Training
Training
Introductory Experiences
Learn snorkeling and skin diving techniques including checking buoyancy, surface swimming, clearing water from your snorkel and performing effortless surface dives.
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Learn how to safely explore and protect the underwater world, perform basic dive skills and set up scuba equipment.
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Experience new adventures with an instructor by your side. Designed for novice divers who want to improve their skills.
Learn MoreImprove your confidence and become a better dive buddy through fun role-playing and skill practice.
Learn MoreGain experience assembling an oxygen unit, and learn to identify when and how to administer oxygen and aid for diving and water-related injuries.
Learn MoreGain the skills and knowledge that could save the life of someone you care about.
Learn MoreJoin the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.
Learn MoreSpecialties
Diving in altitudes higher than 300 metres/1000 feet above sea level is altitude diving. Discover a hidden world where only a few have ventured.
Learn MoreThis course will introduce you to the most common fish families and species found in temperate and tropical waters. You’ll also learn basic fish identification and scientific survey techniques as well as how important personal involvement is in aquatic conservation.
Learn MoreSharks are an essential part of a healthy ocean. This course explores why they are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them.
Learn MoreLearn boat diving etiquette, terminology, how to properly stow gear, and potentially practice using lines or deploying a surface marker buoy (SMB).
Learn MoreGain the knowledge and skills to explore caverns correctly and safely. This course guides you to enter far enough for adventure, but stay within the light zone for an easy exit to open water.
Learn MoreReach new depths, discover new dive sites, and learn about deep dive planning, dive limits and gas management.
Learn MoreMany divers wouldn’t think of diving without carrying a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB, and in some locations it’s considered required safety equipment. Knowing how to properly deploy and manage a DSMB are valuable skills learned in this course.
Learn MoreShare your adventures and learn how to use underwater strobes, reduce backscatter, safely photograph marine life, and choose photo equipment.
Learn MoreSee more, conserve air, and learn how to manage your depth, avoid issues and travel faster with a DPV.
Learn MoreGain confidence diving in currents and practice buoyancy control, entries and descents, and using surface signaling equipment.
Learn MoreLearn how to control the air in your drysuit, buoyancy, common drysuit problems, and basic repairs and maintenance in order to dive more places.
Learn MoreExtend your bottom time, shorten your surface intervals and dive deeper on repetitive dives.
Learn MoreAvoid missing dives and learn how to manage basic gear repairs, fix equipment problems, and clean, maintain and protect your equipment.
Learn MoreDiving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.
Learn MoreIce diving is one of the most adventurous scuba specialties. Learn the roles and responsibilities of support personnel, tenders and safety divers. See beauty few others ever experience.
Learn MoreNative to the Pacific Ocean, lionfish are progressively invading the north-western Atlantic and the Caribbean, where they have no natural predators. Learn what action is needed to control the lionfish population and, during two scuba dives, learn practical ways to safely and humanely capture and euthanize these fish.
Learn MoreSee the underwater world after sundown and learn how to navigate, ascend and descend, and use your dive light to communicate at night.
Learn MoreGain experience assembling an oxygen unit, and learn to identify when and how to administer oxygen and aid for diving and water-related injuries.
Learn MoreFind the perfect balance: Dive with less weight, and improve your buoyancy control and air consumption.
Learn MoreHelp recover lost items, plan a search operation, improve your navigation skills, learn underwater search techniques and how to use a lift bag.
Learn MoreLearn a different scuba configuration and how to properly assemble and configure sidemount equipment, manage gas, trim your weight, and attach and remove cylinders.
Learn MoreGet a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites.
Learn MoreFind the boat without surfacing, learn how to use a diving compass, and improve your navigation and underwater observation skills.
Learn MoreThe purpose of the Whale Shark Awareness Specialty course is to introduce divers and snorkelers to whale sharks and familiarize them with proper recreational diving techniques for responsible interaction. Training should emphasize fun and safety.
Learn MoreLearn how to survey and explore wrecks responsibly with special finning techniques, lines and reels, and avoid common problems.
Learn MoreTechnical Diving
Wearing more than one tank has become increasingly popular for technical diving. With the Tec Sidemount Diver course you can apply what you learn to other TecRec courses.
Learn MoreConsists of seven knowledge development sections, four practical application sessions and four training dives. Designed for the diver transitioning from recreational diving to technical diving.
Learn MoreExtend your depth limit to 45 metres/150 ft. Learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder.
Learn MoreThe Tec 50 course completes your training as an entry-level tec diver, taking you past the limits of recreational diving.
Learn MoreBecome a PADI Pro
Gain professional level skills to lead dives, assist with classes, give a dive briefing and conduct scuba refresher training.
Learn MoreStart here to become a PADI dive Instructor. Share your passion with others and help them experience the same joy you have for scuba diving.
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