Description
Your first full certification and your passport to dive the globe. You’ll learn the fundamentals online at your own pace, build core skills in the confined-water sessions of a pool, and then put it all together on open-water training dives with an instructor. Along the way you’ll master essential techniques, from clearing your mask and managing your buoyancy to planning a dive and looking out for your buddy. Once certified, graduates can dive independently with a buddy of equal or greater certification within recreational limits, no supervision required. It’s open to divers 18 and older, and to ages 10 to 17 with written parental consent — divers aged 10 to 14 earn a Junior Open Water Scuba Diver certification and can upgrade to the full certification at 15. It opens the door to a lifetime of diving and continuing education.
This is the full Open Water SCUBA Diver Course with a private instructor. Price includes your eLearning code, rental gear, and tanks/weights. It does not include transportation, food, or lodging. If you would like to include more than yourself in the course, additional students may be added below for an additional $700 per student, which includes the additional students’ eLearning codes, rental gear, and tanks/weights.
Dives included: 4 open water dives.
Prerequisites
- Minimum age 18, or 10 to 17 with written parental consent (ages 10 to 14 earn a Junior Open Water Scuba Diver certification and dive under supervision until upgrading at 15)
- Complete a swim/watermanship evaluation (e.g., swim without aids and float/tread water)
- Complete a medical statement — physician approval required for relevant conditions
- No prior certification required
What You Will Learn
- Dive physics, physiology, and dive tables/computers
- Equipment selection, assembly, care, and maintenance
- Confined-water skills: mask/regulator clearing, buoyancy, air-sharing
- Controlled descents and ascents and safety stops
- Emergency procedures and self-rescue
- Dive planning, navigation basics, and buddy procedures
Required Equipment
- Mask, snorkel, and fins
- Exposure suit appropriate to conditions
- BCD with low-pressure inflator
- Regulator with alternate air source and submersible pressure gauge
- Weight system
- Dive computer or depth gauge, timing device, and compass
Course Requirements & Standards (SDI)
- Minimum of 4 open-water training dives with an SDI Instructor
- Confined-water skill development prior to open water
- Maximum training depth 18 metres/60 feet
- Watermanship evaluation required
- Certifies divers to dive independently with a buddy within recreational limits
After This Course
Continue with SDI Advanced Adventure Diver, specialty courses, or the Active Diver Refresher to keep building experience toward Advanced Diver and beyond.
