PADI Open Water 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. Becoming a diver is simple and fun, A qualified instructor can teach you to dive in as little as four days or over the period of a couple of weeks. It's totally up to you how fast you want to progress
Active Diving offer the PADI Open Water Course across all of their destinations, taking you through the basics of scuba diving in open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.) whilst allowing you to gain background knowledge along the way. Earning your PADI Open Water Course is just the beginning. As a certified diver, fabulous dive destinations, exciting people, unparalleled adventure and uncommon tranquillity await you. And, as you continue your adventure and gain experience through higher training levels, your opportunities expand

The course involves three sections:
1. Theory
2. Pool Training
3. Open Water dives

The theory when completing the PADI Open Water Course is simple & interesting, it will give you all the information you will need to dive safely & confidently. After being fitted for your scuba diving gear, you get wet first in a pool where you perfect your diving skills & then in the ocean where you enjoy the amazing sensation of being weightless while exploring the beauty & wonder of the underwater world.

The first practical part of the PADI Open Water Course takes place in a pool and introduces you to some basic hand signals. There is a short discussion on safe diving techniques also. In shallow water you will don scuba equipment and become familiar with it through breathing from a regulator underwater to being able to remove and recover your regulator. At the same time you will also look how to partially flood and clear your mask of water, a core skill for any diver. Other techniques learnt include breathing from an alternate regulator provided by another diver, equalising the ears/airspaces whilst underwater as perhaps most importantly having some serious underwater fun as part of your PADI Open Water Course.

Once the above is done you receive a certification card showing that you have completed your PADI Open Water Course that gives you access to thousands of stunning five sites located all over the globe, the seas are officially now your oyster.
Active Diving approach teaching with exceptionally high standards, offering the full range of PADI Scuba Diver Courses from Discover Scuba to Instructor, Our Training Team comprises the most experienced and professional instructors, each of whom are ready and willing to pass on their skills and experience to their students. Come and take part in the PADI Open Water Course today!!
To find out more about the PADI Open Water Course across The Red Sea, Lanzarote and South Africa visit http://www.activediving.co.uk and quote: ART

Author: Dean Thomas (16/08/08)

That’s all for now on the PADI Open Water Course