Learn to Dive & Continuing Your Adventure
Welcome to the underwater realm!
Learn to Dive: with only a few days of training you can soon be exploring the beauty and secrets of the underwater world that covers more than 70% of our planet.
Continue Your Adventure: whether exploring wrecks or photographing & enjoying the diversity of fish and corals that exist just below the surface you need additional training to improve your diving and enjoy new sites / techniques more safely and enjoyably.
Agencies such as PADI, IANTD, SDITDI are all globally recognized as providing quality training courses with strict standards for their professional instructors.
BubblesOptional takes these course materials and standards a step further, helping provide the student with as much experience and background information as possible, ensuring that they are informed and empowered to cope with a variety of diving challenges at a pace and schedule to suit them.
Training Programs
OW Students practicing skills
Recreational, or sport diving, provides levels of training for divers to attain depths upto 130 feet / 40m whilst remaining within the generally accepted "safe" No Decompression Limits.
Training is modular and usually includes:
- Academic learning (class or online)
- Pool sessions (where appropriate)
- Open water dives
- Post dive reviews
- And of course ... FUN!!!
The modular approach is designed to gradually build your skills through progressively advanced qualifications and a range of specialties
- Open Water Course
- Advanced Open Water
- Rescue Diver
- Multiple specialties such as Deep, Wreck, Photography, Night, Navigation etc. allow you to focus on activities that you enjoy or maybe use in college studies or areas of professional work.
Many certifications may be used as credit towards college/university courses. Please contact us for more information.
Note: Diving beyond 130 feet / 40m or the No Decompression Limits is achievable when you become trained in Technical Diving. BubblesOptional can take you into this level of diving with experienced instructors and a dazzling selection of dive sites.
Continuing Diver Education
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Course |
Pre-requisites |
Components |
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age (Jnr) |
diver level |
# logged dives |
days |
class |
pool |
dives |
max depth (fsw/m) |
|
|
Seal Team / BubbleMaker |
8 |
|
|
1 |
Y |
Y |
n/a |
12/4 |
|
Open Water (OW) |
(10) 15 |
2-4 |
Y |
Y |
4 |
60/18 |
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|
Advanced Open Water (AOW) |
(12) 15 |
OW |
4 |
2-3 |
Y |
N |
4 |
100/30 |
|
Rescue Diver (RD) |
(12) 15 |
Advanced + EFR |
4-5 |
Y |
Y |
~4 |
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|
Dive Master (DM) |
18 |
RD |
40/60 |
5+ |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) |
18 |
DM |
60/100 |
call |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Note: this is a summary of courses and standards may vary slightly between agencies. Contact us if you have specific questions.
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