You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional. If you make an open water dive, you’ll practice a few more skills in shallow water to prepare for your adventure. Get ready to:

•Go over the scuba equipment you use to dive and how easy it is to move around underwater with your gear.

•Find out what it’s like to breathe underwater.

•Learn key skills that you’ll use during every scuba dive.

•Have fun swimming around and exploring.

•Hear about becoming a certified diver through the PADI Open Water Diver course. 

Perfect for those a little dusty on the dive, our refresher course includes:

• Re-familiarisation with your equipment
• The completion of a few important dive skills to make you feel more comfortable.
• Discounted to $80 if pre-booked with a Double Dive
  

Get hooked on DIVING …. you diver certification begins here.

If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.

Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognised scuba course. To enrol in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you must be

• 10 years old or older.
• You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health.

Please look over the medical declaration and if you answer YES to any of the questions, please contact us so we can advise you further.

No prior experience with scuba diving is required.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

1. Knowledge Development ( online, independent study or in a classroom) to  understand basic principles of scuba diving
2. Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
3. Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!

In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and a tank. All this will be supplied during your course.

Times and dates of availability may differ so please contact us.

Minimum numbers do apply.

This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Advancing your diving knowledge & skills is what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialities while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.

You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives.

During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control and fish identification.

Discounted Refresher dive for $90 available.

Times and dates of availability may differ so please contact us for further information.

Minimum numbers do apply.

Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken. Learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed. During the course, you learn to become a better buddy by practicing problem solving skills until they become second nature. Plus, the course is just fun – it’s serious, but still allows for lots of laughter in between the focused learning.

The PADI Rescue Diver course prepares you to deal with dive emergencies, minor and major, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills.

Topics include:

• Self rescue
• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
• Emergency management and equipment
• Rescuing panicked divers
• Rescuing unresponsive divers

Pre-requisite

• 18 years Old
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
• HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• HLTAID015 Provide Advanced Resuscitation (Oxygen) – Includes CPR
• HLTAID011 Provide First Aid

Times and dates of availability may differ so please contact us for further information.

Minimum numbers do apply.

This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Improve your diving knowledge & skills with Keppel Dive's PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to improve your diving skills and confidence in the water. 

The course will consist of 2 open water dives that are mandatory for the course certification, which means you will finish the course in one day (8am-3pm).
You will have access to an eLearning that you need to finish before coming for the practical part of the course.  Here we will be focused on understanding how our buoyancy is affected by different environments and equipment we use and we will be doing  exercises to help you better control your buoyancy directly on open water. 
With our qualified and caring PADI Instructors, this course will help with: 

Highlights:
- Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought.
- Mastering buoyancy enhances both your diving experience and your impact on marine ecosystems, fostering a more sustainable approach to exploring the underwater world.
- Become a better and more confident diver!

All gear included

Times and dates of availability may differ so please contact us for further information.
Minimum numbers may apply.

This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Improve your diving knowledge & skills with Keppel Dive's PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to improve your diving skills and confidence in the water. 

The course will consist of a half day confined waters dive to refresh your skills and get you comfortable in the water. Now you're ready to go, 2 open water dives that are mandatory for the course certification, which means you will finish the course in one and a half days.
You will have access to an eLearning that you need to finish before coming for the practical part of the course.  Here we will be focused on understanding how our buoyancy is affected by different environments and equipment we use and we will be doing  exercises to help you better control your buoyancy directly on open water. 
With our qualified and caring PADI Instructors, this course will help with: 

Highlights:
- Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought.
- Mastering buoyancy enhances both your diving experience and your impact on marine ecosystems, fostering a more sustainable approach to exploring the underwater world.
- Become a better and more confident diver!

All gear included

Times and dates of availability may differ so please contact us for further information.
Minimum numbers may apply.

The price includes:

• 2 dives on the reef around the Keppel Group (sites chosen by crew depending on prevailing conditions)
• Experienced dive guides on each trip

This does not include your ferry to and from GKI.- 

Keppel Dive's Eye on the Reef monitoring and assessment program enables visiting divers to the Great Barrier Reef to contribute to its long-term protection by collecting valuable information about reef health, marine animals and incidents that is then used to understand the bigger picture and inform how the Marine Park Authority manages the Reef.

Join Keppel Dive on an Eco-Certified Reef Protection Dive and do your part to help monitor and protect the Great Barrier Reef.

Our Eco-Certified tour includes:

• 2 tank boat dive at Keppel Dive's Reef Stewardship Sites.
• Insight into conducting Reef Health Impact Surveys (RHIS)
• Instruction in conducting Rapid Monitoring surveys
• Introduction to the Eye on the Reef app and entering sightings
• All diving gear. 
• We can arrange your ferry to Great Keppel Island at additional cost. Just indicate 'yes' when booking online or let our Dive Crew know.
• Receive guidance and interpretation on the impact your visit will have on the future sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef.

Come and get involved and record your own sightings and enter these into The Eye on the Reef app, which is then uploaded onto the GBRMPA Database. 

Notes: 

• If unable to conduct a double dive due to weather and only a single dive is available, the cost will reduce to $100 per diver.
• Only available to certified divers, that have dived within the last year
• See our refresher dives to be conducted any day before the dive to get refreshed, if it has been over a year since your last dive.
• Non-divers, please check out our Tourism Weekly Snorkel Tours on Fridays

In this course candidates learn about their role and responsibilities, how to organize snorkelling excursions, emergency care and safety considerations, and how to emphasize the need for snorkelers to care for the aquatic environment. Candidates water skills, stamina, snorkel/skin diving skills and rescue abilities are developed and evaluated. Role-playing workshops involving briefings and guiding tours is also part of the program.

 

Pre-requisites:

• At least 18 years old
• Hold a statement of attainment in HLTAID 010 & 011 Provide First Aid within 48 months. Hold a current HLTAID009 Provide CPR within 12 months
• Medical form signed by a physician

 

Duration:

1 day course (8am-4pm)– $520

1.5-day course – $720 (8am - 4pm & 12pm - 4pm) (includes assisting a snorkel tour)

 

In both options it includes:

• Gear hire for the duration of the course
• PADI snorkel guide notes - pre course learning
• Keppel Konnections ferry transfers to and from GKI for all days required to complete the course
• All prices include a per person, per day Environmental Management Charge (EMC) that contributes to management and protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

 

Price does not include: (This is to be completed by the student once completed the course, to become in PADI Snorkel Guiding status)  We will assist with this process.

• Application and membership fee

• PADI Professional Liability Insurance Fee

Why ReActivate??

Although your PADI certification never expires, if you haven't been diving for some time it is important to revive the dive theory and skills to assure you will safely get back in the water and have a fun, relax dive, as they should be. It is also important for dive shops to see a recent ReActivated date on your certification card so you can join the certified dives they offer directly. 

With the Reactivate program you will be able to review all the diving theory as you will be given an eLearning to go through at your own pace. Upon arrival, you will have a briefing with a dive professional and then go into the water to practice some of the most important skills you need as a diver (and any others you would like to do revise).

Special Offer:

If you book the reactivate and a double dive, it's $195 for reactivate course, plus $175/$240 for the Double dive.