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Diving courses SSI and PADI

Diving Courses

We offer full range of SCUBA Diving courses. From very beginner to professional certification. The emphasis is always on safety, having fun and protecting marine environment.


SSI / PADI Open Water Diver (OWD)

With the start-up course, real adventures and discovering the new world begin. And believe that after the course, the world will never again be the same.

Everyone who is 10 years of age or older can take part in the course (children under 14 get Junior certification). You need to be in good health and be decent swimmer. When you finish the course, you will receive an internationally recognized certification card, which will open the doors of diving centers around the world.

As an Open Water Diver (OWD), you can dive safely up to 18 meters deep.

The course includes everything you need. You only need to bring a towel and bathing suit!

Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD)

The course is intended for those who have already tasted the depths of the depth and want more. It is intended for all those who want to broaden their diving knowledge and get new experience under the supervision of professional SCUBA instructor.

The prerequisite for joining the course is OWD Course. The minimum age of participants is 10 years (children under 15 get Junior certification).

At the course, you will first get to know deep diving and underwater navigation. Then there are three dives from specialty types. Usually people choose to do a wreck dive, night dive and a search & recovery dive. We have a diving boat, so we can dive all the locations in our sea!

After you complete the AOWD course, you are certified to dive to 30m depth!

Rescue Diver / SSI Stress & Rescue

This course will broaden your knowledge and give you new experiences on the way to the first professional stage as Divemaster or as Master Scuba Diver.

The Rescue Diver diving course is designed for those who want to be not only more secure under water but also to gain theoretical and practical knowledge from rescue, handling of casualties, emergency procedures and accident prevention. Only with these skills will you be able to effectively help riders in distress, you will gain more confidence in yourself and become more independent under water.

In the course you will learn new techniques of self-rescue and rescue of the co-pilot in a crisis. At the course we will prepare you to be able to prevent potential accidents or how to handle them properly if they already happen … The rescuers are no longer focused on themselves, but learn to consider the safety and well-being of other divers. The course is also a fun way to build your own trust. For many students this is the most interesting course.

The Rescue Diver course has been followed by a follow-up diving course, at least twenty confirmed dives, and a first-aid and rescue course that can not be older than two years (PADI does not recognize the First Aid Automobile Exam).

The course deals with the following topics:

Self-healing and stress

  • oxygen supply systems
  • diving first aid
  • Life-saving lifesaving techniques
  • handling in the event of an accident and equipment
  • help the panic diver
  • Underwater problems
  • Procedures in the case of missing diver
  • Raising an unconscious diver
  • artificial respiration in water
  • Water exits
  • first aid in case of damage due to pressure change
  • scenarios of diving accidents

Diving Specialities

We offer wide array of specialty diving courses. Deepen your knowledge in different diving specialties, such as:

  • Deep diver (certified to 40m depth)
  • Nitrox
  • Wreck and advanced wreck diver
  • Navigation
  • Boat diving
  • Dry suit diving
  • Night diving
  • Science of diving
  • and many more!

Divemaster

Take a step further in your diving career and become a Divemaster. This is a professional certification, so you will be able to work as a dive pro!

The Divemaster course develops your leadership skills and improves your diving activities. A diving course for all those who have a professional ambition for work in a diving club or diving center. The DIVEMASTER diving course is also recommended for all those who do not have professional ambitions, but you want to improve your diving skills to the fullest and be as independent as possible.

Divemaster is the first professional dive category to employ as an instructor assistant and a diving guide in the diving center. The student acquires additional theoretical and practical knowledge, including how to organize and conduct a dive trip, how to help the instructor in the implementation of diving courses, how to act in the event of a diving accident…

The candidate for DIVEMASTER must complete the course and:

  • Demonstrate all initial and follow-on exercises,
  • Perform recovery courses,
  • As an assistant – the assistant to participate in the initial and follow-up courses,
  • Organize and manage dives for certified divers and
  • Draw a dive sketch for one of the diving sites.

The candidate for a divemaster must be at least 18 years old, has to have a Rescue Diver course, and must have at least 60 dives recorded at the finish of the course.

Refresh Course

If it’s been several months since you last dived, it’s a good idea to consider a diving course. You will get an opportunity, to restore your theoretical knowledge and practical skills. With an instructor, you will repeat chapters from diving theory and repeat all major exercises at sea (emptying the mask, air sharing, buoyancy…)

In particular, the diving course is recommended for all those who have not dived for a long time.

Courses for kids

For children from 8 up to 10 years of age, a bubblemaker course is appropriate. For children between the ages of 10 and 14, there is children’s starting and follow-up course for the Junior Open Water Diver. But beware: children between the ages of 10 and 14 who have completed the Junior Open Water Diver course may dive to a depth of 12 meters and only accompanied by an adult.

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