Description
If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where
it starts.
Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI® Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course.
Millions
of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course. To enroll in a PADI
Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you must be 10 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills
and need to be in good
physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
Academic
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
- Knowledge Development ( online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
- Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
- Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!
You may be able to get college credit for the Open Water Diver course.
Short on time? The PADI Scuba Diver course might be right for you.
Equipment
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and
a tank.
The equipment you wear varies, depending upon whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water.
Check with your local dive center about the gear you’ll use during this course and get advice about everything you need from your PADI
Instructor.
Getting Started
You can also start learning with PADI’s home-study materials – Open Water Diver (available on iOS, Android and via Web Viewer) or
the Open Water Diver Manual and Open Water Diver Video (a book and DVD package). Stop by your local PADI dive shop to enroll
in the course, get your materials
and start reading the book and watching the video. Your PADI Instructor will schedule time with you to check your progress and
make sure you
understand important scuba diving information.
Cost:
11,200 THB
