Welcome to Dive-Okinawa and DivingOkinawa.com (map). Okinawa offers incredible topside beauty and a wide array of dive experiences to be found in the waters around its shores. We are a diving service providing shore dives, boat dives, and PADI introductory and certification courses. Dive-Okinawa offers scuba certification courses and land and boat excursions. We offer the PADI Discover Scuba Diving course for those who want to experience the thrill of SCUBA diving before becoming a certified diver. However, becoming a certified diver is as easy as1-2-3with your Dive-Okinawa PADI professionals. It just takes a few easy steps. These steps allow an easy progression into what will become a highlight of your life. Start today.
Confined Water Dives
This is what it’s all about – diving. You develop basic scuba skills in a pool or in a body of water with pool-like conditions. Here you’ll learn everything from setting up your gear to how to easily get water out of your mask without surfacing. You’ll also practice some emergency skills, like sharing air – just in case. 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.
Open Water Dives
After your confined water dives, you and the new friends you’ve made continue learning during four open water dives with your PADI Instructor at a dive site. This is where you have fun putting it all together and fully experience the underwater adventure – at the beginner level, of course. You may make these dives near where you live or at a more exotic destination on holiday.
After the successful completion of the last open water dive, you will be awarded your PADI certification card good for a lifetime of fun and enjoyment. This card will be recognized all over the world as a certification that you are a safe and properly trained scuba diver.
Knowledge Development
This develops your familiarity with basic principles and procedures. You learn things like how pressure affects your body, how to choose the best gear and what to consider when planning dives.
You complete Knowledge Development on your own, reading each of five sections of the PADI Open Water Diver Manual and watching the corresponding section of the PADI Open Water Diver Video (which also previews skills you’ll learn). If you like learning with a personal computer, you can also get the Open Water Diver Manual and Video together as a CD-ROM. You briefly review what you studied in each section with your instructor and take a short quiz to be sure you’re getting it. At the end of the course, you take an exam that makes sure you’ve got all the key concepts and ideas down.
COMPLETION OF ALL "KNOWLEDGE REVIEWS" REQUIRED PRIOR TO CLASS ATTENDANCE.
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