Open Water PADI Certification options at Island Divers
The classroom portion of the PADI Open Water Diver course is completed online at your own pace, anytime, anywhere with PADI eLearning.
While you’re working through the PADI Open Water Diver Course Online or after you complete all the segments, you can print your eLearning record and bring it into us to start the next phase in your underwater adventure.
PADI eLearning gives you:
- Convenient online access to knowledge development course material for one year
- Unrestricted access to an online version of the PADI Open Water Diver Manual
- Learning at your own pace and on your own schedule.
Semi-Private Open Water Course $695*
(we recommend SSI for $100 less and digital learning included)
- *students will need to obtain their own digital learning materials at PADI.com (approximately $180)
- This Open Water PADI certification course can start any day. All boat dives and days need not be consecutive.
- Included in your scuba diving training are all equipment needed, semi-private confined water instruction, and certification.
- During your Open Water dives on the boat, your instructor will be supervising other guests as well. However, only up to a group size of four divers. (Want an Instructor all to yourself for all of your training dives? Check out our Private Open Water Course below.)
Grab the ticket to dive anywhere in the world with this basic PADI Open Water Course!
Day 1- Review your self-guided eLearning along with a morning pool session where you will begin to learn the basic skills of scuba diving. You will then jump on the afternoon 2 tank shallow reef charter to complete the first session of your open water training dives.
Days 2 – Again you will meet in the morning to complete the confined water training of the course, then on to finish your last two open ocean dives. Successfully completing the diving class will allow you to go scuba diving and rent equipment anywhere in the world.
Island Divers is quite willing to teach you a PADI open water scuba certification course, but the base cost is $100 more. And the digital learning materials from PADI are currently $180 and increase regularly. With the SSI scuba certification course we include the materials in the certification cost.
Private Open Water Course $995
(we recommend SSI for $100 less and digital learning included)
- 2-day PADI course, student obtains digital learning materials from PADI.com (approximately $180)
- This course follows the Semi-Private Course with a private instructor in the confined water training, but with the private course, you will also have a private instructor on the ocean diving portion as well.
A typical schedule for this scuba diving training begins early in the morning on day one with E-learning quick review. You will then complete a few hours of confined water training and then on to the 2 tank afternoon shallow reef dive.
Day two you will begin the morning with your final confined water session of scuba diving training and again onto the afternoon dive charter to complete the last two open water scuba diving training dives.
You must complete your digital learning prior to the start of the course to meet the schedule.
Referral Dives Only (class and pool completed) $450
Any organization is okay for this price. However certification fees are not included. As long as your originating dive shop has already paid these fees there is not additional cost. NAUI, SDI, and RAID typically provide the student with a universal referral form. We perform the dives and skill evaluations, sign off on the form, and you return it to the originating dive shop for certification. With PADI you may have used digital learning for your course, which in most cases includes the cost of certification. And our PADI instructor will certify you with that digital code. However, if you do not have your digital learning login, our PADI instructor will need to purchase and “PIC” and this cost will be passed onto you. At the time of this writing that cost is $75 and will be paid directly to the PADI Instructor that completed your final two dives to cover that cost.