Open Water
Who Should Take This Course?
The PADI Open Water Diver course is, by far, the world's most popular scuba certification course.
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If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most widely recognized scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.
What Will You Learn?
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
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Knowledge Development (online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving.
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Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills.
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Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore.
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You may be able to get college credit for the Open Water Diver course.
What SCUBA Gear Will You Use?
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and a tank. The equipment you wear varies, depending upon whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water.
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Each Open Water student will need their own personal mask, snorkel, and fins because proper fit is important for these personal pieces of equipment. Buying a personal buoyancy control device (BCD) and regulator also has significant advantages and we're more than happy to make recomendations as well as use our industry connections to purchase items for you at a discounted price. If you're not quite ready to make that investment we have excellent gear that students may use while taking PADI courses.
What's the Cost?
Open Water Diver Course - This course is an all-inclusive experience and certification program. The price of the class includes your Book/Materials, dive tables or ERDPml, certification card, rental BCD, rental Regulator/SPG/Octo, tanks, and weights. The price for the Open Water class is $479.
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Open Water Diver Course (Online) - With this approach you start your class online right away and complete your academic work, quizzes and exam online at your own pace on your own schedule! Once you finish, you'll get a certificate which you bring to us so you spend all of your time in the pool and out on the dive sites, not sitting in a classroom! To start your class with PADI (PADI eLearning), the cost is $174.00, which you pay to them when you sign up. Because you are completing part of the class online, you won't be spending as much time as you would in our traditional class we are excited to save you some money! The price for the Open Water course with us, after your online training, is $350.
What's the First Step?
Give us a call or send us an email and we'll get you started today!