Day 1

We'll spend most of the day in our purpose-built dive pool on site at Pleasure Divers. We'll be introducing you to your scuba equipment and getting you comfortable in an underwater environment. The focus of the day is in helping you understand the basics of diving with some dive skills and practice. Before long you will be swimming like a fish and ready for the ocean. 

Day 2

Your Instructor will take you to one of our island shore dive sites for your first open-water dive. On this dive you will get a chance to get comfortable being in the ocean. After you have completed Dive 1, you'll head back into ocean for your second training dive (Dive 2) where you will repeat many of the skills that you mastered in the pool.

Day 3

You're back into the ocean for your final two training dives (Dive 3 and 4). You only have a few more skills to complete on each dive. You will have plenty of time to relax and enjoy the sites. After that, all that's left to do is to complete the exam and you’re CERTIFIED!

Want to earn your full SSI Open Water Diver licence? Have a referral Diver qualification? Complete your remaining 4 open water dives as shore dives, here on Magnetic Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Our dive shop is conveniently located opposite our dive sites, meaning just a short walk from the centre to the site. Our sites are great for learner divers with shallow depths and easy navigation, youre sure to love getting qualified here!

The Advanced Course enhances your already existing Open Water skills and adds a new dimension to your diving experience. The advanced course consists of two days. The first day is on Magnetic Island learning navigation procedures, naturalist information and wreck Diving skills whilst enjoying what the island has to offer. The second day, you are taken to the Best Wreck Site in Australia, the S S Yongala. On the Yongala you will gain knowledge and experience with a deep and boat dive. The Yongala is the best dive that Australia has to offer with its natural beauty and surroundings and magnificent view of the size and colours of the fish and coral. This is one dive that will not be forgotten. The course structure offers you opportunity to enhance your existing skills and pathway for future diving, whilst seeing the most serene surrounding and natural beauty that diving has to offer.

"Be prepared for those unexpected emergencies."

Stress is a major contributor to rescue situations and diving accidents. Through this course you will learn accident prevention, as well as how to handle problem situations if they occur. The program is about avoiding, recognizing and solving problems on the surface and underwater.

The course runs over two days in which you will participate in both pool and open water in-water sessions. Theory material is covered with at home study completed prior to the course.

As a prerequisite for certification you need to have a valid CPR & First Aid Provider certificate.

Course Content:

The Junior Open Water Diver certificate for 12,13 and 14yr olds is similar to the Open Water certification but delivered differently to accomodate the needs of youth divers. Here are some key differences/ similarities:

• Course Supervision: SSI impose strict supervision ratios for instructors teaching children. This is to ensure the safety of the child and an appropriate learning experience. We are bound by strict SSI standards that require us to reduce our instructor: student ratio from 1:8 down to 1:4 
• Course Content: The Junior Open Water Course content is the exact same as the Open Water course. Unfortunately nothing about the course content is modified for Juniors, as this is set by SSI. Junior divers must perform the same tasks, assessments and skills to the same standard as an older Open Water diver. This is important for parents to note; enrolling their child in a JNR OW course means that the child needs to pass the same components that test adults in order to earn the certification - the academic study, the exam questions and the water skills testing are the same as for adults. 
• Course Delivery: Whilst we are unable to modify the content of the course, our experienced instructors modify the delivery of a specialised Junior Open Water course, so that it is delivered in a fun way that’s engaging and understandable for younger learners. In our specialised kids classes, instructors use more hands-on, kid-friendly methods to make sure the information sticks. Instructors also modify the timings of the Junior courses, accommodating the extra time needed for young learners to comprehend concepts and complete physical tasks. We also provide more frequent breaks in Junior Open Water classes reducing the intensity/ pace of learning.
• Upgrade to Open Water: Once the Junior diver turns 15, their certification automatically upgrades to the regular Open Water certification. They do not need to re-take the course again to gain the adult version of the qualification. Therefore it is essential that they learn, comprehend and truly understand all the diving concepts, terminologies and principals and pass all physical components. It's a lifelong qualification, they are achieving at a young age.