Are you a certified Scuba Diver? Then you’re half-way to becoming a PADI Open Water Diver already. You can upgrade your limited license at any time and become a fully certified Open Water Diver in just 2 days.
As a Scuba Diver you are certified to dive when accompanied with a PADI professional to a maximum depth of 12m. The upgrade teaches students how to become a more independent diver, through understanding the dive principles behind diving-related accidents, DCI, ascent rates, safety stops and how to plan dives. In just two days you can upgrade your limited certification to full PADI certification, allowing you a lifetime licence to dive to 18 m, anywhere in the world.
Watch DVD’s and learn how to use dive computers to plan and execute your dives. Complete your Knowledge Review and final exam in the morning. After lunch it’s time to get wet! Move to the pool to practice the more complex underwater skills, such as scuba unit removal and replacement underwater.
Your mission today is to complete your final 2 training dives to 18m. During the boat journey to the dive sites you’ll set up your equipment, discuss dive objectives, plan your dives on your computer and conduct your pre-dive safety checks before each dive. You’ll perform an underwater compass swim, remove your mask underwater and marvel at the reef residents around you!
Your next step would be to complete the full Advanced and Specialty Diver courses in which you broaden your range of diving skills and experiences.
The PADI Open Water Diver Course will give you a license to dive to a max depth of 18m, anywhere in the world.
What will I learn in the PADI Scuba Diver to Open water Upgrade Course?
During the classroom session in the morning you’ll increase your knowledge, and discover further dive principles required to enable you to plan and execute your dives more independently in our classroom session; Watch DVD’s, learn about physiological concerns and how to use and plan your dive on a dive computer.
Watch DVD presentations, complete 2 knowledge reviews, 1 quiz and the final exam to cement your learning.
In the afternoon, you’ll move to one of our resort pools to start the practical section. Refresh your Scuba Diver skills if necessary, then complete the more complex underwater-skills training in one of our swimming pools; apply dive procedures, simulate common situations and increase your confidence in shallow water before progressing to the sea. Skills include the no mask swim, hovering, scuba removal and replacement underwater amongst others. Practice underwater skills and complete your confined-water training.
You’ll have plenty of time to get comfortable with your equipment and instructor, practise some common dive procedures, simulate potential problematic situations and scenarios and increase your confidence about scuba diving in shallow water before progressing on to make your dives in the ocean.
During the day out on the boat, you’ll complete your final 2 open water dives to 18m under the direct supervision of your PADI Instructor. You’ll set up your equipment, practice pre-dive safety checks and successfully perform some of the skills you practiced in the pool applying all you’ve learnt to actual dive sites.