Course Includes
- Local guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
Course Excludes
- DVD (available to purchase)
- Food and drinks
- Entrance fees only when diving in the national parks
Course Details
form 3 to 3.5 days
To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you must be 10 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
– Knowledge Development ( online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
– Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
– Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!
You can either Enroll in Open Water Diver Online – PADI’s eLearning option – and you can start learning right away. PADI Open Water Diver Online gives you the background information you need to dive safely and allows you to study at your own pace through an interactive computer-based program. Get started now!
You can also start learning at the dive center with PADI’s materials : Open Water Diver TouchTM (a tablet app) or the Open Water Diver Manual and Open Water Diver Video (a book and DVD package). Contact us to enroll in the course, Your PADI Instructor will schedule time with you to check your progress and make sure you understand important scuba diving information.
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and a tank. The equipment you wear varies, depending upon whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water.
