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Discover Scuba Diving
Lets put things into perspective... We can have a complete non-swimming, potential diver in the water after just 1 hour! Our experienced instructors allow you to experience the Discover Scuba Diving program in a relaxed and safe environment.

Scuba Instructors provide all the theory you require in a short lecture. You'll learn a few golden rules, learn a little physics, have a bit of a laugh, review all the equipment then its off into the swimming pool!

In the pool - you will be introduced to those first breaths on SCUBA and its guaranteed to be an experience you'll never forget. Our qualified instructors will take you through some lighthearted SCUBA Physics and Physiology, then introduce you to your SCUBA equipment and some essential skills in the safety of a confined water swimming pool.

The confined water session is 'performance based' not 'time based'. This means you can take your time because you only progress once you and the instructor feel confident with your abilities and your equipment.

Once happy with your new found skills you're ready for a guided tour of the local underwater area. This is where the fun really starts. Your fully supervised dive gives you a chance to see a large variety of fish and plant life. Stingrays, Groper and Octopus are just a few of the things you are likely to bump into on your dive anywhere to a maximum depth of 12 meters.

This SCUBA experience is a must for divers not able to commit to a full time course or divers who just want to discover what the underwater world has to offer.

Scuba Diver

The SCUBA diver course is the next step from Discovering SCUBA. This three day course prepares you both theoretically and practically for the underwater environment. This certification is structured just like the Open Water course however has two training dives and provides you with a certification to dive with a PADI professional to a maximum depth of 12m.

This course is suited to the traveling diver who will not need deep diver certification to dive shallow reefs and bommies, and will generally find all dives guided by a PADI professional. Once again it also aids divers not able to commit to a full time course

Open Water Diver Course
The PADI Open Water Course provides all the requirements for full certification which means that after this 4 days course you'll be able to dive anywhere in the world... and its a certification for life!!!

This 4 day course involves the use of the PADI Open Water Diver Manual to enable Student Divers to feel comfortable with the Theory behind diving. With the aid of this manual, classroom sessions, quizzes and a short exam the instructor is able to progress to confined water safe in the knowledge that you know your stuff.

Dive Physics and Physiology play a large part in the art of diving but much time is also spent on aspects of the adventurous side of the sport and SCUBA Equipment. The equipment that you'll use is of great quality, but we still want you to understand its operation inside and out. As we say - there is a lot of hard work, but the instructors are there to make sure there is a lot of fun along the way too.

The course consists of one day of theory, one day of confined water skills and two days of Ocean skills - but we want to get you in the water as soon as possible too - so we promise you'll be wet in the afternoon of the first day and you'll be in the Ocean looking at all the fishies first thing on the second day! The course is conducted at a relaxed pace being 'performance based' not 'time based'. This means you can take your time with the skills so that both you and the instructor feel confident in your abilities before progressing to the next level.

A full diving medical is required for this course, also the ability to swim 200m and tread water for 10 minutes. We also recommend applying for your Open Water Course at least two weeks in advance. This gives student divers time to obtain their dive medicals and view PADI reading materials prior to the course starting. Once certification is obtained you will hold a PADI Open Water Qualification enabling you to dive anywhere in the world to a maximum depth of 18 meters.