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Continue your education with PADI and work your way up to a dive professional.

Whether you’re looking to develop new skills, explore deeper environments, or even start your journey toward becoming a professional diver, our PADI Continuing Education courses have you covered. From learning underwater navigation and wreck diving to advancing your buoyancy control, our range of courses allows you to customize your diving experience based on your interests.

At our Anguilla dive center, you'll train with expert instructors while surrounded by breathtaking marine life and historic wrecks. Choose between PADI Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water Diver to explore selective dives that boost your skills. For those looking to specialize further, we also offer courses like Wreck Diver, Rescue Diver, and the pathway to becoming a PADI Dive Master. Whether you're diving recreationally or considering a professional career, there's a course designed for you.

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PADI Advanced Diver Certification (5 Dives over 2-3 Days)

This course develops and enhances a diver's skills and knowledge, allowing them to be able to explore new and deeper underwater environments. You can pick three elective dives out of the Adventure Diver Program plus the two required dives of deep and underwater navigation. All dives can be credited towards the corresponding speciality course. Prerequisites: minimum age: 12 years & min. certification: PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent.

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PADI Wreck Diver Certification

A PADI Wreck Diver course teaches divers the skills and knowledge needed to safely explore underwater wrecks, such as sunken ships, planes, and other structures. Wreck diving can be exciting and adventurous, but it requires special techniques to ensure safety and minimize the risk of damaging fragile wreck environments.

5:30 pm (November-April) 6:30 pm ( May-October)

PADI Night Diver Certification

The PADI Night Diver course introduces divers to the unique experience of diving after the sun sets, where familiar dive sites take on a whole new atmosphere. This course focuses on the specialized skills, equipment, and techniques needed for safe and enjoyable night diving, whether from shore or boat.

Times subject to avilability

PADI Rescue Diver Certification

Ever been out on a dive and thought, “What if…?”
This course develops a diver’s ability to look beyond themselves to the safety and well being of other divers. Providing the divers with skills to prevent and if necessary, manage dive emergencies. To begin this course, you must be a certified advance open water diver and have completed a recognized standard first aid with CPR course within the last 12 months.

PADI Recuse Diver Certification $1000 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
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PADI Deep Diver Speciality Certification

Requirements

  • Learn to dive deep with proper lighting and safety equipment.
  • Learn to dive deep with proper lighting and safety equipment
  • Requires 3 open water dives
  • Minimum age: 15 years

Have a fun experience learning how depth and pressure affect you and the environment with fun tools like an underwater light, demonstration items like puzzles on a slate, and pressure-affected items. To complete this certification, the diver must complete 3 deep dives.

PADI Deep Diver Speciality - 3 Required Dives $750 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
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PADI Underwater Navigation Speciality Certification

Requirements

  • Learn underwater navigation techniques and tools.
  • Requires 3 open water dives.
  • Minimum age: 10 years.

Learn how to find your way underwater with various techniques and tools available to modern divers. To complete this certification, the diver must complete 3 Navigation dives.

Navigation Dive Experience - 3 Required Dives $750 Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
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PADI Multilevel Diver Speciality Certification

Learn using one of our dive computers how to conduct a safe multilevel dive. To complete this certification, the diver must complete a minimum of 2 dives.

Multilevel Dive Experience - 2 Required Dives $500 Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
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PADI Underwater Naturalist Speciality certification

Requirements:

  • Identify and examine your underwater environment.
  • Requires 2 open water dives.
  • Minimum age: 10 years

Learn how to identify and examine your underwater environment. To complete this certification, the diver must complete a minimum of 2 dives.

Naturalist Dive Experience - 2 Required Dives $500 Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
Times subject to avilability

PADI Aware Fish Identification Speciality Certification

Requirements:

  • Identify and examine your underwater environment.
  • Requires 2 open water dives.
  • Minimum age: 10 years

Learn how to identify various fish and sea life. To complete this certification, the diver must complete a minimum of 2 dives.

Fish Identification Experience - 2 Required Dives $500 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
Times subject to avilability

PADI Digital Underwater Photography Certification

Requirements:

  • Identify and examine your underwater environment.
  • Requires 2 open water dives.
  • Minimum age: 10 years

Underwater pictures are 50% skill and 50% practice. We can teach you the techniques, and you provide the practice.

Photography Dive Experience - 2 Required Dives $500 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
Times subject to avilability

PADI Drift Diver Certification

Requirements:

  • Identify and examine your underwater environment.
  • Requires 2 open water dives.
  • Minimum age: 10 years

A great dive choice for those who prefer shore dives! Learn to use surface signals and lines, knives, reels, and floats. To complete this certification, the diver must complete a minimum of 2 dives.

Drift Dive Experience - 2 Required Dives $500 Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
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PADI Search and Recovery Diver Certification

Requirements

  • various underwater search techniques
  • Requires 4 open water dives.
  • Minimum age: 12 years.

The PADI Search & Recovery course teaches you effective techniques to locate and retrieve lost items underwater. Whether you're searching for a small object or something larger, this course gives you the skills to plan and conduct search patterns using ropes, compasses, and lift bags, the diver must complete a minimum of 4 open water dives

Search and Recovery Experience - 4 Required Dives $1000 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
Times subject to avilability

Emergency First Response (EFR) with CPR

Are You Prepared to Respond? An accident can happen anytime, anywhere. Whether it’s a burn, scrape, broken bone, or something even more serious, it’s important to know what steps to take. With first aid and CPR training from Emergency First Response® (EFR®), you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to help someone in need and become an essential link in the chain of survival. This course is split into three sections that deal with primary and secondary care, care for children, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

First Response Training $500 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
Minimum of 60 hours of training

PADI Dive Master

The PADI Divemaster course is the first professional level in the PADI system, designed for divers looking to advance their skills and lead dive activities. You’ll learn to supervise dives, assist instructors, and manage dive sites through both theoretical and practical training. Gain valuable experience by working alongside instructors and conducting dive briefings. Upon completion, you'll be certified as a PADI Divemaster, ready to pursue a career in the dive industry.

PADI Dive Master (price excl PADI materials) $2750 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
Minimum of 40 hours of training

PADI Assistant Instructor Course

The PADI Assistant Instructor course is for divers aspiring to become professional instructors. It enhances teaching skills, allowing you to assist PADI instructors and conduct training sessions independently.
Key Highlights:

  • Teaching Techniques: Learn effective presentation methods.

This course is ideal for dive professionals seeking to enhance their leadership and responsibility in the diving community.

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PADI Assistant Instructor (price excl PADI materials) $2750 PADI eLearning via Store #20803 Payable to PADI Please note, if booking a private trip an additional fee of $1000 for the boat is payable.
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Are you ready to join the ranks of the dedicated professionals who teach the most progressive and popular scuba diver education programs?

Teaching diving, exploring new sites, and inspiring others to discover the underwater world. It is about freedom, travel, and building a career that feels like an adventure.

If you like people, have a passion for scuba diving and want an extraordinary life – become a PADI Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others while doing what you enjoy – being in, around and under water. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors and PADI Assistant Instructors are the most sought-after dive professionals around the world.

 

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