You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional.
When you make your open water dive, you’ll practice some more skills in shallow water to prepare for your adventure. Go over the scuba equipment you use to dive and how easy it is to move around underwater with your gear. Find out what it’s like to breathe underwater and have fun swimming around and exploring. Hear about becoming a certified diver through the PADI Open Water Diver course. Most of all, have fun!
Typical outline itinerary:
8:45 am - meet our Dive Crew a the entrance to Jesselton Point Jetty. Our Dive Crew will escort you to our dive boat for a 9:00 am boat departure. You will enjoy a ~ 20 - 30 minute boat transfer to your morning dive site in Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park.
9:30 am - Receive a full safety briefing provided by your PADI Instructor for your PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience.
10:00 am - You'll be helped into your dive gear. You are now ready to start your morning scuba diving training session! During the morning training session, you will complete confined skill session 1 (learning 5 simple dive skills with your PADI Instructor). This session is run from a shallow depth from Sapi beach. Your PADI Instructor then takes you for a practice shore dive from the beach out along the shallow reef so you can practice ‘diving’. The duration of this dive is based upon air consumption (how quickly you breathe the air in your cylinder), but usually, your morning dive will be between 25 to 40 minutes.
11:30 am - 12 noon - Back on our boat and a chance to shower. You'll be transferred to Padang Point for a tasty lunch.
~1:30 pm - Back on to our dive boat. Your PADI Instructor will provide a dive briefing for the afternoon open water dive. Put your dive gear on.
2:00 pm - Start your afternoon dive from our boat and enjoy diving along a shallow coral reef guided by your PADI Instructor. The dive can last anywhere from 30 - 50 minutes.
3:00 pm - Back on our boat after you finish your dive. Take your dive gear off, a chance to shower and change.
~3:30 pm - Transferred back to Jesselton Point Jetty. We hope you had an amazing time during your PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience!
