This is an exciting, dynamic recreation with loads of fun to be had by all. Our Instructors are highly trained and competent in their teaching and their major role is putting your safety first - along with first-class quality, and especially service, these courses are both popular and can be scheduled in a manner to best suit your time.
Should you wish to make a provisional booking for a course, please use the "Contact Us" area of our web site to do this.
Openwater Course
This performance based adventure program is designed to lead you step by step in your future exploration of our amazing underwater world. As a PADI openwater diver you will savour every moment of weightless exhilaration, and you'll meet other adventurers who share you quest for unending excitement.
This program will give you a certification to dive with a buddy to a maximum depth of 18 meters anywhere in the world! Meet new people and have a great time, so join us now!
Advanced course
The PADI Advanced Openwater diver will fine-tune your dive skills, by building your confidence as you explore our amazing shoal and reefs and experience the many special dive activities this program offers, taking you to new levels of excitement, and extending your dive limits to 30 meters.
Don't miss this program because your completed advanced dives may be credited towards the first dive of a related PADI speciality program.
Rescue Course
The PADI Rescue Diver course is an important and crucial step in expanding
a diver’s knowledge and experience beyond a purely recreational level. This
PADI Rescue Diver training is a prerequisite for all PADI leadership
training. (Divemaster, Assistant Instructor, and Openwater Instructor).
This course is demanding and realistic in its conduct, content and approach.
Interaction discussion, variety and flexibility are stressed during skills
training. This unique course builds confidence and ability, providing the
skills and knowledge to make you respond safely and efficiently to surface
and underwater emergencies.
Nitrox Diver - extended bottom times, less decompression stresses - the way
forward!
Speciality Courses
Wreck Diver - enjoy the mystery diver and be one of the few to do a wreck penetration.
Deep diver - learn to dive safely up to 40 meters and visit areas other divers dream about.
Night diver - the underwater world transforms itself after sunset and experience a special exhilaration of unexpected sites. Nitrox Diver - extend your dive times, shorter SIT times and reduce your fatigue.
Naturalist and/or Project AWARE - a rewarding experience interacting with marine life and learning about our natural world.
Navigation - Hey, stop swimming around in circles and get rid of that disorientated feeling.
Peak Performance Buoyancy - dive like a pro and perfect your buoyancy.
Shark Awareness - for those who want to learn more about our underwater friends.
Videography - Make your movie underwater!
Oxygen-Administration - for those divers who want to add to their Medic First Aid certification.
Emergency First Response and EFR
EFR trains you in first aid and CPR and meets an important pre-requisite for the rescue diver course. This is lots of fun and one of the most rewarding courses you will do.
You will learn self-rescue and accident prevention and management. If you are looking to become a Divemaster you will need to do your MFA.
Master Scuba Diver
This is the highest non-professional certification after a diver has completed all the programs up to Rescue diver and 5 specialties.
Divemaster Course
Take your first step to expand your diving knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. The most fulfilling part of the course is learning to supervise dive activities while assisting with diver training.
This is a leadership program where you confidence grows with every breath!
Assistant Instructor
You gain additional experience while continuing to learn the PADI system of diver education, while giving you the necessary tools to finish the IDC in the OWSI Program.
Instructor
This rating sets you apart from the crowd!
Career Development Courses
Live the life you have always wanted, let the ocean become your office and work in adventure! Be surrounded by people who are always happy! This program takes you from Openwater diver all the way through to Instructor with additional emphasis on compressor operator, and shop management.
These programs take divers beyond the bounds of conventional, recreational diving. The philosophies, and course goals directly address the more demanding and challenging nature of technical diving which involves hazards and greater risks than recreational diving. These courses are only for divers looking for the challenge and willing to accept the costs, risks, training, physical and psychological fitness that these programs demand.
The following courses are offered in our technical diver training program.
Referral - R1300 pool, 4 dives, kit (R350 for crew pak)
ADVANCED - From R650
EFR - From R495
RESCUE - From R1775
DIVE MASTER- From R1915
SPECIALITIES - includes all crewpaks
NITROX - From R950
DEEP - From R950
NIGHT - TBA
WRECK - From R950
NATURALIST - From R795
PEAK - From R950
NAV - From R875
SHARK - From R950
DRYSUIT - From R950
VIDEO - From R950
WRECK / NITROX - From R1900
SHARK / NITROX - From R1900
* Cert = PADI certification card
* Pak = crewpak with manuals/tables
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR - From R2200
IIDC - TBA
CAREER - From R10500
DSAT COURSE - From R5000
IANTD COURSES - based Pretoria / Umkomaas
Deep Diver - From R1400
Advanced Nitrox - From R2350
Recreational Trimix - From R1200
Advanced Recreational Trimix - From R2350
Normoxic - From R3800
Trimix - From R3800
Rebreather - From R6500
Please contact us for further details and our terms and conditions.
The members: Barry Coleman (Rebreather Instructor Trainer).
Celia Coleman (PADI MSDT Instructor #609688) together have many years of combined experience and instructing in the diving industry and can ensure that your diving experiences are safe, easy and fun!
Below is a list of Barry and Celia's qualifications - we look forward to being of service to you - both as tour guides on some of the finest dive sites South Africa has to offer and as your instructors should you choose to further your diving qualifications.
Barry Neal Coleman
Student Education, Technical Support, Quality Control and Product Support.
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