PADI Recreational Courses

Learn how to lead dives, assist with classes and be the diver everyone looks up to. Your scuba career starts here.

Learn how to perform CPR and use an AED. Start online, perfect your skills with an instructor.

Learn how to respond to common family emergencies. Includes child and infant CPR training.

This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses.

A DPV allows you to explore more of the underwater world in less time and conserve air. They're also extremely fun!

Want to dive more places, more often? Learn drysuit diving.

PADI AWARE™ Specialty brings divers and ocean enthusiasts together to take action and protect the underwater world.

Gain the skills and knowledge that could save the life of someone you care about.

Help recover lost items. Learn effective underwater search techniques and how to use a lift bag.

Breathe easy with PADI® Emergency Oxygen Provider training. Learn how to administer emergency oxygen for scuba diving injuries.

Although diving with a buddy is the norm, there are reasons for an experienced diver to develop self-reliance and independence while diving. Learning to carry out dives without a partner can make you a stronger diver in most dive situations.

Capture the sights, sounds, and the dynamic motion of the underwater world as a videographer. Cover the fundamentals and create interesting, entertaining video worth watching again and again.

Experience scuba diving under the direct supervision of a PADI Pro. Take your first breaths underwater in water shallower than 2 metres/6 ft. For children who are at least 8 years old.

Have an experienced dive professional help you understand a local dive environment so you can better enjoy the dive adventure.

Pay the ocean forward by helping clean it up on your next dive. Learn about the problems of marine debris, conducting Dive Against Debris surveys, and how divers are a part of the solution to keeping our oceans clean.

Extend your underwater time, learn what multilevel diving is and how to calculate for multilevel dives. Plan and execute a two-level and three-level scuba dive using the eRDPML.

Learn how to make basic repairs and protect your equipment investment.

Sharks are an essential part of a healthy ocean. This course explores why they are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them.

Join the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.

See the underwater world in a whole new light - after the sun goes down.

Improve your confidence and become a better dive buddy through fun role-playing and skill practice.

Gain the basic knowledge and experience needed to work as a public safety diver.

Dive into your next adventure with confidence. Regain the skills you learned in your first scuba diving course without starting from scratch

Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites.

Many divers wouldn't think of diving without carrying a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB, and in some locations it's considered required safety equipment. Knowing how to properly deploy and manage a DSMB are valuable skills learned in this course.

Capture underwater photos you'll be proud to share. Learn pro tips that work with any camera.

Enjoy dives even more when you can recognize and identify fish families and their characteristics.

Don't like wearing a heavy tank on your back? Sidemount diving is a comfortable, streamlined alternative.

Experience new adventures with an instructor by your side. Designed for novice divers who want to improve their skills.

This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems.

Increase your awareness of divers' varying abilities, and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.

If you're not ready to sign up for a scuba certification course, Discover Scuba® Diving (DSD®) is a fun way to try scuba diving.

Dive in silence and train to dive as deep as 40 metres/130 feet. Learn about scrubbers, oxygen consumption and bailout requirements including how to configure a bailout cylinder system.

Expand your skill set. Practice evidence handling, vehicle related victim rescue and operations away from shore.

Extend your limits and see more of the underwater world.

Your first scuba diving certification opens the door to a lifetime of adventures.

Complete three Adventure Dives (underwater photography, fish identification, etc.) and earn the Adventure Diver certification, a subgroup of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.

This course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course. If you're short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you.

Get longer no stop limits, reduced gas consumption (reuse most of your exhaled gas), & unmatched wildlife encounters because you don't release annoying bubbles.

Every wreck dive is an opportunity for adventure and new discoveries.

Find out what it feels like to fly underwater. Gain the skills you need to dive confidently in a current.

Nitrox helps you get more out of your scuba certification. Get nitrox certified in as little as one day.

Improve your buoyancy control, dive with less weight and improve air consumption.

Tired of getting lost? Learn how to navigate underwater like a pro.

Learn boat diving etiquette, terminology and important do's and don'ts.

The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting AquaMissions. Do cool stuff in the pool, and meet friends.

Breathe without exhaling bubbles as a rebreather diver. You'll get longer no stop limits, learn to reuse the gas you exhale by recycling the good part and replenishing it for your next breath.

Diving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.