Discover Scuba Diving

At DivingDahab, we conduct all our scuba dive training and tours in our sheltered cove. Our PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Discover Scuba Diving programme is a half-day (one dive) or full-day (two dives) tour, offering people the opportunity to experience scuba diving before committing to a full certification course.
The programme begins with a brief outdoor classroom session where your instructor will explain basic diving principles and techniques.
Step two is a skill practice session in shallow water. Your PADI Instructor will teach you basic diving skills, including how to clear water from a mask, how to recover a regulator, how to ascend from a dive and how to communicate underwater using hand signals.
Finally, you will move out into slightly deeper water with your PADI Instructor where you will experience a real open water dive tour.

PADI Scuba Diver

The PADI Scuba Diver course is a basic scuba programme. Scuba Diver takes a person from complete beginner to a certified diver and course will give you the confidence to dive to depths of 12 meters with an Instructor or Divemaster by your side. Once you have completed this course you will receive the PADI Scuba Diver Certificate which is recognised almost anywhere in the world. This course is very suitable for simple holiday diving and also for junior divers.

To be eligible to sign on to one of our PADI Scuba Diver courses, you need to be aged 12 or over and be in good medical fitness. Please make sure that you have read the full list of questions on the PADI Medical Statement and if any of the listed conditions apply, you will need to print off and take this form to your family doctor in order that you can be signed off as fit to dive before you commence your PADI Scuba Diver course. You don’t have to be a great swimmer to learn to dive but you do need to be able to swim and be fairly happy in the water.

PADI Openwater Diver

The PADI Open Water Diver course is our most popular beginner's scuba programme. Open Water takes a person from complete novice to fully certified diver. The course will give you the confidence to dive to depths of 18 meters without having to have an Instructor or Divemaster by your side. Once you have completed this course you will receive the PADI Open Water Certificate which is recognised almost anywhere in the world.

To be eligible to sign on to one of our PADI Scuba Diver courses, you need to be aged 12 or over and be in good medical fitness. Please make sure that you have read the full list of questions on the PADI Medical Statement and if any of the listed conditions apply, you will need to print off and take this form to your family doctor in order that you can be signed off as fit to dive before you commence your PADI Scuba Diver course. You don’t have to be a great swimmer to learn to dive but you do need to be able to swim and be fairly happy in the water.

PADI ADVANCED Openwater Diver

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course will help you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your Oceandivers PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you've learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.

To take this course, you must be a PADI Open Water Diver or have an equivelent certification from another training organization, be 15 years old or 12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver and be in good medical fitness. Please make sure that you have read the full list of questions on the PADI Medical Statement and if any of the listed conditions apply, you will need to print off and take this form to your family doctor in order that you can be signed off as fit to dive before you commence your PADI Advanced Open Water course.

Emergency First Response

Emergency First Response gives you the basic tools you need to perform CPR or first aid it is provided by the the Basic Life Support (BLS) Working Group of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), the American Heart Association and the European Resuscitation Council. ILCOR itself is an international standards group representing most of the world's major resuscitation organizations. First aid and CPR are good skills for anyone involved in adventure sports – just in case and you need these skills for the PADI Rescue Diver course.
Emergency First Response is a PADI affiliate that specialises in teaching these lifesaving skills – and they’re for everyone, in the home and workplace, not just divers. The fun part about Emergency First Response training is learning serious medical emergency response skills in an upbeat, positive environment. You gain the confidence to help in an emergency situation.

You will learn

• BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
• AED (automated external defibrillator) use (optional)
• Preventing and caring for shock
• Spinal injury management
• Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk
• Basic first aid and first aid kit considerations

PADI Rescue Diver

The PADI rescue diver course introduces you to various diving related emergencies and encourages you to apply solution thinking to these situations in order to handle them. The training covers basic life support and first aid, how to recognize potentially hazardous situations, ways to prevent or control them and how to respond effectively to diver emergencies. You’ll learn a whole variety of new skills and techniques and practice using emergency rescue equipment and protocols to manage a diving accident situation. It’s an intense course but also exciting and a lot of fun, especially if you’re part of a group going through the training together. Most people who have been through this experience have cited the PADI rescue diver course as being one of the most worthwhile pursuits in scuba diving.
The PADI Rescue Diver course is a 4 day program during which we build systematically on the skills you already know and prepare you for a final scenario day during which it’s up to you to demonstrate how well you can apply your training to simulated emergency situations.

You will learn

• Self rescue
• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
• Emergency management and equipment
• Rescuing panicked divers
• Rescuing unresponsive divers