Whether you are a newbie, a beginner or an experienced diver, we offer the PADI® courses, PADI® experiences and PADI® training that you need, to begin or to advance your dive education, and to open you up to everything you might need to know to improve your diving abilities and make you more comfortable in the water! We offer courses from Open Water all the way up until Dive Master, with opportunities for certifying children as Junior divers too. Read on for a breakdown on the PADI® courses we offer.
Fun Dives
Are you ready to add a splash of excitement to your day? Join us for a thrilling, fun dive that promises unforgettable underwater adventures and endless smiles. For the already certified divers, our fun dive is a perfect way to immerse yourself in the magic of the ocean and create lasting memories. You will always dive with a certified PADI® Professional, and can choose from single, double and triple dive days! Equipment rental is available for a small fee. Dive into excitement and wonder with us, and let’s see the ‘Barra Big 5’ together!
Open Water Diver
PADI® Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. A highly-trained PADI® Instructor will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive learning environment. Upon completion of the course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad to a maximum depth of 18 meters, and be an ambassador for the underwater world. This course takes a minimum of 3 days to complete, and the e-learning can be completed online. Enquire within for more details.
Duration: Minimum 3 days
Advanced Open Water Diver
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You’ll practice underwater navigation and deep diving, as well as your buoyancy, and make three specialty dives of your choosing (it’s like a specialty sampler platter). For every specialty dive you complete, you can earn credit toward PADI® specialty certifications. Here are a few of the many options: Boat, Drift, Digital Underwater Photography, Dive Against Debris, Enriched Air Nitrox, Fish Identification, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist. Upon completion of the course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad to a maximum depth of 30 meters, and be an ambassador for the underwater world. This course takes a minimum of 2 days to complete, and the e-learning can be completed online. Enquire within for more details.
Duration: Minimum 2 days
Rescue Diver
The PADI® Rescue Diver course will change the way you dive – in the best possible way. Learn to identify and fix minor issues before they become big problems, both on the surface and underwater, gain a lot of confidence and have serious fun along the way. This course takes a minimum of 2 days to complete, and the e-learning can be completed online. Enquire within for more details.
Duration: Minimum 2 days
Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
Enriched air, also known as nitrox or EANx, contains less nitrogen than regular air. Breathing less nitrogen means you can enjoy longer dives or shorter surface intervals, allowing more time for encounters with magical mega fauna. No wonder Enriched Air Diver is the most popular PADI® specialty. Team it up with your AOW course for an unstoppable partnership! This is a ‘dry’ course and can be completed within 1 day, and the e-learning can be completed online. Enquire within for more details.
Duration: 1 day
Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care
Gain the skills and confidence to save the life of someone you care about. After completing the Emergency First Response CPR, First Aid and AED course, you’ll know how to aid someone who may be experiencing cardiac arrest, know how to provide traditional CPR, as well as how to do rescue breathing and many other basic, yet life saving skills. The EFR course builds lay rescuer confidence to provide care when faced with a medical emergency. Participants learn and practice the same patient care techniques and principles used by medical professionals, but at a lay person level. This is a ‘dry’ course and takes a minimum of 2 days to complete. Upon certification, you will be an Emergency First Responder, and will receive an official certificate.
Duration: Minimum 2 days
ReActivate – Scuba Refresher
ReActivate is the engaging, efficient way to refresh your dive knowledge and scuba skills. Also known as a ‘Scuba Review’, move quickly through topics you already know well, dive deeper on topics where your knowledge may have lapsed. Practise equipment setup, then in the pool we practice 10 most important skills we need to dive with, and as well use the time to practice your buoyancy and other skills, before we go for a dive in the ocean. If you haven’t dived in 6 months or more, it is necessary to complete a scuba review before you dive with us. Exceptions apply to PADI Professional divers.
Duration: 1.5 hours | Minimum age 10 years old
Basic Freediver Course
The PADI Basic Freediver course is a subset of the PADI Freediver course. It’s a great first step for developing solid freediving skills. You learn basic freediving principles and focus on practicing breathhold techniques in a pool or confined water site. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with snorkelling, skin diving or freediving is required.
Duration: Minimum 2 days | Minimum age 10 years old
Freediver Course
Your first step toward discovering why freediving is becoming a popular way to explore beneath the waves. No previous freediving course is required. Freediving is about inward power, discipline and control. If you’ve always wanted to enter the underwater world quietly, on your own terms, staying as long as your breath allows, then freediving is for you. Taking the PADI Freediver course is your first step toward discovering why freediving is becoming a popular way to explore beneath the waves. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with snorkelling, skin diving or freediving is required.
Duration: Minimum 2 days | Minimum age 12 years old
Bubblemaker Program (Kids)
Bubblemaker is as fun as it sounds – a chance for kids to blow bubbles by scuba diving. Children who are at least 8 years old can use scuba gear to breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water. Have a party or celebrate a birthday by throwing a memorable, exciting Bubblemaker event with friends and family! Experience scuba diving under the direct supervision of a PADI Pro. Take your first breaths underwater in water shallower than 2 metres/6 ft. A child must be 8 years old or older. Kids must be comfortable in the water, but no prior experience is necessary. Parental approval is required.
Minimum age 8 years old | Duration: Minimum 2 hours
PADI Seal Team (Kids)
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to dive with flashlights, take digital pictures underwater or float effortlessly like an astronaut? The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting AquaMissions. Beyond learning basic scuba skills, there are specialty AquaMissions, such as navigation, buoyancy, environmental awareness and more. PADI Seal Team includes doing some cool stuff in the pool, meeting friends and sharing in the adventure of the underwater world. Upon certification, you will be able to explore more challenges, dive up to a depth of 4 meters (13 feet) and open the door to many new diving opportunities. To join the PADI Seal Team, a child must be 8 years of age or older. No prior experience with scuba diving is necessary, but kids should be comfortable in the water. Parental approval is required.
Minimum age 8 years old | Duration: Minimum 2 days
PADI Discover Scuba Diving (DSD)
If you’re interested in scuba diving, but unsure if you want to enroll in a scuba certification class, Discover Scuba Diving is the perfect way to test the waters. During a Discover Scuba Diving experience, you can try scuba diving for the first time in a pool then in a calm open water environment. A highly-trained PADI Professional will fit you with scuba gear and explain how to use it, explain basic scuba diving skills and answer any questions you may have. In a very short time, you’ll learn basic scuba skills and take your first breaths underwater in our swimming pool. When we’re ready, we head out to the ocean for a real guided open water dive to the maximum depths of 12 metres! Contact us to schedule your first scuba diving experience!
Minimum age 10 years | Experience needed: None | Duration: Around 5-6 hours
PADI Divemaster (Internship)
The Divemaster course teaches you how to lead underwater tours, assist with scuba classes and inspire others to care about the ocean. Hone your skills and be the diver everyone admires. PADI Divemaster is the most popular and most recognized professional scuba certification in the world. PADI Divemasters enjoy abundant career opportunities, get paid to scuba dive and share their love for the ocean. Please contact us further for information on how you can complete your Divemaster internship with us, and for more information on the dive prerequisites needed to meet the course requirements.
Minimum age 18 years | Experience needed: Enquire Within | Duration: Varies
Zero to Hero (Internship)
Zero-to-Hero – the name really says it all. You basically start without any experience (zero) and you finish as a Divemaster dive leader (hero) – mastering the highest level of skills up until (and including) Divemaster. In the scuba world, diving the zero-to-hero program is often referred as a full-time divemaster internship with all dive courses in between/back-to-back or at least within a designated time frame (e.g. minimum of 6 weeks). Zero to Hero includes gaining certification from PADI Open Water, to Advanced Open Water + EANx (Nitrox), to EFR, to Rescue, to Dive Master. This is a very personalised course, and the conditions and requirements vary, so please enquire within to find out more information on completing your zero to hero with us!
Minimum age 18 years | Experience needed: Enquire Within | Duration: Varies
PADI Conservation Courses
The PADI AWARE Foundation™ is a publicly-funded nonprofit that drives global change through local action. In the past three decades, more than one million people have taken an AWARE conservation course to learn about threats to our oceans and how they can make a positive impact. We offer a wide range of PADI AWARE Conservation courses including Underwater Naturalist, Fish Identification, Coral Reef Conservation, Dive Against Debris, AWARE, and Shark Conservation. Learn more about the local ecosystem and take a closer look on your next scuba diving adventure, identify the main fish families and their characteristics, appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and learn how you can help conserve these vital systems, learn how ocean plastic and trash cleanups not only keep your local dive sites healthier, but also how to contribute to a global database that documents our planet’s marine debris problem, get equipped with tangible actions and opportunities to bring about positive ocean change, and explore why sharks are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them. These courses can help you on your way to being a PADI Master Scuba Diver.
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