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Which PADI Scuba Certification Should You Take?
Whether you’re seeking to experience your first breath underwater in the PADI Open Water Diver or the next specialty course to earn your Master Scuba Diver rating, you’ll find the perfect course right here. Gain your first scuba diving experience breathing underwater with the beginners scuba diver level certification courses and move your way up to the PADI Advanced Open Water as you progress. Get started now at PADI as a novice diver!
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PADI Open Water Diver
Get your PADI scuba certification. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.
Who Is It For? This program is for anyone in a reasonable good health and would like to have a lifetime international diving license.
How Long Does It Takes? 3 hours theory | 3 to 6 hours pool | 2D/2N to Malaysia
PADI Open Water Referral
Get your PADI scuba certification. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.
Who Is It For? This program is for anyone in a reasonable good health and would like to have a lifetime international diving license from other diving destinations not listed in our website. Upon completion of both theory and pool, divers will be issued with a referral form (valid for one year) to complete their ocean dives with any dive centres in the world.
How Long Does It Takes? 3 hours theory | 3 to 6 hours pool | Anywhere in the World to complete your ocean dives.
DISCOVER SCUBA DIVER
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater. If you want to find out but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving will let you try scuba to see if you like it.
Who Is It For? For people who would like to experience diving in a pool and able to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional
How Long Does It Takes? 1.5 hours in Pool
PADI SCUBA DIVER
Short on time and long on the urge to become a certified diver? The PADI Scuba Diver certification might just be for you. This course requires less time than the PADI Open Water Diver course, covering only the first three of five sections of knowledge development, the first three of five pool sessions, and the first two of four open water training dives, resulting in a limited certification. Particularly if you expect to go scuba diving primarily in the company of a dive guide or if you have limited time to devote to scuba certification, consider becoming a PADI Scuba Diver.
Who Is It For? This program is for anyone in a reasonable good health and would like to have a lifetime international diving license. Limited to diving depth of only 12 metres.
How Long Does It Takes? 3 hours theory | 3 hours pool | 2D/1N to Malaysia
PADI Advanced Open Water
Exploration, Excitement, Experiences. They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver course. The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI Instructor.
This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.
PADI Rescue Diver
“Challenging” and “rewarding” best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course. Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur.
Emergency First Response - First Aid
Emergency First Response - First Aid covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. Participants focus on secondary assessment and first aid through knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.
Emergency First Response - CPR
Emergency First Response - CPR teaches participants how to respond to life-threatening emergencies. The course focuses on primary care through a combination of knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice to make sure participants have the confidence in their ability to provide care when emergency situations arise.
Emergency First Response - AED
The Emergency First Response - Automated External Defibrillation AED course builds on the skills learned in the Primary Care (CPR) course to teach the proper AED use. This life saving device can increase a patient's chance of survival from a cardiac arrest by fifty percent. During this course you'll review the basic principles of Primary Care (CPR) and learn how to deploy and use an AED in an emergency situation.
Emergency First Response - Care For Children
The Emergency First Response - Care For Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and how they differ from adult conditions. The curriculum also includes the importance of attending to basic emergency situations with children, the emotional aspects of caring for children, secondary care for children, and preventing common injuries and illnesses in children.
PADI Specialties
Divemaster
Do you have a deep and abiding passion for diving? Or, do you merely love it with all of your heart? If so, you should consider doing what you love for a living: become a PADI Divemaster
When you Join the Tribe™ by becoming a PADI Divemaster, you align yourself with the largest and most respected dive tribe in the world—that of PADI Professionals. These are PADI Divemasters and Instructors sharing a passion for diving and an active concern for the health of the world’s underwater habitats.
Assistant Instructor
As a PADI Assistant Instructor, you not only gain additional experience as a PADI Professional scuba diver, but you also start learning the PADI System of diver education. You can act as an instructional scuba assistant and assume limited teaching responsibilities. It’s a great way to gain experience in order to become a scuba instructor!
Open Water Scuba Instructor
Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
The above courses are taught and conducted in Perhentian Islands by Course Director Azman Sulaiman of Flora Bay Divers marketed under Go Pro Malaysia
Specialty Instructor
Dive more, have more fun and teach about your favorite subjects. Specialty instructor courses provide valuable teaching tips for meeting the requirements of the course.
You can choose from any of the 27 standard specialty courses that PADI offers along with distinctive specialty courses your Course Director may offer.
The above courses are taught and conducted in Perhentian Islands by Course Director Azman Sulaiman of Flora Bay Divers marketed under Go Pro Malaysia
Master Scuba Diver Trainer
You’re a new instructor? Just finished the IE? No problem. See Course Director Azman Sulaiman for PADI Specialty Instructor Training and the Master Scuba Diver Trainer Prep Course.
The above courses are taught and conducted in Perhentian Islands by Course Director Azman Sulaiman of Flora Bay Divers marketed under Go Pro Malaysia
IDC Staff Instructor
As a seasoned PADI Instructor, you have wisdom and experience to share with up-and-coming PADI leaders. And, you know that continuing your education never ends.
As an Instructor Development Course (IDC) Staff Instructor, you help bring up the next generation of PADI Instructors while gaining in-depth instructor-trainer knowledge.
The above courses are taught and conducted in Perhentian Islands by Course Director Azman Sulaiman of Flora Bay Divers marketed under Go Pro Malaysia
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