GET YOUR PADI THIS SUMMER
Learn to Dive with a PADI 5 Star Dive Shop.
Do you have a love for the ocean and crave adventure? Get your PADI Open Water Diver certification this summer and explore the sea, discover beautiful marine life and experience what it feels like to breathe underwater!
PADI Divers carry the most respected and sought after scuba diving credentials in the world. No matter where you choose to dive, your PADI certification card will be recognized and accepted. In fact, on most scuba diving adventures, you’ll be surrounded by other PADI Divers who made the same certification choice you did – to train with the world’s largest and most respected scuba diving training organization.
The PADI Open Water Diver Course is the most popular diving course worldwide, so you know you are in good hands! The PADI Open Water Course is suitable for everyone, as long as you are over 12 years of age and are confident in the water. The PADI Open Water course is divided into three parts.
- The Knowledge Development component of the course can be completed online using ‘PADI eLearning’ on your computer or laptop, or ‘PADI Touch’ on your iPad or tablet. This part of the course can also be completed in class.
- The Confined Water Dives provide divers with knowledge of basic skills in a confined body of water, such as a pool.
- The Open Water Dives allow divers to go out and use their newly learnt scuba skills!
Learning to dive in South East Queensland
South East Queensland offers divers the perfect playground to learn to dive. There are stunning dive sites all the way up the coast from the Gold Coast to Brisbane and up to the Sunshine Coast, and with over 250 dive sites in Queensland, you are spoilt for choice! A few special dive sites you will not want to leave off your list once certified are; the beautiful Flinders Reef at Cape Moreton which is a protected reef with a wealth of sea life, the Ex-HMAS Brisbane Conservation Park off the Sunshine Coast, which is known as one of the best wreck dives in Australia and Palm Beach Reef on the Gold Coast which is home to countless numbers of marine animals and corals.
The PADI Open Water Diver course ensures you get the most out of your dives in South East Queensland. When you dive with a PADI 5 Star Dive Shop you can be assured you will receive the best in quality and service. PADI 5 Star Dive Shop’s in South East Queensland include: