PADI Recreational Training

Elevate your mermaiding experience in open water, while refining and improving your mermaid diving skills.

Designed to refine and improve your freediving skills, allowing you to progress slowly while learning how your body performs during apnea (suspension of breathing).

Learn basic freediving principles and focus on practicing breathhold techniques in a pool or confined water site.

Learn basic mermaiding principles and focus on practicing skills in a pool or confined water site.

Try mermaiding and discover why its becoming a popular way to explore any underwater environment in this highly flexible, and brief program to see how you like it!

This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses.

Enjoy dives even more when you can recognize and identify fish families and their characteristics.

Being a gas blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort. This course teaches you how to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-based gases using one or more blending methods.

Many divers wouldn't think of diving without carrying a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB, and in some locations it's considered required safety equipment. Knowing how to properly deploy and manage a DSMB are valuable skills learned in this course.

Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites.

Diving in altitudes higher than 300 metres/1000 feet above sea level is altitude diving. Discover a hidden world where only a few have ventured.

Gain confidence diving in currents and practice buoyancy control, entries and descents, and using surface signaling equipment.

Consists of seven knowledge development sections, four practical applications sessions and four training dives. Designed for the diver transitioning form recreational diving to technical diving.

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Ice diving is one of the most adventurous scuba specialties. Learn the roles and responsibilities of support personnel, tenders and safety divers. See beauty few others ever experience.

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Gain the knowledge and skills to explore caverns correctly and safely. This course guides you to enter far enough for adventure, but stay within the light zone for an easy exit to open water.

Wearing more than one tank has become increasingly popular for technical diving. With the Tec Sidemount Diver course you can apply what you learn to other TecRec courses.

Extend your depth limit to 45 metres/150 ft. Learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder.

Make extended range dives up to 50 metres/ 165 ft. Learn how to make dives with multiple decompression stops, using two decompression gases.

Mastering scuba diving isn’t just for adults – the PADI Junior Divemaster course offers an exciting opportunity for young divers aged 15 to 17 to become leaders in the underwater world. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore what sets the Junior Divemaster certification apart from its adult counterpart, detailing the unique training experiences and responsibilities these young enthusiasts undertake. From honing leadership skills to mastering dive theory, discover how Junior Divemasters are shaping the future of scuba diving while gaining invaluable experience for their journey beneath the waves.

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Sharks are an essential part of a healthy ocean. This course explores why they are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them.

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Being a gas blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort. This course teaches you how to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-based gases using one or more blending methods.

Make extended range dives up to 50 metres/ 165 ft. Learn how to make dives with multiple decompression stops, using two decompression gases.

Experience scuba diving under the direct supervision of a PADI Pro. Take your first breaths underwater in water shallower than 2 metres/6 ft. For children who are at least 8 years old.

This course focuses on increasing awareness of varying diver abilities, and explores adaptive
teaching techniques to apply when training and diving with physically and mentally challenged divers.

If you're not ready to sign up for a scuba certification course, Discover Scuba® Diving (DSD®) is a fun way to try scuba diving.

Increase your awareness of divers' varying abilities, and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.

Complete three Adventure Dives (underwater photography, fish identification, etc.) and earn the Adventure Diver certification, a subgroup of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.

Take a deep dive into the science of scuba to expand your knowledge or prepare for a divemaster/instructor course

Learn snorkeling and skin diving techniques including checking buoyancy, surface swimming, clearing water from your snorkel and performing effortless surface dives.

The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting Aqua Missions. Do cool stuff in the pool, and meet friends.

Join the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.

This course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course. If you're short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you.

Gain professional level skills to lead dives, assist with classes, give a dive briefing and conduct scuba refresher training.

See more, conserve air, and learn how to manage your depth, avoid issues and travel faster with a DPV.

Improve your confidence and become a better dive buddy through fun role-playing and skill practice.

Experience new adventures with an instructor by your side. Designed for novice divers who want to improve their skills.

Learn how to safely explore and protect the underwater world, perform basic dive skills and set up scuba equipment.

Find the perfect balance: Dive with less weight, and improve your buoyancy control and air consumption.

This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems.

PADI AWARE™ Specialty brings divers and ocean enthusiasts together to take action and protect the underwater world.

Learn how to survey and explore wrecks responsibly with special finning techniques, lines and reels, and avoid common problems.

Capture the sights, sounds, and the dynamic motion of the underwater world as a videographer. Cover the fundamentals and create interesting, entertaining video worth watching again and again.

Haven't been diving in awhile? Renew your scuba skills and move quickly through topics you know well to build confidence for your next underwater adventure.

Find the boat without surfacing, learn how to use a diving compass, and improve your navigation and underwater observation skills.

Learn a different scuba configuration and how to properly assemble and configure sidemount equipment, manage gas, trim your weight, and attach and remove cylinders.

Although diving with a buddy is the norm, there are reasons for an experienced diver to develop self-reliance and independence while diving. Learning to carry out dives without a partner can make you a stronger diver in most dive situations.

Help recover lost items, plan a search operation, improve your navigation skills, learn underwater search techniques and how to use a lift bag.

See the underwater world after sundown and learn how to navigate, ascend and descend and use your dive light to communicate at night.

Diving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.

Avoid missing dives and learn how to manage basic gear repairs, fix equipment problems, and clean, maintain and protect your equipment.

Extend your bottom time, shorten your surface intervals and dive deeper on repetitive dives.

Gain experience assembling an oxygen unit, and learn to identify when and how to administer oxygen and aid for diving and water-related injuries.

Learn how to control the air in your drysuit, buoyancy, common drysuit problems, and basic repairs and maintenance in order to dive more places.

Share your adventures and learn
how to use underwater strobes,
reduce backscatter, safely
photograph marine life, and
choose photo equipment.

Teach new depths, discover new dive sites, and learn about deep dive planning, dive limits and gas management.

Learn boat diving etiquette, terminology, how to properly stow gear, and potentially practice using lines or deploying a surface marker buoy (SMB).

Become a citizen scientist and learn how to properly conduct an underwater survey and marine debris cleanups to keep your favorite dive sites clean.