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Thursday, 01 January 2009

I'm Already Certified as an Open Water Diver.
What's Next?

 

Take a look at the whole system of PADI scuba diving education below. Beyond your newly acquired Open Water Diver certification, there are so many other options to continue your diving education, to improve your diving skills or to try new activities underwater.

PADI Scuba Courses

 

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

RM800 inclusive of an original PADI manual and slate, professional instructor fee and the PADI certification card. 

Buoyancy skill

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver is normally the next step for most certified Open Water divers. Make just five (5) dives in which you get the opportunity to try useful specialty activities such as deep diving, night diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and drift diving. These new skills make diving much more than just sightseeing underwater. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to being a Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non-professional certification in recreational diving.

Read the relevant chapter in the Advanced manual e.g. Deep Diving, complete the knowledge review questions with your instructor and then you are ready to go diving. Two dives are compulsory - a Deep Dive and an Underwater Navigation Dive. These two dives boost your confidence underwater as you learn to cope with the extra pressure as you descend below 18 metres and you learn more navigation skills (building on what you have already learnt during Open Water).

Then, choose three (3) more adventure dives to complete the course. We usually do a Night Dive, a Wreck Dive (if a wreck is available at the location where we are diving), a Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive (to further improve your buoyancy skill), a Digital Underwater Photography Dive (for those with a digital camera & underwater casing), Drift Dive, Fish Identification, etc.

Course Duration: 2 days & 1 night


PADI Rescue Diver

PADI Rescue Diver

RM900 inclusive of an original PADI manual and slate, professional instructor fee and the PADI certification card. 

This is one of the most exciting and rewarding scuba course offered by PADI. PADI Rescue Divers are taught the knowledge and skills that  empower them not just to take care of themselves but also to consider the safety and well-being of other divers around them. It's always reassuring to know that you are diving with a Rescue Diver who would be able to lend assistance to you, should you need any during a dive!

You will learn: 

  • Self-rescue and diver stress (what causes stress, how to prevent it, etc.)
  • Managing an emergency situation. Know what equipment you need to have.
  • How to safely respond to a panicked diver
  • In-water rescue breathing protocols and procedures
  • Egress / exiting the water while carrying a victim
  • Coping with different dive accident scenarios

Students who have successfully complete the PADI Rescue Diver course cite it as the most rewarding course they have ever taken. Challenging but very rewarding!

Course Duration: 4 days

 

Emergency First Response (EFR)

EFR logoRM400 inclusive of a Participant Manual and an EFR certification card.

The EFR course is a prerequisite (it is required) for the PADI Rescue Diver course. Be prepared for emergency situations. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers too.

The Emergency First Response course covers CPR (Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation) and First Aid.

Click here for EFR course details

Course Duration: 1/2 day

   

PADI Master Scuba Diver

MSD flowchartComplete your Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver, EFR and Rescue Diver courses, complete five (5) Diver Specialty courses and log a minimum of 50 dives and you will receive the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating - the highest non professional level in the PADI system of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments. You're elite. You're there already.

What dive specialty courses can you do? Take a look again at the chart at the top of this page and decide what interests you. Digital Underwater Photography? Wreck Diving? Diving using Nitrox? Night Diving? Want to learn how to participate in a Coral Reef Conservation? You decide. 

Want it. Live it. Dive it. Master Scuba Diver. 

 




PADI Divemaster

DM emblemThe PADI Divemaster course is the first professional-level course in the PADI education system and your first climb up the ladder of leadership training in diving.

The PADI Divemaster rating denotes you as a person who:

  • Has a high level of personal diving skills
  • Has instructor knowledge in diving theory
  • Has had significant training in how to assist an instructor during training activities
  • Is able to assume appropriate responsibilities that benefit the welfare of other divers

This course also lays some of the most important foundations that a diver needs in order to progress towards the PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor rating. Through this course, we will help to shape your ability,  diving knowledge and positive attitude towards becoming a competent, effective, safe and not forgetting, fun PADI instructor.

Halimi teaches this course according to how he was taught during his Divemaster course and how he was groomed to be a PADI Instructor. He takes great pride in being able to groom a reliable, trustworty and safe Divemaster who has also good background knowledge on diving and dive theories that will help him/her tremendously in the future, if the candidate decides to enroll in the Instructor Development Course (IDC), towards becoming a PADI Instructor.

The PADI Divemaster course is priced RM2,300 which includes the recommended Divemaster Training Pak, dive table, pool sessions, equipment and our instructor fees. The candidate will need to follow and assist our instructors on at least three (3) island trips (3days/2nights duration, each trip) in order to complete some of the Divemaster exercises in open water and the DM internship requirements.

 

Specialty Courses

Click on the links below to view details of some of the PADI Specialty Courses that you can sign up, to enhance your diving skills or do new things underwater.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 May 2010 )