PADI DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING

Have you ever wondered what it's like to breath underwater? If you want to find out but aren't quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving will let you try scuba to see if you like it. While not an actual scuba certification, during the Discover Scuba Diving experience you'll learn how to use scuba equipment in shallow water and get a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world while under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional.

The Fun Part

The fun part? It's all fun! There is nothing like breathing underwater for the very first time. It takes a little getting used to - after all, we weren't designed to do that - but after a few minutes of awestruck wonder, most participants realize how easy scuba diving really is. The biggest challenge instructors have with the Discover Scuba Diving program is not coaxing participants into the water, but coaxing them out when the program is over.

PADI OPEN WATER DIVER

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.

What You Learn

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

• Knowledge Development (online, home study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving

• Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills

• Open Water Dives to review your skills and explore!

If you’ve tried diving through a Discover Scuba Diving experience or resort course, the skills you learned may be credited towards a portion of the full PADI Open Water Diver course certification.

The PADI Open Water Diver course is incredibly flexible and performance based, which means that as a PADI shop, Blue Wilderness Dive Adventures can offer a wide variety of schedules, paced according to your schedule and how fast you progress.

PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER

Exploration, Excitement, Experiences.  

They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver course. The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.

You’ll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to:

• Underwater navigation 

• Deeper water diving  (typically anywhere from 18-30 metres/ 60-100 feet)

• A sampler of three more Adventure Dives of your choice

The Fun Part: Your Choice

One reason you’ll love the Advanced Open Water Diver course is that you and your instructor choose from 15 types of Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can try your hand at digital underwater photography, night diving, peak performance buoyancy and much more

PADI RESCUE DIVER

"Challenging" and "Rewarding" best describe the PADI Rescue Diver Course.  Building upon what you've already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur.

The Fun Part

The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them.  Most divers find this course both demanding and rewarding, and at the end, say it's the best course they've ever taken.

Get College Credit

You may be able to earn college credit for the PADI Rescue Diver Course.

What You Learn

 PADI DIVEMASTER

Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications.

Get College Credit

You may be able to earn college credit for the PADI Divemaster course.

What You Learn

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems as well as help others improve their scuba. You put this knowledge into action through a structured internship or series of practical training exercises.

What You Can Teach

After becoming certified as a PADI Divemaster you will be authorized to:

• Supervise both training and non-training-related activities by planning, organizing and directing dives

• Assist a PADI Instructor during the training sessions for any PADI Diver course

• Conduct the PADI Skin Diver course and PADI Discover Snorkeling program

• Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experience

• Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program

• If qualified as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, independently conduct the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program.

• Earn the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating to be able to teach the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer specialty.

• Independently guide Open Water Diver course students on the tour portion of Open Water Diver course Training Dives 2, 3 and 4 at a ratio of two student divers per certified divemaster.

• Accompany Open Water Diver students under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor during:

• surface swims to and from the entry/exit point and during navigational exercises

• when the instructor conducts a skill, such as an ascent or descent, a Divemaster can remain with other student divers (with an individual student or buddy team)

• Accompany student divers during Adventure Dives or Specialty training dives under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor.

• Conduct the PADI Seal Team AquaMission

• Conduct subsequent dives under an instructor’s indirect supervision for Discover Scuba Diving participants after participants have satisfactorily completed the first dive with a PADI Instructor.

• Teach Emergency First Response courses after successfully completing an Emergency First Response Instructor course.

At a glance, compare what you can teach when you continue your professional diver education

 PADI EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE

CPR and First Aid: Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care

First aid and CPR are good skills for anyone involved in adventure sports – just in case. And, you need these skills for the PADI Rescue Diver course.

Emergency First Response is a PADI affiliate that specializes in teaching these lifesaving skills – and they’re for anyone, not just divers. Most PADI Instructors are also Emergency First Response Instructors!

The Fun Part

The fun part about Emergency First Response training is learning serious medical emergency response skills in an upbeat, positive environment. You gain the confidence that you are prepared to help in an emergency.

What You Learn in the EFR Primary and Secondary Care Courses

• BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level

• AED (automated external defibrillator) use (optional)

• Preventing and caring for shock

• Spinal injury management

• Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk

• Basic first aid and first aid kit considerations