Learn to Scuba Dive in 3 Days with eLearning
The PADI Open Water course is the most popular scuba diving course in the world, and is designed for people who have never dived before, so if this is your first introduction to scuba diving, don’t worry.
In just three days, you will be able to obtain your lifetime certification that will serve you to dive anywhere in the world up to a maximum depth of 18 meters.
What is Included in the PADI Open Water course
- PADI Open Water E-learning manual
- Dive Insurance
- Small Groups (4:1)
- 3 day schedule
- PADI certification
- Full set of Aqualung rental equipment including a Dive Computer for your course
- Official Isla Tortuga Divers T-shirt
- Best Vibes!
PADI Open Water Diver Course Schedule
Choosing the PADI eLearning program allows you to complete the PADI Open Water course in just 3 days.
Day 1: Confined Water training Dives 1-5
You will meet your PADI Diving Instructor at 07.30 and complete Confined water training in a specifically designed training pool.
This is the longest day of the Open Water course, you must complete 5 Confined water training dives and we pride ourselves in offering all our students the best possible training to ensure you are fully prepared for the open water training dives that will follow.
Each confined water training dive has a series of skills that you must master before progressing onto the next skill. Skills progress from simple, gradually becoming more complex and introducing more concepts as you grow in confidence and competence.
Day 2: Open Water Training Dives 1 + 2
You will meet your instructor at 11:00 a.m. and complete the Open Water course quick review. This is a short Q & A to ensure you understand all the knowledge development that you completed via the PADI e-learning.
The dive boat departs at 12.45 and returns at approximately 17.00.
You will complete Open Water Training Dives 1 + 2. During these dives your Instructor will ask you to repeat some of the skills you mastered during the confined water training dives.
This time you will be applying these skills in a real open water environment and of course will also be doing lots of swimming around as your PADI Instructor introduces you to the wonders of the underwater environment that the waters of Koh Tao offer!
Day 3: Open Water Training Dives 3 + 4
Our boat departs at 12.45 and on the final day of the PADI Open Water course you will Open Water Training Dives 3 + 4 with the same schedule as yesterday but this time get ready for the two best dives of your life!
This last day of the course is lighter in terms of exercises and is more designed for you to enjoy your new passion of scuba diving!
PADI Open Water Diving Course Requirements
To embark on this exciting adventure and become a certified PADI diver you must:
- Be in good health – You will have to fill out a medical form to make sure that there are no contraindications with diving.
- Be able to swim – 200 meters without assistance and float or tread water for 10 minutes in water too deep to stand.
- Minimum age: – You have to be at least 10 years old to enrol on the PADI Open Water course.
Why Choose PADI?
PADI dive centers must adhere to the highest training standards and customer service levels in the dive industry.
PADI is the most recognized agency worldwide when it comes to recreational diving courses, with hundreds of agencies around the world, PADI is established in more countries than any other agency.
In short, if you go to a small island in the middle of nowhere and there is a diving school, it is most likely PADI.
PADI is the only training agency whose curriculum is written by educational authors, using tried , tested and trusted learning philosophies adapted for scuba diving.
The PADI system is performance based, not time based.
What this means is you will have to earn your PADI diving course certification, and you can’t buy it.
Please keep in mind that we are going to ask you to do more than other dive centers and agencies. On the bright side this will mean you will receive a higher quality training course and will be much better prepared as a certified scuba diver.
PADI is the only agency that conducts customer satisfaction surveys to ensure that its professionals are meeting the highest standards of education and safety, while other agencies only ask instructors or schools to manage their own standards.
Why Choose Isla Tortuga to do your Open Water course
We limit our class size to a maximum of 4 students per Instructor providing you with a personalized and focused training course.
We conduct our confined water training in a swimming pool and are one of the few dive centers on Koh Tao that schedules an entire day in the pool. This allows you plenty of time to become comfortable with breathing underwater as well as lots of time to practice and repeat all the skills were going to teach you.
Our dive boat MV Attawat is comfortable and spacious and as we own our own boat it gives us the flexibility to choose the dive sites that best suit you.
The Knowledge development portion of the course can be completed using PADI eLearning program. What this means is once you have completed the registration process and paid your deposit you can get started straight away.
eLearning Open Water Course
Completing PADI’s e-learning ahead of time means a 3 day course schedule.
We are a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center and as such all our instructors are trained in house by our PADI Course Directors. This allows us to vet every staff member to ensure they are teaching to the very highest standards, providing you with a quality and safe experience and of course lots of fun.
We provide you with a dive computer for all your open water training dives at no extra cost.
We only teach ‘diving with a dive computer ’on all our PADI courses in line with latest technology and educational standards.
As an ‘Aqualung Partner Center’ all our diving equipment passes the most rigorous quality and reliability tests.
Last, but without a doubt the most important reason to complete your PADI Open Water course with Isla Tortuga Divers is we guarantee that you will learn to dive with a smile and that you will be left wanting more. Contact us to book your adventure now.
Please Note our AC Rooms & Shared Dormitories are excluded from the prices of the diving courses.
