DIVE COURSES

PADI DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING

Have you always wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater?

Come and join us for a simple introduction into the basics needed to explore the underwater world.

The PADI DSD is defined as a program and not as a course thus the participant will not obtain a scuba certification. However, it is a great way for you to try diving and learn all the steps needed to later on become a PADI certified diver.

We offer to start this program either in a pool or from Jemeluk Bay -confined open water-. Minimun age requirement to participate in a PADI DSD is to be at least 10 years old. No prior experience with scuba diving is necessary as you will learn basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional.

We structure the program in the following way:

DSD Theory Briefing + Knowledge/ use of scuba equipment
In Confined Water (either pool or confined Open Water) we teach breathing techniques and necessary skills
Swimming techniques
In Open Water (2 Dives) we provide you a big picture about the underwater world and aquatic life.

The DSD program requires half a day and it doesn’t take long for participants to realize they want to become PADI certified. If you w then want to continue with your PADI Scuba Diver or PADI Open Water certification it is easy and straightforward as you already accomplish the first day of the course.
If you are looking to try new challenges this year, the PADI DSD program is an ideal experience and choice.

Get ready to have a wonderful taste of how much fun it is to scuba dive!

PADI OPEN WATER DIVER

If you are looking forward to take scuba diving lessons and experience new adventures, get ready then to get your first PADI certification.

Together with the PADI Scuba Diver course both are the basic entry-level courses. The difference between both lies on the duration, structure and diving restrictions after completion.

To enroll in a PADI PSD or OWD course (Junior PSD/ OWD course), you must be at least 10 years old. No prior experience with scuba diving is required though we expect proper swimming skills and show good physical health.

The PSD can be seen as the second day of the full Open Water course. For PSD students there is no requirement to do a final examination or fulfill confined water sections 4 & 5 and open water dives 3 & 4. This is the reason why the depth restriction after certification is limited to 12 meters and diving always under direct supervision of an active PADI Professional.

During your PADI OWD course you learn more in detail about equipment, dive-theory, confined water skills and safety rules & procedures for diving with a buddy till max. 18 meters depth in an indenpendent way.

Hereby you can follow the PADI OWD course structure:

Knowledge Development (online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving –> 5 Sections
5 Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
4 Open Water Dives to consolidate knowledge and skills and explore the underwater world

Our goal is to ensure you feel confident and comfortable during your training. This is the reason why we offer you to both training environments pool and confined open water.

We provide different dive sites throughout the course i.e. Jemeluk Bay, Japanese Wreck, Pyramids in Amed or even the famous USAT Liberty Wreck in Tulamben.

We suggest a minimum course duration of 3 days or 2 days in case of independent online study.

Standard-wise our working methodology is to work on private settings for students and keep small ratios of two students per instructor. If requested we can take a maximum 4 students.

PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER

Continue your adventure, explore new possibilities and deeper limits, become more confident by improving your diving skills.

You can start this course after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. If you want to try out different specialties, log new dives and develop new capabilities, the best way is to enroll the PADI Advanced course that will take 2-3 days of training.

You will build up confidence and expand your diving knowledge through 5 Adventure dives whereas two of them are mandatory: Deep & Navigation. The remaining three are free to choose from a long list of options i.e. Enriched Air Nitrox, Wreck, Night, Buoyancy Control, Fish ID, Drift, Sidemount, Photography, etc.

If you’re already an Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to participate in an Advanced Open Water Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – please check with us-.

Each adventure dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course.

For instance during the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives and understand more in detail about the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. Furthermore the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive helps you to master compass navigation skills and improves your underwater navigation when using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.

RESCUE DIVER

The PADI Rescue Diver Course allows you to combine new challenges with automatic gratification and reward.

Throughout this course you will expand your diving knowledge and experience by learning how to focus on other persons rather than being self- or task oriented.

It is a fun but intense course (3-4 days) as you learn in detail how to prevent and manage problems in the water, knowing that you can help others if needed. The goal is to prepare you for potential hazardous scenarios by becoming confident to deal with certain diving emergencies.

During the course you will go through different diving accidents or stressful scenarios, how to avoid and prevent most of the diving related problems, coordinate and deal i.e with first aid, divers stress, panic, artificial respiration and even exit techniques.

Similar as in your PADI Open Water Certification the structure of the course includes working on theory, knowledge reviews and a final examination.

Divers often describe the PADI Rescue Diver Course as the most rewarding course on the PADI System.

DIVE MASTER

Have you discovered a passion for scuba diving? Love it? Are you ready to share it with others on a whole new level?

The PADI Divemaster course is your first step as a dive professional allowing you to do as a career what you love. During your training -usually takes three weeks or three months when internship mode- you will be assisting PADI Instructors and closely working with them.

You will become a role-model for scuba divers since they obviously see you as a leader and mentor. After your PADI Rescue Diver certification get ready to be self-actualization oriented and improve your management, diving and knowledge skills.

This course will bring you to the first level of professional training. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your diving skills. Mastering effortless hovering, refining rescue skills or anticipating and easily solving common problems. will become regular duties. You’ll gain broad knowledge, management and supervision abilities thus becoming a role model to divers everywhere.

As a PADI Divemaster, you’ll lead others as you supervise scuba diving activities and assist with diver training. Your duties and responsabilities will increase as you need to learn how to anticipate and prepare logistics for making diving operations run smooth and safe.

Through knwoledge development sessions (9 chapters) you will acquire wide comprehension about diving theory. Equipment, DM conducted programs, physics, physiology and Recreational Dive Planner are some of the pillars you are gonna be dealing with.

During your training you will encounter waterskills exercises and workshops such as deep diving or search & recovery scenarios. Of course you will have the chance to improve your diving skills, enjoy hands-on practical assessment and develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities.

Whether you want to work at a faraway dive destination or close to home at a local dive shop, the adventure of a lifetime awaits you.

PADI Divemasters are respected dive professionals and therefore you will find ample job opportunities to dive the world and work at exotic locations in i.e. dive centers, on live-aboards or even private yachts.

If you have the feeling time is passing so quickly and you need to change something in your life, then do not hesitate, contact us for further information about this course. Bali can be actually your new working location.

You can definitely begin to live your dream as a professional dive leader in Amed now!

DIVE COURSES

PADI DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING

Have you always wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater?

Come and join us for a simple introduction into the basics needed to explore the underwater world.

We structure the program in the following way:

DSD Theory Briefing + Knowledge/ use of scuba equipment
In Confined Water (either pool or confined Open Water) we teach breathing techniques and necessary skills
Swimming techniques
In Open Water (2 Dives) we provide you a big picture about the underwater world and aquatic life.

Get ready to have a wonderful taste of how much fun it is to scuba dive!

PADI OPEN WATER DIVER

If you are looking forward to take scuba diving lessons and experience new adventures, get ready then to get your first PADI certification.

Together with the PADI Scuba Diver course both are the basic entry-level courses. The difference between both lies on the duration, structure and diving restrictions after completion.

Hereby you can follow the PADI OWD course structure:

Knowledge Development (online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving –> 5 Sections
5 Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
4 Open Water Dives to consolidate knowledge and skills and explore the underwater world

Our goal is to ensure you feel confident and comfortable during your training. This is the reason why we offer you to both training environments pool and confined open water.

We provide different dive sites throughout the course i.e. Jemeluk Bay, Japanese Wreck, Pyramids in Amed or even the famous USAT Liberty Wreck in Tulamben.

We suggest a minimum course duration of 3 days or 2 days in case of independent online study.

Standard-wise our working methodology is to work on private settings for students and keep small ratios of two students per instructor. If requested we can take a maximum 4 students.

PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER

Continue your adventure, explore new possibilities and deeper limits, become more confident by improving your diving skills.

If you’re already an Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Each adventure dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course.

RESCUE DIVER

The PADI Rescue Diver Course allows you to combine new challenges with automatic gratification and reward.

Throughout this course you will expand your diving knowledge and experience by learning how to focus on other persons rather than being self- or task oriented.

Similar as in your PADI Open Water Certification the structure of the course includes working on theory, knowledge reviews and a final examination.

Divers often describe the PADI Rescue Diver Course as the most rewarding course on the PADI System.

DIVE MASTER

Have you discovered a passion for scuba diving? Love it? Are you ready to share it with others on a whole new level?

Whether you want to work at a faraway dive destination or close to home at a local dive shop, the adventure of a lifetime awaits you.

You can definitely begin to live your dream as a professional dive leader in Amed now!

SPECIALTY COURSES

WRECK DIVER

Wreck Diver Specialty Course

PADI’s Wreck Diver course is one of the most popular specialty courses available. It offers divers everything they need to expand their diving capabilities to include explorations of sunken ships, planes and automobiles. Beyond teaching key safety measures, the wreck diver course also helps you learn to identify interesting aspects of wrecks that might not be obvious to the untrained eye.

If you are at least 15 years old and have earned a PADI Adventure Diver certification or higher, you can enroll in the Wreck Diver Specialty course.

Four dives in different Wrecks such as the USAT Liberty, Japanese or Boga Wreck. During these dives, you will learn e.g. safety considerations for navigating and exploring wrecks, mapping of wrecks, using penetration lines and reels for exploration purposes and techniques to avoid kicking up silt or making contact with the wreck.

The first dive of this PADI Specialty Diver Course may credit as an Adventure Dive ask your instructor about earning credit.

DEEP DIVER

Deep Diver Specialty Course

The lure of the deep. There is something exciting and mysterious about exploring deeper dive sites while scuba diving. Sometimes it is a wreck that attracts you below 18 meters, and on wall dives it may be a giant fan or sponge. When scuba diving with confidence at depths down to 40 meters, you definitely need to consider taking the PADI Deep Diver Specialty course.

If you have earned the PADI Adventure Diver rating or higher, and you are at least 15 years old, you can enroll in the Deep Diver course.

Your training starts by reviewingreasons for deep diving and how important it is to understand your personal limits. During four deep dives, you will understand more in detail about specialized deep diving equipment, deep dive planning, buddy contact procedures and buoyancy control. As well, you will start to master the managing of your gas supply, dealing with safety considerations and even with gas narcosis.

Get ready to discover dive sites such as the Drop-off in Tulamben featuring huge sea fans or the Dutch shipwreck Boga with its propeller at 37 meters -two levels, ideal for penetration-. Why not diving in some of the deep walls of Amed or exploring some of the most remote sites on the east side of Amed, where the Lombok Strait brings some very cool water and encounters with “big” pelagics are frequent.

The first dive of this PADI Specialty Diver course may credit as an Adventure Dive toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

NITROX

Enriched Air Diver Specialty Course –NITROX-

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is one of the PADI’s most popular specialty scuba course. Why? Because scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive dives. If staying down longer and getting back in the water sooner sounds appealing, then you will see how easy it is to enroll into this course. Ideal for joining us later on to dive sites such as the USAT Liberty Wreck, Boga Wreck, Jemeluk wall, Drop-off and many others.

If you are a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enroll in the Enriched Air Diver Specialty course.

Either get certified through two dives or even do a dry course. You will understand how to use Nitrox properly, that means, you will get detailed knowledge about calculating partial pressures for oxygen and nitrogen. Keep in mind that when diving with enriched air, we are using a gas mix that contains higher oxygen and thus lower nitrogen content. Consequently, we can enjoy longer bottom times.

During a practical session, and two optional (or required) scuba dives, you will learn about managing oxygen exposure, analyzing oxygen content in your scuba tank and setting your dive computer for diving with enriched air nitrox.

SIDEMOUNT DIVER

Sidemount Diver Specialty Course

Having scuba tanks on your back has become a bit boring? We fully understand your concern and that is why we want you to present the solution for it. We believe that you will find a new joy as many other scuba divers by mounting cylinders on your sides. Sidemount diving gives you more flexibility and streamlining options. Additionally, you do not have to walk with heavy cylinders on your back but just enter the water, clip them on and go. Sound interesting or?

If you are a PADI Open Water Diver who is at least 15 years old, you can enroll in a PADI Sidemount Diver course.

Three dives and along them you learn about the many benefits of diving with a sidemount configuration. During one confined water and three open water scuba dives you finally understand how to properly assemble and configure sidemount scuba diving gear. Furthermore, get ready to “play around” and try different configurations, trimming your weight system in order to achieve a perfect underwater balance.

Dive sites like Jemeluk Bay, Coral Garden, USAT Liberty & Boga Wreck are some examples of ideal places to start with your sidemount training. Understand and master how to manage gases, when to switch your second stages, how to behave in out-of-air or even free-flow situations.

NIGHT DIVER

Night Diver Specialty Course

If you are now reading this section, certainly you are then more curious about committing yourself a step further into the mysterious underwater world at night. A dive site like e.g. the USAT Liberty Wreck offers two completely different dives during the day and the night-basically, this applies to almost any dive site in the world-. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge. If you are expecting to see some big marble brown groupers, bump-head parrotfishes or even giant moray eels hunting then do not hesitate any longer and sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 12 years old, can enroll in the Night Diver specialty course.

Three dives – scuba diving at night teaches you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, on controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your diving buddy and on paying attention to details you may overlook during the day.

During three night dives you will practice entry & exit techniques, navigation & buoyancy, light handling, hand signals and buddy communication. Additionally, you will learn about how plants and animals differ or change behavior at night.

PEAK PERFORMANCE BUOYANCY

Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver Specialty Course

Are you seeking to improve your buoyancy? Would you like to rotate your body when having a horizontal diving profile? Maybe do some reverse kicking to avoid using your hands? Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. For sure, you remember your former instructor or dive guide, how they glide effortlessly. You wonder how they use less air and can hover and anticipate movements, as they would be some kind of “fishes”. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. We are glad to provide you the key to all of these tricks and later on you will see how easy is to open the door.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course.

During two scuba dives, you will determine your optimal weight and practice trimming your weight system for a better underwater balance. As you learned during your PADI Open Water Diver Course, being streamlinedunderwater saves energy and thus you will achieve a better air consumption, glide and move more smoothly through the water.

Hover effortlessly in any position – vertical or horizontal. Furthermore, you will learn different types of finning such as the “chopper” movement, reverse finning, frog kick, etc.

DRIFT DIVER

Drift Diver Specialty Course

Divers usually compare scuba diving with walking and swimming to running. Diving allows us to relax underwater and when applying the proper techniques you will see how funny and “lazy” can be to drift along dive sites such as e.g. Pyramids, Bunutan, Deep Blue, Golden Rock, Kusambi or even GiliSelang -called as well “the express”-. Enroll into this course and you definitely will learn how to enjoy going with the flow, understanding different types of currents and adjusting your body position and diving profile according to the circumstances. You will be the next one stating that drift diving is like flying underwater. If you are reading this and you feel some intrigue and curiosity inside yourself, then the Drift Diver Specialty Course is for you.

If you are a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enrol in the Drift Diver specialty course.

During two drift dives, you will understand in detail diving techniques and procedures, drift diving equipment such as floats, lines and reels.One step further into supervision, in water and out of water, buoyancy, navigation and buddy communication.

SEARCH & RECOVERY

Search & Recovery Diver Specialty Course

This is one of the PADI Specialties that, even if not as famous as others, have as well a high value. Sometimes it can be very rewarding to master skills in terms of searching for lost objects or even recovering and bringing them back to the surface. Actually, it happens quite frequently that people accidentally drop things from docks, off boats or even while scuba diving. The course purpose is to show participants different effective ways to search for objects underwater thus increasing your chances of success. Furthermore, get ready to rig and lift objects by applying proper methods. Search and recovery can be challenging, but a whole lot of fun.

PADI (Junior) Advanced Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old can enroll in the Search and Recover Diver course. PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers with a PADI Underwater Navigator certification also qualify.

During four scuba dives, you will develop skills regarding the gathering of information and resources, planning search operation and swimming search patterns -using compass and natural navigation- or even the use of lift bags when rigging and willing to surface a certain item.

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER

Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Course

Nowadays we are lucky that underwater cameras can be economic and affordable. This mainly contributes to the fact of this course being one of the most popular PADI diving specialties. Obviously, we all have fun when reviewing our underwater shots, capturing some lovely memories. You will see how easy it can be to start developing some proper underwater photography skills, from point & shoot until mastering manual settings with e.g. sophisticated dSLR cameras. Are you seeking to capture some of your scuba diving adventures in Amed or Tulamben area? Enroll then into this specialty course and you will definitely not regret it. Get ready for some new fun while capturing images of your underwater scuba adventures.

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 10 years old are eligible to take the Digital Underwater Photographer course.

During two dives, you will understand how to choose the right underwater camera system depending on conditions and circumstances. You will become familiar with terms and methods such as the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine, Adjust). Like everything in life, practice will lead to mastering. Consequently, you will put into practice different techniques to capture wonderful photos.

DIVE AGAINST DEBRIS

Dive against debris Specialty Course

Do you want to help the world and make a difference on every dive? Maybe you are not sure where to begin? Gain the knowledge and skills to activate your inner citizen scientist by taking the Dive Against Debris® Specialty. You will understand to complete Dive Against Debris surveys under the guidance of a PADI® Professional and help keep you your local dive sites healthier by removing trash.

If you are a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enroll in the Dive Against Debris Specialty course.

Your training starts in the classroom by learning about marine debris, the damage done, what it is, where it comes from and how divers are part of the solution. Additionally, you will get involved with tasks such as establishing a Dive Against Debris® survey, the survey frequency, sites, profiles and equipment. Also the use of photography and knowing what to leave behind.

During just a single open water dive, you will conduct a Dive Against Debris® survey, including weighing, sorting, recording, disposing and reporting your marine debris to Project AWARE.