Geofish Courses and Programs

Courses

SCUBA DIVER

This sub-course within the Open Water Diver course will get you certified to dive under the supervision of a PADI Divemaster or above. This pre-entry level certification takes up less of your time than the Open Water certification.

Minimum duration: 2 days.

OPEN WATER DIVER

In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. This course teaches all you must know to plan, conduct and log non-decompression dives with a buddy independently of professional supervision. PADI Open Water divers can also rent equipment and get air fills at thousands of dive centers and facilities around the world. This full entry level certification is also the stepping-stone to further your dive training.

Minimum duration: 3 days (5 days recommended). http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/openwater.aspx

ADVANCED OPEN WATER

Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, underwater navigation, wreck diving and much more. This course will help you to customize your diving and allow you to dive sites that are out of bounds to novice divers.

Minimum duration: 3 days. http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/advancedopenwater.aspx

RESCUE DIVER

Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken.

Minimum duration: 7 days. http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/rescuediver.aspx

DIVEMASTER

Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. 
During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises.

Minimum duration: Many dive schools will tell you it can be done in two weeks. It can, indeed, but to be honest with you we think you'll need at least 4 weeks to be adequately prepared. http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/divemaster.aspx

MASTER SCUBA DIVER

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver. With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.
http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/msd.aspx

EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE

Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies -- not just in the diving world, but in your everyday world with your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers too. You will learn CPR for adults, children and infants, first aid for adults, children and infants, emergency oxygen administration and how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
Minimum duration: 1 day. http://www.emergencyfirstresponse.com/

SPECIALTIES

With PADI Specialty Diver Programs you can chart your course for a colorful collection of awesome dives. Sure, your PADI certification opens up the oceans and lakes to you, but the PADI Specialty Dives take the underwater adventure to depths that will stir your soul. Achieving PADI Specialty ratings can take anywhere from as little as one day to a full weekend -but this is all hands-on, so you'll be diving right from the start. Geofish Dive offers a large selection of PADI Specialty Courses. Please contact us for availability and pricing.
Minimum duration: 1-2 days.

TECHNICAL COURSES

PADI's technical dive courses were designed together with DSAT, one of its corporate affiliates. For now, Geofish Dive does not offer technical course directly but through some of its partner companies.
http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/tecrec/Default.aspx

Programs

DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING  a.k.a. "the resort course".

If you’re looking for a convenient way to try scuba, look to a PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience to broaden your horizons. For many people like yourself scuba diving is an entirely unknown experience but also one you always yearned to try. The Discover Scuba Diving program allows you to experience what breathing and swimming underwater on a beautiful tropical reef is really like. It takes two and a half hours and comprises some theory, a pool or confined open water dive and an open water dive on beautiful Jardines Reef. We can also arrange an underwater photographer or video cameraman to record your once-in-a-lifetime experience; please contact us for rates and availability.

Clients who complete a Discover Scuba Diving program with Geofish Dive will get a discount equivalent to the DSD full price should they enroll on an Open Water Diver Course within six months.

Minimum duration: 2 hours. http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/dsddetail.aspx

SPECIALTIES

With PADI Specialty Diver Programs you can chart your course for a colorful collection of awesome dives. Sure, your PADI certification opens up the oceans and lakes to you, but the PADI Specialty Dives take the underwater adventure to depths that will stir your soul. Achieving PADI Specialty ratings can take anywhere from as little as one day to a full weekend -but this is all hands-on, so you'll be diving right from the start. Geofish Dive offers a large selection of PADI Specialty Courses. Please contact us for availability and pricing.
Minimum duration: 1-2 days.

SCUBA REVIEW

The PADI Scuba Review is a program to review the safety information you learned during your initial training and practice some of the fundamental scuba skills. Are you a certified diver, but haven't been in the water lately? Are you looking to refresh your dive skills and knowledge? Are you a PADI Scuba Diver or referral student diver and want to earn your PADI Open Water Diver certification? If you answered yes to any of these questions then PADI Scuba Review is for you.

Minimum duration: 2 hours

DISCOVER LOCAL DIVING

The PADI Discover Local Diving program is a supervised underwater tour designed to orientate certified divers to unfamiliar aquatic conditions and environments. It may also be used to re-introduce divers to the open water environment after a period of diving inactivity. You may choose to discover new aspects to a dive site or get an orientation to the local area to gain confidence and experience. The guidance by one of our Instructors or Divemasters allows participants to comfortably explore different underwater environments, find items of interest and avoid potential hazards. The Discover Local Diving program will make things easier for you.

Minimum duration: 2 dives

BUBBLEMAKER

The PADI Bubblemaker program is for boys and girls age 8 and above. It’s fun, easy and safe. The PADI Bubble maker program is a way for youngsters to join in the family fun of scuba diving or even start a trend! Children should be OK in the water, but they don’t have to be super swimmers since the maximum depth is only 2m/6 ft.

Minimum duration: 1 hour. Because the best results are obtained when children interact with each other we need at least two children before we can carry out this program.

http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/bubblemaker.asp

SEAL TEAM

The PADI Seal Team is for young divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by doing exciting scuba "AquaMissions." Have you ever wondered what it's like to dive with flashlights, take digital pictures underwater or float effortlessly like an Astronaut? These are AquaMissions. You will learn about safe diving and you can try AquaMissions. Like wreck, navigation, buoyancy, underwater photography, environmental awareness and more. Here's your chance to do some cool stuff in the pool, meet friends and share in the adventure of the underwater world. The 15 Aquamissions that form this program have been designed to keep children from 8 years old upwards interested and eager to learn more. PADI Seal Team is a fun pool-only experience conducted by certified, trained PADI Professionals.

http://www.padi.com/padi/en/kd/sealteam.aspx