PADI Discover Scuba Diving

"The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program is your chance to breathe underwater in a fun and convenient environment (confined water area or swimming pool). It's never been easier to try diving!
A PADI Instructor introduces you to scuba equipment - then you go diving! It is as easy as that. This experience may credit toward diver certification."

The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program introduces people to scuba diving in a highly supervised and relaxed manner. It dispels common misconceptions about scuba by letting individuals try it for themselves. Under the guidance of a PADI professional, new divers learn basic safety concepts, put on equipment and swim around underwater in a closely supervised environment. The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program can take place in a swimming pool, protected confined open water area and at an open water dive site - anywhere an appropriate, positive introduction to scuba diving is possible.

Key Standards

Course Overview

Confined Pool Dives Skills

• New divers complete and sign the PADI Discover Scuba Diving brochure.
• Brief introduction and explanation of the use of a mask, fins, BCD, regulator, pressure gauge, exposure protection, weight system, alternate air source, etc.
• Review breathing rules and equalization techniques.
• Skills overview: regulator and mask clearing.
• How to put on and adjust students scuba equipment.
• Breathing underwater and swim around in shallow water. When comfortable continue tours in deeper water as appropriate.
• Debriefing

Optional Open Water Dives Skills

When you go on an open water dive, a PADI Instructor will introduce and have you practice the following skills in shallow water before taking you to a deeper underwater tour.

• Breathing underwater
• Regulator clearing
• Regulator recovery
• Mask clearing
• Equalization techniques

Your open water dive takes you as deep as 12 metres/40 feet! (Of course this depends on where you dive.) The Discover Scuba Diving experience is a great way to get a head start on your PADI Scuba Diver or Open Water Diver certification.
That’s because the skills you complete during your adventure may credit these certification levels. All you have to do is complete a Student Diver Record and Referral Form, which documents your achievement, and bring it to any PADI Dive Center or Resort to continue where you left off.
To participate in the Discover Scuba Diving experience, you must be at least 10 years old.

Equipment
During confined and open water training, each student must be equipped with fins, mask, snorkel and buoyancy-control device (BCD).Appropriate exposure protection and weight belts are to be used as needed, at the instructor's discretion.