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.

To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you must be ten years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.

The PADI Open Water Diver Course is a three-week class that consists of both academic and practical skills. Two times a week you will be required to attend a four-hour course that will be split up between classroom work and confined water exercises. You will meet us at our dive shop for approximately 4 hours of classroom work once per week. You will also join us at a local pool for four hours of practical training in the water once per week.

Once you have completed your training, you will attend one of our Dutch Springs certification weekends where over the course of two days you will be tested on the skills that you learned in the classroom and the pool. Once you have completed these “check out dives” you will officially be a PADI Open Water SCUBA Diver. After you complete this entry-level course, you are welcome to return and take advanced courses that will allow you further discovery and adventure in the underwater world.