PADI OPEN WATER COURSE

If you’ve always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now’s the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever.
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way.
This course leads to the full PADI Open Water license, recognized worldwide.

 Minimum age is 10 years. The course takes 4 to 5 days. The standard duration is 5 days. However, as the course is performance-based, students who progress quickly may complete the course in 4 days (at instructor’s discretion and with students’ agreement).
A typical course schedule is as follows:
Days 1-3: knowledge development, dives in confined water/swimming pool to develop scuba skills, knowledge exam, swimming test (200m using any stroke with no time limit, 10 minute float)
Days 4-5: four open water dives by boat or shore (optional dives for extra experience may be available at Instructor’s discretion, for an extra charge. These dives are not required for certification.)

On completion of the course, a PADI Open Water Diver may dive with a buddy of similar or greater experience, under conditions as good as or better as those in which they learned, to a maximum depth of 18m. Junior Open Water Divers must dive with a certified parent/guardian or PADI professional. The depth limit for 10 to 11 year olds is 12m. For 12 to 14 year olds may dive to18m.

Scuba equipment rental is included for all courses. A diving medical self-declaration must be completed prior to any in-water training. In the Case of children under 15 this must be counter-signed by a parent or guardian. PADI course materials may be purchased by guests at home, or locally after arrival (cost approximately Euro 52.00 including sales tax) Certification fee of Euro 30.00 is payable locally by the client on completion of the course. (10% sales tax is charged on all items paid for locally). The minimum number of students required to start a course is 2. Maximum number of students per instructor is 6:1