PADI Open Water or Referral Course

To qualify for your PADI International diving license which enables you to explore the underwater world to 18 metres you need just ONE weekend. Yes we are the only Dive Centre in Kent who can offer you the whole course in one weekend. Same length of pool time, same open water dives, we’re just better organised than other centres – and we charge less too!

Prior to the water weekend a session in the classroom, reviewing the knowledge development you have undertaken is completed.

Confined water training takes place on Saturday and Sunday mornings in our heated indoor private pool. In the pool we will teach you all the skills you need to prepare you for your open water training.

Our pool is closed to the public, and heated to 28°c. The pool starts at 1/2 a metre deep and gradually slopes to 3.2 metres, perfect for training.

You get a minimum of 6 hours of pool time to have fun.

To Qualify you need to complete 4 Open Water Training Dives. These are completed on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons whilst the skills are fresh in your mind.

Two trips to Leybourne Lakes lets you develop the pool skills you have learnt and demonstrate confidence & competence to dive safely. Once that is completed you have your PADI!

As an alternative you can come to the Red Sea and finish your course in warm clear tropical waters & wildlife. Called a referral course, it simply means that the 4 dives take place abroad. If you have a holiday of your own, no problem, we can refer you to a local PADI facility to complete the course with them.

For further information, email: dive@scubasolutions.com