What Is a PADI Open Water Referral?
A PADI Open Water Diver Course Referral allows you to undertake the majority of your scuba training at home before completing your certification dives anywhere in the world!
A PADI referral also allows you to both support your local dive shop and avoid having to study during your vacation. You’ll complete all of the classroom theory in advance, so while you are on holiday you can focus on the fun part of getting under water and exploring everything to be found beneath the water’s surface!
To put it simply, instead of spending time of your holiday studying and practicing scuba skills in confined water, you’ll arrive with the majority of your PADI Open Water Diver Course already complete.
So let’s get into the details of exactly how a PADI referral works.
Minimum requirements
To enroll in a PADI Open Water Referral course (or Junior Open Water Referral course), you must be at least 10 years. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health.
No prior diving experience is required, but you can try the Discover Scuba Diving program first .
What we do during a PADI Open Water Referral course
- Four Open Water Dives to put your skills to practice and explore Curacao’s wonderful reefs.
Your instructor will guide you through the whole process and explain all the sequences thoroughly. The PADI Open Water Referral course takes 2 days.
We aim to make all four open water dives at different dive sites so that you get to experience the full diversity that the reefs in Curacao have to offer. We will pick you up at your accommodation every day (if its within a reasonable range) and take you to a cool dive spot.
How is your course going to look*:
Day 1: Meeting at our shop at 8.30 am for your first dive at Marie Pampoen!
After this we will have an amazing lunch of your choice and then we will go diving for our second Open Water dive at Atlantis. We will finish this day at around 4 pm.
Day 2: Meeting at our shop at 8.30 am. We will do our last 2 Open water dives at Tugboat & Directors Bay. We will finish this day at around 2 pm. And you will be a certified Open Water Diver!
*We could have some changes, but we will keep you inform about it*
