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Adventure course

The PADI Adventure Diver course helps you get more out of diving by introducing you to new types of scuba diving adventures. It’s a great opportunity to work with your instructor to build your scuba diving skills and gain more confidence.

Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography? How about wreck diving? Here’s your chance because you can sample three dives of your choice, get a taste of what you like, and feel more at ease in the water, strengthening your underwater skills and letting you enjoy scuba diving more than ever. Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may be credited toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Speciality course. This means you can be well on your path to becoming a Master Scuba Diver.

Group 7281

WATERWORLD dive COURSE

Dive Details

Beginners – Intermediate | 15 years +
All equipment provided

1 Day

€320

Waterworld Dive Centre
Free, on-site parking available.

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What is included?

What You Learn: You can choose what you’re most interested in learning. Need to work on your buoyancy skills? Try the Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Dive. Choose any three of the following Adventure Dives:

Adventure Dives available to scuba divers 10 years old and older:

  • Altitude Diver
  • AWARE-Fish Identification
  • Boat Diver
  • Digital Underwater Photography
  • Dry Suit Diver
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Underwater Navigator

Additional Adventure Dives available to scuba divers 12 years old and older:

  • Deep Diver
  • Drift Diver
  • Night Diver
  • Search and Recovery Diver
  • Underwater Videography
  • Wreck Diver

The Scuba Gear You Use: We provide all dive equipment required for your training, including your underwater compass. Depending on which three adventure dives you pick, you may also be introduced to underwater photography equipment, a dive light, lift bags, a dive flag/float, or other specialty gear.

Learning Materials: PADI’s Adventures in Diving Manual and video on DVD provide information on more than 16 types of speciality diving. You’ll use them as a guidebook to improve your diving skills and prepare for new experiences and adventures. For all your learning materials and equipment, contact us here.

The Teaching Environment: At Waterworld, we pride ourselves on having a well-rounded teaching facility, with our on-site fully equipped dive centre, indoor pool and local dive sites just 100 meters from our doorstop. As well as classrooms, changing rooms, transportation, boats and accommodation should you choose to stay with us for the duration of your course.

What to bring along?

Please bring your own swimsuit, towel and an eagerness to learn, dive in and explore!

Requirements

To enroll in the PADI Reactivate Course, you must have a scuba diver certification or be enrolled in a scuba certification course and be at least 12 years old and Medically fit to dive (please review, sign and return medical disclaimer attached in booking email)

Important information

Your Next Adventure: After your PADI Adventure Diver certification you can take the next step by completing two more adventure dives. If you’ve completed five total adventure dives that include deep and navigation, you’re an PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.PADI Adventure Dives can also count towards PADI Specialty Diver certifications. For example, if you liked your Night Adventure Dive so much that you wanted to take a complete PADI Night Diver Specialty course, your Night Adventure Dive can count as the first dive of that specialty.

Venue

Waterworld Dive Centre, Fahamore, Castlegregory, County Kerry, Ireland. View Map.
Free, on-site parking available.

Important notice

As stipulated in our Terms and Conditions, to ensure you have a fun, safe and memorable experience, start time(s) for boat dives, dive experiences, snorkelling and dive courses, vary daily due to tide times, sea and weather conditions. Should we need to update start time of your booking and/or on the rare occasion, due to undivable sea and weather conditions, schedule your booking for an alternative date, we will notify you at the earliest viable opportunity by phone and/or email (whichever form of communication you provided to us during the booking process), including and up to the day prior to your booking. If you do not receive an email from us less than 48 hours prior to the booking start time, please email us at sandra@waterworld.ie to confirm start time.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Can I try a dive without signing up for a course?

Yes, you can do a try-a dive in the pool with one of our Instructors. This will give you an opportunity to experience the fun of scuba diving in a safe and controlled environment. You only need to show up with a swimsuit and towel and we will provide everything else. If you get on well in the pool you can add a dive to Scraggane Bay where you can explore the Underwater World of the Maharees.

What’s involved in learning to scuba dive?

Learning to scuba dive with WATERWORLD and PADI is an incredible adventure! With PADI as your training organization, your path to breathing underwater is accomplished in three exciting phases:

1. Knowledge Development – Learn the lingo.

During the first phase of your PADI Open Water Diver scuba certification, you develop an understanding of the basic principles of scuba diving. You learn things like how pressure affects your body, how to choose the best scuba gear, and what to consider when planning dives. You briefly review what you have studied in the five knowledge sections with your instructor and take a short quiz to be sure you’re getting it.

At the end of the course, you’ll take a longer quiz that makes sure you have all the key concepts and ideas down. You and your WATERWORLD Instructor will review anything that you don’t quite get until it’s clear.

Select the knowledge development option you prefer:

  • Start right now and learn to scuba dive online with WATERWORLD via PADI eLearning at your own pace—anytime, anywhere (great for busy schedules)
  • Attend a scheduled scuba diving class at WATERWORLD (great for meeting new friends and dive buddies)
  • Take advantage of home study using PADI multimedia materials (manual, video, CD-Rom) purchased through WATERWORLD.

2. Confined Water Dives – Scuba Skills Training.

This is what it’s all about – diving. You develop basic scuba skills by scuba diving in a pool or body of water with pool-like conditions. Here you’ll learn everything from setting up your scuba gear to how to easily get water out of your scuba mask without surfacing. You’ll also practice some emergency skills, like sharing air or replacing your scuba mask. 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.

3. Open Water Dives – Locally or on Vacation.

After your confined water dives, you and the new friends you’ve made continue learning during four open water dives with your WATERWORLD PADI Instructor at a dive site. This is where you fully experience the underwater adventure – at the beginner level, of course. You may make these dives around Adelaide or at a more exotic destination while on a WATERWORLD group holiday.

How long does it take to get certified?

It’s possible to complete your confined and open water dives in as few as two or three days by completing the classroom portion online via PADI eLearning or home study options offered by Waterworld.

The PADI Open Water Diver course is incredibly flexible and performance-based, which means that Waterworld can offer a wide variety of schedules, paced according to how fast you progress. One day a week, over two weekends or three days together, you choose.

Your instructor’s interest is in your learning to scuba dive, not in how long you sit in a class. So, training is based upon demonstrating that you know what you need to know and can do what you need to do. This means that you progress at your own pace – faster or slower depending upon the time you need to become a confident scuba diver who dives regularly. You can start learning to scuba dive online right now with Waterworld and PADI eLearning.

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  • Exceptional experience! Just finished a fantasy Scuba Diving weekend at Waterworld. Our group were well looked after by Sandra and all the team. The rooms were fantastic and the friendly staff made us all feel very much at home. Dive safety was exceptional and I must give Nuala a special mention for the great service and conversation at breakfast.

    Gary, Dublin

    – July, 2020

  • Top class! An excellent setup which has clearly been perfected over generations. B&B located a 1 minute walk from the pier where you can catch the boat to your chosen dive site. The instructors and guides are all very well educated with outstanding local knowledge.

    Michael H

    – September, 2020

  • Love diving here, the instructors and facilities here are top notch and some of the best diving spots in Ireland can be done here! The instructors will always have time for you and you will always be in safe hands. Can’t wait to go back!

    Fionnghuala Miller

    – June, 2022

  • No Drama! Thank you Sandra, Pat, Ronnie and crew from a group of adventurers in need of some Vitamin Sea. The hospitality throughout was a truly welcoming and magically Irish experience. Harbour House never disappoints, all guests were catered for, the service was first class and natural. The advice and expertise re diving is amongst the best available. We will be back…..and I hope soon.

    Joe T, Dublin

    – June, 2021

  • 100% as usual. Fantastic trip as usual. On this occasion the weather was against us but from experience we made the trip from Dublin anyway. Sandra give us fantastic optional locations which did not disappoint. Just shows that this family run business will go out if their way to support and help in anyway possible. It’s a home away from home and I highly recommend. See you again soon.

    EmmaLRo

    – June, 2021

  • Took 4 kids to do a bubblemaker session. Couldn’t praise the staff enough. The kids had a brilliant time. Learnt so much. Will definitely be back again. Thank you Sandra Danny & staff for a brilliant afternoon.

    Aoife O Carroll

    – August, 2022

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