PADI Open Water Diver [eLearning]

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

1) Knowledge development: East Coast Scuba & Watersports will provide you with all the material to start learning  (elearning which takes between 10 to 15hours to complete). 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.

Once you've completed the elearning we do a quick review at the shop (1440 Bedford Hwy) and try on all the required equipment for scuba diving.

2) Confined water dives: these are training sessions conducted in a pool. 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. During dives 3 to 5 we teach you how to use a drysuit and all the emergency procedures you'll need to know for diving drysuit. For the pool please bring the following items a swimsuit, long sleve top, pants, socks and a towel.

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!

If you wish to earn a PADI drysuit course there are two additional dives and the academic knowledge development which is a great add on to the course, if you plan to travel in other cold water locations.

Confirmation

• We’ll send you a final Booking Confirmation Email on average within 24 hours. We advise you to not make any other travel arrangements before that
• In the event that you do not receive an email from us, please check your Spam folder or notify us via email

Meet at the dive center

For the first day of the course students must meet at 1440 Bedford Hwy (Large yellow building with dive flags). Pool is offsite and customer will need to arrange their own transportation.

Address: 1440 Bedford Highway, Bedford, Nova Scotia, B4A 1E4, Canada

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