DISCOVERY SCUBA DIVER

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to breathe underwater? If you want to try scuba diving, but are not prepared enough to jump into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is for you. PADI dive shops offer this program in a pool, on the beach or from a dive boat. You can try scuba diving close to home or while on vacation at a dive destination. Although it is not a scuba certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is a quick and easy introduction to what it is like to explore the underwater world.

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You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills necessary to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional. If you do an open water dive, you will practice a few more shallow water skills to prepare for your adventure.

Get ready for:

• Review the  scuba equipment  you will use to dive and how easy it is to move underwater with your equipment.

• Find out what it feels like to breathe underwater.

• Learn key skills that you will use on each dive.

• Have fun swimming and exploring.

• Hear how to become a certified diver with the  PADI Open Water Diver course .

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Team

• Your PADI Professional will likely provide you with all the  basic scuba gear  you will use including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device, scuba instruments, and a tank.

• Visit your local  PADI Dive Center or Resort  to learn more about the equipment you will need to start your Discover Scuba Diving adventures.

+10 years

Curacao

Up to 12 mt

None

An experience in the pool or in the sea

during 

45 min.

YES

PADI OPEN WATER DIVER

If you’ve always wanted to take scuba lessons and experience the world under the waves, this is where you start. Get your diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the most popular diving course

and most recognized in the world.

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It consists of three main phases:

• Knowledge Development (online, independent study, or in a classroom) to understand the basics of scuba diving

• 5 dives in confined waters to learn basic scuba skills

• 4 Open Water dives to use your skills and explore!

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You will learn to use the basic diving equipment, including a mask, tube, fins, regulator, control device

buoyancy and a cylinder. The equipment that you will take varies, depending on the type of waters: tropical, temperate or cold. 

Get advice on everything you need with your PADI Instructor.

+10 years

Curacao

Up to 18 mt

None

4 classes. Theoretical-practical.

5 dives

in confined waters

and 4 in open water

YES

ReACTIVE®

Have you been without diving lately and need a quick dive refresh?

The ReActivate ™ program is the perfect way to update your diving skills and knowledge before jumping.

back to the water. ReActivate is personalized for you: You review diving concepts comfortably in digital form,

and then you will go diving with a PADI Professional. Best of all, divers who complete both the review

for knowledge such as water skills receive a replacement certification card with the ReActivated date on it. Any PADI certified diver who wants a dive refresher or upgrade should do

the ReActivate. Dive shops appreciate seeing a recent ReActivate date on your certification card.

If you want to know about diving in a new area or in different diving conditions, ask to complete a Discover Local Diving experience   at your local dive site.

You will use the  basic diving equipment  including a mask, tube, fins, regulator, vest, and a diving bottle.

The protective suit you need will depend on whether you are diving in confined water or open water.

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* Your PADI certification does not expire. Participation in PADI ReActivate ™ is not required, but is recommended as an easy way to refresh your fundamental safety knowledge and skills if you have not been diving in a while. 

+10

Curacao

does not apply

Open Water Diver

1 module

theoretical.

1 dive

in confined water or in open water

YES

ADVANCED OPEN WATER

There are two mandatory dives – Depth and Underwater Navigation – and you will choose the other three.
In the Deep Adventure Dive, you will learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects

and the challenges of diving deeper.

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On the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive, hone your compass navigation skills and help you navigate better using fin cycles, visual cues, and time.

The other knowledge and skills you will acquire will vary with your interests and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and much more.

In addition to using basic scuba gear, you will need a compass and a scuba knife or scuba tool.

You will also use specialized equipment depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. For example, you will use a drysuit for the Dry Suit Adventure Dive or a sidemount configuration during the Sidemount Adventure Dive. Your PADI Instructor will suggest additional equipment, such as a scuba flashlight for diving

at night or a lifting bag for search and recovery diving.

+15

Curacao

Up to 30 mt

Open diver

5 theoretical modules.

5 open water dives

YES

RESCUE DIVER

Prepares you to deal with diving emergencies , major and minor, using a variety of techniques.

Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond.

During rescue drills, you put your knowledge and skills to use. Topics include:

• Self rescue

• Recognize and manage distress in other divers

• Emergency management and equipment

• Rescue divers in panic

• Rescue unconscious divers.

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You will use your basic diving equipment and you will need a pocket mask to practice resuscitation in the water. During the exercises, you will work with an oxygen unit, floats, marker buoys, and perhaps CPR manikins.

+18 years

Curacao

Up to 18 mt

Advanced Diver

and EFR

4 days.

Theoretical-

practical

YES

MASTER SCUBA DIVER

Join the creme de la creme  of recreational diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver .

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This level places you in an elite group of respected divers who have made it this far through both significant experience and training. When you show your Master Scuba Diver card, people know

that you’ve spent time underwater in a variety of environments and have had a variety of scuba adventures.

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The process begins with obtaining a PADI Open Water Diver certification followed by PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications). You also need to get five certifications

PADI Specialty Diver and have logged a minimum of 50 dives.

+18 years

Curacao

+18 mt

Rescue Diver.

EFR.

5 specialties

2 days

YES

OPEN AND ADVANCED REBREATHER DIVER

If you are interested in rebreathers for their silence and maximized no-stop times, and are happy to be within the depth limits of recreational diving … welcome.

Expand your knowledge, adding a rescue bottle, and training to dive to great depths. If you are not yet certified as a Rebreather Diver, no problem – ask your PADI Rebreather Instructor about combining the P ADI Rebreather and Advanced Rebreather Diver courses .
To do this course you must:

• Be a PADI Open Water Diver and obtain the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification  

• Have a minimum of 30 logged dives

• Be at least 18 years of age

• To dive deeper than 30 meters / 100 feet, you must be a PADI Deep Diver.

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In addition to your mask, fins and protective suit, and a collapsible snorkel, if you have one, your PADI Rebreather Instructor will advise you on the Type R rebreather to use. Your instructor will also fit a reserve bottle system with an open circuit regulator and pressure gauge.

+18 years

Curacao

Request

information

Open Water Diver.

Advanced Open water diver

5 days

YES

DIVE MASTER

It teaches you to be a leader and take charge of diving activities. Through knowledge development sessions, exercises and water technique seminars, and through practical assessment, you will develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of diving activities. Topics and practical seminars include:

• The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster

• Supervise dive activities and assist with student divers

• Diver safety and risk management

• Programs led by Divemasters and specialized techniques

• The business of diving and your professional career

• Diving environment awareness

• Organize and direct dives

• Make a map of an open water dive site

• Conduct diving briefing

• Organize a search and recovery project and a deep dive

• Lead a scuba review and skin diver course

• Assist with Discover Scuba Diving programs and guide Discover Local Diving programs

Your instructor may also offer you PADI Deep Diver and Search and Recovery Diver specialty courses along with your divemaster training to help you meet all requirements and expand your capabilities.

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As a dive professional, you will want to have all of your basic dive gear, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During hands-on exercises, such as underwater mapping and search and recovery, you will use a compass, floats, marker buoys, lift balloons, and whiteboards. Your PADI Instructor can suggest additional equipment that will serve you well throughout your diving career.

+18

Curacao

Up to 40 mt

Rescue Diver.

EFR.

5 specialties

Time

that merits

YES

PUBLIC SAFETY DIVER®

If you have the opportunity to work with the local authorities and be part of a diving rescue team,

or to conduct search and recovery dives, and to be able to participate even in criminal investigations under

water, this is the perfect course for you. Although public safety diving can be an exciting adventure

and fun, it’s serious and requires special training. The PADI Public Safety Diver Specialty course gives you a solid foundation from which to start and teaches you both underwater and surface techniques that you may need to do the job.

To participate in a Public Safety Diving course, you must be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and be at least 18 years old. You also need to get your PADI Rescue Diver certification before finishing

the course.

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You will make contact with the special procedures, equipment, management of the scenarios, communications and requirements

documentation for a public safety diving operation. During four open water dives you will practice compass navigation, knot tying, bow search techniques, victim recovery, rope pulling communications and rescue techniques for an injured public safety diver,

and much more.

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In addition to your basic scuba gear, you may want to have gloves, a scuba knife, and an additional cutting tool, as well as at least two scuba bottles. Your PADI Instructor will advise you on other equipment you may need, which may include technical diving equipment.

+18

Curacao

Up to 40 mt

Rescue Diver.

EFR.

5 specialties:

Deep.

Search and recovery .

Night.

Navigation.

Shipwreck.

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6 days.

Theoretical-practical

YES