Courses

We provide all the PADI courses all the way up to PADI Divemaster. All our courses are held in our 'cosy' classroom, our 'almost' olympic sized swimming pool and, of course, the Red Sea.

We start our courses on demand, to fit your holiday schedule, and we will provide you with transfers, full instruction, all equipment, lunch while on the boat and log book. The prices quoted for any course are fully inclusive - there are no "hidden extras" waiting to surprise you at the end of your course! For more information on our prices, please visit our Prices page

Open Water

The entry level diving course. This course takes 4 days and is a combination of theory, pool work and open water dives. The first two days are spent in the classroom and pool, learning (with the aid of a comprehensive manual and videos) what diving is all about. The last 2 days are spent on the dive boat doing 4 sea dives, to a maximum depth of 18 metres. The diving certification you receive at the end of the course is valid worldwide (for life) and allows you to dive to 18 metres, with another diver having the same or higher certification. We can start this course on request and it does not have to be completed on 4 consecutive days - if you would like a day or two break, to see other attractions or simply laze on the beach … feel free to!

Open Water Referral

This is a mini-course whereby you do your pool work and theory back home at a local PADI dive centre and then complete the last 2 days with us doing the 4 boat dives. This course is popular with people who have a limited amount of holiday time or come from colder climates – they don't want to sit in a classroom or dive in cold water when the sun is shining and the Red Sea is beckoning ....

Advanced Open Water

This is the next level up from the Open Water Course and includes 5 dives over 2 days. There are 2 compulsory dives to make, the deep dive and the navigation dive, and the remaining 3 dives are up to you. Some of the more popular ones are: night, drift, photography, multi-level, search & recovery and wreck diving. Again, we can start this course on request. A fun filled course, purely boat based.

Rescue Diver

Now you start learning to look out for fellow divers, being ready to help out if an 'incident' occurs. This course is a combination of classroom work and boat dives, run over 3 days, if you already have a current (within the last 2 years) first aid certificate which includes simulated C.P.R. (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation). If you need to take a first aid course we offer the E.F.R. (Emergency First Response) run over 1 day at the end of, or before, the Rescue Diver course.

E.F.R.

This is PADI's own first aid course on a par with St John's Ambulance or The Red Cross. To complete either the Rescue Diver Course or the Divemaster Course a current first aid certificate is required. This course takes 1 day and is purely classroom based involving self study, videos and role playing.

Divemaster

The first rung of the professional diving ladder. A Divemaster is qualified to lead dives as an underwater guide and act as an Instructor's assistant when training students. We run this course over 2 weeks or as an internship over a number of months. We would expect you to supply most, if not all, of your own equipment if possible (though you can use ours if you wish) because at this level you want a certain 'comfort factor', which does not exist with borrowed equipment. There is a lot of theory involved in this course, therefore, if you are doing the intensive 2 week option it is in your interest to buy the relevant reading material and devour it before you come out. The internship option is altogether more relaxed and, if time allows, our preferred option.