Padi Diving Courses

PADI DIVING COURSES IN CATANIA

 

PADI RECREATIONAL COURSES
What better opportunity than a vacation in the beautiful Sicilian sea to learning to dive with a prestigious PADI Diving Center, the best that a Diving Center can offer in terms of quality, comfort and safety!
Practical lessons are taken directly in the sea, a few meters away from the diving, in a peaceful and splendid cave right next to the main winds and closed to sailing.

ADVANTAGES
Private lessons are offered for superior and customized trainings. Don’t miss the chance to take your diving skills to the next level!

COLLEGE FORMULA PADI DIVING COURSES 
Come to experience the College Formula with us for a wider range of advantages compared to any other course. Lessons will be taken directly in the sea and will be leaded by the most prestigious Diving Center that will accompany only as a very professional team can do.
Courses are combined with accomodations in the “Blue Week” formula in your most suitable time slot, with up to 50% of saving. Basically you can enjoy a holiday week in Sicily and dive in the beautiful seawater of the Ionian Sea at the same cost of any other course you can find in the city!
This represents an excellence chance for those who want to get closer to the diving underworld comfortably lodged to one of our accomodation partners. The College Formula can be enlarged to all levels and diving licences released by our Diving Center, professional levels included.

WE HAVE SELECTED FOR YOU THE BEST ACCOMODATIONS WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY.

DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING – EURO 60
DURATION 2/3 HOURS

Best known as “sea baptism” in Italy, this course is open to any person between 10 and 90 years old able to swim, to discover the emotion of the underwater “first bubbles” for 30 minutes accompanied by a qualified instructor.

The baptism is preceded by a 20 minutes briefing on the scuba diving world, equipment, behaviour and basic rules of scuba diving. Come to live a fantastic experience between lava flows and underwater craters where you will feel to dive in actual natural pools.

 

SCUBA DIVER – EURO 220
DURATION 2 DAYS

You don’t have much time but you aim to get a scuba diving patent? PADI Scuba Diver patent my be for you! This short course is divided in 3 in-class lessons and 2 open water dives. You will be certified to dive under the direct supervision of a Divemaster, Assistant or PADI Instructor up to 12 meters max depth. You will have air refills, equipment renting or buying and join different underwater activities under the direct supervision. Minimum age of 15 years old or, for Junior Scuba Diver patent, at least 10 years old.

 

OPEN WATER DIVER – EURO 380
DURATION 4/5 DAYS

It’s a diving patent that allows to dive in pair, without supervision, applying knowledge and techniques learned during the course at a max depth of 18 meters. The necessary theoretical knowledges will be learned in 5 in-class sessions with your instructor, studying the textbook by your own and watching videos and other multimedia supports; in the between 8 dives are integrated to apply what you are learning in classroom. Minimum age 10 years old.

One “session” refers to an in-class /practical lesson in the morning and/or afternoon.

The course include: total equipment, educational material “kit PADI” and sea excursions on the boat.

 

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER – EURO 320
DURATION 4/5 DAYS

It’s more complete than Open Water Diver patent as it allows you to choose between 5 adventure dives, with the obligation to do a deep dive and a sailing dive. Before each dive, you will have to read the related chapters on the textbook and complete the review of your knowledges thanks to the accurate briefing with your instructor. This diving patent is a necessary precondition to continue the PADI diving education, in fact whatever Advanced Open Water Diver dive can be validated among the necessary dives for PADI specialty course and vice versa. The max depth is 30 meters and the minimum age 12 years old. Necessary precondition Open Water Diver patent or equivalent.

With your instructor, choose the most suitable adventure dive for you:
boat diving, maximum execution of the buoyancy, multilevel, with a computer, naturalist diver, sailing, night diving, deep diving, diving on wreckage, diving in flowing and many more!

 

ENRICHED AIR (NITROX) DIVER – EURO 200
DURATION 2 DAYS

PADI Nitrox course is the most well-known PADI specialty course and it’s easy to know why: you will dive with Nitrox enriched air and you will give yourself more time of no decompression. Thereby you will have more time to spend underwater, particularly useful for recurring dives!

What you will learn:

  • Techniques for a longer underwater stay with Nitrox enriched air
  • Concepts on the diving equipment for enriched air
  • Concepts on the enriched air, oxygen exposition management, how to discover what’s in your tank and how to regulate your diving computer

DEEP DIVER – EURO 200
DURATION 1 DAY

Do you want to live the adrenaline of the big depths? PADI Deep Diver course is addressed to you! Let yourself be taken by the mystery and the lack of sunlight that characterize places so far away from the surface and live evocative moments to never forget.

With PADI Deep Diver course you will learn the techniques for diving between 18 and 40 meters of depth and the concepts about diving equipment used for deep dives. It will be also crucial to learn about planning, organization and execution of at least 4 deep dives under the direct supervision of your PADI instructor.

Minimum age of 15 years old.

 

RESCUE DIVER – EURO 380
DURATION 4/5 DAYS

It represents a crucial step to expand the knowledge and the experience of a diver beyond the merely recreational level. As a Rescue Diver, you will learn to take care of other divers as well as yourself. You will be trained to prevent problems and control underwater emergencies.

This course is structured in 5 in-class and 5 underwater practical sessions where 12 realistic scenarios are reproduced. Necessary precondition Advanced Open Water Diver patent and a first aid course no older than 2 years old.

Minimum age 12 years old.

 

DIVE MASTER – SPECIAL OFFER EURO 900

It’s the first professional level of the diving training, Dive Master course improves problem solving ability and increases the management and prevention of accidents up to the supervision of diving students and patent divers. The fundamental knowledge you will learn are at a professional level. The course is divided into 5 in-class sessions and 10 dives where you’re endurance and diving abilities will be refined and evaluated, as well as applying what you have lerned in-class.

The minimum age is 18 years old and the preconditions are Advanced Open Water Diver patent and Rescue Diver patent or equivalent.

 

EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE (E. F. R.)

It’s a basic training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency care: in this advancement course you will learn to save someone you care about’s life. The practical part of the course takes place through the morning session with a double dive, while the in-class session can take part together with the excursion and/ or in the evening at the Diving Center, according the specialty chosen. The standard diving equipment is not included in this course.

 

RECREATIONAL COURSES: SPECIALTY

DETAILS
PEAK PERFORMANCE NATURALIST Major execution of the buoyancy 2 dives
UNDERWATER NATURALIST Naturalist diver 2 dives
DRIFT DIVER Drift diving 2 dives
BOAT DIVER Diving from the boat 2 dives
MULTILEVEL DIVER Multilevel diving 2 dives
UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER Underwater photographer 2 dives
DIVER PROPULSION VEHICLE Diving with propulsion vehicle 2 dives
ENRICHED AIR DIVER Enriched air diving 2 dives

 

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