Scuba IQ – PADI Open Water Diver + Advanced Open Water Diver Combo

Diving Cairns? Try Port Douglas instead with this great offer.

The PADI Open Water Diver certification is the world’s most popular and widely recognised scuba diving licence and we take you to some of the best coral reef locations to explore.

Over four days, under expert supervision, using our high quality equipment, you will learn the skills required to dive to an advanced level.

For a limited time only, this course costs $895 per person for four people (save $655 per person), $995 per person for three people (save $555 per person), $1195 per person for two people (save $355 per person) or $1450 per person (save $100). This special offer is only available for bookings made before December 25, 2017, with bookings valid to use until May 2018.

No previous experience with scuba is necessary as we will guide you through all of the essential aspects of safe diving including equipment preparation, dive planning and problem management.

This is all done by completing the 3 parts of the Open Water Course plus additional Advanced training.

This is a 4-day course with prior PADI eLearning. The PADI eLearning is paid directly to PADI and takes 6-10 hours to complete.

Confined Water Training on Day 1 of your training is where you make first contact with the world of scuba and feel for the first time what it is like to breathe and move underwater.

?In the comfort of a swimming pool, at the Mirage Country Club, Port Douglas, you will learn everything from assembling your own equipment, adjusting your buoyancy and  hand signals through to what to do in an emergency?.

First, we show you an exercise and then we’ll ask you to try. Once all of the different skills have been mastered there will be time for us to improve and perfect so that you are ready for your open water training dives.

Then, to finish off the session, we complete a ‘mini-dive’ to give you a little taste of what to expect when we go to the Great Barrier Reef for your Open Water training dives.

For the Open Water Training you’ll spend 2 days (6 dives) diving aboard locally-owned ‘Calypso Reef Cruises’ dive boats, visiting some of the best reefs to be found in the Port Douglas area.

Once all of the training requirements have been completed  – typically at the end of the first dive on the second day, we’ll take you on 2 extra guided dives so you can use all of your newly acquired skills to explore the Great Barrier Reef at your own pace.

For the Advanced training, we spend an additional day on the Outer Reef teaching you the technical skills required to explore deeper parts of the reef for longer.

• Certified divers must produce a valid dive certification card on the day of travel. This can also be in the form of a temporary certification card (issued within the last 90 days).

• Due to Queensland Scuba diving regulations, all divers need to complete a medical questionnaire before starting any PADI dive course/program or undertaking guided diving activities. Certain medical conditions and/or medications may preclude you from scuba diving and will therefore require a dive medical release from an approved Scuba diving physician prior to travel. This can be done locally at the divers’ own expense. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding your fitness to dive.

• Certified Divers: It is the responsibility of certified divers to obtain a valid dive medical prior to the trip if your state of health has changed since completing your last dive or since your last dive medical. This includes the intake of medications. Please see the link to the Queensland Dive Medical Statement and if any doubt exists please Contact Us.

• We advise a wait of a minimum of 24 hours before flying after diving.

• We strongly recommend that before travel, you obtain insurance which provides specific cover for scuba diving activities, medical evacuation and dive travel. We suggest that it also includes coverage for missed flights, altered accommodation arrangements or any other inconvenience borne out of any unforeseen circumstance that arises while participating in one of our tours or courses.

• Before cancelling any trip or course, please Contact Us to see if we can arrange a new date or a suitable alternative.

• Cancellation of any trip or course made within 24 hours prior to the booked tour date or ‘no shows’ will incur a 100% cancellation charge with no refund.

• Any cancellations made within 24-48 hours prior to the tour date will be refunded 50% of the amount minus any costs incurred relating to bank fees or credit card charges.

• Any cancellation made with more than 48 hours notice will receive a full refund minus any costs incurred relating to bank fees or credit card charges.

• Cancellation of diving made by us on the day of travel or course start due to your not being medically cleared to dive or failure to produce proof of certification, will not be eligible for a refund. However, in some circumstances, an alternative date can be arranged to allow for time to obtain either or both of the aforementioned.

• If for any reason a scuba diving course cannot be completed, a part refund will be offered based on incomplete training elements.

• Scuba IQ (ABN 76 810 769 277 ) reserves the right to cancel or change any bookings due to weather/environmental conditions or any other unforeseen circumstances. All information regarding  trips, courses, itineraries, services provided, product inclusions and prices charged may be altered or cancelled without notice due to any reason and at the discretion of Scuba IQ.

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