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.
Once you have completed your PADI Open Water Diver Course you also qualify for the speciality course to become an ‘Enriched Air Diver’.
Requirements to enroll in 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 and is done on request.
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 your enquiry to max@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.