Education

Learning to dive is one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Earning your PADI certification will forever change the way you see the world, both above and below the surface.

Divers who become dive professionals agree that choosing diving as a career does not feel like working because they do what they love for a living!

PADI DIVE COURSES

Talk to us to schedule courses to your free time. Become a certified diver with PADI Open Water Diver Course. Advance your skill-set with various PADI Adventure Dives. Learn basic first-aid, CPR and rescue skills. Become a Divemaster and earn the first professional rating of PADI. Your dive-career starts here.

Open Water Diver

Learn scuba basics, assemble & use gear & build confidence as a diver.

Pre-requisites: Able to swim. Medically fit to dive.

Time: 4-7 days

Minimum Age: 10 years or older.

Advanced Open Water Diver

Experience different types of diving and gain confidence as a diver.

Time: 2-3 days

Minimum Age: 12 years or older.

Emergency First Response

Learn basic first-aid, CPR and AED.

Pre-requisites: Desire to help others.

Time: 4-8 hours

Minimum Age: None.

Rescue Diver

Learn rescue skills and know how to apply them in open water.

Pre-requisite: EFR certified within past 24 months.

Time: 4-7 days

Minimum Age: 12 years or older.

Divemaster

Learn to supervise dive activities and assist with scuba classes.

Pre-requisites: Rescue diver, 40 logged dives, EFR certified within past 24 months.

Time: 1.5 months.

Minimum Age: 18 years or older.

PADI INSTRUCTOR COURSES

Learn with the PADI Platinum Course Directors Adam Ashraf and Mark Soworka. Ashraf is the Maldives' most experienced pro-trainer, earning Platinum status within 4 months of becoming Course Director! Ashraf has won Platinum Course Director Status for 2023 and 2024. Mark Soworka is the world's most experienced PADI Course Director with over 25 years of experience in pro-training across the world, and maintaining 99.9% success rate to date! The knowledge and experience they both bring to the table together is unparalleled. If you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best! Whether you prefer to do your IDC is a resort island, a local island, a liveaboard safari or Male', we have something for everyone.

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Himmafushi

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Bandos Maldives

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PADI SPECIALTY COURSES

Build your skills-set with various PADI Specialties. Continue your education and discover your unique diving aptitutude with these courses that give you the tools to enhance your exploration! Keep learning, stay salty!

Maldivian Waterfront Lifeguard

Maldivian Waterfront Lifeguard training course is a PADI distinctive specialty. This course is for non-divers as well. Learn essential rescue techniques.

Sidemount Diver

A sidemount configuration offers more flexibility and better steamlining options. Learn about the many benefits of diving with a sidemount configuration.

Enriched Air Nitrox

Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives. Among the most popular specialties.

Digital Underwater Phoography

The most popular diving specialties course. It’s easy and fun to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures. Join and learn but cool techniques!

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevate them to the next level.

Adoptive Support Diver

Increase your awareness of divers’ varying abilities, and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.

Emergency Oxygen Provider

Immediately recognize scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen and be prepared to offer aid. Knowledge that can save a life.

Equipment Specialist

Learn to manage basic scuba diving equipment repairs and adjustments. Understand routine care & maintenance procedures and how dive gear works.

Wreck Diver

Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery.

Night Diver

Enrol in the PADI Night Diver Specialty course to find what happens underwater after the sun goes down and the corals come out to feed.

Deep Diver

Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 40 metres. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, & buoyancy control.

Coral Reef Conservation

This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems.

Project AWARE Specialist

Uniting scuba divers and water enthusiasts, you’ll learn how you can make a difference for ocean protection every time you dive or travel.

Dive Against Debris Specialty

Learn about the problems of marine debris, conducting Dive Against Debris surveys, and how divers are a part of the solution to keeping our oceans clean.

PADI DIVE EXPERIENCES

Discover Scuba Diving

Age: 10 years & older.

Introduction into what it takes to explore the underwater world. Although not a certification course, you'll learn all the steps it takes to be a PADI certified diver.

PADI Bubblemaker Program

Age: 8-10 year-olds.

Experience scuba diving under the direct supervision of a PADI Pro. Take your first breaths underwater in shallow water.

Reactivate SCUBA Refresher

Update your dive skills and knowledge with a quick scuba refresher from the PADI Open Water Diver Course before jumping back into the water.

PADI Freediver

Your first step toward discovering why freediving is becoming a popular way to explore beneath the waves. No previous freediving course is required.