Get Certified! Take a Scuba lesson with the "PADI Open Water Diver Course."
Get your PADI Scuba certification. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to dive, discover new adventures. or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.
The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular Scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.
The fun part about this course is . . . well, just about all of it because learning to dive is incredible. Breathing underwater for the first time is something you’ll never forget. During the course, you’ll make at least five pool dives and four dives at local dive sites under the supervision of your PADI Instructor.
What You Learn
How Much Fun Scuba Diving Is
How to Plan & Execute Actual Dives
How to Prevent & Manage Problems
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
Knowledge Development (online, home study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of Scuba diving/Confined Water Dives(in a swimming pool)to learn basic Scuba skills.
Open Water Dives (ocean dives, either locally in Laguna Beach or at Catalina Island) to review your skills and explore the undersea world!
If you’ve tried diving through a Discover Scuba Diving experience or a resort course, the skills you learned may be credited towards a portion of the full PADI Open Water Diver course certification.
The Scuba Gear You Use
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear including a dive computer, and standard accessories.
The Learning Materials You Need
PADI offers a variety of home-study materials for the Open Water Diver course. While eLearning is the most convenient option, you may also choose a book and DVD package, or a multimedia DVD-ROM.
PADI’s Open Water Diver materials cover what you need to know about basic Scuba diving skills, terminology and safety procedures. For each concept you’ll read a description and watch a video demonstration. Then you’ll jump in the pool (or pool-like environment in the ocean) to practice these skills with your instructor. Later, as a certified diver, use the course materials as a reference guide for future diving adventures and to review what you learned.
Pricing
· Tuition: $255.00 per person ages 10 and up.
· Materials costs: $65.00 for up to five people using the CD-Rom kit.
(Additional Dive calculators [eRDPml] and log books $30.00 per person.)
· Gear Rental: $45.00 per person
