Scuba Diver Course

Scuba Diver Course is ideal for those with not much time on their hands but would like to start on the diving ladder to success.

This course takes half the time as the Open Water Course, covering the first three sections of the five knowledge developments segments, three pool sessions and two open water dives so you have more time in the water and less time on the classroom.

This certification is not only great for checking whether diving is for you; it is also a great spring board onto the Open Water Diver Course. Upon completion of the Scuba Diver Course, Padi Scuba Divers are qualified to:

• Dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor to a maximum depth of 12 metres / 40 feet
• Obtain air fills, rent or purchase scuba equipment and participate in other diving activities as long as they have the required supervision
• Continue their dive training and complete PADI Open Water Diver certification and other courses such as Project AWARE and equipment specialty courses

Scuba Diver Experience After a quick morning in the classroom with a qualified instructor, you will be introduced to the underwater world via a confined body of water, usually a swimming pool, where you will take your first breathe underwater.

After you have become use to the feeling of weightlessness and breathing below the surface, your instructor will demonstrate some basic scuba diver skills which are necessary to accomplish for mastery of the course.

Once the instructor has demonstrated the skills they will ask you then to do the same skills. On the second day you will find yourself on a dive boat, the instructor will brief you about your next dive, things like the time, depth and what fish and other marine critters you will be seeing on the dive.

There are some fantastic dive sites around Phuket, with the visibility regularly hitting 30 metres; the water temperature is around 28 degrees, it is ideal combination for your introduction to Scuba diving.

What You Learn

• Buoyancy skills including comfortable ascents and descents, and breathing underwater.
• Staying warm underwater, streamlining your swimming skills and buddy diving techniques.
• Diving environments and aquatic life you’re likely to encounter.
• Preventing common problems underwater.
• An introduction to boat diving.

The Scuba Gear You Use All the equipment you need will be supplied by the dive shop and comes as part of the whole Discover Scuba Diving Package.  You’ll use all the basic scuba gear including:

• Mask
• Snorkel and Fins
• Buoyancy Compensating Jacket (BCD)
• A Regulator
• Depth and Air Gauges
• Wetsuit
• Weight system

Prerequisites To take this course, you must be: 15 years old (or 10 years old for Junior Scuba Diver certification)

Your Next Adventure After successful completion the Padi Scuba Diver, you may indeed want to take the Open Water Diver course at your first opportunity, but as a PADI Scuba Diver you also qualify to take: Equipment Specialist and Project AWARE Specialist certification courses.