PADI Scuba Diving Courses
Our centres offer a full
range of dive packages and PADI dive courses, which we recommend you pre-book
through us to ensure availability and best prices. Availability of each PADI diving course varies from centre to centre and
the course, which is best suited to you depends upon your level of interest and experience.
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is the
world’s most widely recognised PADI dive course organisation. Divers certified by other agencies (such as BSAC, CMAS, SSI) who would like to book our PADI scuba diving holiday are also
welcome. Qualified divers should bring proof of their qualification and
log book.
Pre-book able PADI Dive Courses
Try Dive
Included
in the cost of your holiday in most of our centres is the chance to try
diving for the first time in the safe confines of a swimming pool. If
you like it, you can then pay to join a Discover Scuba course, a
perfect introduction to the world of scuba diving or a four day PADI
Open Water course, giving you the skills to continue diving.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving
This PADI diving course is ideally suited for newcomers wishing to try diving for the first time
to see if they like it. The Discover Scuba Diving course includes an
introduction to the theory of diving, a chance to try out and learn the
basic skills in a confined water environment (pool or sheltered bay)
and then a closely supervised dive.
PADI Open Water/ Junior Open Water Diver
The PADI Open Water course qualifies you to dive with a buddy,
independently of schools or professionals. You will learn the
fundamentals of scuba diving; complete knowledge development sessions,
five confined water dives and four open water dives. Learn how to set
up your own equipment, how to control your depth underwater, plan a
safe dive and basic recovery techniques. This course requires you to
purchase the PADI Open Water manual from your local PADI centre or from our PADI dive operator in resort.
PADI Referral Course
This is the second part of a full PADI Open Water course and requires
you to have completed all of the theory and pool sessions elsewhere.
You will complete your four open water dives over two days.
PADI Scuba Review
If you are a certified diver and haven’t dived for a period of 6 months or more we recommend you complete the
scuba review. This course consists of a knowledge review that covers
basic safety information, a confined water session that gives you the
opportunity to practise basic scuba skills then a supervised open water
dive.
PADI Advanced Open Water
Expand
your diving experience and build on your knowledge from the Open Water
course. This in-water, performance-based course includes a total of
five dives. Compulsory dives are Deep and Navigation and you can choose
three others from the following list:
• Drift Diver • Multilevel Diver • Peak Performance Buoyancy • Underwater Naturalist • Underwater Photographer
• AWARE Fish Identification • Boat Diver • Wreck Diver • Night Diver (recommended) • Search and Recovery Diver
• Underwater Filmier
PADI Rescue Diver
During
the course you will learn panicked diver responses and how to surface
an unconscious diver. To enrol in a PADI Rescue Diver course, you must
provide a certificate beyond entry level, a current first aid
certificate and documentation of at least 20 logged open water scuba
dives demonstrating experience of deep and navigation diving.
PADI Divemaster
This
course is the first professional qualification and allows you to
organise and conduct diving activities. The course develops your water
skills and academic knowledge including dive planning, control,
supervising students and dive management. To enrol in a PADI Divemaster
course, you must provide a certificate specific to scuba rescue, a CPR
certificate and a first aid certificate from a recognised organisation.
To get the most out of this course we recommend you do it over a period
of no less than one month.
The availability of each PADI dive course varies from centre to centre. For more information on your PADI scuba diving holiday you should refer to each resort or contact us on 0845 070 3460 for assistance. Alternatively, check availability and to ensure best prices, book your PADI scuba diving courses now.