PADI
The
Professional Association of Diving Instructors is the world's
largest diver training organisation. Formed in 1967, PADI
have developed an extensive programme of continuing education
and today train 70% of all new divers worldwide.
Please note that to take part in any PADI diver experience programme or course you must be medically fit to participate. If you can answer no to each of the questions in the medical questionnaire, attached below, you can certify yourself as fit to dive. If you answer yes to one or more question you must gain approval from a doctor before you can participate.
 Click here to open the PADI medical questionnaire
Discover
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If
you've always wanted to try Scuba diving, then "Discover
Scuba" lets you experience the excitement of being
underwater in the safe confines of a pool. Simply watch
a short video and then enter the water with an instructor
to begin your adventure. It couldn't be easier! Minimum
Age 10
next available course dates
Cost: £25
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The
foundation for all levels of diver training, the Open Water
Course is the first step to exploring the underwater world.
Consisting of five inter-related home study academic, pool
and open water modules the course will guide you in a fun
and relaxed manner through the required skills necessary
for safe diving. Upon completion you will receive a personal
photo ID card - your licence to dive to 18mts worldwide!
Minimum Age 10 next
available course dates
Cost: £425 (Open water referral: £295)
Advanced
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This
adventurous course offers diving experiences and important
practical skills in five distinct areas. To broaden your
horizons these must include Deep and Navigation and any
others that interest you (maybe Night, Wreck, Boat, Dry
Suit or others). Once you complete your five Adventure Dives
you will receive your personal photo ID card permitting
you to dive to 30mts worldwide. Minimum Age 12
next available course dates
Cost: £300
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Speciality
Programmes take you in depth into areas of specific interest.
Those currently offered to Open Water Divers include Boat
Diver, Drift Diver, Dry Suit Diver, Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox),
Multilevel Diver, Equipment Specialist, Aware- Fish Identification,
Night Diver, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Underwater Naturalist,
Underwater Photography, and Underwater Navigator.
Speciality courses available for both divers and non-divers
are; Project Aware and Aware - Coral Reef Conservation.
Programmes offered to Advanced Divers and above include
all of the above, Deep Diver, Search & Recovery Diver
and Wreck Diver.
next available course dates
Cost - non diving specialities £120 (except Nitrox £95); two dive specialities £160; three dive specialities £195; four dive specialities £240); Nitrox including dives £200
Dry courses
These speciality courses can be completed without open water dives - Enriched Air Diver, Equipment Specialist
and Project AWARE.
Please contact us for
availability for dry courses.
The Enriched Air Diver course
can now be achieved without doing the course dives. This
change has been made as the dives did not include any skills,
with contents analysis and dive planning being discussed
on shore, prior to the dive. Obviously these skills can
be taught just as effectively in the classroom.
Cost: £95
During the course you will learn about the physiological
effect of oxygen, during your dive, and about the special
considerations that you must account for during your dive
planning. You will also learn how to analyse the contents
of gas mixes.
Your certification will enable you to obtain enriched air
fills and to dive safely on Enriched Air. Deep Blue Scuba can provide Enriched Air on many of our
dive trips and on shore dives.
The dry version of this course is completed in an evening and costs £95 which includes your own manual, 32% oxygen RDP, 36% oxygen RDP, equivalent air depth table and your certification fee.
We are running the nitrox course in the next couple of weeks,if you would like to join this course please get in touch
Many of you own some or all of your dive equipment and the Equipment Specialist course
will teach you how many of these items work and how to care
for your kit. If you have ever wondered what the inside
of your 1st stage looks like or how your cylinder is tested
then this is the course for you.
We will split the course time between a theory session and
a hands on session, at Edinburgh Dive Centre. During the
hands on session you will learn more about cylinder hydrostatic
testing as well as being able to check out the working parts
of regulators and other items of equipment.
The dry version of this course is completed over two evenings and costs £105 which includes the Encycolpedia of Recreational diving and your certification fee.
Deep Blue Scuba is a Project AWARE patron and we all feel strongly about the protection of
the marine environment. As the old cliché goes ‘information
is power’ and for this reason we will be completing
the Project AWARE speciality course.
This course will teach you about the plight of the marine
environment and what you can do to help protect it. Just
think, if each of you make small changes to your attitude.
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Offered
to both divers and non-divers, this invaluable course gives
instruction in general first aid and shows how to confidently
put into practice important life saving skills such as CPR.
The course is an important prerequisite to the Rescue and
Divemaster courses. next
available course dates
Cost: £125 without Rescue Diver course; £50 when booked as part of the Rescue Diver course
Rescue
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Focusing
primarily on accident prevention and management, during
this course you will develop the knowledge and skills to
perform in-water assists and rescues, diving accident scenario
management and first aid administration. The Rescue Diver
Course is an important prerequisite for all PADI leadership
courses. Minimum Age 12 next
available course dates
Cost: £350
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The Master Scuba Diver certification is the highest non-professional rating awarded by PADI. To become a Master Scuba Diver you must be a rescue diver and hold 5 speciality certifications. In addition to this you must have completed 50 dives. Minimum Age 12 next available course dates
Cost: £800 when 5 specialities are booked at the same time and completed within 12 months
If you are looking for the following PADI professional level diving courses please refer to the professional courses page of this web site pro courses
Divemaster
Course pro courses
Assistant
Instructor pro courses
Open Water Scuba
Instructor pro courses
Speciality Instructor pro courses
Master Scuba Diver Trainer prep pro courses
EFR and CFC Instructor pro courses
IDC Staff Instructor pro courses
Master Instructor pro courses
Course Director pro courses
Please contact us, for prices and availability. If you are unable to find a course or date to suit you please let us know and we can discuss your requirements. info@deepbluescuba.co.uk |
