Beginner Courses

Try Scuba Diving/Basic Diver

SSI Try Scuba Diving/Basic Diver are the well-established “try dive” courses for complete beginners and are an easy and fun introduction into diving. The course takes place in the shallow lagoon or on the stunning house reef of Kandolhu and usually with just two participants per instructor. It lasts just two hours, but you will discover the amazing appeal and wonder of scuba diving – the feeling of weightlessness, breathing underwater, swimming with and like a fish!

• Duration: 2 hours;
• Price: check our current pricelist.

The SSI or PADI Open Water Diver Course

After your first experience, you have several options if you want to do more: Ideally, you should continue on the Open Water Diver Course (OWD) which only takes four days including the Try Diving. With three dives off the boat on the outside reef (and one in the lagoon) you have a great opportunity to see turtles, rays, sharks, morays and numerous other reef fish.

• Duration: Four days including the Try Diving
• Price: check our current pricelist
• Including all equipment, four open water dives, confined water/lagoon lessons, instruction, certification, required student materials, logbook and boat fees.

Have you heard about nitrox? Nitrox is a great safety option for every diver and this is why we offer the Open Water Diver course combined with Nitrox certification. Please ask your instructor for more information about nitrox and its great advantages.

The SSI or PADI Scuba Diver Course

Alternatively, the Scuba Diver is a 2 day course (including the Try Diving) and includes one dive off the boat. This diver certification allows the holder to dive to max. 12m, but always accompanied by a SSI/PADI professional. The course is effectively the first half of the Open Water Diver course and is upgradeable to the OWD any time in the future. This course is perfect for guests who are short of time, but still want to get a certificate so next holiday they do not have to start as a total beginner again. This qualification is valid as a stand-alone certificate without any time restriction and of course the possibility exists to upgrade in two days to the Open Water Diver.

• Duration: 2 days including the Try Diving
• Price: check our current pricelist
• including all equipment, two open water dives, confined water/lagoon lessons, instruction, certification, required student materials, logbook and boat fee.

If you just do not have time for a certification course, then you should at least try to do a REPEAT DISCOVER SCUBA DIVE FROM THE BOAT to really experience the fantastic variety of marine life living in this beautiful ocean surrounding Kandolhu. You will see many more fish and will be accompanied by an instructor or a divemaster throughout your dive.

• Duration: 2 hours
• Price: check our current pricelist