PADI Discover Scuba Course
Ever wondered what it’s like to “breathe” underwater? If you want to try scuba but aren’t quite ready for certification, this course is ideal to explore your comfort level and ”test the waters” in a swimming pool, off a beach, or from a dive boat. Although no prior experience is necessary, you must meet certain physical and health requirements and bring this required Medical Questionnaire. Didn't have time to print it out? No problem! You can fill it out when you get here prior to your activity.
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PADI Scuba Diver Course
If you’re short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you, particularly if you expect to go scuba diving primarily with a dive guide. The PADI Scuba Diver course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course and is an intermediate step to earning an Open Water Diver certification.
PADI Open Water Diver Course
The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course. To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course, you need to be in good physical health and have adequate swimming skills. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
PADI Advanced
Open Water Course
This course helps build confidence and expand open-water scuba skills through different adventure dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI instructor. You’ll log dives, develop capabilities and new ways to have fun.
PADI Scuba Diver Course
PADI Scuba Divers are qualified to:
- Dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional to a maximum depth of 12 metres/40 feet.
- Obtain air fills, rent or purchase scuba equipment and participate in dive activities as long as properly supervised.
- Continue dive training by completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification and taking certain specialty diver courses.
To enroll in a PADI Scuba Diver course, you must have adequate swimming skills and be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required, but you can try it first through the Discover Scuba Diving program.
PADI Open Water Diver Course
Academic
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
- Knowledge Development ( online, independent study, or in a classroom) to understand the basic principles of scuba diving.
- Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills.
- Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore.
Equipment
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you’ll learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device, and a tank. The equipment you wear varies, depending on whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate, or cold water.
PADI Advanced
Open Water Course
Each Adventure Dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask your instructor if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive. If you’re already an Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
Academic
You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives.
During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks, and time.
The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks, and many more.
PADI Rescue Diver Course
Learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others. This challenging but rewarding course will teach valuable problem-solving skills until they become second nature.
PADI Divemaster Course
Want to share your passion for scuba? Take the PADI Divemaster course and do what you love to do as a career while you mentor and motivate others. As a divemaster, you not only get to dive a lot but also experience the joy of seeing new divers thrive.
PADI Rescue Diver Course
PADI Adventure Divers who have completed the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive may enroll in a Rescue Diver course. You also need to have Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months. You can complete this training during the Rescue Diver course. Your instructor may also offer the PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider specialty diver course at the same time.
PADI Divemaster Course
The PADI Divemaster course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, like perfecting the effortless hover, and refine your rescue skills so you anticipate and easily solve common problems. You’ll gain dive knowledge, management, and supervision abilities so you become a role model to divers everywhere.
PADI Rescue Divers who are at least 18 years old may enroll in the PADI Divemaster course. You also need to have:
- Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months.
- A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
- At least 40 logged dives to begin the course and 60 dives to earn certification.
- Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply – ask your PADI Instructor.
PADI Specialty Diver Programs
PADI Specialty Diver courses teach you new techniques and give you the tools to enhance your exploration.
Best of all, you can take courses while on a scuba vacation in Jamaica.
Specialty courses available here include:
- Adaptive Support Diver
- Adaptive Techniques
- Boat Diver
- Cavern Diver
- Coral Reef Conservation
- Deep Diver
- Digital Underwater Photographer
- Diver Propulsion Vehicle
- Drift Diver
- Emergency Oxygen Provider
- Enriched Air Diver
- Equipment Specialist
- Fish Identification
- Multilevel Diver
- Night Diver
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Project AWARE Specialist
- Public Safety Diver
- Search and Recovery Diver
- Underwater Naturalist
- Underwater Navigator
- Underwater Videographer
- Wreck Diver
- Distinctive Specialty
Pricing
00While Couples Resorts offers unlimited PADI-certified group diving excursions, many of our guests wish to take their scuba diving experience to a new level.
- Scuba diver: $350 (40 ft maximum depth) complete in two half days (8:00 am-12:00 am)
- Scuba diver upgrade to open water: $300
- Open water: $500 (60 ft depth) complete in two half days (8:00 am-12:00 am)
- Open water Referral: $350 (suitable for guests who only need to complete dives, pool work and bookwork is already completed)
- Adventure diver: $300 (3 dives)
- Advanced diver: $400 (5 dives, allows for diving up to 100 ft deep)
- Rescue diver: $500
- Divemaster: $800 (PADI material not included)
- Divemaster Crew pack: $300
- Assistant Instructor: $900 (PADI material not included)
- Scuba review/tune-up: $75 (for guests whose last dive was within 18 months, requires proof of last dive)
- Night dive: $75
- DSD (not certified): $80
- Private dive: $70
- Lionfish hunting: $70
- Lionfish certification: $200
- Specialty courses: $270
- Specialty dives: $100
- Private DSD lesson: $125
- Red/ blue log book: $20
- Log bookbinder: $30
- PADI material crew pack: $80
- EFR:$150
- Wetsuit daily rental: $10
- E-learning $500 (for guests who’ve done the online studying only and need to complete pool training and ocean dives)
- Dive Equipment Locker Rentals: $5 daily or $20 for the week
- Locker Rental: $5 daily or $20 for the week
*Couples offers two complimentary dives per day. Night dives are at an additional cost. Couples Resorts recognizes and accepts certifications of all dive agencies, not just PADI