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Key info

  • 3 days (approx.)
  • Incl. 4 dives
  • Dive site(s) determined on the dive day
  • English
  • Max. 4 students / instructor
  • Meet at the dive center
  • No cancellation
  • Show mobile or printed voucher

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. Join us now to learn how to dive!

  • Make five dives with an instructor and practice something different on each dive (deep diving, navigation, buoyancy, photography, etc.).
  • Gain experience and improve your scuba skills.

Dive center

Bayplay Dive Resort - Melbourne

PADI 5 Star Dive Center

Bayplay PADI Dive Resort boasts its own on-site facilities including a theory training room and a heated three-tiered Scuba training pool. Bayplay Dive Resort adheres to the highest of standards. Safety is paramount as is reflected in Bayplay Dive Resorts accreditation by the Better Business Tourism Accreditation Program. These high standards have lead Bayplay Dive Resort to becoming a 2 time winner of the Victorian Tourism Awards for Adventure Tourism 2005 and 2006. Our dive team is PADI qualified and pride themselves on comprehensive marine education maximizing the experience and marine life encountered. Small numbers and professional service is what we are about.

Explore Australia's best kept secret. Guided Dives with Bayplay Dive Resort will lead you to some of natures finest. Highly sought after Weedy Sea Dragons and Octopus & Sea Horse Gardens are sure to amaze beginners, to the highly experienced veteran of the dive community.

Our professional and highly experienced dive guides are happy to share local knowledge and biological information on the substrate and marine life within, relating to your days diving.

Divers wishing to further their Port Phillip Bay diving experience, a wide range of boat dives are available. Wall Dives, Drift Dives, Submarines and wide range of world class Shipwrecks and Marine Parks help to create one of natures finest play grounds.

PADI 5 Star Dive Resort Dive shop

Address: 14643 Km from your location
3755 Pt Nepean Rd., Portsea, Victoria, 3944, Australia

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Package description

Inclusive of

  • 4 open water dives
  • 5 confined water dives (pool or shallow water)
  • Open water dives
  • PADI eLearning (includes certification fees)
  • Scuba equipment rental (full set)
  • Confined water dives
  • BCD
  • Weights/Weight Belt/Tank(s)
  • Regulator
  • Dive computer

Not inclusive of

  • Mask/snorkel
  • Fins (full foot)
  • Fins (open heel)
  • Wetsuit (7mm)

Requirements

  • Minimum age: 12+
  • 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. Medical check

What to expect

Your International Passport To Dive Worldwide!

Get Certified! Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognised scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.

Location: 
3755 Point Nepean Road, Portsea

Duration:
3 Days of 8am - 5pm (Schedule will be provided)

Inclusions: 
All equipment for diving (excluding snorkeling gear), private pool, all instruction and eLearning.
All participants are required to have their own mask, snorkel and fins - These are also available for purchase in our store.
All students will be required to perform a basic swim test during this course. 

You will be required to get a Dive Medical if you are any of the following: 

        Over 45 years old
Have a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30 - Calculate your Body Mass Index here.
Have ticked yes to any item on blob:https://pro.padi.com/0e57db6b-a902-4fd9-a1be-f81aa2831450

Click here to view the Medical Diving Form: blob:https://pro.padi.com/f8ac5fcf-01a1-4a31-be1b-3e06f49c5e2f 

If the above does not apply to you, then you can sign the medical waiver.


Other Information

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

Located just across the road from the Portsea Hotel and Portsea Pier, we're sure you can't miss us!

Address: 3755 Pt Nepean Rd., Portsea, Victoria, 3944, Australia

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Cancellation policy

  • No cancelations, refunds, or changes can be made
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