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Beginner courses

Whether you’re a kid or a kid-at-heart, we have many recreational diving classes available for all skill levels.

PADI Skin Diver

Minimum Age:  8 yrs old.
Duration: 8 Hours
Prerequisites: Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water with basic swimming skills.
Price: $ 176.00
Description: The PADI skin Diver course is designed to provide a simple training program for those interested in the underwater world, Students will make practical application of skills that are uniquely for skin diving. They will enjoy themselves while building confidence in their skin diving ability, developing judgment and gaining experience.

Bubble Maker

Minimum Age:  8 yrs old.
Duration: 2-3 Hours
Prerequisites: Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water with basic swimming skills.
Price:

  • Pool Experience – $ 44.00
  • Optional follow-up dive in pool – $ 37.00
  • Optional follow-up dive in ocean – $ 53.00

Description: The Bubblemaker course is a fantastic way for kids to try a closely supervised scuba diving experience in the swimming pool for their first try. They get to try out the equipment, swim around and play games. (usual duration about one hour). It’s also possible for them to do follow-up dives in the ocean if parents and the instructor agree. (Maximum depth 2m). This opportunity offers kids a great introduction to diving and most KIDS LOVE IT!

PADI Discover Scuba Diving

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 3 Hours
Prerequisites: Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water with basic swimming skills.
Price: $ 80.00$ 53.00 for optional follow-up dive.
Description: Asia Divers offers the ideal location to “just give it a go”. If you are short of time and just want to try diving, Discover Scuba Diving is for you.

After a short briefing you’ll get comfortable with the gear and the basics of diving in the comfort and safety of our training pool under the watchful eye of an experienced Instructor. You’ll then enjoy a great dive at one of Puerto Galera’s unrivaled sites, your Instructor will never be far away as you’re introduced to a wonderful new world.

You can (at your Instructors discretion) credit the pool and open water dive towards either full certification or the PADI Scuba Diver certification. (The credit is worth one pool dive and one open water dive – at Asia Divers)

Also, you can take your underwater adventures home on video. Ask your instructor for details

PADI Scuba Diver

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites: Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water with basic swimming skills.
Price: $ 331.00
Description: Anyone who doesn’t have time or is not ready for full certification can earn the Scuba Diver certification by completing part of the Open Water Diver Course.

This qualifies you to dive under the supervision of a PADI Divemaster or Instructor within the limits you learn to a maximum depth of 12 meters/40 feet.

There’s no where better to complete the three knowledge sessions & pool dives and two open water dives than at Asia Divers. You can (at your Instructor’s discretion) credit this towards full certification.

PADI Open Water Diver

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 4 days
Prerequisites: To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
Price: $ 519.00
Description: 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.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

  • Knowledge Development utilizing independent study and PADI’s latest teaching aids will keep classroom time to a minimum to understand basic principles of scuba diving.
  • Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills. You couldn’t ask for anywhere better to learn to dive. You’ll be in the hands of capable, experienced dive instructors and an amazing dive facility.
  • Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore some of the most diverse and unusual marine life seen anywhere in the world! Apart from mastering diving skills your instructor will make sure you learn something about the environment you’re in. During your four training dives you will get a chance to do beach and boat diving on different fantastic dive sites. The water’s warm and clear and there’s always time to exchange stories in the Point Bar at the end of the day. The certification you receive lasts a lifetime! Complete the course in stages or in one go.

PADI Open Water eLearning

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 1 day for the online portion of the course. However you’ll have one year to complete the entire program and you’ll have unlimited access to the PADI Open Water Diver Manual online for reference both during and after the course. 3 Additional days for pool and training dives.
Prerequisites: To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
Price: See the link below for price of the PADI Open Water Diver Online Course. This fee is nonrefundable paid directly to PADI. It covers your knowledge development training and gives you unlimited access to an electronic version of the PADI Open Water Diver Manual (course textbook).

The Asia Divers charge is $ 452.00 for 5 additional pool dives and 4 open water training dives and certification . This fee will be paid here at Asia Divers.

Go here to register for the PADI eLearning Program.

Description: The PADI Open Water Diver Course online provides the knowledge development portion you need. You develop the remaining skills with us.

How does it work? After enrolling, PADI’s eLearning system presents you with interactive presentations that include videos, audio, graphics and reading. Short quizzes let you gauge your progress, and review and correct anything you might happen to miss. This lets you move through the program efficiently and at your own pace

PADI Open Water Referral with Four Training Dives

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites: Completed all academic, knowledge reviews/quizzes, final exam and 5 pool training dives. Must bring signed off referral from your PADI instructor. Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water with basic swimming skills.
Price: $ 265.00
Description: You will complete four ocean training dives in a lovely environment to complete your PADI Open Water certification.

PADI Open Water Referral with Pool Dives and Four Training Dives

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 3 days
Prerequisites: Completed all academic, knowledge reviews/quizzes, and final exam. Good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water with basic swimming skills.
Price: $ 452.00
Description: You will complete five pool dives and four ocean training dives.

PADI Upgrade Scuba Diver to Open Water Diver

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites:  Must be qualified as PADI SCUBA Dive
Price: $ 270.00
Description: Complete academic module 3 & 4 pool dives plus four open water training dives.

Advanced Diving Courses

Asia Divers offers advanced PADI courses for divers seeking advanced certifications including Divemaster.

PADI Scuba Review

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 3 hours
Prerequisites: Entry level scuba diver.
Price: $ 80.00
Description: If you have not been diving in a while this is a great way to to review and update your knowledge and skills. You’ll go over the in-water skills you learned in the Open Water course and be ready to get back in the ocean!

PADI Experienced Diver

Minimum Age:  10 yrs old.
Duration: 3 days
Prerequisites: Any diver with a certification from a training organization other than PADI or any diver that has been diving for two years and has proof of twenty open water dives or more open water dives, and who has never taken a scuba course.
Price: Varies depending on the diver.
Description: You will complete the PADI SCUBA review program, PADI Open Water final exam, and open water dives 1 to 4.

PADI Adventure Diver / Advanced Open Water Diver

Minimum Age: 10 / 12  yrs old.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization.
Price:

  • $ 303.00 for Adventure Diver course (3 dives).
  • $ 392.00 for Advanced Open Water course (5 dives)

Description:  Exploration, Excitement, Experiences! That’s what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. It’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your Open Water Diver certification. This course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. It’s all about diving (not classroom or pool work) in fact you can start diving with almost no academic work at all. There’s nowhere better to continue your dive adventures than with Asia Divers and Puerto Galera’s unrivaled diving.

You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time. The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

Complete individual Adventure dives and gain credit for each one towards final certification or use the dive towards the corresponding Specialty Course. You can take as many Adventure dives as you like – the minimum is five to complete Advanced course but if you’re interested in additional Adventure dives just let us know

As an Advanced Diver you’ll find your confidence will increase and you’ll have the opportunity to experience dives not open to you as an Open Water Diver – it’s also a pre requisite to becoming a Rescue Diver. Most students and Instructors agree that this is the most enjoyable course. If you complete any three of the Adventure dives you will be certified as an PADI Adventure Diver.

PADI eLearning Advanced Open Water Diver

Minimum Age: 12  yrs old.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization
Price: See the link below for the price of the PADI Advanced Open Water Online Course. This fee is nonrefundable paid directly to PADI. It covers the knowledge development training as well as unlimited access to the entire PADI Adventures in Diving manual online.

The Asia Divers charge is $ 331.00 for 5 training dives and certification. This fee will be paid here at Asia Divers.

Go here to register for the PADI eLearning Program.

Description: After enrolling, PADI’s eLearning system presents you with interactive presentations that include videos, audio, graphics and reading. Short quizzes let you gauge your progress, and review and correct anything you might happen to miss. This lets you move through the program efficiently and at your own pace.
How long do you have to complete the eLearning course?: The eLearning course will be available for one year from the time of course registration.

PADI Rescue Diver

Minimum Age: 12 / Divers under 15 may obtain a Junior Rescue Diver
Duration: 4-5 days with EFR
Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization to participate in confined water only. PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization to participate in rescue training sessions in open water. Complete a sanctioned course in CPR (such as EFR Primary Care) and basic first aid (such as EFR Secondary Care) within the past 24 months prior to Knowledge Development Presentation Two and Rescue Training Session Two.
Price: $ 524.00 or $ 662.00 combined with PADI EFR Course
Description: Serious Fun! Learn to look after yourself and others! PADI’S Rescue Diver program will build your confidence as a diver, give you valuable experience in emergency management and prevention and heighten your awareness of the surrounding environment. Sections on self-rescue, diver stress, diving first aid, emergency management, equipment problems will prepare you to handle almost any emergency whether on the shoreline or in the water. The PADI Rescue Diver Course is widely accepted as one of the most challenging, rewarding and fun dive courses available!

The course is divided into three parts:

  1. Knowledge Development: Five presentations
  2. Rescue Training Exercise Sessions:
  3. Self Rescue review
  • Exercise 1 – Tired Diver
  • Exercise 2 – Panicked Diver
  • Exercise 3 – Response from Shore, Boat
  • Exercise 4 – Distressed Diver Underwater
  • Exercise 5 – Missing Diver
  • Exercise 6 – Surfacing the unresponsive diver
  • Exercise 7 – Unconscious Diver at the surface
  • Exercise 8 – Exiting the unresponsive diver
  • Exercise 9 – First Aid for Pressure-related injuries and Oxygen Administration
  • Exercise 10 – Response from Shore/Boat Unresponsive Diver

Open Water Rescue Scenarios
You will have the opportunity to put everything you have learned into practice, handling diving incidents as part of a team.

PADI e-Learning Rescue Diver

Minimum Age: 12 / Divers under 15 may obtain a Junior Rescue Diver
Duration: 2.5 days for Rescue course or 3-4 days combined with EFR
Prerequisites: Certified to beyond entry-level with proof of underwater navigation training, such as PADI Adventure Diver with the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive completed, and be fit for diving to be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver. Any diver with the prerequisite training who is at least 12 years old may enroll in the PADI eLearning Rescue Diver online program.
Price: See the link below for the price of the PADI Rescue Diver Online Course. This fee is nonrefundable paid directly to PADI. The Asia Divers charge is $ 459.00 for the Rescue course alone, or $ 597.00 combined with PADI EFR Course and certification.

You will complete ten rescue exercises in open water, either with or without initial skills practice in confined water. Finally, you participate in two Rescue Diver Scenarios in open water. This fee will be paid here at Asia Divers.

Go here to register for the PADI eLearning Program.

Description: PADI Rescue Diver Course Online content is broken down into 5 easy-to-learn sections after an introduction. The course covers a wide range of topics including, The Psychology of Rescue, Recognizing Diver Stress, Accident Management, Assisting Responsive and Unresponsive Divers at the Surface and Underwater, Equipment Problems, Oxygen Delivery Systems, Missing Diver Procedures, Responding to Diver Emergencies and in water Rescue Breathing.

Who can benefit from this course?
The course is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to prevent, and if necessary, manage dive emergencies. The course broadens a diver’s awareness and improves their skills and confidence. Most certified PADI Rescue Divers look back on their rescue training as one of the most challenging – sometimes demanding – and therefore most rewarding courses they’ve taken. The subject is serious but the training is fun.

How long do you have to complete the eLearning course?
The eLearning course will be available for one year from the time of course registration.

What else is required to complete the course?
After completing the online portion of the PADI Rescue Diver Course you’ll visit your PADI Dive Center or Resort to complete your training. You’ll take a short eLearning Quick Review to confirm your understanding of safety-related material from the course. Then, you’ll complete the in water training portion of the course.

PADI Divemaster (eLearning)

Become a PADI Pro and Start Living Your Dream! There are many reasons to become a PADI® Divemaster or Scuba Instructor: to work and travel, to share your love of the underwater world with others, or simply for the personal challenge. Along the way, you’ll hone your scuba diving skills and emerge as a leader in the world’s largest community of divers bound together by a shared passion for adventure and ocean conservation.

Minimum Age: 18 yrs old
Duration: 10 – 14+ Days

Prerequisites:

Prior to enrolling in PADI Divemaster Online, you must be at least 18 years old, have a current medical attesting to your diving fitness signed by a physician within the previous 12 months, and be a certified PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue or hold qualifying certifications from another dive training organization. You must also have completed a Emergency First Response (EFR) Primary and Secondary Care course (or other sanctioned first aid and CPR course) within the past 24 months and be able to prove that you have completed at least 40 dives (60 before being able to complete the Divemaster course with experience of deep dives, night dives and underwater navigation).

Once you successfully complete Divemaster Online, you will need to successfully complete several practical assessments, workshops and other assignments with your PADI Instructor as well as meet the professionalism criteria.

The eLearning segment of the course is available for one year from the time of course registration. Though you must finish the online portion of the course within that time frame, you will have perpetual access to the ebook version of the PADI Divemaster manual.

Once you finish the eLearning portion of the course, we will be notified that you have completed it and that you are ready for the practical phase of the program. At the end of the eLearning program, you can print out your eRecord and bring a copy of it with you to Asia Divers.

Price:  $ 1,318.00

Other Costs:

There is a separate application fee due to PADI that needs to be submitted with the Divemaster application once the course is successfully completed. In addition to a full set of scuba gear, you will need a PADI Instructor Manual, Recreational Dive Planner (RDPTM), The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving, PADI Divemaster slates, and a log book.

Equipment Rental: 

$ 138.00 but does not include dive computer

Description:  

The PADI Divemaster course is the first professional level within the PADI System of diver education and allows you to work as a training assistant on PADI courses and programs, supervise certified divers during pleasure diving experiences, and conduct some PADI programs independently. Becoming a PADI Divemaster consists of the following segments: knowledge development, practical application and the Divemaster final exam.

Dive Master Experience Week

Minimum Age: 18 yrs old
Duration: 1 week
Prerequisites: PADI Certified Divemaster or PADI Instructor
Price: $ 270.00 per week
Description: After successfully completing the PADI Divemaster or Instructor course, students  get additional supervised guiding experience or assisting on courses with experienced professionals.

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