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PADI Dive Training in Southwest Florida  
 
   
 
Dive Courses:

All of the classes listed below are offered through Blackwater Divers.

Discovery Courses

  • Discover Scuba Diving: If you are looking for a convenient way to try scuba, look to a PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience to broaden your horizons. You can jump into this program near home in a pool, or on vacation near open water. Give it a try. Diving can change your life. World’s most popular introduction to scuba diving. Available in a pool, ocean, river, lake, quarry or almost anywhere there’s water. Discover Scuba Diving skills may be credited toward the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Average dive depth is 20 feet (40 feet is the maximum depth). Most Discover Scuba Diving experiences take just an hour or two. No equipment necessary – everything’s provided for your enjoyment.
Certification Courses

  • PADI Open Water Diver: If you have always wondered what lies beneath the surface, now is 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 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. Equipment you will use during the course includes: mask, fins, snorkel, tank, regulator, buoyancy compensator, submersible pressure gauge and exposure protection as required by the local environment.

  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver: As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, navigation, night diving , wreck diving, underwater photography, and much more. These dives boost your confidence as you build on your foundational skills.

  • PADI Rescue Diver: Challenging and rewarding 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 challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken. You'll cover such topics as: self-rescue and diver stress, emergency management and equipment, panicked diver response, in-water rescue breathing protocols, egress (exits), and dive accident scenarios.

  • 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 have 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. To reach this level of certification you must have a minimum of 50 logged dives, be a certified rescue diver, and be certified in at least five specialties.

  • 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.