PADI Open Water Diver Course

If you always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, love the sea, marine life, and want to experience the ultimate freedom that only diving offers, then doing your PADI Open Water Diver Course is where it all starts. The PADI Open Water Diver course is the most popular scuba diving course in the world and the first step to scuba diving and a lifetime of memorable experiences. The PADI Open Water Diver Course introduces you to endless underwater adventures and is widely recognized and respected worldwide.

PADI Open Water Diver Online
Orca Industries offers the PADI Open Water Diver Course Online. The PADI Open Water Diver Course Online teaches you the background information you need to know about scuba diving at your own time through friendly and interactive learning, while the dives can be done at the Orca Diving Academy.

Once you have completed your PADI Open Water Diver Course you also qualify for the speciality course to become an ‘Enriched Air Diver’.

Price
R 3 250.00 Get your PADI scuba certification
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Requirements to enroll on a PADI Open Water Diver Course

• You must be 12 years or older to register for a PADI Open Water Diver course.
  
  

Duration of the PADI Open Water Diver Course

• 4 Lectures (18:00 - 20:30 week nights)
• 5 Pool Sessions (1 weekend 09:00 – 16:00)
• 4 Sea Dives (1 Weekend 09:00 – 16:00)
  

 

The Full time PADI Open Water Course is one week, Monday to Friday 9:00 – 16:00.

Included in the Orca PADI Open Water Diver Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including; dive tables, log books, text books, work books and bags. PADI’s Open Water Diver Course covers everything you need to know about basic scuba diving skills, terminology and safety procedures. Your Orca PADI Dive Instructor will do pool dives with you where you will practice the basic skills of scuba diving.

For each theory you’ll read a description and watch a video demonstration. You will be able to use the course material provided to you as a reference for future diving, and review what you have learned on a regular basis. Orca Industries offers a 10% discount on diving equipment and gear to students who enroll for a PADI Open Water Diver Course.

What you learn from a PADI Open Water Diver course

• In class you learn to understand the basic principles of scuba diving

• Restricted water dives and basic scuba diving skills at Orca Diving Academy

• Open water dives, where you review your skills

 

Register for a PADI Open Water Diver Course with Orca Industries

Taking scuba lessons is a great way to meet new people and connect with family and friends. If you would like to do an Open Water Diver Course with Orca Industries please contact us for more information or send an enquiry info@orca-industries.co.za 

 

Scuba Gear You Use on a PADI Open Water Diver Course

During the PADI Open Water Diver Course you learn how to use basic scuba gear including a dive computer, and standard accessories. The equipment you wear varies depending on whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water.

To Download PADI Open Water PDF, click here

 

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course is all about discovery, experience and exhilaration. In order to do a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course with Orca Industries you require your PADI Open Water Diver Course certification.

The Advanced Open Water Diver Course provides the opportunity to get more dives under your belt while you learn under the supervision of your ORCA PADI Dive Instructor. During the PADI Advanced Open Water Course you will be able to build on your scuba diving skills and what you have learned, thus getting introduced to new activities and new ways to have fun while scuba diving.

The PADI Adventures in Diving program offers both Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three more adventure dives for a total of five dives, you earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Once you have completed your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course you qualify to do any of the following speciality courses: 

• Search & Recovery Diver
• Deep Diver
• Wreck Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Night Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver
• Underwater Photography
• Underwater Navigator
  
  

Speciality courses and schedules are set on requests to suit your needs. For more information on the speciality courses please contact Orca Industries.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Online
Orca Diving Academy also offers the PADI Advanced Open Water Course Online. The PADI Advanced Open Water Course Online gets you started with the information you need in order to complete the Adventure Dives.

 

Price
R 2 700.00 PADI Advanced Open Water
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Requirements to enroll on a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

• You must be a PADI Open Water Diver  (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

• 15 years or older (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
  
  

Duration for the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

• 4 Lectures (18:00 - 20:30 week nights)
•  5 Sea Dives (2 weekends 09:00 – 16:00)
  

Included in the Orca PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
Orca Industries includes the diving equipment & gear free of charge for the duration of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. You will need a mask, fins, gloves, booties, weight belt, snorkel, BCD, regulator, cylinder, exposure suit, SPG, alternate Air source, compass, dive computers, octo’s, wet suit and dive bag (provided by Orca if you do not have your own). Students who register and complete the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course with Orca Diving Academy qualify for a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear purchased at Orca Industries.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI’s Adventures Diving Manual and DVD that provides information on more than 16 types of specialty diving. Orca Industries provides full scuba & snorkelling gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges,  diving computers, octo's, wet suit, mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, booties, weight belt and dive bag for the duration of the course.

 

What you learn from a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course

• Practical aspects of deep diving

• Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving

• More ways to use your underwater compass

• How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time

• How to better use your dive computer 

• And much, much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose
  

 

Register for a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course with Orca Industries

If you would like to do a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course please contact us for more information or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za .

The Scuba Gear you’ll use for your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
You will use all the basic scuba gear such as a mask, fins, snorkel, BCD, regulator, cylinder, exposure suit, SPG, dive computer and underwater compass for the adventure PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Once you have completed the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course you will enjoy and experience three adventure dives in which you may try out underwater photography equipment, underwater scooters and other specialty gear.

To Download PADI Advanced Open Water PDF, click here

 

PADI Rescue Diver Course
The PADI Rescue Diver Course is best described as a challenging, demanding and very rewarding experience. Rescue Divers are trained to look beyond themselves and to consider the safety and well being of other divers.

The PADI Rescue Diver Course is all about:

• Expanding your knowledge on what you as diver already know

• How to prevent problems

• How to manage problems when they occur through techniques such as self rescue, rescuing panicking divers & unresponsive divers
  
  

The fun part about the PADI Rescue Diver course is rising to challenges and mastering them, it is an enjoyable way to build a divers confidence. The PADI Rescue Diver course takes a flexible and conceptual approach to rescue. During the water training sessions of the course students develop foundational skills, which are adapted to the divers’ personal differences and needs.

Divers are encouraged during skill development to experiment, benefit from their strengths, recognize their limitations and consider these variables in emergency situations. Student divers learn to first think about the options available for handling an emergency, and then act using their appraisal of the best method for the situation.

PADI Rescue Diver Online

Orca Industries offers the PADI Rescue Diver Course Online. PADI Rescue Diver Online gets you started right away with the information you need in order to complete the course at your own time through friendly and interactive learning.

 

Price
R 2350 PADI Rescue Diver Course
Combined course R3250 (as 1st aid EFR is a pre-requisite to do a Rescue course)
If you do not have your 1st Aid you are able to do it at Orca for R900 or combine the course.
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Rescue Diver Course

• You must be 12 years or older

• Have a PADI Open Water & PADI Advanced Open Water

• Be trained and current for first aid and CPR within the previous two years (Ask your instructor about Emergency First Response CPR and first aid courses).
  
  

Duration for the PADI Rescue Diver Course

• 5 Lectures (18:00 - 20:30 week nights)

• Pool & Sea Skills (2 Weekends 09:00 – 16:00)
  
  

Included in the Orca PADI Rescue Diver Course
Orca Industries includes the diving equipment & gear free of charge for the duration of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. You will need a mask, fins, gloves, booties, weight belt, snorkel, BCD, regulator, cylinder, exposure suit, SPG, alternate Air source, compass, dive computers, octo’s, wet suit and dive bag (provided by Orca if you do not have your own). Students who register and complete the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course with Orca Diving Academy qualify for a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear purchased at Orca.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
The PADI Rescue Diver crewpak includes all materials required to complete the PADI Rescue Diver course, including a pocket mask. During the PADI Rescue Diver Course you’ll learn how to think like a rescue diver and study skills that your PADI Instructor will train you on. You will be able to use the DVD provided to you as a reference to refresh your dive safety skills as needed, and review what you have learned on a regular basis. 

This tool box of knowledge and technique will give you the expertise to handle almost any emergency situation. Orca Industries provides full scuba & snorkelling gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suit, mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, booties, weight belt and dive bag for the duration of the course.

Orca Industries offers a 10% discount on diving equipment and gear to students who enroll on a PADI Rescue Diver Course.

What you learn from a PADI Rescue Diver course

• Self rescue

• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers

• Emergency management and equipment

• Rescuing panicking divers

• Rescuing unresponsive divers

 

Register for a Rescue Diver Course

The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them. Most divers find this course both demanding and rewarding, and at the end, say it’s the best course they’ve ever taken.

 

You will require your PADI Open Water, PADI Advanced Open Water & 1st Aid Course to enroll for a PADI Rescue Diver Course. First aid and CPR are good skills for anyone involved in adventure sports and you will require these qualifications as requirements for the PADI Rescue Diver course.

 

If you would like to do a PADI Rescue Diver Course please contact us for more information or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za 

The Scuba Gear you’ll use for your PADI Rescue Diver Course

You will use all the basic scuba gear such as mask, fins, snorkel, BCD, regulator, cylinder, exposure suit, SPG, dive computer and underwater compass for the challenging & rewarding PADI Rescue Course. Once you have completed your PADI Rescue Diver Course will you be able to start your PADI Dive Master Certification.

To Download PADI Rescue Diver PDF, click here

 

PADI Dive Master Course

To start a professional career in recreational scuba diving one needs to complete the PADI Dive Master Course. Working closely with your PADI instructor, the aim of the program is to expand your dive knowledge and sharpen your skills to a professional level. The PADI Dive Master Course is aimed at developing your leadership abilities, enabling you to supervise dive activities and assist dive instructors with student divers.

Once you decide to do professional diving as a career, work will become an adventure, something to look forward to everyday. As a professional diver one is not restricted to one place, but can work wherever the oceans are. Taking people diving everyday will enable you to experience many new places, meet many interesting people, and learn new cultures. Lead a life of adventure and discovery. Although being a professional diver can be very fun, it is hard work, but rewarding. 

As a professional diver you will be able to share your knowledge of diving and the oceans with those you take diving.

PADI Dive Master Online

Orca Industries offers the PADI Dive Master Course Online.

Price
R 5500 PADI Dive Master
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Requirements for PADI Dive Master Certification:

• You must be 18 years or older

• Have a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver qualification

• Have a PADI Rescue Diver qualification

• 1st Aid Qualification that has been done in the past 24 months

• Have at least 40 dives to begin the course and 60 for certification

• Be fit for diving and submit a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
  
  

Duration of the PADI Dive Master Course

• 5 Lectures (18:00 - 20:30 week nights)

• Pool and Sea skills (4 Weekends 09:00 – 16:00)

 

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
The PADI Dive Master crewpak includes all the materials required to start the PADI Dive Master Program. The crewpack includes:

• The Encyclopaedia of Recreational Diving - a comprehensive overview of diving physics, physiology, and equipment

• Divemaster slates

• PADI Divemaster Manual

• CD-ROM with instructor outlines for Divemaster-conducted programs (exclusive item not available for purchase separately)
  
  

Orca Industries highly recommend that you own all your own scuba equipment and gear, and familiarize yourself with your own gear to help you improve your scuba diving skills. Orca Industries offers its students a 10% discount on diving equipment and gear.

What you learn from a PADI Dive Master Program

The PADI Dive Master program teaches you dive leadership skills through classroom and independent study. As part of the PADI Dive Master program students will do water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that enhances their ability to organize and do problem solving. You will also learn how to help others improve their scuba diving by putting the knowledge you have learnt into action through practical training exercises.

 

Register for a PADI Dive Master Qualification

You will require your PADI Open Water, PADI Advanced Open Water, 1st Aid Course, and PADI Rescue Diver Qualification to enroll for the PADI Dive Master Certification. If you would like to do a PADI Dive Master Qualification please contact us for more information or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za 

The Scuba Gear you’ll use for your PADI Dive Master Program

You will use all the basic scuba gear such as mask, fins, snorkel, BCD, regulator, cylinder, exposure suit, SPG, dive computer, underwater compass and dive watch.  Orca Industries highly recommend that you own all of your own scuba equipment and gear as familiarity with your own personal gear improves you scuba diving skills. Orca Industries are stockists of all diving equipment and gear needed to do the PADI Dive Master Certification.

To Download PADI Dive Master Program PDF, click here

PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course

The PADI Deep Diver Speciality course teaches divers the necessary techniques to explore the deep. As a Deep Diver you will be able to dive where others can only dream of. The Deep Diver speciality course familiarizes the diver with the skills, knowledge, planning, organizational procedures, techniques, problems and hazards involved in Deep Diving. Deep diving is about experiencing the depths of the ocean and going where few others go. On average divers will do dives of 18 meters/60 feet to 40 meters/130 feet.The Deep Diver speciality course is a safe, supervised introduction to deeper diving within the limits of recreational scuba diving.

The aim of the PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course:

• To develop the divers’ theoretical knowledge of deep diving
• To teach the diver to plan, organize and make no decompression dives between the depths of 18 meters/60 feet to 40 meters/130 feet.
  
  

Why PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course?
With the PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course you will be able to expand your diving options and enjoy bigger adventures. Many shipwrecks are found in deeper water with Cape Town offering some of the best wreck diving in the world. The PADI Deep Diver Speciality course naturally compliments the PADI Wreck Diver course.  The Deep Diver Specialty course enables the diver to experience diving in a way others can only dream about.

Price
R 1950 PADI Deep Diver Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI Deep Diver Crewpak with DVD and manual.

Requirements to enroll for the PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification

The PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Deep Speciality Course please contact Orca Industries or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

Included in the Orca PADI Deep Diver Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

Scuba Gear You’ll Use
You’ll use Basic Scuba Gear, a Dive Computer, Accessories and a Dive Light.

What you learn from a PADI Deep Diver Course

• Different techniques for deeper scuba diving to depths of 18 – 40 metres
• Deep scuba diving equipment considerations
• Experience in deep dive planning, organizing of deep dives and doing at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
  
  

Register for a PADI Deep Diver Course with Orca Industries
You’ll learn deep all about dive planning, organizing, procedures, techniques and about the hazards involved. If you would like to do the PADI Deep Diver Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

To Download PADI Deep Diver PDF, click here

PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course

The PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course is recommended to those who want to stay dry on a dive. A dry suit seals you off from the cold and keeps you dry even when diving in surprisingly cold waters. After completing the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality course you will be able to not only dive the warmer waters of the world, but in any other challenging and cold conditions.  By doing the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course you will be able to extend the dive season by being able to dive during the colder winter months or in areas known for cold water diving.

By wearing the right cold water scuba diving gear you are able to face the elements and dive in the colder waters during winter months. The advantage of diving in cold water is better visibility offered by inland dive sites such as quarries, lakes, sinkholes and caves. As a PADI Dry Suit Diver you will be able to enjoy some of the world’s most incredible dive sites located in the cooler regions of the world. These sites are best enjoyed in a dry suit, even during the warmer months.

Practical skills you learn during the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course:

• How to familiarize yourself with your dry suit
• How to do safety checks
• Entry techniques
• Doing a bubble check
• Doing a buoyancy check
• Different descent techniques
• Fin Pivot
• How to hover
• Excess gas in feet emergency roll drill
• Stuck inflator emergency drill
• Stuck exhaust valve emergency drill
• Ascent procedure: Remove and replace scuba unit and weight belt on the surface
• Exit techniques: Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance
  
  

Why does Orca recommend the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course?
Divers who want to see and experience the amazing and prolific aquatic life often found in colder water climates will need to do the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality course to be able to dive in these conditions and to stay warm in cold waters. To be able to dive in cold conditions you will have to be familiarised with the dry suit and different techniques used to dive in cold conditions.

Price
R 1500 PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI Dry Suit Diver Crewpak with DVD and manual.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Dry Suit Diver Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water Diver Certification
  
  

The PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Dry Suit Diver Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za  

Included in the Orca PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

What you learn from a PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course
The PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality course teaches you how to safely put on, dive with, take off and store a dry suit. The PADI Dry Suit Diver course will introduce you to the different types of dry suits, so when considering to purchase one you will be well informed and make the right decision.

During the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course you learn:

• Dry suit buoyancy control skills
• Dry suit maintenance, storage and basic repair
• Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options
  
  

Register for a PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course with Orca Industries
If interested in the PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za  Recommended Courses after PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality CourseOrca highly recommends the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality course after completing the PADI Dry Suit Diver course. This way you will get the most out of your diving.

To Download PADI Dry Suit Diver PDF, click here

PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Speciality Course

The PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Speciality Course teach recreational divers how to use Nitrox enriched air during dives. Scuba divers get more ‘no decompression’ dive time when diving with Nitrox enriched air, meaning you can dive for longer, deeper and do repetitive scuba diving.

Diving with Nitrox Enriched air benefits all types of diving, but it goes especially well with the following specialties:

• PADI Wreck Diver course – Diving with Nitrox enriched air enables the diver to do much deeper wreck dives with more exploration time.
• PADI Deep Diver course – The deeper you dive, the less time you have underwater. Diving with Nitrox enriched air enables you to dive deeper and spend more time at depth.
• PADI Digital Underwater Photographer – Underwater Photographers needs to do numerous dives in order to get the pictures they are after. Diving with Nitrox enriched air decreases the amount of remaining nitrogen you collect, allowing you longer repetitive dives.
  
  

Why Orca recommends the PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Speciality Course
After completing the PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Course you will be able to:  

• Stay underwater longer
• Get back into the water sooner and do longer repetitive dives
• Get your certification while simultaneously completing dives for other PADI courses
• Feel less tired after diving with Nitrox Enriched Air
  
  

Price
R 1500 PADI Enriched Air Diver Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water Diver Course Certification.
  
  

Duration of the PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Course

• 4 Lectures (18:00 - 20:30 week nights)
• 2 Sea Dives (1 weekend 09:00 – 16:00)
  
  

The PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Course is on Request only. To book your PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Speciality Course please contact Orca Industries or send your enquiry to info@orca-indsutries.co.za  

Included in the Orca PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Speciality Course
Orca provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course. Scuba Gear You’ll Use
You’ll use Basic Scuba Gear and a Dive Regulator.

What will you learn from a PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Course

• Different techniques to get more dive time
• Nitrox enriched air diving equipment considerations
• How to manage oxygen exposure
• How to tell the status of your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer 
  
  

Register for a PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Course with Orca Industries
This PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver course teaches recreational divers how to use Nitrox enriched air and experience longer dives. To register for the PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

To Download PADI Nitrox/Enriched Air Diver PDF, click here

PADI Night Diver Speciality Course

As a night diver you will discover a whole new world. The PADI Night Diver Specialty course introduces the diver to the exciting world of underwater creatures and plant life that comes out at night. Night diving offers a unique and exciting diving experience as you will discover and experience a part of the ocean that comes alive at night.

The Night Diver Speciality course teaches the diver about night dive planning, organizational procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. The PADI Night Diver Speciality course teaches you how to control your buoyancy, and navigate and communicate at night. Night diving gives you an introduction to the nocturnal aquatic life and habits of the ocean.

Price
R 1950 PADI Night Diver Speciality Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI Night Diver Crewpak with DVD and manual.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Night Diver Speciality Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water Diver Certification

The PADI Night Diver Speciality course is on Request only. To book the PADI Night Diver Speciality course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-indsutries.co.za  

Included in the Orca PADI Night Diver Speciality Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

Scuba Gear You’ll Use
You’ll use Basic Scuba Gear and Dive Lights. What you learn from a PADI Night Diver Speciality Course

• Night dive planning, organizing, procedures and techniques
• How to deal with potential problems you might encounter on a night dive
• How to control your buoyancy during night diving
• How to enter, exit and navigate on a night dive
• You will learn about the nocturnal aquatic life of the ocean and their habits
  
  

Register for a PADI Night Diver Speciality Course with Orca Industries
If you would like to do the PADI Night Diver Speciality Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za  Orca recommends the following Courses after the PADI Night Diver CourseThe PADI Underwater Navigator course highly complements the PADI Night Diver Speciality course. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course also comes highly recommended after completing the PADI Night Diver course.

To Download PADI Night Diver PDF, click here

PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Course

The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves a divers’ buoyancy control in order to dive, ascend, descend or hover effortlessly while under water, and use less air. The divers who complete the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality course have an advantage over other divers as you learn how to have better control, while diving and by saving air.

Divers who have mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart from other divers as they can control how much air they use and determine weight under water to find a perfect balance. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality course improves the basic skills you have learned from your PADI Open Water Diver Course and takes it to the next level.

Price
R 1500 PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy DVD.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water Diver Certification

 
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course please contact Orca Industries

Scuba Gear You’ll Use
You’ll use Basic Scuba Gear on the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course.

What you learn from a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Course

• How to find the perfect balance in the water by trimming down your scuba gear
• How to determine your weight so you’re not too light nor too heavy while diving
• How to streamline and move smoothly through the water to save as much air as
• How to hover without effort in both a vertical and horizontal position
  
  

Register for a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver Course with Orca Industries
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Course will improve your buoyancy skills, extend your diving time by reducing air consumption and prolong the life of your diving equipment. If you would like to register for PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

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PADI Search & Recovery Specialty Course

The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course teaches divers effective ways to find items underwater and bring them to the surface. It doesn’t matter the shape or size of the item to search for, there is always a way to bring them to the surface. The PADI Search & Recovery Diver Course is a fun course that teaches divers search & recovery dive planning, organizational skills, procedures, techniques and what to do when facing potential problems. You will also learn about search patterns and use safe object recovery using lift devices.

Price
R 1950 PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI’s Search & Recovery Crewpak with DVD and manual.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water & PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification  

The PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course please contact Orca Industries or send your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

Included in the Orca PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

Scuba Gear you will use
You will use Basic Scuba Gear, Underwater Compass and a Dive Lift Bag. What you learn from a PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course

• Search and recovery dive planning, organizational skills, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems
• How to locate large and small objects using search patterns
• How to use a lift bag and other recovery methods
• Limited visibility search techniques
  
  

Register for a PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course with Orca Industries
If you would like to register for a PADI Search & Recovery Speciality Course please contact us or send your enquiry to info@orca-indsutries.co.za .  Orca Industries recommends the Underwater Navigator Course after completing the PADI Search & Recovery Diver Course. The Underwater Navigator course improves your underwater navigation skills, a huge advantage in Search & Recovery diving.

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PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality course

The PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality course is intended for divers who have an interest in aquatic life. This is where you will learn why some underwater creatures behave in a certain way and what their role in the aquatic ecosystem is. The course teaches divers to pay more attention to their underwater surroundings by looking for symbioses, predator and prey, and the interesting relationships between aquatic plant and animal life.

This exciting course not only teaches the diver what fish and aquatic & marine life are, but also how they interact with each other and their surrounding environment. This course introduces the diver to the underwater aquatic environment and develops safe and responsible aquatic life interaction techniques.

Why the PADI Underwater Naturalist Course?
The PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality course is ideal for those interested in becoming underwater conservationists who wants to document what they see and find.

Those who complete the PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality course will also enjoy the following specialty courses:

• PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course
• PADI Underwater Photography course
  

Price
R 1950 PADI Underwater Naturalist Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Requirements to enroll for a PADI Underwater Naturalist Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water Diver

The PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality Course please contact Orca Industries or send your enquiry to info@orca-indsutries.co.za

Included in the Orca PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with basic scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

What you learn from the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialist Course

• You will learn interesting facts about the major aquatic life groupings and their  interactions
• You will learn about the role of aquatic plants in the ecosystem, different food chains and about the different relationships between predator and prey
• How to interact in a responsible manner with aquatic life
• You will learn how to view different organisms and their roles in their underwater environment
  
  

Register for a PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality Course with Orca Industries
If you're interested in aquatic life and to learn more about it then the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course is for you. This course is an introduction to the underwater aquatic environment and will help develop safe and responsible aquatic life interaction techniques. If you would like to do the PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality Course please contact us or send an enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

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PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality Course

The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course teaches divers the techniques they need to know to best navigate underwater. The PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course will teach you to lead other divers and to be confident in underwater direction when leading divers to a reef or shipwreck.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI Navigation Crewpak.

Requirements to enroll for the PADI Underwater Navigator Course

• You must be 12 years or older and have a PADI Open Water Diver Certification
  
  

The PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality Course please contact Orca Industries.

Included in the Orca PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

Scuba Gear You’ll Use
You’ll use Basic Scuba Gear and some Diving Accessories.What you learn from a PADI Underwater Navigator CourseThe PADI Underwater Navigator course is challenging and teaches you how to master underwater navigation. During the PADI Underwater Navigation Specialty course you will cover all aspects of underwater navigation, including navigation via natural clues and by compass.

During the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course you will learn the following:

• Navigation patterns
• Natural navigation (without a compass)
• Compass navigation
• How to “mark” or relocate a submerged object or position from the surface
• Underwater map making
• How to follow irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
• Dive site relocation
• How to judge distance underwater
  
  

Register for the PADI Underwater Navigator Course with Orca Industries
If you would like to register for a PADI Underwater Navigator Course please contact us or send us your enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za The Underwater Navigation Speciality Course is an important skill to have and especially useful for when doing night diving, wreck diving and search & recovery diving.

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PADI Wreck Diver Course

The PADI Wreck Diver course introduces the diver to wreck diving. This course is designed to develop skills and gain knowledge required to enjoy safe and fun wreck diving. The course is exciting, fun and adventurous, as you will visit underwater wrecks, unlock mysteries and gain the necessary knowledge and experience needed to see detail and things other divers will normally overlook. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches the diver unique ways to enjoy rewarding and responsible wreck diving.

The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course will familiarize the diver with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and excitement of diving and exploring the Cape Town wrecks.

The purpose and goal of the PADI Wreck Diver course is to achieve the following:

• To learn new techniques and expand your knowledge on wreck diving 
• To recognize and avoid potential hazards, and planning procedures that makes wreck diving fun
• To gain knowledge about the historical value of wrecks, and give explanations about these historical values and the social and legal issues surrounding them
• To be able to describe some of the implications surrounding wreck diving, including the pros and cons of removing artifacts from wrecks
• To be able to plan and organize dives and explore wrecks in a safe and responsible manner
• To be able to explore wrecks in conditions better or worse than those you have been trained in
• To be able to identify the hazards of wreck penetration diving, and to practice the techniques and procedures required to minimize or avoid those hazards

Price
R 1950 Padi Wreck Diver Course
Orca Industries offer students a 10% discount on diving equipment & gear for the duration of the course and a month after the course have finished.

Support materials supplied by Orca Industries
Orca Industries provides its students with all the necessary training material including a PADI Wreck Diver Crewpak. 

Requirements to enroll on a PADI Wreck Diver Course

• You must be 15 years or older and have a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification (Link to PADI Advanced Open Water).
  
  

The PADI Wreck Diver Course is on Request only. To book the PADI Wreck Diver Course please contact Orca Industries (Link to Contact us Page)

Included in the Orca PADI Wreck Diver Speciality Course
Orca Industries provides it’s students with full scuba / snorkelling equipment & gear, cylinders, integrated buoyancy compensators, demand valves with gauges, diving computers, octo's, wet suits, masks & snorkels, fins, gloves & booties, weight belts and dive bags for the duration of the course.

Scuba Gear You’ll Use
Basic Scuba Gear, Accessories and Dive Computer.

What you learn from the PADI Wreck Diver Course

• Different techniques for diving and exploring shipwrecks
• How to be safe and avoid hazardous situations
• How to do research and learn about the historical background of different wrecks
• Different techniques on how to enter intact wrecks
• How to plan and organize wreck dives and at least four wreck dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
  
  

Register for a PADI Wreck Diver Speciality Course
The PADI Wreck Diver course goes hand in hand with the PADI Deep Diver course.  It is highly recommended to do a PADI Nitrox / Enriched Air Diver course as it complements the PADI Wreck Diver and PADI Deep Diver courses . If you would like to enroll on a PADI Wreck Diver course please contact us or send an enquiry to info@orca-industries.co.za

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ORCA Skipper Courses

• Day Skipper Local Waters (Restricted certificate ≤9m)
• Day Skipper Category E and R (≤9m)
• Day Skipper Category C (≤9m)
• Skipper Coastal (≤9m)

Theory & Practical topics
All courses include theory lectures and practical work on a number of topics:

• Chart Work
• Boat Manoeuvring and Handling
• Elementary First Aid
• Emergency Procedures
• Law (Small Vessels)
• Meteorology
• Naval Architecture
• Power Plants
• Seamanship

Each topic includes one or more Modules, with not all Modules being compulsory for all courses. See attached document for more information on what the various courses and Modules.

Requirements

• Eyesight Test
• Doctors Certificate
• Proof If Identity
• Over 16 years old (18 years old for diving skippers endorsement)
• Skippers Hours logged

All hours need to be logged with a SAMSA certified Skipper on applicable vessel prior to course begin. Amount of hours needed is specific to each course.
Price
R 1950.00

What’s Included

• SASCA Manual
• NRSI Manual
• List Of Lights Manual

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ORCA Industries offers a comprehensive compressor operating course, which allows you to become efficient in running and maintaining compressors of all sorts. Orca also has a variety of compressors from the IDE range available for purchase. See compressors heading under the ORCA Industries shop tab.

Theory & Practical Information

• The law SANS 10019
• Visuals and Hydros
• Eddie current testing
• Air purity testing (demo)
• Air flow and the stages of filtration through a compressor.
• Basic compressor maintenance
• Compressor safety.
• Compressor operation in the field:
  • Set up
  • Compressor checks
  • Start up
  • Running
  • Shut down
• Fault finding

Duration of the Course

• 3 Lectures (18:00 - 21:00 week nights)
• Exam of about 30 min

Price
R 1500.00

What’s Included

• CMAS certification and registration
• Text books
• Air purity test demo
• Use of ORCA machines