Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. I will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive learning environment. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad and be an ambassador for the underwater world.

Course prerequisites:

• Minimum age 18, 15 (with parental consent)
• 10 for Junior Open Water Diver

What you can expect to learn:

The Open Water Diver course will cover all of the necessary skills and knowledge for open water scuba diving, including:

• The aquatic environment: vision, light, sound, heat loss, tides, currents, waves, surge, etc.
• Physics and physiology: buoyancy, pressure, air spaces, breathing compressed air, mixed gases, etc.
• Dive equipment selection, assembly, use and maintenance
• Dive planning
• Basic scuba skills including mask and regulator skills, swimming underwater, buoyancy control, basic rescue techniques, and emergency procedures
• And much more!

Minimum requirements:

• Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
• Satisfactorily complete the theory and skills
• Complete all open water requirements safely and efficiently

I will provide all the basic scuba gear you’ll use including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device, dive gauges and a tank.