Open Water Diver -
3 full days
The course is divided into three sections:
Academic training - reading the manual, watching the videos, listening to the lectures and taking quizzes.
Confined water training - practicing skills for the course in safe, shallow water.
Open water training - applying what was learned in the confined water and academic sessions at an actual dive site.
The Open Water PADI course teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to safely dive the underwater world. Upon successful completion of the PADI Open Water Diver course, the PADI Open Water Diver certification card is awarded. Certification means a diver is qualified to: have air tank fills, rent
SCUBA equipment and sign up for certified dive tours, and to dive without supervision.
Advanced Open Water Diver - 2 full days
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to increase your dive skills and experience. It includes a
two tank boat dive,a deep dive and a required navigation dive. There are no classes or exams so you can focus on learning new skils and have some fun. Choose from the following Adventure dive options to meet the requirements:
AWARE-fish identification, boat diving, deep diving, drift diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, underwater naturalist, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography and wreck diving
Rescue Diver - 2 days
This course is designed to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for individuals to effectively perform diver rescues and assists, manage diving-accident situations, render proper first aid and qualify for PADI Divemaster training. To be certified as a Rescue Diver, the student must have a current CPR and first-aid certification, be certified as an Advanced Open Water diver and have 20 logged dives by the end of the class. The rescue course involves 5 academic sessions and 15 open water exercises that can usually be completed in two days. Some of the skills you will learn during this course include:
- Diving First Aid
- Emergency Management
- Missing-Diver Procedures
- Diving-Accident Scenarios
DiveMaster
The Divemaster course is designed to train qualified individuals as supervisory personnel. The Divemaster may oversee diving activities or act as an underwater guide. The goals of Divemaster training are:
Enable the candidate to organize, conduct and supervise diving activities
To act as an assistant to Open Water Scuba Instructors
To develop theoretical diving knowledge to a level sufficient to become an instructor
Divemaster training consists of three phases that include Watermanship and Skills Assessment, Knowledge Development and Practical Application. The DiveMaster course is probably the most time consuming course and your training can proceed according to your pace and schedule.
Referral Dives - 2 days
A little crunched for time? Want to get certified but don't want to dive in 'freezing' water where you live? Then the referral dive is for you.
You simply take a certification course at your local dive shop and do the academics portion as well as the confined water skills. Then when you come to Hawaii you can do your exciting open water dives with Surf N Sea.
The four dives required to get your certification can be done usually in 2 days.
Nitrox Diver - 1 day diving and 1/2 day instruction
All you need is your open water diver certification. (You must be 15 years of age or older).
What will I do?
You will learn preparation and diving procedures involved with enriched air diving.
Includes your PADI Enriched Air Crew-Pak, which includes an Enriched Air 32 percent Table, Enriched Air 36 percent Table and Equivalent Air Depth/Oxygen Exposure Table.
and a two tank boat dive
Stay under water longer and get back in the water sooner, Nitrox is the the way to go for live-aboards or anyone that does more than twenty dives a year.
