The PADI Open Water Diver

The PADI Open Water Diver course opens this world for you. During thils course, you'll learn what you need to know to explore the underwater world, whether simply snorkeling in the shallows with mask, fins and snorkel, or visiting longer and deeper using scuba a word derived from self con-tained underwater breathing apparatus). Most people find learning to dive a fun challenge that's neither effortless nor overly arduous.

Welcome to a world of discovery and adventure. This course is only the beginning.To become a scuba diver, you need to be comfortable in water and have basic swimming skills, so your instructor will have you do some swimming and floating - nothing extreme (200 metres/yards and a ten minute float, or a 300 metre/yard mask, fin and snorkel swim and float), just enough.

As the world's largest diver training organization, PADI enjoys the most diverse professional membership in the entire dive community. This is the world's most culturally and ethnically diverse group of recreational dive professionals. At this writing, more than 100,000 PADI Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Divemasters teach diving and offer dive services in more than 180 countries and territories. You can find PADI diver materials in more than 20 languages. Today, virtually anyone who wants to learn to dive can find a PADI Instructor nearby who speaks the same language and who comes from the same culture.

What does this mean for you? It means wherever your dive travels take you, you can be confident that the local dive community will recognize your diver credentials - even if "PADI" is the only word you can speak in the local language.

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Dive Equipment Equipment Identification Fins Give Preview Introduction Padi Open Water Pressure and Your Body Regulators Scuba Systems

Scuba Tanks SnorkelsSubmersible Pressure Succed Course The Effects of Increased Air Density The Effects Pressure The Underwater World The Buddy System Valve Types