PADI Open Water Diver Course

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the single most popular diving course in the world. Open Water Diver is the first level of PADI scuba certification, your ticket to exciting adventure in the underwater world.

The course consists of four days of diving. Two boat dives per day starting with shallow water sessions and progressing to the open water dives.

We run all the dive sessions from the boat at no extra charge, this provides students with hands on boat diving experience aswell as seeing underwater marine life from the outset.

It also makes your training more fun, and provides a  wide choice of dive sites from sheltered shallow lagoons for the confined sessions through to more adventurous dive sites for the open water dives. 

The course runs twice a month from May - September (please get in contact for dates), the course can also be run over weekends. 

We pride ourselves in top quality training and instruction and therefore keep the student to instructor ratio to a maximum of four students per instructor in open water. 

One of the most important things in any training course is the experience of the instructor, please click here to find out more about our instructors. 

The course can also be run privately on a (one on one) basis,  this is quite popular in the winter months and dry suit training can be included.

We supply all students with the open water crew pack, which contains the open water diver manual, divers log book and dive tables. The course fee also includes certification fees to PADI, all tuition, boat fees and equipment hire. 

After successfully completing the course, you will be issued the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Becoming a qualified diver will enable you to plan and conduct diving actvities safely, dive from charter boats, rent and purchase scuba equipment, participate in diving activities all over the world and qualify you to enroll on  advanced training.

Course Cost  € 560 (2011 dive season), price includes instruction, manuals, electronic dive tables, course DVD, equipment hire, air fills, boat fees and certification fees to PADI.

Evening Courses Option  (5 weeks pool training € 320) We also run the course one evening per week in a swimming pool. With this option you complete a one hour classroom session followed by a one hour pool session each week for five weeks, followed by a weekends boat diving to complete the qualifying dives. Price includes all course training materials, pool hire, equipment hire and tuition.

Weekend Away for Qualifying Boat Dives  (€ 290 )Price includes four boat dives, equipment hire, tuition and certification fees to PADI.

Private Tuition Course fee € 899  This option gives you the choice of when you conduct your training and gives you one to one tuition with the instructor, you also get dry suit training and free dry suit hire during the course if you wish(ideal for winter diving). Private courses are run all year round and are the only option for people who have severe time commitments and cant join in on a scheduled course.