The PADI Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications.
By completing any three adventure dives, you will earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification.
If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives - a total of five dives - you can earn your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification
Prerequisites
- PADI Open Water Diver or PADI Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
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Minimum age 10 years (see Junior courses)
What the course covers 3 adventure dives
Advanced Open Water Diver
Continuing the adventure is one of the best moves you can make.
You will upgrade your depth rating with the Advanced course. There is no classroom content - just two days of diving.
The PADI Advanced Open Water program has some great benefits in helping you to develop your diving skills
By going beyond Open Water Diver, you will
- Learn additional skills specific to your interests
- Be more confident in and around the water
- Acquire a better understanding of the aquatic world
- Dive where only divers with advanced training can, to a maximum depth of 30 metres
Prerequisites
What the course covers
- 2 core dives – Deep and Navigation
- 3 elective dives – Peak Performance Buoyancy, Diver Propulsion Vehicle, Boat, Nitrox, Dry Suit, Search and Recovery, Wreck, Underwater Naturalist, Drift, Digital Underwater Photography, Multilevel.
Please ask your instructor for suitability.
Rescue Diver
Rewarding and fun – that best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course.
This is a 3 day course will expand your knowledge and experience level: Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies
. Prerequisites
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization)
- Minimum age 15 years (see Junior courses - 12 years for PADI Junior Rescue Diver)
- EFR
What the course covers
The course is a mixture of theory, practical pool and open water sessions covering the following :
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- Emergency oxygen delivery systems
- Dive first aid
- Swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques
- Emergency management and equipment
- Panicked diver response
- Underwater problems * Missing diver procedures
- Surfacing the unconscious diver
- In-water rescue breathing protocols
- Egress (exits)
- First aid procedures for pressure related accidents
- Dive accident scenarios
Specialties
There are numerous specialty courses from Deep, Nitrox, Semi-closed Rebreather to Underwater Naturulist
Master Scuba Diver
PADI Master Scuba Diver is not a course, but an experience-based certification, and indicates that you have a significant amount of training and experience in a variety of dive environments.
The PADI Master Scuba Diver certification is the highest recreational level in the PADI system of diver education. But, you don't have to stop there! You can continue on to become a PADI Professional. As a Master Scuba Diver you'll be well qualified to begin your training as a PADI Divemaster.
Prerequisites
- PADI Rescue Diver or above
- Minimum of 50 logged dives
- 5 specialty Certifications
- Minimum age: 12 years
