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Improve Your Diving Skills With Dive Safaris
It does not matter whether you are the casual diver or on your way to a making diving your career, improving your diving skills and knowledge always means safer more enjoyable diving experiences.


PADI Adventure Diver Minimum age: 15 Duration: 3 dives / 1 day
Have you always wanted to try underwater photography? How about wreck diving? Here's your chance because you can sample three dives of your choice, get a taste of what you like, and feel more comfortable in the water, strengthening your underwater skills and letting you enjoy diving more than ever.

The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Specialties Available:

    • Underwater Naturalist
    • Boat Diving
    • Underwater Navigator
    • Peak Performance Buoyancy
    • Underwater Photography
    • Deep
    • Night
    • Wreck

After your PADI Adventure Diver certification you can take the next step by completing two more adventure dives. If you've completed five total adventure dives that include deep and navigation, you're an PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.

PADI Adventure Dives can also count towards PADI Specialty Diver certifications. If you liked your Night Adventure Dive so much that you wanted to take a complete PADI Night Diver Specialty course, your Night Adventure Dive can count as the first dive of that specialty.
 

Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

Price: $200.00

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PADI Advanced Open Water Minimum age: 12 Duration: 5 dives / 2 days
The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the underwater environment.

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure dive, the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive and three of the following:

  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Boat Diving
  • Underwater Navigator
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • Underwater Photography
  • Deep
  • Night
  • Wreck
     

Our Shark Awareness Dive can also be included in this courses for an extra fee of $xx.xx

For more information, go to the PADI website

Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

Price: $330.00
($380.00 including the Shark Awareness Dive)

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Emergency First Response Minimum age: none Duration: 5 hours

Emergency First Response gives you the tools you need to perform CPR and First Aid. Whether you're a diver or a non-diver, Emergency First Response prepares you to properly handle potentially life-threatening situations.

This comprehensive program is composed of two core modules that can be taught in tandem or as stand-alone courses: Emergency First Response - Primary Care and Emergency First Response - Secondary Care. Together, these courses proved extensive instruction in CPR and First Aid, as well as providing optional (yet recommended) Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and Emergency Oxygen sections. Emergency First Response web site

For more information, go to the PADI website

Prerequisites: No dive certification required

Price: $115.00

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PADI Rescue Diver Minimum age: 12 Duration: 5 dives / 3 days
The PADI Rescue Diver will expand your knowledge and experience beyond purely recreational level because you'll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.

Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. During the five open water sessions, you'll cover:

  • Self-rescue and diver stress
  • dive first aid
  • emergency management and equipment
  • swimming and non-swimming assists
  • panicked diver response
  • underwater problems
  • missing diver procedures
  • surfacing the unconscious diver
  • in water artificial respiration
  • egress (exits)
  • first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
  • dive accident scenarios

The PADI Rescue Diver certification is a prerequisite for all Professional level PADI courses, beginning with the PADI Divemaster certification.

For more information, go to the PADI website

Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) + successful completion of a sanctioned CPR program within the past 24 months + 20 logged dives.

Price: $450.00

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PADI Divemaster Minimum age: 18 Duration: 2 weeks or more

Ever though of becoming a PADI Professional?

Take the first step in your dive career and become a PADI Divemaster. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

 

The PADI Divemaster course will allow you to:

  • Work at local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
  • Assist PADI Instructors with students
  • Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
  • Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
  • Teach PADI Discover Snorkeling programs
  • Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
  • Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
  • Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion of an Emergency First Response Instructor course.

During this course, you will:

  • Learn dive leadership through classroom and independent study sessions
  • Complete water skills and stamina exercises in confined and open water
  • Training exercises to test organizational and problem solving abilities
  • An internship or series of practical training exercises

In order to become a PADI Divemaster, you will need to meet these prerequisites:

  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization
  • PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying certification from another training organization.
  • Medical clearance signed by a physician
  • 60 logged dives (you can start the course with 20 logged dives)
  • 18 years old

Your 2 course options:

  • Regular divemaster training: This is the fastest way to get your Divemaster certification. This 2 weeks course will give you the necessary tools to make your first step in the diving industry.
  • Internship divemaster training: Here you get to learn the rope of a divemaster job as you work with us. At first, you will look listen and learn from our professional staff and afterward, you will actually become part of the team and be able to work some of your divemaster course fees off. Depending on how much time you have available, the internship can take from 3 weeks to 2 months.

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Prerequisites: read description

Price: $800.00


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