Scuba Review...Are you a certified diver, but haven't been in the water lately? Are you looking to refresh your dive skills and knowledge? Are you a PADI Scuba Diver or referral student diver and want to earn your PADI Open Water Diver certification? If you answered yes to any of these questions then PADI Scuba Review is for you.
•••What do I need to start?
•••••Hold a scuba certification or be enrolled in a scuba certification course
•••••Minimum age: 10 years old
•••What will I do?
•••••First, you'll review the safety information you learned during your initial training
...... Then, you head to confined water to practice some of the fundamental scuba skills.
•••••There's•also an optional supervised open water dive.
•••How long will it take?
•••••A few hours to a full day
•••What will I need?
•••••PADI Scuba Tune-up guidebook
PADI Open Water Diver Course...If you've always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now's the time to find out. Start the journey of a lifetime with the PADI Open Water Diver course. It will change you forever.
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) getting the background knowledge along the way.
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.
Becoming a diver opens a door to a whole new world. Open yours and step through.
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Adventure Diver... Have you always wanted to try a underwater vehicle? How about night diving? Here's your chance because you can sample three dives of your choice, get a taste of what you like, and feel more comfortable in the water, strengthening your underwater skills and letting you enjoy diving more than ever. After your PADI Adventure Diver certification you can take the next step by completing two more adventure dives. If you've completed five total adventure dives that include deep and navigation, you're an PADI Advanced Open Water Diver. Adventure Diver Course can be completed in one day of diving.
•••What do I need to start?
•••••PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification
....... (or qualifying certification from another organization)
•••••Minimum age: 15 years old (10 for PADI Junior Adventure Diver)
•••What will I do?
•••••This certification includes three of the following Adventure Dives:
•••••Adventure Dives available to divers 10 years old and older:
••••••••AWARE-Fish Identification
••••••••Underwater Naturalist
••••••••Boat Diver
••••••••Underwater Navigator
••••••••Peak Performance Buoyancy
••••••••Underwater Photography
•••••Additional Adventure Dives available to divers 12 years old and older:
••••••••Altitude Diver
••••••••Multilevel Diver
••••••••Deep Diver
••••••••Night Diver
••••••••Diver Propulsion Vehicle
••••••••Search and Recovery Diver
••••••••Drift Diver
••••••••Underwater Videography
••••••••Dry Suit Diver
••••••••Wreck Diver.
•••How long will it take?
•••••Recommended Course Hours: nine
•••••Maximum Open Water Training: three dives over one day
•••What will I need?
•••••Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
•••••Log Book
•••Where can I go from here?
•••••After your PADI Adventure Diver certification you can take the next step by completing
....... two more adventure dives. If you've completed five total adventure dives that include
....... deep and navigation, you're an PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.
Advanced Open Water....Why Advanced Open Water Diver? After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the underwater environment.
•••What do I need to start?
•••••PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from
...... another organization)
•••••Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
•••What will I do?
•••••This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure Dive, the
•••••Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive and three of the following:
•••••(STSC can offer any program with a - ¤)
••••••••Altitude Diver
••••••¤ Boat Diver
••••••••Cavern Diver
••••••¤ Deep Diver
••••••¤ Digital Underwater Photographer
••••••¤ DPV (Diver Propulsion Vehicle)
••••••¤ Drift Diver
••••••¤ Dry Suit Diver
••••••¤ Enriched Air (Nitrox)
••••••¤ Equipment Specialist
••••••••Ice Diver
••••••¤ Multilevel Diver
••••••¤ National Geographic
••••••¤ Night Diver
••••••¤ Peak Performance Buoyancy
••••••¤ Project AWARE
••••••¤ Project AWARE Coral Reef Conservation
••••••••Project AWARE Fish ID
••••••¤ Search and Recovery
••••••••Semiclosed Rebreather
••••••¤ Underwater Naturalist
••••••¤ Underwater Navigator
••••••¤ Underwater Photographer
••••••••Underwater Videographer
••••••¤ Wreck Diver
•••How long will it take?
•••••Recommended Course Hours: 15
•••••Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days
•••What will I need?
•••••Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
•••••Log Book
•••Where can I go from here?
•••••PADI Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in PADI
•••••Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses and continue on to the PADI Rescue Diver
•••••or Junior Rescue Diver course.
•••••The PADI Adventure Diver can be credited towards the Advanced Open Water Diver
Emergency First Response...Why Emergency First Response? Emergency First Response (EFR) is the fastest-growing international CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and First Aid training organization. Dedicated to training the lay rescuer, EFR courses encompasses adult, child and infant CPR skills, provides AED and First Aid training, and feature an outstanding First Aid at Work component. The company’s award-winning programs and state-of-the-art training materials make it a favorite among divers around the world. Many divers take the Emergency First Response courses to meet program prerequisites, such as PADI Rescue Diver, or as preparation for becoming a PADI Divemaster. However, most have also found the EFR program to be important in every day life. They have taken a significant step in emergency preparedness, and feel confident that they can provide care should an emergency situation arise.
The Emergency First Response program meets requirements for CPR and First Aid in the workplace (OSHA Guideline 29 CFR 1910.151), and incorporates the latest procedures for
emergency patient care. Other organizations that recognize EFR as meeting their requirements are United States Coast Guard, The Boy Scouts of America, and the American Council on Exercise (ACE), to name a few.
•••What do I need to start?
•••••No dive certification required
•••••No minimum age limit
•••What will I do?
•••••The course incorporates independent study to prepare you for a classroom and
•••••hands on skill development session with your instructor. You will learn the same
•••••patient care techniques used by medical professionals, but at a lay person level.
•••How long will it take?
•••••Depending on the amount of independent study and the class size, the Primary Care
...... and Secondary Care courses may be completed in as little as four hours to six hours.
•••What will I need?
•••••Participant Manual
•••Where can I go from here?
•••••Visit Sunken Treasure Scuba Center today to find out more about the Emergency
•••••First Response program and PADI Rescue Diver program.
Rescue Diver...Why PADI Rescue Diver? Rewarding and fun – that 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 serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.
•••What do I need to start?
You can enroll in the Rescue Diver Course as a certified Open Water Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization) and participate in the Rescue Diver knowledge development and rescue training sessions, in confined water only, while working on your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
To participate in the rescue training sessions in open water, and to participate in the open water rescue scenarios, you must be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
Minimum age: 15 years old (12 for PADI Junior Rescue Diver)
Successful completion of a sanctioned CPR program within the past 24 months.
The Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) courses meet these requirements.
•••What will I do?
•••••Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary,
•••••manage dive emergencies. During the five open water sessions, you'll cover:
•••••••• Self-rescue and diver stress
•••••••• AED and emergency oxygen delivery systems
•••••••• dive first aid
•••••••• swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques
•••••••• emergency management and equipment
•••••••• panicked diver response
•••••••• underwater problems
•••••••• missing diver procedures
•••••••• surfacing the unconscious diver
•••••••• in-water rescue breathing protocols
•••••••• egress (exits)
•••••••• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
•••••••• dive accident scenarios
•••How long will it take?
•••••Recommended Course Hours: 25
•••••Minimum Open Water Training: five sessions over two days
•••What will I need?
•••••PADI Rescue Diver Crew-Pak
•••Where can I go from here?
•••••The PADI Rescue Diver certification is a prerequisite for all Professional level
•••••PADI courses, beginning with the PADI Divemaster certification.
PADI Master Scuba Diver
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.
Want it. Live it. Dive it. Master Scuba Diver.
PADI Divemaster
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.
Materials You'll Need:
Take charge of your adventure. Become a PADI Divemaster.
PADI Specialties Offered at Sunken Treasure Scuba Center
AWARE Fish ID Specialty ...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.
With at least one classroom seesion and
two dives you gain hands-on experience in looking for and identifying the fascinating fish you see underwater.
Boat Diver Specialty...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.
Cavern Diver...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.
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.
Digital Underwater Photographer...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.
Diver Propulsion Vehicles.... 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.
The 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.
Dry Suit Specialty...Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then stay out of the water. What? Stay out of the water? Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water. In the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you'll learn how to use a dry suit. And that keeps you warm! Even in very cold water.
Enriched Air Diver - Nitrox
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.
Equipment Specialist?
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.
Multilevel Diver Course Details
Do you want to maximize your dive times? (Of course). Want to get the most out of your dive computer and The Wheel TM ? (Naturally). Then the PADI Multilevel Diver Specialty course is for you.
In this course, you learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. That's the way you really dive, after all. You'll learn to use The Wheel TM version of the RDP for planning multilevel dives, making it a great companion for your dive computer (as well as a way to make multilevel dives if you forget to bring your computer).
National Geographic Diver Specialty... Continue the adventure with the PADI National Geographic Diver Specialty course. During the course, you join an elite group of divers who are more than tourists, but explorers, adventurers and conservationists.
As part of the National Geographic Diver Specialty course, you fine-tune your buoyancy, then set off on your exploration project . Whether it's a survey of plant life or a study of water temperature variation, this project is your chance to think, observe and document like those who dive for science and discovery. On your next dive you'll hone your navigation skills, then you'll dive into an aquatic life exercise – which may also be part of your exploration project.
PADI Night Diver... 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.
Go night diving and see the underwater world in a whole new light – a dive light.
Peak Performance Buoyancy... 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.
Get the buoyancy control great divers have with PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy.
The Project AWARE Specialty Course... 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.
The underwater world needs heroes. Be one.
Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.
The Project AWARE Coral Reef Conservation course teaches divers, snorkelers and nondivers about the vital role of coral reefs in the marine environment. The course also familiarizes participants with the current state of the world's coral reefs and how they can help.
There are no dives or age limits. Divers and nondivers alike enjoy learning about the aquatic environment.
Search and Recovery... 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.
Underwater Naturalist... Course Details...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.
Underwater Navigator... 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.
Underwater Photographer... 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.
Freeze time and share it with the PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty course.
Wreck Diver... 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.
Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Program
The PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor program is your final step in the quest to become a PADI Instructor. During the IDC, you'll learn to use and adapt the PADI System of diver education to individual student needs. Comprehensive training, supported by a wide variety of PADI educational materials, earns PADI Instructors respect from both students and peers. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors may conduct a broad range of PADI programs from Discover Scuba to Divemaster.
The PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor rating sets you apart from the crowd. PADI Instructors may conduct the entire range of PADI programs - from Discover Scuba through Divemaster.
PADI Instructors do things others can only daydream about.
If you want to live an extraordinary life, you're in the right place.
What do I need to start?
· PADI Assistant Instructor certification or be an instructor in good standing with another training organization for at least six months ( check with a PADI Course Director or PADI Office for qualifying credentials.)
· Hold a dive certification for at least six months
· Have 60 logged dives that include night, deep and navigation dives
· Proof of CPR training within the last 24 months
· Medical clearance signed by a physician
What will I do?
· Knowledge development through self-study, quizzes, lectures and presentations
· Confined water skill review and assessment, workshops and presentations
· Open water workshops, rescue assessment and candidate presentations
· Have at least 100 logged dives prior to entering a PADI Instructor Exam
How long will it take?
· Times can vary from four days to three weeks or more
What materials are needed?*
· PADI Instructor Manual
· Instructor Candidate Workbook
· Open Water Lesson Planning Slate
· Confined Water Lesson Preparation Slate
· Open Water Aquatic Cue Cards
· Confined Water Aquatic Cue Cards
· The Law and the Diving Professional
· The Business of Diving
· The Best of The Undersea Journal
· Log Book
· Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Outline
· Project AWARE Specialty Program Instructor Outline
· Aware Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor Outline
· Open Water Diver Manual
· Recreational Dive Planner, The Wheel and table, and Instructions for Use Booklets
· Open Water Diver Quizzes and Exam booklet
· Adventures in Diving Manual
· Rescue Diver Manual
· Rescue Diver Final Exams Booklet
· Divemaster Manual
· Divemaster Final Exams Booklet
*These are the same materials used in the PADI Assistant Instructor course.
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Certification dives every week from May - Sept to meet your schedule.
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This area's only PADI National Geographic Training Facility.
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