Junior Open Water Diver - Cost £350
What is it?
This is the first level course that, on certification, will free you up to dive with other qualified divers, plan and conduct your own dives within certain limits, hire equipment , get air fills and go on to other diving courses. It is the first main rung on the ladder and will open up a huge and wonderful new world for you.
Can anyone do it – are there any pre-requisites?
PADI Junior Open Water courses are available to people over the age of 10 and under 15 years. As mentioned in the earlier general section – you will need to be in reasonable health and complete the self assessment medical questionnaire. It goes without saying that being able to swim is an obvious pre-requisite.
What does the course entail?
The course comprises 3 main sections – the first two will be run in parallel over the duration of the course:
- Knowledge development – This entails reading an informative manual – or doing this via the e-learning facility. This you can do at your own leisure and at home or wherever suits you. Full details can be given of the options so you can choose which suits you best – please ring or email. There are self assessment quizzes to help you along the way and knowledge reviews which you will need to complete. You will also watch a DVD which elaborates the content of the manual and begins to seriously whet your appetite for your sessions in the water. You don't need to be an Einstein to get though this and you will be reviewing them with one of our instructors who can go over anything you need help with. There is a small test at the end of the "class-room sessions" – again – nothing to fear. We will spread the knowledge development section over a number of sessions because we want to get you in the water as soon as possible.
- Confined water (eg swimming pool) over several sessions - During the pool sessions we will ask you to demonstrate your basic fitness with some fairly low level stamina tests (swim 200 metres and tread water for 10 minutes). The main emphasis is to introduce you to SCUBA equipment and then teach you how to use it safely and develop your buoyancy control skills over a few pool sessions.
- Open water Dives - Once you have completed the pool sessions we move onto the really exciting part – we take you on four open water dives. These are usually conducted over one or two weekends. We’ll have you demonstrate some of the skills to us that you have already in the pool and a few more. After that – you are a qualified Junior Open Water Diver!
A typical schedule could be:
Week 1:
Evening knowledge development section 1
Evening pool session 1
Week 2:
Evening knowledge development section 2
Evening pool session 2
Week 3:
Evening knowledge development section 3
Evening pool session 3
Week 4:
Evening knowledge development section 4
Evening pool session 4
Week 5:
Evening knowledge development section 5
Evening pool session 5
Weekend
4 Open water dives.
However we can adapt the schedule to suit most needs – please call to discuss.
How do I book a course?
You can ring on 07534 799597/8 and we can do it all over the phone, or you can complete the booking form here and send/email it to us.
And then?
We'll provide you with full details of your course curriculum when you book a course – where we’ll teach the class-room sections, where the swimming pool is and of course where the all important open water dives will be done.