Scuba Diving Training Classes
Scuba diving training for all levels. Whether you're simply curious about diving, want to become open water certified or are ready to take your skills to the next level, Seaira Dives is the perfect solution. Learn the underwater and equipment skills needed to get certified.
The Seaira Dives training map
Follow the main route from your first certification through Rescue, unlock specialty side quests along the way, and choose whether to chase Master Scuba Diver or continue into the professional path.
Open Water Diver
Your entry into scuba. Learn the foundational skills, build comfort underwater, and get certified to start exploring.
Advanced Open Water
Expand your experience, sharpen your abilities, and discover the kinds of diving that excite you most.
Rescue Diver
Build awareness, confidence, and real problem-solving skills. This is one of the biggest growth points in a diver’s journey.
Professional Path
After Rescue, you can continue toward leadership, mentorship, teaching, and a career in diving.
Specialties
Instead of one giant list, think of specialties as different lanes depending on the kind of diver you want to become.
Adventure + Exploration
Deep Diver, Night Diver, Navigation, Search and Recovery
Comfort + Confidence
Peak Performance Buoyancy, Enriched Air Nitrox, Dry Suit
Creative + Experience
Underwater Photography, Fish ID, Naturalist, Drift
Master Scuba Diver
This is the prestige track for recreational divers who want to stand out through real experience, continued education, and commitment to the underwater world.
Enter the professional path
When you are ready to go beyond recreational diving, the pro pipeline opens up. This is where divers become leaders, mentors, and instructors.
Three steps between you and the ocean
You do not need experience. You just need to start. We make the path to becoming a diver feel approachable, elevated, and exciting from day one.
eLearning
Start on your schedule with online learning that covers the essentials before you ever get in the water. Flexible, clear, and built to help you begin with confidence.
Confined Water Training
Build your skills in a controlled environment where you can practice, get comfortable with your gear, and develop real confidence before heading into open water.
Open Water Training
This is where it all comes together. Take your new skills into open water, complete your certification dives, and experience the magic of becoming a diver.
Ready to take the plunge?
Whether you are dreaming about your first reef dive, future dive travel, or joining an incredible dive community, your underwater adventure starts here.
Continuing Education Courses
Advanced Open Water Diver 🌊
Take the next step with 5 Open Water Dives, including a navigation and deep dive.
Rescue Diver 🛟
Learn life-saving techniques to react quickly and efficiently. Gain confidence as a diver and advance your skills.
Divemaster 🌐
Take the path to becoming a PADI pro, assisting instructors with divers.
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Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver 🫧
Extend bottom times with less nitrogen in enriched air. Dive longer and enjoy shorter surface intervals.
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Peak Performance Buoyancy 🛟
Enhance your air consumption, buoyancy control, and overall diving skills.
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Diver Propulsion Vehicle ⚙️
Experience the thrill of DPV diving. Learn to use a DPV for enhanced underwater exploration.
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Full Face Mask 🤿
Experience the underwater world with a Full Face Mask.
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Dry Suit Diver 🩱
Stay warm and dry in colder conditions with dry suit diving skills.
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Underwater Navigator 🧭
Master underwater navigation techniques to ensure you never get lost on a dive.
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Underwater Photography 📸
Capture the beauty of the underwater world with pro tips and valuable experience.
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Underwater Videography 📹
Learn the basics and pro tips for documenting your dives.
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Emergency First Response ⛑️
Learn life-saving first aid skills and how to care for children with an AED.
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Emergency Oxygen Provider 🆘
Learn essential skills for emergency situations.
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Night Diver 🌌
Experience the magic of night diving.
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Deep Diver 🪼
Dive deeper to encounter fascinating marine life.
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Wreck Diver ⚓
Discover the secrets of wreck diving.
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Search and Recovery 🔍
Learn to find and recover lost items, ensuring a stress-free dive.
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Boat Diver ⛵
Master the dos and don'ts of boat diving.
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Project AWARE Specialist 🌎
Make a positive impact on ocean and waterway conservation.
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Dive Against Debris 🚯
Join the effort to clean up oceans and record debris locations.
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AWARE Coral Reef Conservation 🪸
Protect the coral reefs and learn about ocean conservation.
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Coral Watch Coral Health Chart 🐠
Gain insight into coral health and conservation efforts.
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Underwater Naturalist
Discover how underwater ecosystems work and see marine life in a whole new way.
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Invasive Lionfish Tracker 🔱
Combat the invasive Lionfish threat with tracking and reporting techniques.
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Sea Turtle Awareness 🐢
Explore sea turtle conservation and awareness.
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Whale Shark Awareness 🐋
Discover the majestic world of Whale Sharks.
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AWARE Shark Conservation 🦈
Dive into the world of sharks and their vital role in the ecosystem.
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Fish Identification 🐠
Learn how to identify reef fish families and species so you can recognize who’s who on every dive.
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Adaptive Support Diver 🤝
Designed for certified divers who want to learn effective techniques for supporting dive buddies with physical or mental challenges, making diving more accessible, inclusive, and enjoyable for everyone.
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Drift Diver 🌊➡️
Learn to glide effortlessly with the current and experience the thrill of flying underwater.
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Delayed Surface Marker Buoy Diver 🎈🌊
Master the skill of deploying a surface marker buoy for safe ascents and drift diving communication.
Master Scuba Diver
The PADI Master Scuba Diver rating is a major milestone in recreational diving and a recognition of advanced skill, experience, and commitment to the underwater world.
It is the highest non-professional certification level in PADI and a goal for divers who want to go beyond the basics, continue building experience, and stand out as truly accomplished recreational divers.
Elevate your skills
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Enjoy inclusive adventures
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Dive with confidence
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Elevate your skills 🤿 Enjoy inclusive adventures 🗺️ Dive with confidence 😀
Scuba Certification and Courses FAQs
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The minimum age for training is 10 years old.
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The nice thing about earning your Open Water Diver certification is that a good deal of the training is self-paced. You are required to complete the eLearning prior to the start of the Confined Water portion of the training.
After completing the eLearning, we will start the Confined Water Portion of the training which includes 5 dives, learning various skills. After the Confined Water portion, we will move into the Open Water Dives, there are 4.
Typically, the training takes 3 days (not including eLearning).
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A PADI certification card is like your scuba ID. The certification card (or C Card) shows a dive shop what level you are at, which indicates how deep you can go and what the dive shop can expect of you as a diver.
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A PADI certification NEVER expires. However, if you have not gone diving within 6 months, it is recommended that you take the ReActivate scuba refresher course.
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Each training course has a different cost based on time, equipment, and class size. Private lessons are priced on a case-by-case basis.
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The essential gear a diver needs:
Mask
Snorkel
Fins
Boots (unless you have fins that do not require boots)
Buoyancy Control Device (BCD)
Regulator and Octopus (your secondary regulator)
Dive Computer and Gauges
Air Tank
Weights
Exposure Protection (i.e. a rash guard, wetsuit, drysuit)
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YES! People with disabilities can learn to Scuba Dive! We are happy to accommodate special needs individuals at Seaira Dives.
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Junior Open Water Divers are certified to 40 feet or the depth you reached during your training if shallower.
As an Open Water Diver, you are only certified to 60 feet OR the depth you reached during your training if that is shallower than 60 feet.
Advanced Open Water Divers are certified to a maximum depth of 100 feet.
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Your instructor will be Ciara!
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You do not need to be local! But for the confined and open water portion of training, you must travel to the DMV area for classes UNLESS you’re doing this portion of training on a travel trip and indicate you would like to receive training.
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Direct from their page:Divers Alert Network (DAN), a nonprofit organization, exists to provide expert medical information for the benefit of the diving public.
DAN’s historic and primary function is to provide timely information and assistance for underwater diving injuries, to work to prevent injuries, and to promote dive safety.
Second, DAN promotes and supports underwater dive research and education, particularly as it relates to the improvement of dive safety, medical treatment and first aid.
Third, DAN strives to provide the most accurate, up-to-date and unbiased information on issues of common concern to the diving public, primarily — but not exclusively — for dive safety
CLICK HERE to become a member!
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“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever!"
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