed for the diver transitioning from recreational diving to technical diving.
Price: $550
Sign Up HereTEC 45
Part 2 of the PADI Tec Deep Diver program. Extend your depth limit to 45 metres/145 ft. Learn to plan & execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder.
Price: $550
Sign Up HereTEC 50
Part 3 of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. Develop competency & have the skills to dive to a max of 50 metres/165 ft. Learn how to extend & accelerate decompression stops using up to 2 gases.
Price: $600
Sign Up HereTEC Trimix 65
Extend your depth range the right way with a blend of helium, oxygen & nitrogen (trimix). The Tec Trimix 65 course introduces you to using trimix down to a maximum depth of 65 metres/210 feet.
Price: $1000
Sign Up HereTEC Trimix Diver
This course turns experienced tec divers into extreme divers. During this course, you'll make dives as deep as 90 metres/300 feet, use multigas trimix computers, & handle up to 4 stage/deco cylinders.
Price: $1000
Sign Up HereTEC Gas Blender
Being a gas blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort. This course teaches you how to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-based gases using one or more blending methods.
Price: $250.00
Inquire TodayTEC Trimix Blender
More people are diving with trimix blends and this means the demand for trimix fills is also increasing. Dive centers are increasingly seeking instructors who are also qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the Trimix Gas Blender course comes in.
Price: $350.00
Inquire TodayDivemaster
Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, and supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.
Price: $650
Learn MoreEFR Instructor Course
During the Emergency First Response Instructor course, you will build on your skill as an Emergency Responder and focus on developing your instructional abilities to teach these skills to others. The Instructor course provides you with the additional training necessary to teach the Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR), Secondary Care (First Aid), Care for Children, CPR & AED courses.
Price: Only $525
Does not include materials.
Assistant Instructor
Start here to become a PADI dive Instructor. Share your passion with others and help them experience the same joy you have for scuba diving.
Price: $850
Learn MoreOpen Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI)
This is a two-part course - the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. Become a better public speaker and get really good at demonstrating skills.
Price: $2174.00
Learn MoreInstructor Development Course (IDC)
The foundation of PADI instructor development is the PADI Instructor Development Course. The program consists of two parts - the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. Combining the AI course and the OWSI program into a continuous program makes up an eight day Instructor Development Course.
Price: $2850
Learn MoreInstructor Level Specialties
After becoming a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) you'll want to teach divers specific types of diving relative to what your local area offers. To do this you need to be able to teach PADI Specialties. By doing so you can heighten your students' comfort level and strengthen their underwater skills, ultimately leading to their enjoyment of diving more than ever before.
Price: Varies by Specialty - $204+
Inquire TodayMaster Scuba Diver Trainer Prep
The ultimate recreational diver rating. All PADI Instructors who have certified at least 25 PADI Divers and have earned five or more PADI Specialty Instructor certifications can be a Master Scuba Diver Trainer.
Price: $1225
Learn MoreIDC Staff Instructor Course
This course provides you with in-depth knowledge of the instructor development process and prepares you to shape the next generation of PADI Professionals.
Price: $795.00
Learn MoreResort Training Course
Resort Training Course (RTC). Designed by PADI Course Director Patrick Hammer, this course will provide you with the knowledge to work and assist in the management of a resort dive center. If your career goal is working and living in a dive paradise, this program can help you achieve your goal.
Price: $3000.00
Learn MoreCourse Director Prep Course
This rating is the highest and most respected professional rating in recreational scuba diving. To become a Course Director, you must earn a spot in a Course Director Training Course (CDTC).
Price: $495.00
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