Be a part of Scuba Sports Dive Team!
We offer all the adventure, fun and excitement of the underwater world to you when you complete the first level of dive training. Finishing the  Open Water Diver Training will certify you as a PADI certified SCUBA diver.  Diving is a recreation you will enjoy for the rest of your life and it can all start right here. Join us, see life that you have never known about. Discover a New World of experience!  Start in the pool, then... Get P.A.D.I. Certified! Open Water Diver  $249.00 Advanced OWD     $125.00
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Please view the P.A.D.I. Dive Courses below to discover more on how to get PADI certified or to advance your current PADI certification level.

PADI Open Water Diver  - $249.00

Our classes are very flexible and can be scheduled at your convenience. The course length is approximately 30 hours total. This involves reading the Open Water Diving Manual - 5 chapters (modules), answering the Knowledge reviews at the end of each module, and watching an action video that corresponds with the manual and lectures completed in the shop.

PADI professionals teach to diving's highest training standards, providing their students with more supervised in-water dive time than other programs. PADI professionals demand that the courses they teach be the best the dive community has to offer. PADI has the industry's most comprehensive quality control program, assuring you that diving's most definite, most respected training standards are being met. For you, the new dive student, this means a higher quality course, more personalized training, and more of what you came for - the advice, guidance and support of a diving professional while you comfortably, securely enjoy learning to dive.

After the academic sessions are completed, you will start your confined water training. These sessions will be carried out in a pool or pool like conditions. Confined water training will last 4-6 hours.

Your next step is 4 open water dives. You will complete 2 dives per day over 2 days. The dives are usually from 9am until 1pm, allowing time after the dives to sign log books and complete paperwork. This of course depends on the dive location.

• 5 Knowledge development sessions.
• 5 Sessions of skills development in a pool.
• 4 scuba dives in open water.
• Earn the PADI Open Water Diver certification, enabling you to buy/rent scuba equipment and dive without direct instructor supervision.
• This course can be completed in 5 - 7 days. The price includes all pool equipment rental and forms.  Student must also purchase a  PADI Text Book.  There are additional charges for the Open Water Checkout Dives.

You are requested to have your own mask, fins, snorkel and booties - if you do not have these items they can be supplied to you - but you are encouraged to purchase these for your personal comfort. 

Advanced Open Water Diver - $125.00

The Advanced Open Water Diver Course will consist of:

Two core dives in:
  Underwater Navigation
  Deep Diving

Three more specialty dives based on class interest in;
  Night Diving
  Search and Recovery
  Underwater Naturalist
  Wreck Diving
  Underwater Photography
  Multilevel Diving
  Boat Diving
  Drift Diving

The course includes:
  3 academic sessions
  2 shore dives
  1 night dive
  2 boat dives
  Advanced Open Water crew pack

PADI courses offer the most comprehensive and modern diver training available in the world today. PADI courses are the only scuba courses to be recommended by the American Council on Education for college credit hours.

Search and Recovery Specialist  (call for availability)

If you're a diver, search and recovery is inevitable. Whether it's a friend dropping prescription sunglasses from their boat or losing your fin in the surf, you will eventually need or be asked to recover something from underwater.

This course will teach you how to plan and conduct searches for objects lost underwater and how to raise them safely to the surface when found. You'll learn the techniques and put them into practice.

The course includes:

• 1 classroom session
• 4 dives

Rescue Diver - $245.00

Your training has taken you a long way so far. First you learned how to master a few basic diving skills. Then you were taught how to apply them in the advanced course. Now you will learn how to assist another diver in need. The PADI Rescue Diver program will prepare you for all types of diving emergencies and teach you how to avoid them entirely.

The course includes:

2 classroom sessions
2 open water dives
Student kit with manual and slate

PADI Medic First Aid or equivalent is a prerequisite. 
It can be scheduled together with this course.

Night Diving Specialist (call for availability)

Diving at night is a challenge, the dive sites you were familiar with in the day change dramatically. Fish and invertebrates that were hiding in the light come out to feed or hunt. It is a new adventure to explore these areas at night.

The Night Diving Specialist course will enable you to become comfortable with scuba diving in this environment.

The course includes:

• 1 classroom session
• 3 night dives

One of the dives from the PADI Advanced Open Water course may be credited to the 3 night dive requirement but it is not a prerequisite.

Underwater Navigator Specialist (call for availability)

The Underwater Navigator course will teach you the skills needed to determine your location under water and make your dives safer and more enjoyable. Navigation skills help you reduce anxiety, avoid long surface swims, improve your dive plans, avoid buddy separation and conserve air.

The course includes:

• 1 classroom session
• 3 dives

NOTE: One of the dives from the PADI Advanced Open Water Course may be credited to the 3 dive requirement but it is not a prerequisite.

Medic First Aid - (call for availability)

The Medic First Aid course provides important skills for any advanced diver and it (or equivalent) is a prerequisite for PADI Rescue diver certification. The Medic First Aid Course can be scheduled in conjunction with the Rescue Diver course.

Medic First Aid teaches important skills for treatment of diving accidents or, in fact, any serious medical situation on land or sea. Topics include: 

Primary Assessment
One Rescuer CPR
Airway Management
Control of Bleeding
Shock Management
Illness Assessment
Injury Assessment

The course includes eight hours of academics.

Equipment Specialist (call for availability)

The Equipment Specialist course will teach you about the care of your scuba equipment. Learn the differences in the various types of equipment available and how to do minor adjustments and repairs that may save your diving trip.

If you don't yet have equipment, this course will make you more knowledgeable when it comes to selecting gear that fits your diving needs and will last a long time.
The course consists of 8 hours of hands on training.

Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver (call for availability)

Enriched Air has more oxygen and less nitrogen than normal air, 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen. Enriched air mixtures commonly used include 32% or 36% oxygen and proportionately less nitrogen.

Enriched air is not for diving deeper than normal recreational scuba diving depths. However, when used with standard dive planners, it provides an extra measure of safety from decompression sickness. Or, used with its own tables, you gain significantly in bottom times without exceeding decompression limits.

The new PADI Enriched Air Diver course will teach you how to employ enriched air safely. It includes:

• Enriched Air Crew Pack

• Manual

• 3 EANx Tables

• Enriched Air Diver Video

Also Requires:

• 2 Academic Sessions

• 2 Boat Dives

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