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PADI CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES AND INSTRUCTION
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During your Open Water Diver course, you learned to dive… you learned all of the introductory skills, and hopefully, how to enjoy yourself underwater. Now it’s time to take the next step! PADI Continuing Education courses introduce you to new diving opportunities while expanding your diving skills.
Offering a complete selection of PADI Continuing Education courses including Advanced Open Water, Enriched Air (Nitrox), Specialty, and Rescue Diver courses, you will discover your next adventure with Pura Vida Divers!
PADI Continuing Education courses and Adventure Dives are available daily on board Sirena. Depending upon your interests, you can complete or begin a PADI Continuing Education course on your next dive charter!
Individual courses vary in length from half-day to four-days, and can be completed during multiple visits to South Florida. With Pura Vida Divers, you can complete all or any portion of the required dives for a PADI Continuing Education course. You will receive your certification for the course upon completion of all required dives and additional training requirements.
Bonus Savings – Now you can complete your PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver certification at the same time as almost any Continuing Education course!
PADI Adventure Diver
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
PADI Adventure Dives
PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
PADI Specialty Courses and Instruction
PADI Rescue Diver
Emergency First Responder
PADI Master Scuba Diver
PADI Adventure Diver
In your PADI Adventure Diver course, you will get your chance to sample three Adventure Dives of your choice. You get to try something new, strengthen your underwater skills, and enjoy diving more than ever.
Typically completed in one day, your Adventure Dive choices include enriched air (nitrox), drift, boat, wreck, deep, night, underwater navigation, dry suit, fish identification, underwater naturalist, peak performance buoyancy, digital underwater photography, and search and recovery.
Offered daily onboard Sirena, your PADI Adventure Diver course includes your three Adventure Dives, air tank rentals (unless specified), soft weights, weight belt, training materials, certification and instructor fees. Students must provide their own gear, or alternatively can rent gear from us. You must be certified as an Open Water Diver to participate in this course.
In addition, each of your Adventure Dives can be credited towards your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification or as the first dive of a correlating PADI Specialty course.
Bonus Savings – Now you can complete your PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver certification at the same time as your Adventure Diver course.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Similar to the PADI Adventure Diver course, you will get a chance to sample five Adventure Dives. You will complete deep and underwater navigation dives as well as your choice of three additional Adventure Dives including: enriched air (nitrox), drift, boat, wreck, night, dry suit, fish identification, underwater naturalist, peak performance buoyancy, digital underwater photography, and search and recovery.
Typically completed in two days and offered daily onboard Sirena, your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course includes your five Adventure Dives, air or nitrox tank rentals (unless specified), soft weights, weight belt, training materials, certification and instructor fees. Students must provide their own gear, or alternatively can rent gear from us. You must be certified as an Open Water Diver to participate in this course.
In addition, each of your Adventure Dives can be credited towards the first dives of correlating PADI Specialty courses.
Bonus Savings – Now you can complete your PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver certification at the same time as your Advanced Open Water Diver course.
PADI Adventure Dives
If you would like to try something new but your vacation or business schedule does not permit you to complete your PADI Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water Diver course during one visit, you can complete one Adventure Dive at a time. You will receive your certification for the course upon completion of all required dives and additional training requirements.
Offered daily onboard Sirena, your Adventure Dive choices include: enriched air (nitrox), drift, boat, wreck, deep, night, underwater navigation, dry suit, fish identification, underwater naturalist, peak performance buoyancy, underwater digital photography, and search and recovery.
You must be certified as an Open Water Diver to participate in this course. Adventure Dives do not include your diving, tank rentals, gear rentals, training materials, or certification fees.
PADI Specialty Courses and Instruction
Dreaming of exploring the interior of a wreck? Looking to explore beyond 100-feet? Needing to polish your buoyancy skills? Curious to learn more about the coral reef ecosystem and marine species that surround you? Interested in earning your PADI Master Scuba Diver rating?
With PADI Specialty courses and instruction, you learn the dive skills, knowledge, and planning that is necessary to safely and enjoyably conduct special interest dives. Plus, training actually saves money and time. When a skill need or opportunity comes up, you’ll be ready.
Depending upon your personal interests and schedule, you can complete any number of specialty courses on your next dive vacation or during multiple visits to South Florida. Individual specialty courses and instruction vary in length from half-day to two days. Call or email us for details!
Offered daily, PADI Specialty courses and instruction include:
AWARE Fish ID
Boat diving
Coral Reef Conservation
Deep Diving
Drift Diving
Dry Suit Diving
Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
Equipment Specialist
Night Diving
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Search/Recovery
Underwater Naturalist
Underwater Navigation
Underwater Photography
Videography
Wreck Diving
Bonus Savings – Now you can complete your PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver certification at the same time as almost any Continuing Education course.
PADI Rescue Diver
Your PADI Rescue Diver course will expand your knowledge and experience beyond the recreational level. You will learn to look beyond yourself, and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this is a serious course, it is a fun way to build your confidence, understanding, experience, and skills.
With Pura Vida Divers’ instructional team, you will take your diving to a completely new level. Your PADI Rescue Diver training prepares you to help prevent problems, and manage dive emergencies by incorporating a variety of techniques.
Typically completed in four days, your PADI Rescue Diver course includes your air tank rentals, soft weights, weight belt, training materials, certification, and instructor fees. You must be certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver and an Emergency First Responder (or equivalent) to participate in this course.
Emergency First Responder
Your Emergency First Responder course trains you in the basics of emergency care including CPR, First Aid and AED. Completed in one day, your Emergency First Responder course is a prerequisite for your PADI Rescue Diver, Divemaster, and Instructor courses.
PADI Master Scuba Diver
Are you a Rescue Diver interested in taking your recreational diving education to its limits? Do you want more diving knowledge, understanding, and experience? If you answered yes, you should consider earning your PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, the highest rating awarded to recreational divers.
With Pura Vida Divers’ instructional team, you will complete five PADI Specialty courses of your choice. Typical selections include PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox), Wreck, Deep, Boat, and Drift Diver courses, but you are welcome to coordinate your course selections with your PADI Instructor. All PADI Specialty courses are applicable for your PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
You earn the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating after successful completion of your Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver courses, 50 logged dives, and five PADI Specialty courses. As a Master Scuba Diver, you are well qualified to begin your training as a PADI Divemaster.
Already certified Advanced and Rescue with 50 logged dives and a few PADI Specialty courses? No problem, we can help you acquire any additional PADI Specialty courses needed until you have completed five total. All PADI Specialty courses are applicable for your PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Typically completed in four days, your PADI Master Scuba Diver course includes your five Specialty courses, 12 dives, air tank rentals (unless specified), soft weights, weight belt, training materials, certification and instructor fees.