Start your PADI Open Water Diver training at our Richmond Hill Scuba Camp, completing the academic and pool requirements before your open water certification dives.

Preview your pool skills

What you will learn

1. Knowledge development

Study dive planning, equipment choices, underwater signals and procedures using the PADI Open Water Diver Manual or eLearning. Complete chapter questions, knowledge reviews and a final exam, with instructor support. Videos preview your pool skills, and your instructor demonstrates each skill.

2. Confined water dives

Practice equipment setup, mask clearing, water entry and exit, buoyancy, basic underwater navigation and safety procedures with your instructor until you are comfortable.

3. Open water dives: separate booking

To complete certification, make four open water dives with an instructor, usually over two days, applying the skills learned in the pool. These dives are a separately priced add-on to camp. Complete them locally or while on holiday; ask your PADI Instructor about referral to another PADI Instructor.

Before you attend

Pre-requisites

Must be at least 12 years of age

Be able to float or tread water for 10 minutes

Be in good physical health (Review the Medical Form HERE)

Medical Questionnaire

If you answer “YES” to any of the questions in the Medical Questionnaire , please allow enough time to obtain a physician’s signed approval.

Local open water certification dives are available from June until October, and certification dives are also available on our Tropical Dive Trips.

Camp price includes

• Classroom and pool training with PADI certified instructors.
• All necessary PADI training materials and your PADI Training Record.
• Equipment rentals: tank, regulator, BCD, weights and fins.
• A free one-year Scuba 2000 Dive Team Pool membership (value $149). See membership details HERE.

You must have your own mask and snorkel; they cannot be rented. Our shop offers proper fitting and a special student discount.

Training with Scuba 2000

Train with our Richmond Hill team, with over 30 years of experience in the scuba industry.

Camp booking benefits

• $100 voucher toward a Mask, Fins, Snorkel and Boots Package.
• $50 voucher toward a dive computer.
• $50 voucher toward a PADI Continuing Education Course.

See full Dive Team benefits HERE.

Free pool access: all gear is included except mask and snorkel. See the pool schedule HERE .

Mask and snorkel are not included in the camp price. Open water certification dives are booked and paid separately.