PADI Open Water Certification includes 5 Classroom training, 4 ppol dives, 4 open water dives, & PADI book. *Admission fee to Open Dive sites may apply.

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the ticket to starting your underwater adventure.  The course consists of 5 classroom sessions where you will learn about the underwater environment and the basics of diving.  The course book consists of five chapters which you read at home and complete the knowledge reviews.  In the classroom the instructor will show the PADI DVD video, review the chapter and knowledge reviews and then give a short quiz on the material in that chapter.  During the final classroom session there will be a short final exam.  In conjunction with each classroom session there will be a pool session held at either Hollis school's pool or the new Five Points in Washington.  During the pool sessions you will learn and review basic skills involved in recreational open water diving.  To complete the program you will complete four Open Water training dives.  These dives can be completed in the Peoria area or on one of our short weekend trips.

Deep Blue Adventures:

At Deep Blue Adventure, our goal is to provide you with the most comprehensive, complete training available. Deep Blue Adventure is a member of PADI, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, the largest SCUBA training organization in the world. All our training is conducted 100% according to PADI standards using PADI materials and techniques. Our classes are taught on-site in our state-of-the-art multimedia classroom and the Five Points Washington pool.

At Deep Blue Adventure we believe in personal attention. We don't rush you from the classroom to the pool, trying to make your training fit into our schedule -- we recognize that different people learn at different rates and provide plenty of class time as well as pool time to make sure that each and every student has the opportunity to learn everything that is needed to be a safe diver. That's why we limit our beginner class sizes to no more that 8 students per session, with no more than 4 students per instructor and assistant.