The open water SCUBA Diver course is the door that leads you to the ADVENTURE of a Lifetime.  Just imagine where you will go! This is the first step to take to begin the SCUBA lifestyle.

This is our entry-level certification course where you will learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to safely dive in open water.  Diving skills will be taught and practiced first in the comfort and convenience of a confined water environment and finally during your open water training dives with your certified Instructor.

The Open Water Scuba Diver Course will cover all of the necessary skills and knowledge for open water scuba diving, including:

• The aquatic environment: vision, light, sound, heat loss, tides, currents, waves, surge, etc.
• Physics and physiology: buoyancy, pressure, air spaces, breathing compressed air, mixed gases, etc.
• Dive equipment 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!

Earning your Scuba Diver Certification card is an accomplishment for which you will rightfully feel proud and you will be ready to begin a lifetime of underwater adventures and discovering.

Getting started is easy! Individuals ages 15+ and in good physical condition may enroll in a  Scuba Diver course. (Junior Open Water SCUBA Diver offered for ages 10-14 years old) Just ask your Louisville Dive Center Instructor how to sign up.

The Adventure awaits you.

Confined Water Reschedule Fee: $80