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Discover Scuba Diving
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.
What You Learn:
• You learn the basics you need to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional
• Learn what wearing scuba equipment feels like and how easy it is to move around underwater while wearing it.
• Learn some basic skills and safety rules that will carry over to your full scuba certification course when you take the next step to get your Open Water Scuba certification.
Requirements:
• For a Discover Scuba Diving experience you must be: at least 10 years old (written parental / guardian's permission is required if below age of 18).
Content:
• Knowledge development session that covers basic underwater skills: breathing riles, equalization techniques, hand signals, regulator and mask clearing techniques.
• Confined water / swimming pool – practice basic underwater skills.
• Open water – practice basic underwater skills diving to a maximum 12 metres depth.
What you achieve:
• Recognition of your achievement with your completion card.
Junior Scuba Diver & Scuba Diver
The Scuba Diver (and Junior Scuba Diver) course is for those who may be short on time and can't complete the full Open Water course. The Scuba Diver course is a shorter version of the Open Water course and provides you with basic knowledge and the full experience of scuba diving and the underwater world.
What You Learn:
• You learn the basics you need to dive under the direct supervision of a dive professional
• Learn what wearing scuba equipment feels like and how easy it is to move around underwater while wearing it
• Learn some basic skills and safety rules that will carry over to your full scuba certification course when you take the next step.
Requirements:
• To take the Junior Scuba Diver course, you must be at least 10-14 years old (and have written parental or guardian's permission if below the age of 18).
• To take the Scuba Diver course you must be at least 15 years old.
• Must be able to float / tread water for 10 minutes.
Content:
• Online academic presentation and quick quizes to learn theory.
• Confined water: practicing underwater skills on open circuit scuba in a swimming pool or similar water environment.
• Open water: 2 open water dives practicing and implementing the skills learned in pool / confined water sessions.
What you’ll achieve:
• You will receive a certification card indicating your completion of the course. This will allow you to dive to a maximum depth of 12 metres / 40ft with a dive professional across many parts of the world. The Scuba Diver certification also lets you fast track your Open Water course at a later date by not having to repeat any skills that overlap with the two courses.
Junior Open Water Diver
The PADI Junior Open Water Diver course is for those minimum 10 years old and and provides the basic knowledge and the full experience of scuba diving and the underwater World.
What You Learn:
• You learn the basics you need to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional
• Learn what wearing scuba equipment feels like and how easy it is to move around underwater while wearing it
• Learn some basic skills and safety rules that will carry over to your full scuba certification course when you take the next step.
Requirements:
• To take the Open Water Diver course, you must be minimum 10 years old. You will also need written parental permission.
Content:
• Online theory reviews and quick quizes to learn theory.
• Confined water: implementing and practicing underwater skills with scuba equipment.
• Open water: underwater skills practicing and implementing what was learned in confined water sessions.
What you’ll achieve:
• You will receive a certification card indicating your completion of the course. This will allow you to dive to a maximum depth of 12 metres / 40ft with a dive professional across many parts of the world.
• On reaching 15 years old you can "upgrade" to Open Water Diver and be certified to dive to 18 metres.
Open Water Diver
The PADI Open Water Diver course provides you with the full experience of scuba diving and the underwater World.
What You Learn:
• You learn the basics and fundamentals of scuba diving
to a maximum depth of 18 metres / 60 feet.
Requirements:
• To take the Open water course, you must be at least 15 years old and if below 18 you will also need written parental or guardian's permission.
• Must be able to float / tread water for 10 minutes and be able to swim 200 metres.
Content:
• Online knowledge development and quick quizes to learn theory.
• Confined water: 4 confined water (swimming pool or similar water environment) dives practicing underwater skills on open circuit scuba.
• Open water: 4 open water dives practicing skills and implementing what was learned in the confined water sessions.
What you’ll achieve:
• You will receive a certification card indicating your completion of the course. This will allow you to dive to a maximum depth of 18 metres / 60 feet with a similarly qualified, or more experienced, buddy.
Junior Advanced Open Water Diver & Advanced Open Water Diver
The PADI Junior Advanced Open Water course is for those between the ages 12-14 who wish to progress with the development of their diving skills through different Adventure Dives.
What You Learn:
• divers try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.
Requirements:
• To take the Junior Advanced Open Water course, you must be 12 - 14 years old. You will also need written parental or guardian's permission.
• If you are 15 or older you must be a Junior Open Water Diver or Open Water Diver (however if under 18 you will also require written parental or guardian's permission).
Content:
• The course takes place over 2 or 3 days depending on the choice of your Adventure Dives.
• You will complete 5 Adventure Dives to complete the program. Two of them are compulsory, the Underwater Navigation Dive and the Adventure Deep Dive.
• The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.
• The Adventure Deep Dive familiarises you with diving to a depth of 21 metres if you are under 15 and 30 metres if you are over 15. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving.
• Other popular Adventure Dives such as Boat, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Underwater Naturalist and Wreck Adventure Dives can be selected from the various PADI Specialties.
What you’ll achieve:
• You will receive a certification card indicating your completion of the course. If certified as Junior AOW Diver you will be able to dive with an adult diver, certified at an equivalent level or higher, as a buddy to a depth of 21 metres. An AOW Diver 15 years and older is certified to dive to 30 metres. Junior AOW divers can upgrade to a fully fledged Advanced Open Water Diver once they reach 15 years of age.
Rescue Diver
The PADI Rescue Diver course is designed to increase a recreational diver's skills and understanding. It's a practical course where you learn to recognise and deal with diver in distress situations and fundamental rescue techniques.
This course is demanding and realistic in its conduct, content and approach. Interaction, discussion, variety and flexibility are stressed during skills training.
The Rescue Diver course is an important and crucial step in expanding your knowledge and experience beyond a purely recreational level and many divers will say it is one of the most challenging and rewarding courses they took as they gained experience and improved as divers.
Requirements:
• Any certified diver who has the equivalent of PADI Advanced Open Water certification.
• CPR and Oxygen Provider certification (or DAN equivalent such as St. John's Ambulance First Aid & CPR provider)
• Minimum age of 15 (with written parental or guardian's permission required if below 18).
What You Learn:
• This unique course builds confidence and ability, providing the skills and knowledge to help you better understand how to respond safely and efficiently to surface and underwater emergencies when diving in a recreational environment.
Content:
• Online academic presentation and quick quizes to learn theory.
• Open water: surface and underwater skills practice and implementation.
What you’ll achieve:
• You will receive a certification card indicating your completion of the course and your competence in dealing with emergency situations.
• As a Rescue Diver, you will understand and be able to recognise, manage and avoid situations that can cause harm to yourself or others.
The Rescue Diver course is also an integral step towards becoming a professional diver firstly a Divemaster and then an Instructor.
Master Scuba Diver
The Master Scuba Diver certification puts you in an small group of PADI certified recreational divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and training in various dive disciplines. It shows your commitment to becoming a well rounded diver.
Requirements:
• Every diver, who is at least 12 years old, should aim to become a Master Scuba Diver.
Content:
• The path starts with earning a PADI Open Water certification, followed by Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications).
• You also need to earn five PADI Specialty Diver certifications and have logged a minimum of 50 dives.
What you achieve:
• A certification recognising your dedication and achievement in developing yourself into a well rounded recreational diver.
Divemaster
The PADI Divemaster course is the first level of professional training. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, Divemaster candidates will fine-tune their diving skills, like perfecting their buoyancy and refining their rescue skills in order to anticipate and easily solve common problems. Divemaster candidates will improve their dive knowledge, and gain management and supervision abilities so that they can become a role model to divers everywhere.
Divemaster candidates will learn to lead others as they supervise scuba diving activities and assist their Instructors with diver training.
Requirements:
PADI Rescue Divers who are at least 18 years old may enrol in the PADI Divemaster course.
Candidates also need to have:
Emergency First Response 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.
What will you learn?
The PADI Divemaster course teaches candidates to be dive leaders and to take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities.
Topics and practical workshops include:
The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
Diver safety and risk management
Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
Business of diving and your career
Awareness of the dive environment
Dive setup and management
Mapping an open water site
Conducting dive briefings
Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive
Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course
Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs
What will you achieve?
Go PRO. Becoming a DM is your first step to becoming a diving professional and is an integral part of becoming a PADI Instructor.
Specialties
These are courses that can be taken individually or in any combination and collectively are designed to educate and train divers, help to increase their experience levels and enable them to begin pursuing new areas of diving that might be of interest.
These specialties also make up the various Adventure dives that can be taken by divers pursuing Advanced Open Water and Master Scuba Diver certifications.
Courses include, but are not limited to:
• Boat Diver
• Deep Diver
• Digital Underwater Photographer
• Drift Diver
• Drysuit Diver
• Emergency First Response (First Aid/CPR)
• Emergency O2 Provider
• Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search & Recovery
• Sidemount Diver
• Underwater Videographer
• Project AWARE
• Project AWARE - Dive Against Debris
PADI E-LEARNING
The PADI System of diver education is the most instructionally solid system in diving. PADI courses are designed to make learning enjoyable and worthwhile. Under the guidance of your professional PADI Instructor, you gain confidence while mastering important safety concepts and skills. PADI Instructors are trained and held to diving’s highest standards, backed up by a solid, proactive quality management system.
PERFORMANCE BASED LEARNING
You progress at your own pace as you demonstrate mastery of specific performance requirements essential to becoming a scuba diver. You must earn your PADI certification, but you do so in an encouraging and well-supported learning environment.
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Credentialed instructional designers use state-of-the-art technology and learning theories to create PADI materials with you, the student diver, in mind. Independent study materials, available in a variety of media – online programs, tablet-based apps, manuals, workbooks, multimedia discs, etc. – allow you to learn in a way that works for you. Instructional support materials allow your PADI Instructor to further explain important concepts and verify understanding.
KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT BY E-LEARNING
The PADI knowledge development system introduces the basic theory, principles and dive knowledge required for you to build progressively on your diving education and knowledge as you progress from beginner to advanced and beyond – this is completed via PADI’s e-Learning, either online via computer for e-Learning or offline if you prefer an iPad or other tablet. This is hugely convenient because students can complete their theory preparation at their own pace according to their own schedule and preferred learning methods.
** Do let us know your preference for the e-Learning computer online or tablet offline… and we'll try our best to accommodate you**
HOW THE COURSES WORK
There are essentially two parts to the courses we offer:
• THEORY
Knowledge development sessions comprising theory and quizzes, which must be completed prior to the practical in water sessions. This introduces the basic principles and dive knowledge required for the particular course and is completed by “e-Learning” via computer, iPad or Android tablet – convenient because you can complete the theory at your own pace according to your own schedule.
• PRACTICAL
(1) Confined water training dives – where you learn and practice the necessary skills and procedures (we use the pools at Aberdeen Boat Club or Island School in Mid Levels and pool sessions are usually scheduled on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings.)
Time: 19:45 – 22:30)
(2) Open water / boat dives: open water dives for the course are usually conducted over two days departing from Pak Sha Wan pier (Hebe Haven) in Sai Kung and diving at one of the local dive sites usually over a weekend (Saturday and Sunday) or consecutive Saturdays or Sundays depending on the boat schedule. Time: 08:45 – 16:30
Prior to registering for the course you’re required to:
• Be able to swim 200 metres and be able to tread water for 10 minutes (not as hard as it sounds…)
• You’ll also need to fill out a medical history form, and a liability release and assumption of risk form.
What’s included when you register with us:
• Access to online course and course material
• Log book
• Instructor and certification fees
• Pool hire and boat hire costs
• Free use of all necessary SCUBA equipment (BCD, regulator, SPG, wetsuit, mask, fins, tanks)
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