- Start your adventure here!
- If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.
You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health.
No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
- Your next step! Exploration, Excitement, Experiences
- That’s what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.
- Specialty Diver Courses
- Find Out What Interests You Scuba diving is a way to explore the underwater world in new and different ways. PADI Specialty Diver courses teach you new techniques and give you the tools to enhance your exploration. Guccione's Scuba Habitat offers a variety of courses to meet your needs. See what’s available from this list of great courses:
- AWARE - Coral Reef Conservation, AWARE - Fish Identification, Deep Diver, Digital Underwater Photographer,
Diver Propulsion Vehicle, Dry Suit Diver, Equipment Specialist, Night Diver, Peak Performance Buoyancy,
Project AWARE Specialist, Search and Recovery Diver, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigator,
Underwater Videographer, Wreck Diver, Heli-Diver 1
- Who should take this course?
- Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken. Why? Because you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed. During the course, you learn to become a better buddy by practicing problem solving skills until they become second nature. Plus, the course is just fun – it’s serious, but still allows for lots of laughter in between the focused learning.
- Who should consider this rating?
- Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver. The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you’ve spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.
- HELI-DIVE TRAINING
- The OC Helicopters PADI Heli-Dive Course is a certification training course designed to familiarize Divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of diving from a helicopter. The training covers the basic knowledge of helicopters which is necessary to ensure that every heli-dive is a safe one. In addition to proper helicopter etiquette, helicopter terminology and local helicopter egress laws/ordinance, you will develop the ability to perform important helicopter egress skills- helicopter diving entries/exits and the use of emergency/ safety equipment. The course is taught on either the H120 or H125 helicopters.
OC Helicopters prospective students should take careful consideration before deciding to take this transition course. Due to the requirement that states that prior to commencement of any ground or flight training, all non-U.S. persons (a person who is not a U.S. citizen and/or legal U.S. resident) who wish to receive this training must have an approved license issued by U.S. Department of State Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, we cannot offer any kind of Helicopter-Diving training to non-US persons.