PADI Recreational Courses

Recreational Courses

  • Open Water Diver

    PADI® Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. A PADI Instructor will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive, and FUN learning environment.

    By the end of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad and be an ambassador for the underwater world.

  • Advanced Open Water

    The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about expanding your skills. You'll complete two required dives—deep diving and underwater navigation—then choose three additional specialty dives based on the local environment and what excites you most, for a total of five dives. Each specialty dive you complete can earn you credit toward PADI® specialty certifications.

  • 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, gain a lot of confidence and have serious fun along the way.

    Come dive with us and discover why countless divers say Rescue Diver is their favorite scuba course!!

Specialty Courses

DIVING COURSES

  • Altitude Diver

  • Boat Diver

  • Deep Diver

  • Delayed Surface Marker Buoy

  • Digital Underwater Photography

  • Drift Diver

  • Dry Suit

  • Night Diver

  • Underwater Navigator

  • Zombie Apocalypse

  • Peak Performance Buoyancy

  • Search and Recovery

  • Underwater Naturalist

  • Fish Identification

  • Wreck Diver

  • Full Face Mask

  • Sidemount

  • Self-Reliant Diver

  • Underwater Magician!

Non-DIVING Courses

  • Emergency Oxygen Provider

  • Nitrox / EANX

  • Equipment Specialist

Project Aware Courses

  • PADI Aware Specialist Course

  • Dive Against Debris

  • Coral Reef Conservation Specialty

  • Shark Conservation Specialty

Master Scuba Diver

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver. The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.

Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you've spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.

  • Minimum required age: Every diver who is at least 12 years old

  • Prerequisite courses: The path starts with earning a PADI Open Water Diver certification, followed by PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications). You also need to earn five PADI Specialty Diver certifications

  • Minimum of 50 logged dives.