PADI Discover Scuba

$75

Bring a suit and a towel

Have you ever wondered what it's like to breathe underwater? If you want to find out but aren't quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving will let you try scuba to see if you like it. While not an actual scuba certification, during the Discover Scuba Diving experience you'll learn how to use scuba equipment in shallow water and get a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world.  If you continue to the Open Water Certification, we will apply your $50 to the cost of the course.

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PADI Open Water Diver

Number of Dives

Five Confined Water Dives

This is what it's all about, diving. You develop basic scuba skills in a pool. Here you'll learn everything from setting up your gear to how to easily get water out of your mask without surfacing. You'll also practice some emergency skills, like sharing air, just in case. Plus, you may play some games, make new friends and have a great time. There are five confined water dives, with each building upon the previous. Over the course of these five dives, you attain the skills you need to dive in open water.

Four Open Water Dives

After your confined water dives, you and the new friends you've made continue learning during four open water dives with your PADI Instructor at a dive site. This is where you have fun putting it all together and fully experience the underwater adventure at the beginner level, of course. Freedom Scuba conducts these open water dives on the wreck of the Keystorm.

Materials:

Upon Successful Completion

You will earn your International PADI Open Water certification card

Standard Class Sizes: 2 to 3 students maximum.

Standard Open Water Diver Class: $649.00 + tax
- Mask: Tusa mask
- Fins: Tusa SF- 0102 Duo
- Snorkel: SP-170
- Gloves: 3mm
- Boots: 5mm
- Boat Bag
- Open Water Diver crew-pak (includes manual, DVD, and logbook)
- Use of facility equipment (BCD/Air/Wet Suit/Weights/Regulator) for duration of class.
- Pool Sessions
- Open Water Dives
- Instruction
- Processing
- Unlimited practice time in our pool

eLearners do not buy books but must register through www.PADI.com

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

With your PADI Instructor, you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from more than 15 Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can go diving at night, check out the local wrecks in the area or even fly through the ocean on a diver propulsion vehicle ? all during your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course (available options may vary; inquire ahead for details).

Course Details

Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

Number of dives: Five dives

Adventure Dive options include altitude diving, AWARE-fish identification, boat diving, deep diving, diver propulsion vehicle use, drift diving, dry suit diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater nature study, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography and wreck diving (available options may vary; inquire ahead for more details)

Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course

Materials Included

• Adventures in Diving Manual

• PIC processing fee

Upon Successful Completion

You will earn your PADI Advanced Open Water Certification

Cost: $299 + Charters Fees

PADI Rescue Diver

Topics Covered

• Self-rescue and diver stress

• Emergency management and equipment

• Panicked diver response

• In-water rescue breathing protocols

• Egress (exits)

• Dive accident scenarios

Course Details

• 5 classroom session

• 1 pool session

• Two days performing open water scenarios

Prerequisites - PADI Advanced Certification or RSTC equivalent prior to the open water scenarios - Current certification in CPR and first aid or PADI Emergency First Response (EFR) prior to class 2

Materials Included

• Two boat passes

• Tanks

• All pool Instruction

• Classroom Instruction 

• Open Water Rescue Scenarios 

Cost:  $359

PADI Master Diver

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you?ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 50

Minimum qualifications

PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 12 years old, five PADI Specialty Diver certifications.

Cost: Call for latest pricing and availability

Our Most Popular Specialties

To supplement the PADI diver training program that Freedom Scuba can offer, we are also proud to offer continuing education with the following Specialty Courses.

Specialty Course Cost is $345 per Course + Boat Fees

• Student Materials  

• PIC Fees

• All Instruction

Deep Diver

After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There's something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts dives.

Night Diver

As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your scuba mask and bite down on your dive regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat ? into the underwater night. Although you've seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.

Wreck Diver

Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they're intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.

Underwater Navigator

Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass.

Enriched Air Diver

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI's most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it's easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

Boat Diver

Whether you've never made a boat dive or you've logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. Diving from a boat is fun, especially when you look at ease when maneuvering around on it. It's fun to know what you're doing.

Search and Recovery Diver

Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost treasure? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.

Dry Suit Diver

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then dive dry. Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm! Even in surprisingly cold water. Dry suits let you dive more challenging dive sites, and extend your dive season. When you have the right cold water scuba diving attire, you can stand up to the elements and take advantage of the generally better visibility offered by winter months' especially at inland dive sites such as quarries, lakes, sinkholes and caves etc. As a dry suit diver, you're equipped to scuba dive some of the world's incredible dive sites in the world's cooler regions that are best enjoyed in a dry suit even in their warmer months.

Peak Performance Buoyancy

What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who've mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a PADI Open Water Diver and elevates them to the next level.

PADI ReActivate

Have you found yourself out of the water for a while? No matter how rusty you feel, you can always get back into the groove and explore the depths of your favorite dive spots whilst making sure you’re staying safe and having fun.

It is always better to be over-prepared than to forget how to properly and safely complete a dive, and with the new PADI ReActivate™  program, you can quickly brush up on knowledge and skills that you acquired in the PADI Open Water Diver course without having to start from scratch.

The PADI ReActivate program is fully personalised and prescriptive, meaning you’ll only have to cover the areas where your skills and knowledge need refreshing. You’ll be able to review important concepts on your computer (ReActivate Online) or mobile and tablet devices (ReActivate Touch) and work through topics at your own pace.

You’ll interact with dive scenarios and make decisions that test your understanding of important dive safety concepts, dive planning essentials and problem management before going diving with a PADI Professional who will review a few basic safety skills before diving deeper into any skills you specifically want to recap. Just like riding a bike, the skills will come right back to you.

What’s even better is that once you’ve completed both the knowledge and in-water skill refreshers, you’ll even get a replacement certification card with your ReActivate date. Dive shops will appreciate seeing a recent ReActivate date on your certification card as this shows them you’re up to date with your skills and ready to dive into your scuba adventure.

PADI Emergency First Response

Who should take this course?

Emergency First Response training focuses on building confidence in lay rescuers and increasing their willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency. Course participants learn simple to follow steps for emergency care and practice applying skills in a nonstressful learning environment. All courses are supported by self-study manuals, videos and quick reference cards to enhance learning and allow you start learning right away.

EFR courses meet the CPR and first aid training requirements for the PADI Rescue Diver course and all professional-level ratings. Most PADI Instructors are also Emergency First Response Instructors.

The following EFR courses are based on internationally recognized medical guidelines for emergency care.

What will you learn?

• Primary Care (CPR) – This course teaches you the steps and techniques for handling life-threatening emergencies. You’ll practice eight skills for aiding patients who aren’t breathing, have no heartbeat, may have a spinal injury, may be in shock or who may have serious bleeding. You’ll learn to how to perform CPR and continue to monitor the patient, so that you provide every possible chance of survival while waiting for emergency medical services to arrive.

• Secondary Care (First Aid) – Because many medical conditions are not life-threatening and emergency medical services are sometimes delayed or unavailable, this course teaches you how to provide first aid that eases pain and reduces the risk of further harm. You’ll learn to assess a variety of injuries and illnesses and practice bandaging and splinting.

• Care for Children – This course allows participants to learn, practice and apply emergency care skills specific to helping infants and children with medical emergencies. It’s designed for those who work with children or are likely to have to respond to emergencies involving youngsters. This course is often integrated with Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) courses.

• CPR & AED – This course focuses on CPR training and teaching participants how to use an AED (automated external defibrillator). When workplace or governmental requirements specify this training, the CPR & AED course meets the need. This course is often integrated into First Aid at Work programs.

• First Aid at Work – In some areas, such as Great Britain, Australia and Canada, governmental regulations call for enhanced CPR and first aid training for the workplace. First Aid at Work programs designed for these areas include additional topics and skills to meet requirements while following the easy to learn EFR approach to training.

• EFR Refresher – It’s a good idea to refresh your CPR and first aid skills every 24 months, and that’s what the EFR Refresher course is designed to do. Focusing on key skills, the course allows you to stay up-to-date and ready to lend aid when needed.

Scuba Internship

It is important to Freedom Scuba to maintain a high standard of Diver Training, and Charter Operation.  We have the most qualified Staff you will find in any Dive Shop, and Charter Outfit.  Our Divemasters are the best; in the pool and on the Seaway.  They have been with Freedom Scuba for a minimum of 5 years and know Scuba inside and out.

If you would like to intern with us, please contact Coach at 315-882-3678, we will set up a meeting and see where the Dive Business can take you.  In order to qualify you must:

Have transportation, be at least Advanced Open Water Certified, and have a flexible schedule.

If you are interested give us a call.  Thank you