If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. Get your scuba diving certification with the Open Water Diver course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.

To enroll in an Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course, age 10-14), you must be 10 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.

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Complete all of the academic requirements for the entry-level scuba diver certification online. Get started right now and. when you are done, you will complete your in-water skill-development sessions and final open-water training dives here! 

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The Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

• Knowledge Development (online, independent study) to understand basic principles of scuba diving

• Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills

• Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!

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The necessary skills and knowledge you will learn includes:

• The aquatic environment: vision, light, sound, heat loss, tides, currents, waves, surge, etc.

• Physics and physiology: buoyancy, pressure, air spaces, breathing compressed air, mixed gasses, etc.

• Dive environment selection, assembly, use and maintenance

• Dive planning

• Basic scuba skills including mask and regulator skills, swimming underwater, buoyancy control, basic rescue techniques, and emergency procedures

• And much more!

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Upon completion of the Open Water Diver course, you will be able to conduct open water dives in conditions similar to training! Get a jump on your scuba instruction by completing all the knowledge reviews and watching the videos at home at your own pace.