Recreational Training
Courses offered are through the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI). Materials are provided to students at least two weeks before the class to allow students to review the materials and ask questions to be fully prepared to for class.
The Open Water (OW) course consists of one day of academics on the fundamentals of diving, one day of pool sessions to reinforce that understanding, and four open water dives over two additional days, usually the following weekend. After completing this training, you are then a certified OW Diver! If you are “out of practice”, consider the SCUBA Review course. We cover the basic skills you’ve learned in your OW class and you gain confidence to dive on your own again.
The Advanced Open Water (AOW) course consists of five dives over two days. A Deep, Search and recovery, and Navigation dive are required, and a boat dive is encouraged to meet the Deep dive requirement. You can choose two remaining Adventure Dives which will introduce you to several other exciting diving opportunities. With instructor approval, any of these five dives could apply toward the requirements for further specialty certifications.
Enriched Air (often known as NITROX) is a very popular academic-only course, which enables longer bottom times and can be completed in one evening.
For those interested in refining their skills and being prepared for diving accidents, consider the Rescue Diver course. This is a somewhat physically and mentally demanding course, which teaches you how to be prepared in an emergency for self-rescue or for a fellow diver.
If you are interested in diving professionally, the Divemaster program is your first step. You’ll work closely with the instructor, assist with classes, and learn many techniques to improve your diving skills. This course will dive into additional details on diving physiology, physics, equipment, and other topics.
Further your interest with several other recreational specialty courses: Altitude, Emergency oxygen provider, Diver propulsion vehicle, Sidemount, Wreck, Deep, Night/Limited Visibility, Dry suit, Boat, Digital Underwater Videography, Peak Performance Buoyancy, and Cavern.
Solo Diver or Self-Reliant Diver specialty! This course recognizes there are times when OW divers wish to be independent. Learn why redundancy in your equipment is important and how to handle emergencies on your own.
Students who are AOW divers, a Rescue Diver, and earn five specialty certifications, and have logged over 50 dives, receive the distinctive PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating. This is the highest recreational rating available and is a noteworthy accomplishment.
PADI Recreational Diver Course Flowchart:
Technical Training
Deep Adventure Scuba offers PADI DSAT Tec Rec classes. Technical diving is not for most divers, but for some, the rewards are great to visit places most divers will never see. It also allows divers to extend their dive duration beyond recreational no-stop limits within recreational depths of 130′.
TEC Basics or TEC sidemount are a great courses to introduce divers to technical diving in either the Backmount or sidemount configuration.
If you have thought about wanting to dive longer or dive deeper, this training will prepare you to dive to 165′ on air, enriched air, or trimix breathing gases. The classes will prepare you to dive with multi-gas switches up to 100% O2 for accelerated decompression. Full tec training requires the use of backmount doubles or sidemount configuration, however, the PADI Tec 40 meter class allows for limited deco (up to 10 minutes with up to 50% EANx) with a single high-capacity tank with most OW BCs with a 30 cu ft or larger deco tank on the side or under the BC. This may appeal to divers who are not sure how far they want to go with tec, but want to understand more about decompression theory and extend their dive times beyond rec time limits, but still within recreational depths of 130′.
PADI DSAT TECREC Training: