PADI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
Become a certified diver in Zanzibar with the world’s most popular scuba diving course.
The PADI Open Water Diver course takes you from complete beginner to certified diver, combining online learning, confined-water training and four open-water dives with one of our PADI instructors.
By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to dive independently with a buddy to a maximum depth of 18 metres.
PADI certification • 4 open-water dives • Maximum depth 18m • Minimum age 10
Your Underwater Adventure Starts Here
The PADI Open Water Diver course is your passport to a lifetime of diving.
Start your theory with PADI eLearning, then join the Buccaneer team in Zanzibar for your practical training. You'll begin in confined water, learning and practising the essential skills you need to feel comfortable and confident underwater.
You'll then complete four open-water training dives, putting those skills into practice while experiencing Zanzibar underwater.
Once you've successfully completed the course, you'll be a PADI Open Water Diver — a certification recognised at dive centres around the world.
Prerequisites
Minimum age: 10
Comfortable in the water and able to meet PADI's required water skills
No previous diving experience required
Participants must meet PADI medical requirements
PADI eLearning
Complete the theory before you arrive using PADI eLearning. Study at your own pace from your phone, tablet or computer, then arrive in Zanzibar ready to concentrate on the best part — getting in the water.
What’s Next?
Once you're certified, keep building your experience with fun dives, Adventure Diver or the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.
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Itinerary
Day 1
E-Learning & Pool Dives
So on the first day you will probably go over what you learned online and do a quick assessment on your theoretical knowledge. Then its time for the pool where your PADI Instructor will teach you about equipment set up and will build on your skills, starting from simple and working towards more complex so that when you get to the ocean you will be confident in your diving abilities and looking forward to seeing the good stuff - marine life!
Day 2
More pool work and meeting some fish
Depending on the tides and on how fast you want to or have progressed with your pool dives, you may jump in the pool again or you may go out for your first two dives. As your first dives are at a maximum of 12M we normally dive in one of our sheltered lagoon sites.
Day 3
Finishing your course
So its time for your last two dives and by now your confidence will have built and you will be raring to see what its like a little deeper. We usually dive on the fringing reefs of the South East Coast which you will be able to explore to a maximum of 18M.
Then come back, log your dive and you are set and certified as a PADI Openwater Diver, the worlds most popular diving certification
Rates
PADI E-learning including certification $105
PADI Openwater Course including pool and ocean dives $490
TOTAL Cost inc PADI E-Learning $595
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