Enriched Air Nitrox  Diver        
Want to extend your bottom time, lessen your surface interval, and maximize every dive? Become an Enriched Air Nitrox diver!

You will learn how to choose the proper blend of Nitrox for your dive profile, determine maximum depth limits for your Nitrox mixture, analyze your breathing mixture, and plan and safely execute each dive. Your instructor will teach you about the physiology of oxygen and nitrogen; advantages, disadvantages, and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and precautions of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use of EANx with standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures; and more.

After your exam, you can qualify for the Nitrox recognition card, or go ahead and complete two dives to receive your Nitrox Diver certification card. And, your instructor can integrate your Nitrox course into your Scuba Diver course!

QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to utilize EANx in open water diving activities without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.

  • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
  • Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
  • Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
  • Safely increase your no stop time.
  • Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating

  • Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
  • Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
  • Safely increase your no stop time.
  • Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating


SKILL REQUIREMENTS
At least two dives are to made using EANx, one of which is to be a repetitive dive. The student is to analyze his or her own breathing mixture and to plan and safely execute each dive.

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
The following topics are to be covered: history of nitrox as a breathing gas; Dalton’s law of partial pressures; physiology of oxygen and nitrogen; depth limits, advantages, disadvantages and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and precautions of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use of EANx with Standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures; and gas analyzing procedures.

PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
  • Age. Minimum is 15 years.
  • Certification: Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent is required unless combined with the Scuba Diver course. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.          Course Schedule
Bubblemaker program is for boys and girls age 8 and above. It’s fun, easy and safe. The PADI Bubble maker program is a way for youngsters to join in the family fun of scuba diving or even start a trend! Children should be OK in the water, but they don’t have to be super swimmers since the maximum depth is only 2m/6 ft.
  • For children eight years and older who want to have fun in the pool
  • Also available as an open water experience (two metre/six foot max. depth)
  • Conducted by PADI Instructors
  • No pre-training required
  • Uses equipment made for children – not adults
  • Typical sessions last about an hour (sign up, gear up and fun included)

Seal Team is for young divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by doing exciting scuba "AquaMissions." Have you ever wondered what it's like to dive with flashlights, take digital pictures underwater or float effortlessly like an Astronaut? These are AquaMissions. You will learn about safe diving and you can try AquaMissions. Like wreck, navigation, buoyancy, underwater photography, environmental awareness and more. Here's your chance to do some cool stuff in the pool, meet friends and share in the adventure of the underwater world.
PADI Seal Team is a fun pool-only experience
PADI Seal Team is conducted by certified, trained PADI Professionals
PADI Seal Team is a fun activity for both boys and girls ages 8 and above
PADI Seal Team helps children learn responsibility
PADI Seal Team teaches children about the aquatic environment
PADI Seal Team AquaMissions and activities usually about an hour each.

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Open Water Diver, Jr Level available starting at age 10
Your underwater adventure begins! Imagine watching the water level move up your
mask as you slowly go below the surface - and continue to breathe!  It's the most
exciting feeling imaginable and yours when you become a PADI Scuba Diver!
Scuba Diver is our entry level scuba certification course during which you will learn
the fundamental knowledge and skills to safely scuba dive in open water.  When
you complete your class you and your buddy will be free to explore and discover
the many wonders of the underwater world…and, you will have earned a PADI
Scuba Diver certification card – the most respected diver certification card in the world!

Come on and dive in…a lifetime of fun, adventure, memories, experiences, and new friends awaits you!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Your instructor will teach you about dive equipment, the science of diving, responsible diving practices and the environment. You will also learn many skills in confined water with practice time for your safety and comfort; and complete your training with a minimum of five open water dives normally completed at Lake Rawlings.  Course text and videos must be reviewed and the workbook completed prior to the first class session.  During this session the workbook will be reviewed and lessons in the video, workbook, dive tables and other items will be reviewed ensuring you have no questions.  Then its hit the water!

HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?
As long as you are 10 years or older and in good physical condition and have some basic water skills, you can enroll in a PADI Scuba Diver course.  Sign up for your class, grab your bathing suit and get ready to have FUN!   A physical condition checklist is completed as part of the student record.  Any questionable health concerns may require a medical examination e.g. heart, lung, ear problems, chronic diseases and other health issues must be reported on the medical checklist.  Consult your instructor in advance if you think you may need a medical evaluation prior to starting the course to ensure meeting course start dates. 

WHAT’S NEXT?
Once you become a certified diver, perhaps you want to further your training with an Advanced Scuba Diver or Rescue Scuba Diver course?  Maybe you or someone you know was certified long ago and needs a refresher course.  Perhaps you want to become a dive professional and go all the way to Divemaster or even become an Instructor!  Whatever your scuba and skin diving needs, we can help you realize your dreams!      Course Schedule
Advanced Open Water Diver
Let your underwater adventure continue! Apply your scuba skills as you explore new dive sites and activities under the supervision and training of your Instructor. Learn which diving specialties interest you, and what type of diving you enjoy most. Gain more confidence and capability. Begin to consider the direction diving will take you, as you go for everything it has to offer.

The Advanced Scuba Diver course is an enjoyable certification course for 12-year-old (or older) certified divers who desire additional training, have moved from one diving area to another and desire local orientation, do not have, but wish to obtain, PADI certification, or who desire orientation to a variety of diving sites and conditions.

As part of your certification, you will complete a minimum of six open water dives including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters maximum depth), plus three different dives. Some of the many different dives you can do include:

  • Search and recovery
  • Boat diving
  • Light salvage
  • Hunting and collecting
  • Exploration and underwater mapping
  • Wreck diving (non-penetration)
  • Observation and data collection
  • Diving in surf or currents
  • Altitude diving
  • Salt water diving (in areas where most diving is in fresh water)
  • Fresh water diving (in areas where most diving is in salt water)
  • Shore diving
  • Diving for photos or video
  • Using dive computers
You can also choose from many different dives for your elective dives such as:

  • Skin diving
  • Environmental study or survey
  • Air consumption (practical application)
  • Boat diving
  • Shore diving
  • Hunting and collecting
  • Or other special interest dives
If you are 15 years old and have a Advanced Scuba Diver certification or its equivalent, you may be ready for the Master Scuba Diver class. Ready, set, learn!     Course Schedule
Rescue  Diver
Once you are 15 years of age and a certified scuba diver, you can expand your diving knowledge with a Scuba Rescue Diver course. Learn how to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water problems and diving emergencies, how to assist and transport divers, and how to perform surface rescues and rescues from depth involving both boat and shore based skin and scuba divers.

CPR and First Aid certifications are required to complete this course. Your Scuba Rescue Diver training moves you on your pathway to becoming a PADI Leader: Skin Diving Instructor, Assistant Instructor, Divemaster, or Instructor.  
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Underwater Photographer         Scroll down for other classes

The aquatic world presents divers with scenes of breathtaking beauty with wild and weird creatures that amaze and fascinate. How can you possibly remember each one unless you bring them back through photography?

In the underwater photographer course you will be taught the skills, techniques, and tricks of underwater photography including lighting, use of photographic equipment, the fundamentals of photography, underwater camera techniques, and underwater photo problems. For added interest, you can combine other diving courses or activities to provide additional photographic opportunities. 

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include underwater photographic equipment, films, photo techniques, lighting techniques, fundamentals of photography, underwater camera techniques and underwater photo problems.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS
Divers are to actually take underwater photographs and have the results reviewed and critiqued. Activities of other diving courses may be used to provide photographic opportunities.

PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
  • Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed)
  • Certification: Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.    Course Schedule


Master Scuba Diver
  Gain the in-depth knowledge that will establish you as a recognized authority in your diving club or group. Thrill to the adventure of open water dives in settings that will test your abilities to their limit while expanding your diving capabilities and experience. Then proudly carry the most coveted and respected certification card in recreational diving - that of the PADI Master Scuba Diver.
The Master Scuba Diver course is a continuing education certification course for divers who wish to increase their understanding and enjoyment of diving. This course is an excellent progression toward diving Leadership roles.

During your training, you will engage in a minimum of eight open water dives including the following required dives:

  • Emergency procedures and rescue
  • Deep/simulated decompression diving
  • Limited visibility or night diving
  • Underwater navigation
  • Search and recovery – light salvage
You can also choose from many different dives for your elective dives such as:

  • Skin diving
  • Environmental study or survey
  • Air consumption (practical application)
  • Boat diving
  • Shore diving
  • Hunting and collecting
  • Or other special interest dives
If you are 15 years old and have a Advanced Scuba Diver certification or its equivalent, you may be ready for the Master Scuba Diver class. Ready, set, learn!     Course Schedule

Scuba Refresher
For those that are certified but have not been diving lately. You will receive a review of safe diving practices and participate on two dives instructor lead dives, one skills review and the other just for fun.      Course Schedule
Divemaster
Would you like to lead dives and dive trips; take certified divers on vacations to the world's best dive sites? Many Divemasters are employed full-time or work independently supervising certified divers during club, store, resort or charter tour and travel activities. As a PADI Divemaster you enjoy again and again adventures to which you introduce your clients. Another option leading to PADI Instructor qualification.  Divemaster rating begins your professional level certifications leading to Instructor if you choose. The program is designed to train experienced and knowledgeable divers to organize and conduct enjoyable open water dives for certified divers.     Course Schedule
PADI Training Progression
Discover Scuba

PADI’s DIscover Scuba Diving program can have you in the ocean the same day you begin your training!   This is an introductory, non-certification program suitable for two purposes:

  • to introduce non-divers to scuba diving. Participants may scuba dive in confined or open water under closely controlled conditions.
  • to provide sufficient training to enable graduates of the full program to continue to scuba dive under controlled conditions without meeting the requirement of scuba certification.

The instructor may elect to offer all or any portion of the program. Similarly, the participant may elect to take all or any portion of the program as offered. At any point, the program may be converted to the Open Water Diver Course. Within time limits, credit for program training may be given persons who complete it and subsequently enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver Course.

QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
Continued Diving. Passport holders may scuba dive in open water under the direct supervision of active-status diving leaders with the following restriction: Program knowledge and waterskills of Passport holders who have not made Passport supervised dives within the previous six months are to be evaluated in confined water by an active-status PADI Instructor and any refresher training needed is to be successfully completed before the Passport holders are taken into open water.
Training Credit. Passport holders are eligible for Scuba Diver course credit provided they have successfully completed the PDP in the previous six months or can submit proof of additional supervised Passport dives in the previous six months.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE

Age: Minimum age of 10
Certification: None Required


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All courses have associated test similar to that of the Scuba Diver Education Systems depicted here.  Some come with a DVD or VHS that should be reviewed so ask your instructor for yours today.

The PADI Scuba Diver Education System contains everything you will need to complete the Scuba Diver Course and kick-start your diving careers!  Item includes scuba diver textbook, dive tables, log book and more.