PADI ADVENTURE DIVER COURSE.
Course Price: 9,000 Thai Baht
(includes all costs, manuals, certification, etc, no hidden costs).
Duration: 1 day training
Schedule: 8am to 4pm
PADI ADVANCED DIVER COURSE.
Course Price: 14,500 Thai Baht
(includes all costs, manuals, certification, etc, no hidden costs).
Duration: 2 days training
Schedule: Day 1: start 8am to 4pm
Day 2: start 8am to 4pm
PADI DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING. minimum age 10 years old.
How can you be sure you will enjoy diving?
The straight answer to that is you can't be sure until you have tried it but those who have always wonder why they didn't try it earlier, it is fun and pretty simple. The good news is that because many people feel this way PADI has designed a special one day course especially for them, it's called the PADI Discover Scuba Diving course.
The beauty of this course is that you don't have to sit for hours in a classroom or spend time in the swimming pool learning fairly advanced skills.
This course is a fun day out at the Pattaya islands and heres how your day will go. On the boat the instructor briefs you on the knowledge and techniques that you need to know for scuba diving.
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When we reach the island which takes about an hour he will help you don, check your scuba equipment and enter the water. In the shallow water you get to take your first exhilarating breaths underwater, the first thing you find out is its simple to breathe. Once you're having fun and feeling confident the instructor will show you a couple of easy skills that you might use during the dive.
Then its the real fun part, the diving its self. Under close supervision of your instructor he will lead you onto a beautiful coral reef with it's thousands of colorful tropical fish for an adventure you will never forget.
You should now be hungry and ready for lunch and a chat about all the amazing marine life we'd seen.
After lunch on the boat we will relax and then go on a second dive, no extra training required as on the morning dive, so no skills just diving. The afternoon dive will be for about 50 minutes as we interact with marine life on the reefs.
After the dive we will take a slow boat ride home and chat about all our dive stories of the day.
If you really would like to become a certified scuba diver after this experience this course credits towards the PADI Scuba Diver and the PADI Open water certification which you could complete in two to three days extra training (just ask the instructor he would love to teach you)
Course Price 3,600 Baht.
Duration: 1 day training.
Schedule: Daily trips 8am to 4pm
PADI SCUBA DIVER. minimum age 10 years old.
This certification level is a half-way point to becoming a PADI Open Water diver. Because it does not include the full training of Open water diver the PADI Scuba diver has two restrictions imposed. The first is a 12m (40ft) depth limit and the second is that they must always dive with a PADI professional - either a Divemaster or Instructor.
This course is helpful if a student diver doesn't have the time to do a four day open water course or for the diver who knows that they will not have the opportunity to dive regularly, this course ensures that their buddy will be a professional who can assist them if they did have difficulties.
This is a typical PADI Scuba diver course at Real Divers:
Day 1: Start 10 am - finish 2pm. In your Padi manual (included in the course price) there are 3 chapters you have to read, the instructor will go over this information with you at the poolside and give you a couple of 10 question quizes to do, this takes about an hour. Then its into the pool for a bit of fun breathing underwater, when you are feeling confident the instructor will demostrate some skills for you and then the fun of mastering the skills yourself, all the skills are essential for a scuba diver and are relatively simple to do. This will take about two an a half hours and by then you will be finning around feeling confident for the ocean the next day.
Day 2: Starts at 8am - finish 4pm. This is a fun day out at the Pattaya islands, the journey takes about an hour. On the way you'll have a briefing and discuss how the day will go. We will be doing two dives in the day, a morning dive have lunch then a dive in the afternoon, on the dives you will use the knowledge you have already learnt to plan the dives safely. On the morning dive we will just see what diving is all about as we explore the reef having a look at what we can find, on the afternoon dive we will do some of the pool skills again and then a tour of the reef.
As a PADI Scuba Diver you can upgrade to the Padi Open water diver with an extra one day training which then allows you to go to 18m and dive with any buddy, not just a professional.
Course price: 9,500 Thai Baht.
(includes all costs, manuals, certification, etc, no hidden costs).
Duration: (Two days training)
Schedule: Day 1: 10am - 2pm
Day 2: 8am - 4pm
PADI OPEN WATER COURSE. minimum age 10 years old.
This is the first full PADI certification level. It is broken down into three parts: Diving Knowledge, Swimming pool training and sea dives.
Ideally students should read the Go Diving training manual which Real Divers includes in the course price. There are five modules and each concludes with a multi-choice answer knowledge review. This allows the instructor to go over any points the student hasn't correctly understood, thus not wasting time re-teaching parts the student has learnt correctly. We also show a video of each module as some students learn better from visual training.
The confined water sessions in the pool teach you the skills you will need for scuba diving such as breathing, finning action, buoyancy skills, mask and regulator skills and out of air drills some of these skills you will use on every dive and others like the out of air drills we hope you will never need. When you have become proficient and mastered the skills you are now ready for the ocean.
The following day is a fun day out on the dive boat at the coral islands, here you get to use the knowledge and skills you have already leant in the class and pool and put them to the dives you will be planning. The course has a total of four dives, two dives per sea day. The first dive of the day is a fun dive, no real skills just diving this allows you to relax and try your buoyancy and finning as we interact with the marine life seeing what we can find and what diving is all about. On the second dive of the day we will plan the dive together then on the dive you will rehearse some of the skills you learnt in the pool as we cruise along the coral reefs, most dives last about one hour.
The next day is great, you get to do this all again on dives three and four. I have never seen anyone disappointed with the open water course most people just say i wished i'd done it earlier because it was fun, interesting and quite simple to do.
The certification allows you to plan dives with other buddys and dive to a depth of 18 metres, it is also a prerequisite for the PADI Adventure diver or the Padi Advanced open water course.
Course Price: 16,000 Thai Baht.
(includes all costs, manuals, certification, etc, no hidden costs).
Duration: 3 to 4 days training.
Schedule: Day 1: start 10am to 2pm
Day 2: start 10am to 2pm
Day 3: start 8am to 4pm
Day 4: start 8am to 4pm
PADI ADVENTURE DIVER COURSE. minimum age 10 years
PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE. minimum age 12 years
As a PADI Open Water diver you have just started out on an exciting new phase of your life. You can breathe, fin weightlessly, see clearly and explore a whole new underwater world that was previously denied to you.
To make the most of the underwater world you need to actually experience some of the different activities that interest you whether it be, Shipwreck diving, photography, night diving etc the Padi Adventure or Advanced course will help you find your interests.
For example you might want to share the fun and excitement of one of your dives with your friends and family, you can do this by taking photos or video of yourself while diving.
To make things more exciting you might want to learn how to take a video of a shipwreck and show how nature has taken a steel man-made object and turned it into a colourful coral garden.
The way you can achieve these aims is to sign up for the PADI Adventure Diver or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. The difference between these two courses is the PADI Adventure diver course is a half way point to becoming a PADI Advanced diver.
On the Adventure dive course (which takes just one day) you can choose 3 dives from a great long list of activities, your instructor will help you choose the ones that interest you. On the Advanced course (where you do 5 dives over two days) then you choose 3 dives plus two mandatory dives, one being a deep dive to a maximum of 30 metres the other a navigation dive which will make diving more fun by helping you to find your way around the dive sites.
Heres an example of a typical PADI Advanced course at Real Divers.
Navigation dive.
Photography dive.
Underwater Scooter dive.
Deep Dive.
Wreck dive.
The other good news is that this course does not require classroom sessions or pool training. You will be given your personal copy of the Adventures in Diving manual and all you have to do is read the sections that cover the type of dives that interest you and fill in a 15 question knowledge review of that dive.
Your instructor will take you through any bits you didn't quite understand and give you some hands-on experience on any new equipment you will use on the dives.
Then you're off to plan and do the dives with your instructor and depending on your choice of optional dives you should be able to earn your new advanced certification in two days.
But what if you really don't fancy deep diving or maybe you're a bit short of time or cash?
No problem, you can always complete the PADI Adventure diver course. This is a one-day course and you can do any three dives you wish. No mandatory deep or navigation dives unless you want to do them.
As a Adventure diver if and when you decide you want to go another step up the PADI ladder you can gain the advanced certification by simply completing the two dives you need to do.
Either course makes you eligible to go for the next step The PADI Rescue Diver.