Learn more about the PADI diving courses
Here you find an overview of the PADI diving courses LIVE FOR DIVING offers you with a quick description. Click on the pictures of the particular course to go to a more detailed page.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience – try out diving for the first time
This program helps you out when you still in doubt if diving is your thing or not. Here you will learn the basic concepts of diving, practice in the shallow crucial diving skills and go afterwards on a two dive adventure. You will be treated the same way as if it would be your first day of the Open Water Course. So the focus here is to teach you already the basics and not just pulling you around underwater for some pictures, proper teaching all the way with LIVE FOR DIVING.
PADI Open Water Diver Course – The first step in your diving career
It all starts at one point. The first scuba diving license, you will get, is the PADI open water scuba diver (OWD). This course lays the foundation of a long enjoyable time underwater, that is why it is the most important one. Therefore you should choose wisely. There are countless different diving agencies to pick from. The most recognizable agency is definitely PADI, but it absolutely doesn’t matter. Solely your future instructor defines if you will have an enjoyable course where you learn the proper way of diving.
PADI Advanced Open Water Course – bring your diving to the next level
The Advanced let you dive deeper and expends your diving expertise. Here the main focus lays on improving your key diving skills of trim, buoyancy, breathing and propulsion. Experience greater depth up to 30m (100 feet), get an better understanding of underwater navigation and explore the mystical beauty of diving at night. 6 ocean dives are waiting for you.
PADI Rescue Diver Course – help other divers in emergency, a boost in your diving confidence
During this course you will learn how to handle emergencies during your dives like rescuing an unconscious diver from underwater all the way exiting the water. Your awareness about potential hazards will be sharpen, so that you can realize minor equipment problems and other things, which could result in a big emergency underwater. The Rescue Diver course is without doubt the physical toughest course, but will boost your confidence as a diver tremendous after completion.
PADI Deep Diver Course – extend your range to 40m (131 feet)
During your Advanced course you experienced already a dive to 30m. With this course we go further to the recreational diving depth limitation of 40m (131 feet). More risks are added to your dive, but also more excitement. Nothing beats to look up to the surface from a depth of 40m in crystal clear water, that is a stunning view and a feeling everyone should experience. All dedicated divers need this specialty, because it is a requirement for further diving programs.
PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Course – extend your bottom time
This specialty course is exactly like the deep diver specialty a must have for all dedicated divers. With these 2 specialties you are allowed to dive all dive sites around the world with the recreational diving limits. For example there are dive sites just starting in 25m and reaching down to 40m, without using Nitrox, there is not enough bottom time. Dive shops require that the whole group dives with enriched air. So get this license to be ready to explore the world. This are the two specialty diving courses you need.
