Dive Central - Our Courses

Our Courses

Dive Central provides a wide variety of scuba and scuba-related courses for our customers.

PADI Diver Level Courses

PADI Open Water Diver

Ever wondered what it's like under the water? To swim with the fish and see what few others ever see? Come join us and we'll introduce you to that world and teach you the skills to make diving fun and safe!
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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

You've entered the world of scuba and have been certified as an open water diver. What's next? On to advanced open water diver and more adventures.
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PADI Rescue Diver

Enter the world of the PADI rescue diver. As a rescue diver you will learn the skills and techniques to help other divers and help manage and prevent distress. A great course for those that dive with loved ones.
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PADI Specialty Diver Courses (Open Water Level)

PADI Altitude Diver

Any time you're diving at 300 to 3000 metres / 1000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, you're altitude diving. If you want to explore the hidden world of a mountain lake, the PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course is for you.
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PADI Boat Diver

Whether you've never made a boat dive or you've logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently.
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PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever.
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PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle

DPVs offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They scoot you through the water without kicking. Whether making a shore dive or diving from a boat, a DPV is a great way to see more and have a blast doing it.
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PADI Drift Diver

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty course introduces you to the coolest magic carpet ride you'll ever experience. This course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by "going with the flow," staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.
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PADI Dry Suit Diver

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then dive dry. Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm! Even in surprisingly cold water.
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PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider

Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider.
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PADI Enriched Air Diver

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI's most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it's easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time.
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PADI AWARE Fish Identification

Have you ever been scuba diving and asked yourself, "What was that?" The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer.
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PADI Multilevel Diver

Maximize your dive time so you can explore more! In this course, you learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. That's the way you really dive, after all.
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PADI Night Diver

As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your scuba mask and bite down on your dive regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat &em; into the underwater night.
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PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy

What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who've mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart.
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PADI Search and Recovery Diver

Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost "treasure"? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.
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PADI Underwater Naturalist

Look closer to see more on your next dive. Look for symbioses, predator/prey and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life. Learn not just what fish and animals are, but how they interact with each other and the environment.
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PADI Underwater Navigator

Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.
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PADI Underwater Videographer

Other than taking someone diving, there's only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world: video.
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PADI Specialty Diver Courses (Adventure Level)

PADI Deep Diver

After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There's something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts divers.
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PADI Wreck Diver

Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they're intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life.
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PADI Specialty Diver Courses (Advanced Open Water Level)

PADI Ice Diver

If the spirit of adventure and unusual, challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under the ice. During the course, you dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialties recreational diving offers.
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PADI Professional Diver Courses

PADI Divemaster

As the first step into the larger world of the professional diving community, the PADI Divemaster provides the role model that others look up to. From leading certified divers to helping instructors with students, this course will prepare you for your journey forward.
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PADI Assistant Instructor

As a PADI Assistant Instructor, you not only gain additional experience as a PADI Professional scuba diver, but you also start learning the PADI System of diver education.
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PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor

Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn't even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
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PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer

You tell your students to aim for PADI Master Scuba Diver. You also want to tell them that you can take them all the way there because you're a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT).
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PADI IDC Staff Instructor

As an Instructor Development Course (IDC) Staff Instructor, you help bring up the next generation of PADI Instructors while gaining in-depth instructor-trainer knowledge.
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DAN Courses

DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries

DAN's Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries Provider Course was designed to fill the void in oxygen first aid training available for the general diving public.
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DAN Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries

This advanced-level program is designed to train existing DAN Oxygen Providers to use the MTV-100 or a Bag Valve Mask while providing care for a non-breathing injured diver.
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DAN Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for Scuba Diving

More than 10 percent of all dive fatalities are actually caused by cardiovascular disease, according to DAN dive accident and fatality statistics. This course teaches divers and other interested parties to provide care for sudden cardiac arrest including the use of an automated external defibrillator (AEDs).
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DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries

Serious hazardous marine life injuries are rare, but most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures. This course teaches divers to minimize these injuries and reduce diver discomfort and pain.
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DAN Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2)

The DAN Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2™) system module supplements the DAN Oxygen First Aid in Scuba Diving Injuries course. Based on medical closed-circuit oxygen rebreather technology, the REMO2™ device provides injured divers with high concentrations of emergency oxygen for extended periods. This training course instructs the Oxygen Provider in the use of DAN's new REMO2™ system.
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DAN On-site Neurological Assessment for Divers

Learn how to conduct a neurological assessment on a potentially injured diver in this course. The information gained in this assessment can help convince a diver of the need for oxygen first aid, and help a dive physician determine the proper treatment.
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DAN Diving Emergency Management Provider Program

Learn the knowledge and skills from several courses into one single approach to dive emergency management.
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EFR Courses

EFR Primary and Secondary Care

Do you know what to do in an emergency? Can you help when someone needs it? Learn skills and knowledge to empower you to help when the need arises. Take the Emergency First Response course today!
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EFR Care for Children

The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old.
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EFR Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)

Emergency First Response Automatic External Difibrilator (AED) teaches lay-users to correctly operate an AED in an emergency situation to help a victim.
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