PADI Open Water Diver Course

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The PADI Open Water Diver course provides you with a lifetime certification for Scuba diving. Training in the warm clear waters of Cyprus makes your 3-4 training days both fun and exciding. In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start with the basic knowledge review sessions and in the same day you could be diving in a pool or pool-like conditions. You then progress to the open water training dives.
Earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification is just the beginning. As a certified diver, fabulous dive destinations, exciting people, unparalleled adventure and uncommon tranquility await you. And, as you continue your adventure and gain experience through higher training levels, your opportunities expand. For more details on the PADI Open Water Diver course.
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• Number of Dives: Five Confined Water Dives and Four Open Water Dives
• Knowledge Development: Five sessions
• Prerequisites: 10 for Junior Open Water Diver and 15 for Open Water Diver. Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water.
• Materials You’ll Need: PADI Open Water Crew-Pak, PADI Open Water Video or DVD, Log Book.
• Equipment you’ll use during the course includes: mask, fins, snorkel, tank, regulator, buoyancy compensator, submersible pressure gauge and exposure protection as required by the local environment

Becoming a diver opens a door to a whole new world. Open yours and step through.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course Details

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Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and much more. These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non professional certification in recreational diving.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from more than 15 Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can go diving at night, check out the local wrecks in the area or even fly through the ocean on a diver propulsion vehicle – all during your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

Adventure Dive options include altitude diving, AWARE-fish identification, boat diving, deep diving, diver propulsion vehicle use, drift diving, dry suit diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater nature study, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography and wreck diving
• Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course
• Materials: Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak, Adventures in Diving manual and video and logbook

Emergency First Response

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Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers too.

Emergency First Response courses encompass:
• CPR for adults, children and infants
• First aid for adults, children and infants
• Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training
• The Emergency First Response Instructor and Instructor Trainer courses

PADI Rescue Diver Course Details

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Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken. You'll cover:

• Self-rescue and diver stress
• Emergency management and equipment
• Panicked diver response
• In-water rescue breathing protocols
• Egress (exits)
• Dive accident scenarios

PADI Divemaster Course Details

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Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises.

• Knowledge Development: 12 topics ranging from dive theory to assisting student divers in training
• Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 20 logged dives, 18 years old.
• Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 60 for certification as PADI Divemaster
Materials You’ll Need:
• PADI Divemaster Manual
• Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel and eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
• The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
• Diving Knowledge Workbook
• Divemaster Slates
• PADI Divemaster Video
• Instructor Guides for the programs that may be conducted by PADI Divemasters. You may purchase these guides from your PADI Dive Center/Resort or you may download PDF versions by clicking on the links below

1. Discover Scuba Diving
2. Discover Snorkeling/Skin Diver Course
3. Scuba Review/Discover Local Diving

PADI Master Scuba Diver Course Details

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Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

• Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 50
• Minimum qualifications: PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 12 years old, five PADI Specialty Diver certifications

AWARE Fish ID Course Details

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Have you ever asked yourself, "What was that?”

The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer.

During two dives you gain hands-on experience in looking for and identifying the fascinating fish you see underwater. You can learn more about Project AWARE by going to www.projectaware.org.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Covers Project AWARE and aquatic protection worldwide
• Characteristics of local fish families and species will be explained
• Fish survey techniques and strategies
• Fish identification dive planning, organization and procedures will be practiced
• Including the two open water training dives, the course lasts about 12 hours
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Boat Diver Course Details

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Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the type boat and the location.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Covers techniques for diving from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards
• Discusses how dive boats differ from place to place
• Gives you focused experience and training for diving from boats in your local area
• Covers basic boat safety equipment and use
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Cavern Diver Course Details

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Can you see the light?

If you dive within the light zone of a cave, the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible, you're cavern diving. If you want to explore secrets hidden in caverns around the world you'll want your PADI Cavern Diver certification. During this course you will learn to use the equipment and procedures that allow you to explore such areas safely. This is a challenging and very exciting course that includes four training dives over at least two days.

• Cavern navigation and line protocols
• Planning, organization, techniques, problems and hazards of cavern diving
• Special equipment use, such as lights, guidelines, reels and redundant breathing systems.
• Air sharing, disorientation, silting, line problems and other emergency procedures specific to cavern diving.
• Silt prevention, buoyancy control, air management and emergency procedures.
• Depth and distant limits for cavern diving.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Deep Diver Course Details

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The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.

In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.
Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.

• Must be a PADI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old
• Experience diving beyond 18 metres/60 feet
• Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
• Four open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 60 - 130 feet.
• Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Course Detail for Diver Propulsion Vehicle

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These things are a blast to ride!

DPV’s offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They scoot you through the water without kicking. Want to visit that offshore reef from the beach? A DPV may be the way to go.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old
• Diver propulsion vehicle dive planning organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards
• Equipment considerations
• Diver etiquette and how to avoid harming fragile aquatic life
• The PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating

Drift Diver Course Details

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The PADI Drift Diver Specialty Course introduces you to the coolest magic carpet ride you’ll ever experience. This course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by “going with the flow,” staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization) and be at least 12 years old
• Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of drift diving
• An introduction to drift diving equipment -- floats, lines, reels
• Buoyancy-control, navigation and communication for drift diving
• Site selection and overview of aquatic currents – causes and effects
• Techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Digital Underwater Photographer Course Details

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Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.

During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course, you learn to use the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine. You not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization) However, you can take the course as a snorkeler and receive a nondiving certification. Not a diver yet? Start today with PADI eLearning.
• Choosing and using modern digital cameras and underwater housings
• Using the PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
• Editing and sharing your pictures
• The three primary principles for getting good photos underwater
• The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.
• This is one of PADI’s most adaptable specialty courses, and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Diver course

PADI Enriched Air Diver Course Details

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Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
• Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
• Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
• Safely increase your no stop time.
• Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating

PADI Equipment Specialist Course Details

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Want to know about how your dive gear works? Then the PADI Equipment Specialist course is for you. This course familiarizes you with the operation and maintenance of your dive equipment. The more you know about how your gear works, the more comfortable you are with it, the more performance you get from it and the better you can care for it. .

• Must be a PADI Scuba Diver or Junior Scuba Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Reviews the theory, principles and operation of dive equipment
• Routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
• Common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
• Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)
• No dives are required, so you can take the Equipment Specialist course any time of the year
• The PADI Equipment Specialist Course is not an equipment repair course, but it provides the foundation you’ll want if you’re interested in learning equipment repair
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

PADI Night Diver Specialty Course Details

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As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your mask and bite down on your regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.
The adventure, thrill and excitement of night diving can be yours when you complete your PADI Night Diver Specialty course. You learn about night dive planning, equipment and navigation. You practice these on three night dives, plus introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old
• Number of Dives: Three
• Dive lights and night diving equipment
• Entries, exits and navigation at night
• Nocturnal aquatic life
• Communication and light handling
• Materials: You’ll Need a Night-Pak, which includes PADI Night Diver Manual and the award-winning PADI Night Diving video.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course Details

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Float effortlessly, drifting over reefs. Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them.
Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.
• Number of dives: Two
• Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
• Streamlining, balance and trim
• Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
• Materials: You’ll Need Peak Performance Buoyancy video
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Project AWARE Specialty Course Details

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The underwater world needs heroes. You can be one of them by championing the causes of the world’s most fragile and important aquatic ecosystems. Sign up for the Project AWARE Specialty course to learn about some of the most pressing problems facing these vulnerable environments and everyday actions you can take to help conserve them. It’s informative, interesting and most importantly, you learn how to make a difference.

Project AWARE Foundation is the dive industry’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the aquatic environment through education, advocacy and action. Besides completing the Project AWARE Specialty course, you can become a partner in the efforts to preserve the underwater environment. Click here to find out how.

• The ocean commons and coastal zone issues
• Fisheries challenges and sustainability
• Coral environment overview and inhabitants
• the role of the diver in protecting aquatic environments
• Materials: You’ll need AWARE: Our World, Our Water
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Search and Recovery Course Details

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Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.
In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.

• Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organization)
• Must be at least 12 years old
• Number of Dives: Four
• Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
• Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery
• Materials: You’ll Need Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual and the Search and Recovery video.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating
• Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver

Underwater Naturalist Course Details

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Are you fascinated with aquatic life? Always wondering what that fish is and why it always dances under a coral head whenever you get close? If you’re engrossed with life under the surface, the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course is especially for you.

In your journey to underwater naturalist, the course teaches you about the different major aquatic life groupings and how they interact so that you understand what you observe in the underwater environment. With the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course under your belt, you see the aquatic world differently. You don’t see “fish,” but individual species with distinct strategies for surviving in a complex, interactive ecosystem.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Overview of aquatic life groupings and interrelations
• The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships
• Responsible interactions with aquatic life
• Number of Dives: Two
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Underwater Navigator Course Details

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Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge.You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass. You learn to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Number of Dives: Three
• Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation
• Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
• Dive site relocation
• Materials: You’ll Need Nav-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Navigator Manual, Underwater Navigation video and the Nav-Finder
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Underwater Photographer Course Details

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Freeze time with an underwater camera and you tell a story that even nondivers can understand. Not only that, but you have a record and log of your adventures – more than the memories. Reliving a dive is as simple as looking at a photograph.

Whether you’re a casual holiday snapper or a consummate photo pro, the PADI Underwater Photographer course teaches you the basics as they apply to taking photos underwater, with a special emphasis on practical techniques.

• Number of Dives: Two
• Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be 10 years old.
• Materials: You’ll Need Photo-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Photographer Manual and Underwater Photography video.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Underwater Videographer Course Details

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Other than taking someone diving, there’s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world. It’s underwater videography –motion imaging that allows you to share and document your underwater adventures. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again.

The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course introduces you to underwater video equipment and videography fundamentals, such as exposure, focus, shot types, moves, story line and shot sequencing. It takes you through the post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece. By the time you complete the course, you’ll have gone through the entire basic video production process.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Number of Dives: Three
• Equipment overview, selection and maintenance
• Story planning and organization
• Shot sequencing
• Basic editing
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Wreck Diver Course Details

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You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet.

Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.

• Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.
• Number of Dives: Four dives over two days
• Materials You’ll Need: Wreck-Pak, which includes the PADI Wreck Diver Manual and Wreck Diving video.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment