PADI Open Water Diver

The PADI Open Water Diver course teaches student divers the foundational knowledge and skills they need to dive with a buddy, independent of supervision. Classroom, pool and open water sessions are included in this adventure. Open Water Divers are qualified to:

  • Dive with a buddy independent of supervision while applying the knowledge and skills they learn in this course, within the limits of their training and experience.
  • Obtain air fills, scuba equipment and other services.
  • Plan, conduct and log open water no stop (no decompression) dives when properly equipped and when accompanied by a buddy in conditions with which they have training and/or experience.
  • Continue their dive training with a specialty dive (Adventure Dive), in the PADI Advanced Open Water program or in PADI Specialty courses.
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Scuba Diver Course

The Scuba Diver course is a subcourse within the Open Water Diver course that teaches student divers the foundational knowledge and skills they need to dive under the supervision of a certified divemaster, assistant instructor or instructor. PADI Scuba Divers are qualified to:

  • Dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor while applying the knowledge and skills they learn in this course, within the limits of their training and experience.
  • Obtain air fills, scuba equipment and other services when diving under supervision.
  • Under supervision plan, conduct and log open water no stop dives (no decompression) only when properly equipped and accompanied by a certified divemaster, assistant instructor or instructor in conditions in which they have training or experience.
  • Continue dive training to complete their PADI Open Water Diver certification and certain other courses such as the Project AWARE and Equipment Specialties.
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Advanced Open Water Diver

The PADI Advanced Open Water program provides the novice diver with a structured, well supervised means to gain additional experience. The PADI Advanced program involves students in various underwater tasks that broaden their awareness of the environment and their capabilities as divers. All students enrolled in PADI Advanced Open Water Diver courses complete the two Core Dives.


Core Dives orient students to the fundamentals of advanced diving and include the following activities:

  • Underwater Navigation (combination natural and compass navigation dive)
  • Deep Diving

Three of the five dives are considered electives. Elective dives include the following activities:

  • Altitude Diving
  • AWARE - Fish Identification Diving
  • Boat Diving
  • Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diving
  • Drift Diving
  • Dry Suit Diving
  • Multilevel Diving
  • Night Diving
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • Search and Recovery Diving
  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Underwater Photography
  • Underwater Videographer
  • Wreck Diving
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Advanced Plus

The Advanced Plus rating denotes successful completion of all the following:

  1. The two Core Dives:
    Navigation and Deep.
  2. Seven total Elective Dives (clarification: completion of 4 more elective dives beyond the 3 elective dives completed as part of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course).
  3. A sanctioned CPR and first aid course within the past two years. Completion of the EMERGENCY FRIST RESPONSE (EFR) course is highly recommended.
  4. The Advanced Plus diving theory requirement. This requirement is a prescribed program of advanced diving academics.

EMERGENCY FRIST RESPONSE Requirement for Advanced Plus Prior to awarding a PADI Advanced Plus rating to an individual, he must have successfully completed a PADI EMERGENCY FRIST RESPONSE course (or equivalent) within the past two years.

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PADI Rescue Diver Course

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 (Divemaster, Assistant Instructor, and Open Water Scuba Instructor). 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. Although the nature and context in which rescue training may be used is serious, the course is enjoyable and builds diver confidence.

Course Goals:

  • Expand diver knowledge in preparation for PADI leadership training.
  • Teach effective diver rescue and first aid skills.
  • Prepare divers to manage realistic rescue situations.
  • Increase awareness of dive safety.
  • Encourage divers to anticipate and prevent problems.
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PADI Divemaster Course

As the entry to professional levels in diver training, the PADI Divemaster course plays a pivotal role within the PADI System of diver education. Those who join the PADI Divemaster ranks assist instructors with training student divers. They supervise diving activities for certified divers, snorkelers and skin divers. Obviously, as an entry-level professional you can strongly influence the safety and fun divers enjoy during training and diving. At the same time, many PADI Divemasters are looking ahead, gaining professional experience they will apply as PADI Assistant Instructors and Open Water Scuba Instructors.

To develop the previous characteristics in an individual, the PADI Divemaster course has five broad goals:

  1. To develop the knowledge, attitudes, judgment and skills for supervising certified divers in shore-based and boat-based diving activities.
  2. To develop the knowledge, attitudes, judgment and skills for assisting with training divers in PADI courses.
  3. To develop the knowledge, attitudes, judgment and skills for independently conducting specific PADI programs for certified divers and nondivers (e.g., Scuba Review, Discover Snorkeling, PADI Skin Diver course).
  4. To develop the candidate’s dive theory knowledge, waterskills, rescue skills and experience to the levels necessary to enter the PADI Assistant Instructor course and the PADI Instructor Development Course. And to encourage the candidate to continue into those programs.
  5. To promote each candidate’s growth to meet individual needs and interests, and to meet the dive community’s needs and expectations in dive leaders (e.g., risk management, personal health and safety, the needs of the dive retailer).
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Oxygen Provider

Combined certification from DAN and PADI teaches neccessary skills to provide oxygen in a diving emergency. Learn how to assemble the unit and administer oxygen in a diving emergency involving one or more victims.

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Deep Diver Specialty

This course is designed to be an introduction to deep diving and to help the student diver develop the necessary skills, knowledge and techniques to safely participate in deep diving activities. This course covers the knowledge, skills and techniques for deeper diving.
The following is included:

  1. planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving
  2. risk factors and decompression-tables review
  3. safety stops and emergency decompression procedures
  4. special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations
  5. procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving
  6. orientation to recompression chambers
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Equipment Specialty

This course is intended to familiarize divers with the operation and maintenance of equipment. It is not an equipment-repair course.
The following is included:

  1. the theory, principles and operation of diving equipment
  2. routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
  3. common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures
  4. simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new equipment
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Night Diver

This course covers the knowledge and techniques of night diving.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of night diving
  2. proper procedures for buoyancy control, navigation and communication
  3. use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques
  4. disorientation and emergency procedures
  5. orientation to nocturnal aquatic life
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Research Diver

This course covers basic research techniques with special emphasis on practical training. Research projects and ecology projects may meet the requirements for certification.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of research diving
  2. an overview of general aquatic-life identification
  3. research-diving techniques (use of grids, transects, photography), such as those used for aquatic-life population counting
  4. overview of physical aspects of the aquatic environment (water movement: tides, currents, waves, bottom composition and temperature)
  5. history of oceanography (people and equipment under water)
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Boat Diver

Boat Diver

This course is designed to be an introduction to boat diving and to help the student diver develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary for boat diving.

Prerequisites To qualify for the Boat Diver course, an individual must:

  1. be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or have equivalent rating.
  2. be 12 years of age or older.

The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of boat diving.
  2. proper boat diving etiquette -- storage of personal equipment, personal conduct and considerations for care of the boat.
  3. basic, common boat terminology.
  4. specific boat diving laws and/or ordinances.
  5. local boat diving laws and/or ordinances.
  6. overview of emergency/safety equipment needed on-board private diving vessels.

The Boat Dive from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or Advanced Plus course may be counted toward the certification requirements for this specialty.

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Search & Recovery

This course covers the techniques and application of a variety of search and recovery methods.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of search and recovery diving
  2. limited-visibility diving and underwater navigation techniques
  3. proper techniques and safety considerations for object location, including the use of various search patterns, lines and reels
  4. proper techniques and safety considerations for recovery of objects using various lifting devices
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Underwater Hunter

This course covers basic underwater hunting with special emphasis on practical hunting techniques.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of underwater hunting
  2. the use of equipment for taking game and equipment modifications for hunting
  3. proper techniques and safety practices for spearfishing
  4. the preparation of fish and game, conservation and the local fish and game regulations
  5. the knowledge and skills for underwater collecting of items, such as shells, bottles or fish, as applicable in the local area
  6. Overview of PADI’s Project AWARE philosophy, concept and future commitment.
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Underwater Navigation

The purpose of the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of underwater navigation. Training emphasizes fun and safety.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of underwater navigation.
  2. methods of estimating distances underwater.
  3. natural navigation techniques.
  4. using underwater patterns.
  5. dive site relocation techniques.
  6. compass navigation techniques.
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Underwater Photography

This course covers basic underwater photography with special emphasis on practical photographic techniques.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of underwater-photography diving
  2. photographic principles, composition, film types, flash/available light photography and camera-handling techniques
  3. the preparation, care and maintenance of photographic equipment
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Wreck Diver

This course is designed to be an introduction to wreck diving and to help the student diver develop the skills and knowledge necessary for safe wreck diving.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of wreck diving
  2. the preparation and use of lights, air supplies, special equipment, penetration lines and reels
  3. limited-visibility diving techniques and emergency procedures
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Master Scuba Diver

The Master Scuba Diver rating is the highest recreational diver rating in the PADI program, and denotes superior achievement and proficiency.
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS Achieving the Master Scuba Diver rating requires that an individual be certified as:

  • A PADI Divemaster or PADI Assistant Instructor, and must have certification in any five PADI Specialty ratings OR
  • A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or Advanced Plus and a PADI Rescue Diver, with certification in any five PADI Specialty ratings

This is a self-paced program. A fee, paid to PADI, plus an application verified and signed by an Island Time Scuba instructor are necessary before your certification card can be issued.

 

 

Drift Diver

This course is designed to be an introduction to drift diving and to help the student diver develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary for drift diving.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of drift diving.
  2. special equipment -- floats, lines, reels.
  3. proper procedures for buoyancy-control, navigation and communication.
  4. site selection and overview of aquatic currents: causes and effects.
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Multilevel Diver

This course is designed to be an introduction to multilevel diving and to help the student diver develop the necessary skills, knowledge and techniques.
The following is included:

  1. the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of multilevel diving.
  2. definition and advantages of multilevel diving.
  3. methods of calculating multilevel dives (The Wheel and/or dive computers).
  4. review of decompression sickness theory.
  5. review of emergency decompression procedures.
  6. review of PADI’s S.A.F.E. campaign.
  7. procedures for flying after diving.
  8. guidelines, rules and procedures for multilevel diving with the Wheel and/or diving computers.
  9. care and maintenance of dive computers.
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