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. Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.
Minimum requirements
To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver 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 course
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
- Knowledge Development (online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
- Five Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
- 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 course takes 2,5 days but it helps if you have taken the time to prepare yourself prior to your holidays. A large part of the theory can be done online and it will help a lot to make the information you receive from your instructor more understandable.
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! We will be done at around 12 pm.
Day 2: Meeting at our shop at 8.30 am and we will continue with our confined sessions. 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 3: 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*
