PADI Dive Courses

PADI Bubblemaker for Kids and Youths

Kids – bring your parents scuba diving! For young adventurers, the PADI Bubblemaker program is an introduction to the thrill of breathing underwater. If you’re eight years and older, here’s your chance to take the plunge with a PADI instructor who will take you in a pool and show you the ropes. Held every other Saturday between 8 am and 10am, the Bubblemaker program is for kids aged 8+. Cost is $89 per participant. All ages welcome. Held at Schofield Barracks, HI.

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Discover Scuba Diving

Oahu is a great place to learn to scuba dive. With pristine waters, abundant sea life, and numerous wrecks and reefs to explore, get the hang of breathing underwater before going on shallow dives in the ocean with our PADI Discover Scuba Diving Program. For $195, we’ll:

• Provide instruction
• Get you in the pool so you can learn to use the gear and develop your skills
• Visit two different locations to dive and explore our shallow reefs

Open Water Diver

Grab the ticket to dive anywhere in the world with this basic PADI Oahu Scuba Diving Course. At Island Divers you will spend one day reviewing your self-guided academic training with quizzes and a final exam along with an extensive pool session where you will learn the basic skills of diving. Days 2 and 3 are open water dives off our boat, called “check out dives.” These are great fun! Successfully completing the class will allow you to go scuba diving and rent equipment anywhere in the world. Update, as of 2021 all open water scuba dive courses are SSI be default, with PADI Open Water courses available for an extra $100 plus the cost of digital learning purchased directly from PADI.

• $525 all inclusive 2 day course, start anytime. All boat dives and days need not be consecutive.
• Residents may want to contact us about week night and weekend group courses at discounted rates.
• $725 all inclusive 2 day course (1-2 person max).

Island Divers advantage

• Island Divers owns and operates its own boats
• With three charters daily, divers are separated by skill level for best customer experience
• 377 Keahole Street is a marina location with our vessels right out the back door. Classroom, rental room and fill station are located on site.

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Advanced Open Water Diver

• Five adventure dives under the direct supervision of the instructor, including some of our favorite like deep, drift, boat, and wreck dives, as well as the useful navigation dives. $459 pays for an all-inclusive experience with two boat charters, rental gear, books, instruction, and certification fees.
• These required five dives, can be completed on two charters or three charters. To complete it is two charters one of the two must be a three tank dive. Also, each dive in the Advanced Open Water Course counts towards “Dive One” of the corresponding specialty certification, you may be able to finish a whole specialty course on your sixth dive, which we can provide you a prorated discount on if you so desire.
• Add a SSI nitrox certification for $125, same amount of dives.
• Update, as of 2021 all  scuba dive courses are SSI be default, with PADI courses available for an extra $100 plus the cost of digital learning purchased directly from PADI.

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Stress and Rescue Diver

• This course builds diving confidence by focusing on the safety of other divers and typically meets on one night of the week and dives are scheduled for the weekend. The total price of this course is $595.  The Rescue course, known as Stress and Rescue in the SSI dive system is the only agency we are consistently offering at this time.  A PADI Rescue course is available in private format only.  Inquire for availability.
• The digital learning portion of the course is included and is to be completed prior to beginning of course.
• This course is typically held Friday (pool) Saturday (beach), and Sunday (boat). Private Rescue courses can be schedule at an additional cost. Call for details.

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Emergency First Response

• Emergency First Response (EFR) is an innovative CPR/first aid program. Primary Care (CPR) prepares you to render aid to those with life-threatening emergencies. Secondary Care (first aid) builds upon the lessons learned in Primary Care and gives you the knowledge and experience to assist those in need when Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are either delayed or unavailable. A great course for both divers and non-divers, we welcome everyone. The $225 cost includes books.
• The course incorporates independent study to prepare you for classroom and hands-on skill development sessions with your instructor. Learn the same patient care techniques used by medical professionals on a lay-person level. There are no pre-requisites to this class. Depending on the amount of independent study and the class size, both Primary and Secondary Care courses can be completed in as little as four to six hours.
• Update: as of 2021 our primary certification agency is SSI and the SSI version of EFR course is called React Right.  Cost is $125.  Since they are extremely similar, we recommend SSI React right for price and instructor availability.

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PADI Master Scuba Diver*

* Since 2021 Island Divers Hawaii’s primary certification agency is SSI.  We are no longer promoting the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, though it can be obtained through our instructors that still hold PADI instructor ratings.  The SSI Master Diver rating is actually free upon logging 50 dives and completing 5 specialties included Stress and Rescue.  Read about that here.

Getting certified as a Master Scuba Diver is the highest level one can attain in non-professional recreational diving. To obtain this recognition, the diver must obtain five specialty certifications in at least five types of diving. Certain specializations, such as Enriched Air and Wreck Diver, are recommended since they allow the diver to participate in types of diving they are otherwise not certified to participate in. Other specialties, such as Night Diver and UW Photograper, are recommended to gain experience in advanced types of diving, so that the diver raises their skill level and confidence when participating in these underwater activities.

Requirements:

• Advanced Diver Certification
• Rescue Diver Certification
• 50 logged dives
• Five PADI Dive Specialties

Island Divers Hawaii offer several scuba dive specialties for future masters to choose from. If you want to pursue the Master Scuba Diver rating while on vacation in Oahu, speak with our general manager who will custom fit a program that caters to your schedule, preferences, and budget.

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Divemaster

The first level of professional scuba certification, the Divemaster certification allows you to join the ranks of well-respected and elite scuba divers worldwide.

Costs and Prerequisites for a SSI Divemaster Course

• 18 years of age
• 40 logged dives
• Stress and Rescue certification or equivalent
• React Right certification or equivalent CPR/First Aid course
• $1500 or internship format
• Complete details here

Costs and Prerequisites for a PADI Divemaster Course

• Private course only available, $2500.  At the professional level, you should really be choosing a shop that meets your professional goals.  Island Divers chose to move forward with SSI as it going to become the leader in dive training in the 21st century.  A majority of the major players in the industry have already switched, just like dive centers in the 70’s and 80’s switched from NAUI to PADI.  With higher training fees, annual dues at twice the price, outdated learning materials, and a 20th century digital platform – PADI is really falling behind in the industry.  It probably doesn’t help that investors are tossing the ownership around like a hot potato.  If you are considering PADI as a professional level beyond Divemaster, you should really do your research.  If you are stopping at Divemaster, it matters less.  There are still plenty of PADI dive centers around, though they are getting harder and harder to find.
• As an SSI Dive shop Island Divers teaches primarily SSI Divemasters, course cost is $1500.  See details here, and internships are available.

Island Divers is aware that costs for tuition seems higher than most dive centers. However, free unlimited boat diving during your course is the difference between us and the other shops on Oahu. The quality of the program is simply higher at Island Divers, we provide more hands on training with real clients than any other dive center and will assist you in becoming a real, not a “textbook” divemaster. You will be working directly with the real thing, full time professional dive instructors. You will learn how to plan, lead, brief and conduct dive trips, and be able to handle less experienced divers everyday problems without thinking twice by the end of your training. If you want the real thing, here it is. Just come to the shop one day, you’ll see at least 3, and up to 5 dive trips, depart from the shop in a single day. If you really want to be a professional, this is the place to learn. If you just want the paper, sorry, this program is too advanced for you.

Requirements for Divemaster Training

• Must own a full set of personal dive equipment

How It Works

We provide free boat dives during your training – a significant perk and a smart reason to choose Island Divers Hawaii for your Divemaster training. Our goal is to turn out Divemasters that are fully capable of leading these same dive charters by the end of the course. To that end you will be fully involved in all aspects of learning how to plan, brief, safely execute, and conclude a daily boat charter.

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Instructor Training Course

Become and SSI instructor in one week or 4 weekends followed by a weekend Instructor Examination.

Total cost $3500 all fees, digital learning, slates, and instructor Exam.  Only add tax.

No surprise costs.  Just add HI Sales tax 4.172%

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Specialty Courses*

*As Island Divers Hawaii has fewer and fewer PADI Instructors on staff, the availability of PADI specialties has become limited.  Click here for a list of SSI Specialties offered.

However, we are in the customer service business!  If you want a PADI specialty and plan it in advance, chances are we can organize it for you.  The prices below do not reflect PADI digital learning material.

Here’s an FYI for you.  If you want to switch to SSI (we did) you can take your PADI  Certifications and Specialties with you.  SSI will recognize two PADI Specialties toward the Master Diver rating.  You just need a dive center to verify those certifications for you.  Bonus:  once you do this you will have a free digital card for that specialty or certification for life in your free MySSI App. The app is a free log book too.

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