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GO PRO PROGRAM

Tired of routine?
Don't want to sit in the office anymore?
Want a job along the coast?
Want to meet different cultures?
Want the most exciting activities?

Join the World Greatest Club of Professional Divers

Become a PADI professional

Program A
From NO to PRO
(From non diver to DiveMaster)

Program B
From O to PRO
(From Open Water Diver to DiveMaster)

Program C
From AO to PRO
(From Advanced Open Water Diver to DiveMaster)

Program D
From RESCUE to PRO
(From Rescue Diver to DiveMaster)

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL DIVERS



PROGRAM A

If you have never dived before or just finished an Introductory Dive and now you are planning to become a Dive Professional, this is how you can begin!

You will start with the PADI Open Water Diver Course. This is the entry level and enables you to become a certified diver who is allowed to dive to a maximum depth of 18 meters.

This course will take between 4 to 5 days. The course consists of 3 different parts.

For your Knowledge Development you will watch the PADI Open Water Diver DVD. This goes hand in hand with the Open Water Diver Manual, which you will read for self study. After you finished a chapter, you will do a written Knowledge Review by answering several questions to see what you remember. Your instructor will help you with any difficulties and explain for your better understanding. Watching the video and reading the manual will help you understand the underwater environment and basic aspects of diving.

After finishing the first modules of the knowledge development, it's time to go for Confined Water training, you are ready to take your first breaths underwater! With your full SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) equipment you will enter the water and start your first Confined Water Session. This will take place in very shallow water, where you sit on the bottom learning your first basic dive skills. Your instructor will have them explained to you on land first and demonstrates them again, before you try them yourself. During the Confined Water Sessions you will learn all necessary skills that you need to become a diver.

Open Water Dives : Now it's time to go deeper and see that you can make sure you will be able to apply the skills you already mastered in the Confined Water to the real open water. You will have four dives to do and they vary in their depth, first and second are twelve meter, third sixteen, and fourth is eighteen meter.

There is only one more thing to be done, before you can get your Open Water Diver Certification. You will take a Final Exam to make sure that you have all the knowledge to become certified. And after that? Congratulation! You are a PADI Open Water Diver.





PROGRAM B

You are now a PADI Open Water Diver who has all the basic knowledge of diving. Now you are ready to take the next step by joining the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course!

During this course you will learn more about the different aspects of diving. The course itself consists of five dives. There are no more confined water sessions or exams to do. All you need to do as academics is reading the chapters in the Advanced Open Water Manual and go through the Knowledge Reviews for the five so-called Adventure Dives that you will be doing. Two of these five dives are the core dives in the course (Deep Dive and Navigation Dive). The deep dive will take you down to 30 meters. Your instructor will tell you about considerations for Deep Diving, since you will be certified to dive to 30 meters as an Advanced Open Water Diver .

The other core dive that every student needs to do is the Underwater Navigation where you learn more about using Compasses and Natural Navigation. Then there are 3 further dives. Depending what your interests are, you can choose with your instructor's guidance out of a big range, for example Night Dive, Underwater Naturalist, Boat Dive, Drift Dive or even Underwater Photography. Once you finished your 5 Adventure Dives, which can be done in only 2 days, you can call yourself an Advanced Open Water Diver!

 


 

PROGRAM C


You are an Advanced Open Water Diver and you feel comfortable in the water? It is time to find out more about how you can perfect your dive skills and avoid serious problems underwater and act in certain situations to help other divers that might be in distress. That's when we start your PADI Rescue Diver Course.

It all starts with various aspects of self rescue and understanding how physiological and physical stress can lead to serious situations. You will be reading more about it in the PADI Rescue Diver Manual and widen your knowledge by watching the PADI Rescue Diver DVD.

In several water sessions you learn how to approach a panicked diver at the surface and underwater as well as how to deal with an unconscious victim. You practice in different rescue scenarios how to manage minor difficulties and major emergencies. Similar to the Open Water Diver Course, the Rescue Diver Course consists of Knowledge Development, Confined Water Training, Open Water Training and Rescue Scenarios. You will learn as well about the divers most known sickness, the Decompression Sickness (DCS) and how to deal with a victim suspected of having that sickness.

In the PADI Emergency First Response Course, that needs to be done before you can get your Rescue Diver Certification , you learn more about First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), which prepares you to react quickly and safe in diving and non/diving incidents.

Before the Rescue Diver Certification will be issued, you will have to take the Rescue Diver Final Exam and then you are a certified PADI Rescue Diver.




PROGRAM D

So, now you are a PADI Rescue Diver and you want to proceed and get to the first step of Professionalism and Leadership in the world of diving. The course that will fulfill this for you is the PADI Divemaster Course. This course consists of Academic Knowledge, Self Study and Water Internships…

In the academic and self study part you will learn about

  • Diving Physics: Do you know why sound travels four times faster in water than in air? Why blood looks green at depth? Why things seem to be bigger and closer underwater than they actually are? You will learn about all the water characteristics, sound and water, light and water, heat and water, and pressure and volume, pressure and density and a lot more of other things.

  • Diving Physiology: Do you know that it is the carbon dioxide  that stimulates breathing and not the need for oxygen! You are actually going to be amazed of how much changes happen to our bodies while underwater. All this you will find out on that section.

  • Diving Equipment: Why do you think we need all these equipment to dive and what's the function of every little piece, how did people dive fifty years ago? You will find this section very interesting to read and learn.

  • Environment: When it's windy and you see divers going out to the ocean, you might think they are crazy but this is not true, these guys have a good study of the environment and this is what you will learn in that section. You will find out a lot about wind currents, waves, tidal currents and how they affect the diving.

Now it's time to tell you about some water activities, you will learn how to

  • Assist With Student Divers In Training: That gives you a lot of experience to deal with student divers problems and learn how to respond to them and even avoid them happening, that gives you great credit once you want to go further and become a PADI Instructor.

  • Supervise Certified Divers Activities: Divers always seek a DiveMaster, but why? He knows the points of interests, he is very familiar with dive sites, assures divers safety and diving will be more fun. We will take you on the track to learn how to apply broad planning and handle the logistics for the dives, and as well how to supervise different activities for different divers.

  • Divemaster Conducted Programs: As a PADI DiveMaster, what are you qualified to do and what are you allowed to do? You will learn all this while learning how to use the PADI Instructor Manual which as well will help you to be aware of the standards and to follow them to assure a good quality of your career.

  • Skills: It's a big part of your training, you are a PADI DiveMaster, so you are expected to master all the dive skills and show these skills with demonstration quality and as well to give a proper pre dive briefing and post dive debriefing and again that will help you in your PADI instructor course.

On each of the previous sections you will take an exam. There will be twenty questions, multiple choices, and seventy five percent is the passing score.

As a DiveMaster Trainee (DMT) you will get to go out with our groups to see and know all about the sites in the area and in case you want to join  safaris you will get the best deal about it.

So are you ready to be a dive leader and a dive professional??