PADI Open Water Diver

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4 days (approx.)
Incl. 4 dives
Dive site(s) determined on the dive day
English, Spanish, Dutch, German, Japanese
Max. 4 students / instructor
Meet at the dive center

Free Cancellation - 7days notice
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Highlights

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.

Become a licensed scuba diver in just a few days, no prior experience required.
Breathing underwater for the first time is something you'll never forget.
Meet like-minded people who care about the ocean and see our ocean planet with new eyes.

Dive center

Aquaventure Dive Center

PADI 5 Star Dive Center

Aquaventure Dive Center

In the UNESCO-protected biosphere of Addu Atoll, your perfect Local Maldives escape travel adventure awaits. Just 1 hour and 20 minutes by domestic flight from Male to Gan and 10 minutes by car from GAN Airport, arrive easily at your local Guesthouse in Addu Atoll Maldives.

The Aquaventure Dive Center team, under the Dutch-Maldivian management of PADI Instructors Marc Kouwenberg and Abdulla “TOM”. With more than 20 years dive center Management experience in Maldives, started in 1998 in South Ari Atoll, Marc and Tom are well know about scuba diving in Maldives and since the opening from Aquaventure Dive Center 2013 in Addu Atoll.

The experienced, multi-lingual dive team provides a friendly and professional service to guests and the enthusiastic PADI Dive Professionals will inspire beginners to discover this amazing underwater world in Maldives while learning to dive within PADI system.

Certified divers will also find challenging dives with many types of sharks including Grey reef Sharks, Mantas, Barracudas, Dogtooth Tunas and Eagle Rays are very common and the beautiful hard coral reefs around the islands will give you the best memories of your life.

Addu is the best place for guided “fun” divers or to continue your scuba education with one of our experienced PADI Instructors. With our modern multimedia classrooms and our local dive sites we can offer great courses from PADI Open Water Diver till Divemaster.

Comfort and convenience for diving guests is assured with fast, modern dive boats that reach more than 25 local dive sites in an average boat ride of just 40 minutes. Aquaventure Dive Center organize daily trips every morning with double tanks dives and an extra dive also in the afternoon. Night dives are often organized during the week. We have two dive boats one for max 12 divers and one for max 18 divers. Our dive groups are maximum 6 divers with one guide, on request we can provide a private guide.

Free mineral water during trip
English / German / French / Dutch / Arabic

Your Aquaventure Team

PADI 5 Star Dive Center Dive shop 3 PADI Instructors Max. 6.0 divers / guide

Address: 15031 Km from your location
Dha'ndumathee Hingun, Addu Atoll, No State, 19030, Maldives

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Inclusive of

4 open water dives
5 confined water dives (pool or shallow water)
Boat fee
Scuba equipment rental (full set)

Requirements

Minimum age: 10+
Min. certification: None
Min logged dives: None
No prior experience with scuba diving is required. You must be in good physical health and be able to float for 10 minutes and swim 200 m unaided and without stopping.

What to expect

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

1) Knowledge development: your dive center will provide you with all the material to start learning. It covers everything you need to know about basic techniques, terminology and safety procedures in scuba diving. For each concept, you read the explanations and watch the demonstration on a video. Your PADI Instructor will schedule time with you to check your progress and make sure you understand important scuba diving information.

2) Confined water dives: these are training sessions conducted in a pool or water with pool-like conditions. You’ll learn and practice the basic skills of diving as well as techniques to keep you safe and you’ll run though how to deal with a range of emergency situations should they occur. The sessions in the swimming pool are a lot of fun and give the opportunity to get familiar with the gear and techniques in a safe environment.

3) Open water dives: This is what it’s all about – making your first dives in the ocean! During the four open water dives, you will perform various dive skills both under water and at the surface to make sure that you are a competent and safe diver. The training portion usually only takes up the first part of the dive, meaning that you will get to spend a big part of your time diving with your instructor and exploring the underwater world.

As soon as your open water training dives are approved by your instructor you will be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver! This means you will be allowed to rent diving equipment and dive anywhere in the world down to 18 meters, lifelong!

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