PADI Training
PADI Open Water Diver
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
PADI Rescue Diver
Emergency First Response
DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries (O2 Provider)
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty
PADI Deep Diver Specialty
PADI Equipment Specialist
PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty
PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty
PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty
PADI Boat Diver Specialty
PADI Drift Diver Specialty
PADI Multilevel/Computer Diver Specialty
PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty
PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty
PADI Divemaster Course
Emergency First Response Instructor
PADI Assistant Instructor Course
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course
PADI Specialty Instructor Courses
PADI Open Water Diver
You can complete the classroom training portion of your PADI certification at your own pace; anytime, anywhere through PADI elearning! Or you can complete the classroom training portion at Adventure Scuba. The choice is yours!
The PADI Open Water Diver course teaches student divers the fundamental knowledge and skills they need to dive with a buddy, independent of supervision. Through a combination of independent study, instructor elaborations, confined water training (pool) and open water training, divers will earn the PADI Open Water Diver certification card, the most recognized certification credential in the world. Course fee of $315 include all materials and PADI processing fees. Open Water training schedule
The PADI Open Water Diver certification card qualifies you to:
- Dive independently while applying the knowledge and skills you learn in this course, within the limits of your training and experience.
- Procure air fills, scuba equipment and other dive services.
- Plan, conduct and log open water no stop (no decompression) dives when equipped properly and accompanied by a buddy in conditions with which you have training and/or experience.
- Continue your diver training with the Advanced Open Water course and/or PADI Specialty courses.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Complete the classroom portion of your PADI certification at your own pace; anytime, anywhere! Or you can complete the classroom training portion at Adventure Scuba. The choice is yours!
The PADI Advanced Open Water course provides divers with a structured means to explore special diving interests and gain experience. This is often the first step novice divers take after their initial certification. However, all divers benefit from the program’s flexibility and the opportunity it provides for discovery and exploration. Course fee of $245 includes course materials and PADI processing fees.
Advanced Open Water divers will choose from a wide variety of specialty dives including:
- Search and Recovery
- Enriched Air (nitrox)
- Boat
- Drift
- Multilevel/Computer
- Drysuit
- Underwater Photography
- Wreck
- Altitude
- Night
- Naturalist
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
Divers will choose any three specialty dives and will be required to complete the Deep and Underwater Navigation specialty dives. Advanced Open Water Divers will not only increase their experience underwater, but will gather knowledge and experience in specialty equipment.
PADI Rescue Diver
The PADI Rescue Diver course is an important and crucial step in expanding a diver’s knowledge and experience beyond a purely recreational level. Rescue divers learn to look beyond themselves to consider the safety and well-being of other divers. This is why the PADI Rescue Diver rating is a prerequisite for all PADI leadership training. Rescue diver training readies student divers to help prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies using a variety of techniques. The course is designed to be demanding, though realistic in its conduct, content and approach. Course fee of $269 includes training materials and PADI processing fees.
PADI Rescue divers will receive specific training in the areas of:
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and emergency oxygen delivery systems use
- First aid procedures for pressure related injuries (barotraumas)
- Swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques
- Emergency management procedures
- Panicked diver response
- Underwater problem solving
- Missing diver procedures
- Surfacing the unconscious diver
- In-water rescue breathing protocols
- Egress (exits)
- Dive accident scenarios
Emergency First Response
The Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR), Emergency First Response Secondary Care (First Aid) and Care for Children courses make up the foundation of emergency care for the lay provider. Within the three courses, CPR and first aid skills are integrated into an easy-to-remember emergency care sequence. This sequence allows participants to provide effective emergency care to injured or ill adults and children. Course fee of $125 includes training materials and PADI processing fees.
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Perform a scene assessment
- Use barriers appropriately
- Perform a patient responsiveness check
- Activate local EMS services at the appropriate time
- Determine when resuscitation is appropriate
- Place patient in the recovery position
- Open and maintain an airway
- Provide effective one rescuer ventilations
- Perform one rescuer CPR for adults, children and infants
- AED use
- How to assist a conscious or unconscious choking patient
- Manage serious external bleeding
- Perform shock management
- Stabilize and manage suspected spinal injury
- Provide manual stabilization of suspected skeletal injuries
- Perform ongoing illness and injury assessments
DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries (O2 Provider)
The objective of this course is to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen, as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of the recognition of diving injury signs and symptoms, response and management. Course fee of $99 includes materials and DAN certificiation fees.
The DAN O2 Provider will become familiar with:
- General diving anatomy, physiology and physics
- Respiratory system
- Cardiovascular system
- Recognition of signs and symptoms of specified diving emergencies
- Oxygen effects on the body
- Emergency oxygen delivery equipment
- Scene safety assessment
- Familiarity of the DAN O2 unit
- Perform adequate rescue breathing
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty
The purpose of the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course is to assist all divers in polishing their buoyancy control beyond the Open Water diver level. The goal of this training is to enhance the student’s buoyancy control abilities through knowledge development and skills practice. Course fee of $145 includes materials, pool training and open water training dives.
Divers will review these Peak Performance Buoyancy fundamentals:
- Buoyancy checks
- Fine-tuning buoyancy underwater
- Weight position and distributions
- Streamlining
- Visualization
- Various weight systems
PADI Deep Diver Specialty
The PADI Deep Diver Specialty course is designed to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and excitement of diving between 60 and 130 feet. This course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction of deeper diving within the limits of recreational scuba diving. Course fee of $175 includes training materials and open water training dives.
The goals of this course include:
- Developing your theoretical knowledge of deep diving
- To increase diving skills
- To safely conduct dives to a depth of 130 ft.
- Become familiar with special equipment for deep diving
- Perform safety stops without a reference line
PADI Equipment Specialist
The purpose of the PADI Equipment Specialist course is to familiarize divers with the operation and maintenance of diving equipment. It will develop the divers’ practical knowledge of the theory, principles and operation of diving equipment. Divers will also be able to perform routine recommended care and maintenance procedures. Course fee of $99 includes specialized training in our service department and PADI processsing fees.
This program will also:
- Enable divers to store equipment properly
- Provide divers with simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations
- Introduce divers to new equipment
PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty
The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course will introduce divers with the skills and knowledge of underwater navigation. It will develop the diver’s ability to plan, organize and execute dives using natural and compass navigation techniques. Course fees of $175 includes materials, open water training dives and PADI processing fees.
During this course divers will learn:
- The importance of navigation underwater
- Distance estimation underwater
- Natural navigation techniques
- Using underwater search patterns
- Compass navigation
- Dive site relocation
PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty
The PADI Search and Recover Diver course will teach divers the skills and knowledge to effectively plan to search for and recover missing objects underwater. The divers will be introduced to techniques and special equipment specifically designed to aid in search and recovery. Course fees of $175 include materials, open water training dives and PADI processing fees.
Divers will become familiar with:
- Recreational search and recover vs. professional search and recovery
- Searching for specific objects
- Searching for nonspecific objects (bottom combing)
- Search and recovery environments
- Potential hazards
- Planning search and recovery dives
- Pinpointing lost objects at the surface
- Search patterns
- Recovery procedures
- Rigging lift bags
PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty
PADI no longer requires open water dives to complete the Enriched Air Diver Specialty. Complete the classroom portion of your PADI certification at your own pace; anytime, anywhere! Or you can complete the classroom training portion at Adventure Scuba. The choice is yours!
The PADI Enriched Air Diver course familiarizes divers with the procedures, safety protocols, hazards, risks, benefits and theory of no decompression diving with oxygen enriched air containing 22% to 40% oxygen. Training will emphasize the importance of proper procedures to ensure safety, and realistically balance the pros and cons of diving with enriched air (nitrox). Course fees of $145 include materials and PADI processing fees. Open water training dives are optional.
Topics include:
- Advantages and disadvantages of diving with enriched air
- Equipment for Enriched Air diving
- Oxygen exposure
- Oxygen analysis and obtaining fills
- Using Enriched Air dive computers
- Diving emergencies and Enriched Air
- Enriched Air and the RDP
- Using DSAT tables
- Using formulas
PADI Boat Diver Specialty
The purpose of the PADI Boat Diver Specialty Course is to familiarize dives with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of diving from a boat. This course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to boat diving. Course fees of $145 include training materials, PADI processing fees, and are conducted in conjuntion with a store travel trip.
The goals of the PADI Boat Diver Specialty are:
- Proper boat etiquette
- Dive boat terminology
- Local boat diving laws
- Entries/exits
- Use of emergency safety equipment
- Basic boating skills
PADI Drift Diver Specialty
The PADI Drift Diver Specialty course is designed to familiarize divers with the skill, knowledge and techniques of diving in environments with currents. It is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to drift diving with currents. Course fees of $145 include materials, PADI processing fees and are conducted during store travel trips.
Topics covered in this program include:
- Currents and their characteristics
- Types of drift diving
- Surface supervision
- Drift diving equipment
- Drift diving hazards and concerns
PADI Multilevel/Computer Diver Specialty
The PADI Multilevel/Computer Diver Specialty program will introduce divers to the knowledge of the theories behind dive tables, computers and multilevel diving. It will also enable the diver to plan, organize and make safe multilevel no-decompression dives using the Wheel and modern dive computers. Course fees of $145 include training materials, open water training dives and PADI processing fees.
Subjects include:
- The PADI Recreational Dive Planner
- Repetitive diving
- Safety stops
- Procedures for exceeding limits
- Flying after diving recommendations
- Procedures for cold and/or strenuous diving
- Dive computers
PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty
The PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course prepares students to dive in environments where dry suits are used. It will develop the diver’s knowledge of dry suits- when to use them, types available, accessories, preventative maintenance and minor repairs. The diver will also master the necessary skills needed to dive dry suits. Course fees of $145 include training mateials, pool dives, open water training dives and PADI processing fees.
Divers will cover these topics:
- Why you get cold underwater
- Drysuits vs. wetsuits
- Drysuit construction
- Undergarments
- Use of BCDs with drysuits
- Drysuit safety and handling emergencies
- Drysuit care, maintenance and storage
PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty
During the PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty course, the diver will learn how to demonstrate and explain basic photographic principles, composition, principles of exposure and focus, strobe and available light photography and camera handling techniques. The diver will also learn how to select, care for and maintain underwater camera equipment. Course fees of $175 include training materials, pool dives, open water training dives and PADI processing.
Photographers will learn about:
- Photography and the underwater world
- Photography basics- exposure
- Focus and perspective
- Controlling motion
- Color and the spectrum
- Camera types
- Strobe photography
- How water affects light
- Housings and strobes
- Underwater framing and focus
- Underwater exposure
- Composition
- Diving with a camera
PADI Divemaster Course
The first step in professional training, the PADI Divemaster course involves higher learning that begins at the Rescue Diver course and expands into the Divemaster program. This course expands the problem solving skills learned in Rescue Diver training, and extends it from accident management and prevention scenarios to supervisory situations with student divers and certified divers. Divemaster candidates are introduced to problem solving that may include more than safety-related issues, and include handling customer service, business and operational challenges faced by PADI Dive Centers. The course fees of $499 include all trainng classes, pool dives, and open water dives. It does not include equipemt or training materials, or PADI processing fees.
Divemaster training will focus on the following topics:
- The Role and Characteristics of a PADI Divemaster
- Supervising General Diving Activities
- Assisting With Student Divers In Training
- Dive Theory Introduction
- Decompression Theory and the RDP
- Divemaster Conducted Programs
- Risk Management
- The Business of Diving
- Your Diving Career
Emergency First Response Instructor
The EFR Instructor course provides qualified individuals with the additional training necessary to teach the EFR Primary Care (CPR), Secondary Care (First Aid) and Care for Children courses. This course builds on the instructor candidates’ skills as primary and secondary care providers and focuses on developing their instructional abilities. Course fees of $425 include all training mateials. It does not include PADI processing fees.
Through independent study, classroom sessions and practice teaching assignments, candidates learn to conduct the Emergency First Response programs and will include training in:
- Emergency First Response Program Philosophy
- Learning and Instruction Workshop
- Teaching Emergency First Response Skills
- Care for Children Course Standards
- Care for Children Skills Workshop
- Organizing an Emergency First Response Course
- Marketing Emergency First Response
PADI Assistant Instructor Course
The PADI Assistant Instructor Course prepares PADI Divemasters or those that hold a leadership level with another training organization to assist with, organize and supervise knowledge development, confined water and open water activities. Assistant instructors work in partnership with PADI Instructors to provide student divers with quality knowledge and skill development during PADI programs. The teaching skills assistant instructors develop during training allow them to independently conduct several PADI programs. This course is often completed during the Instructor Development Course.
Subjects covered during the PADI Assistant Instructor Course include:
- Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
- Developing Knowledge Development Presentations
- Teaching Project AWARE and Peak Performance Buoyancy Programs
- PADI Discover Scuba and Snorkeling Programs
- Teaching in Confined Water
- Conducting Open Water Training Dives
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course
The PADI OWSI rating is the first PADI Instructor level attained by dive professionals. During their training candidates review PADI Standards, procedures, philosophies and teaching methods as well as hone their practical teaching ability, watermanship, and diving knowledge. Teaching status PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors may conduct the entire range of PADI programs from Discover Scuba through Divemaster.
In addition to the topics covered during the PADI Assistant Instructor Course, candidates will also cover:
- Dive Industry Overview
- General Standards and Procedures
- Legal Responsibility and Risk Management
- The Role of Media and Prescriptive Teaching
- PADI Scuba Diver and Open Water Diver Courses
- How To Teach the Recreational Dive Planner
- Teaching Children
- The PADI Continuing Education Philosophy
- Business Principles for the Dive Professional
- Adventures in Diving Program
- Specialty Diver Courses
- Rescue Diver Course
- Divemaster Course
- Diver Retention Programs
PADI Specialty Instructor Courses
PADI Specialty Instructors are PADI Instructors who have met the requirements to offer courses in various special types of specialty diving activities. These instructors have acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to offer this training by continuing their education and/or gaining experience in a particular specialty diving area.
The PADI Specialty Instructor Courses will familiarize the candidate with:
- Purpose and philosophy of Specialty diver training
- Standardized outlines for teaching presentations
- General standards and procedures
- Equipment
- Junior Diver Specialty courses
- Links to Master Scuba Diver
- Workshops in Knowledge Development, Confined Water and Open Water training