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Scuba Diving PADI Open Water Course
Product Code: P00448


£435.00

How does the gift experience voucher work?

Your Experience
PADI Open Water Diver course, the most popular dive program in the world! This is your ticket to a lifetime of intense adventure with PADI, the dive company that sets the standards in the global diving community.

Throughout the course, you'll learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques. Picture yourself amongst the corals of the Great Barrier Reef or investigating mysterious wrecks on the ocean floor, by succeeding in your Open-Water Diving Course this could be you! This Golden Moments' voucher gives you the chance to become a fully qualified PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Open-Water diver. PADI is the world's most recognised entry-level qualification in Scuba diving. All of our courses are based on two very important factors, the first being diver safety and the close second in diver safety. Your course combines both theory sessions and practical pool sessions. The climax to your course will be a series of dives in Open-Water. These natural waters will provide your first insight in to the joys of diving, and a fitting reward for your success in becoming a qualified diver!

Vital information
Min age varies from 10-12. Must be in reasonable health and able to swim 200m. Chronic asthmatics, sufferers of diabetes, claustrophobia, respiratory, heart or other medical conditions must produce advance written medical approval.

The weather
This is a weather dependent activity. Your PADI centre will make arrangements suitable for the weather conditions.

Session length
As a guide the total course duration is 31 hours, taken in shorter sessions.

Numbers
There is a maximum pupil to tutor ratio of 8:1.

Dress code
Bring a swimming costume and a towel. All other equipment will be provided, including your tank, mask and scuba gear.

Availability
Selected dates throughout the year. Please call us to check the latest availability.

Locations
This experience is available in: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Glasgow, Greater London, Hampshire, West Yorkshire.

Other information
On successful completion of this course you will qualify as a PADI Open Water Diver, which means that you can dive anywhere in the world without instructor supervision.


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EXPERIENCE TOTAL		£435.00

Fascinating Facts

Men and women have practised breath-hold diving for centuries. In ancient Greece, breath-hold divers are known to have hunted for sponges. However, until humans found a way to breathe underwater each dive was necessarily short and frantic. In the 16th century people began to use diving bells supplied with air from the surface, the first effective means of staying under water for any length of time. In 1825 an Englishman, William James, invented the first workable self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) incorporating a cylindrical belt around the diver's trunk that served as an air reservoir. The development of modern fins, mask and snorkel tubes happened in the 1920s and 30s. An American, Guy Gilpatri used a pair of old flying goggles, plugged with putty and painted over whilst his Russian friend, Karamarenko, produced the first rubber mask with a single window. De Corliev in France patented fins in 1929. Then in 1943 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a French naval lieutenant and Emile Gagnan, an engineer for a Parisian natural gas company redesigned a car regulator to automatically provide compressed air to a diver on the slightest intake of breath. Cousteau tested the unit in the cold Marne River outside Paris and after a modification they patented the Aqua Lung. Today PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) is the world's largest recreational diving membership organisation, with more than 4300 dive centres and resorts in more than 175 countries and territories.