PADI Open Water Course - Referral

Started or starting your course elsewhere and coming here to do the dives. Some people like to attend the classroom and pool training in their home towns or along the way whilst on holiday, then come somewhere warm and with beautiful diving for the open water sections of the course.

This is commnon practice in the diving world.

The P.A.D.I Open water Certification Course is your passport to an exciting new world of adventure. The course will teach you the skills to safely and comfortably explore the underwater world. The course involves a three step process. First you will participate in classroom sessions where you will watch audio-visual presentations on topics such as scuba equipment use, the marine environment, dive planning and more.

Next you will learn and practice scuba skills in the familiar surrounds of a clear swimming pool. Here you will gain confidence in using the scuba equipment. After your pool training you will be ready for your four Open water training dives, which are conducted over two days on the Great Barrier Reef, the largest reef formation in the world and one of the 7 wonders of the world.

The course typically takes 4-5 days. The days are fairly full, typically from 8.00am to 5.00pm. However, you will be having lots of fun, especially the 2 days when you will joining the scheduled Scuba and Snorkeling trips on some of the best reef locations. Other members of your family or party who dive or snorkel may wish to join you on these trips.

After completion of the course you will be able to dive confidently to a maximum depth of 18m, with a certified buddy anywhere in the world with similar conditions.

For more information, choose your diving location:

H2O Sportz
Hamilton Island Dive HQ
Airlie Beach

What you have already learnt learnt, before you leave.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

Knowledge Development (online, home study or in a classroom ) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills

What we do

Open Water Dives to review your skills and explore!

If you’ve tried diving through a Discover Scuba Diving experience or resort course, the skills you learned may be credited towards a portion of the full PADI Open Water Diver course certification.

You may also want to try:

Snorkelling is also available from these trips. So non-diving friends and family may also attend.

You are not able to dive if you:

Are Pregnant, suffer from; Epilepsy or Tuberculosis or long term lung disease. Or are flying in the next 12hrs after a single scuba dive and 24 after 2 dives.