Open Water Diver

In just a few exhilarating days, you’ll learn to scuba dive. Your first dives will take place in calm, shallow water, but soon you'll venture deeper and will finish the course with dives to 18m (60 ft).

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of:

• 5 Knowledge Development modules including both classroom sessions and self study for gaining the knowledge necessary for understanding the basics of diving
• 5 Confined Water Dives for skill training (and a little bit of fun diving) in shallow water
• 4 Open Water Dives for skill review and development, and lots of diving for fun

After this course you will be fully certified to dive anywhere in the world, to a depth of 18 meters (60 ft).

You don't have time for a full Open Water course right now? Your vacation schedule doesn't allow it? Then take the three-day PADI Scuba Diver course! This course is a part of the Open Water course and can be supplemented any time by the remaining segments of the Open Water Course.

The Scuba Diver course consists of:

• 3 Knowledge Development modules
• 3 Confined Water Dives
• 2 Open Water Dives

A PADI Scuba Diver is certified to dive to 12 meters (40 ft) and must be accompanied by a diving professional.

You're not yet sure that scuba diving is for you? Check it out! With PADI's Discover Scuba Diving Program - much more than an 'intro' dive.

You'll learn about the very basics of diving and engage in a confined-water skills session, and then a go on a completely fun open water dive to at least 6 meters (20 ft). And if you come back to Shulamit's Eilat Diving Adventures within 12 months for a PADI Open Water Diver (or Scuba Diver) course, your Discover Scuba Diving experience can count toward the first day's requirements of your course!

You’re an Open Water Diver, already certified to dive to 18m (60ft). But there's much more to experience, beyond this depth. The Advanced Open Water Diver course introduces you to many of the kinds of adventures you can experience underwater.

The course consists of five themed open-water dives from PADI’s Adventures in Diving program, with a Deep Dive and an Underwater Navigation dive as mandatory components. Depending on your interests, the other dives can be selected from: Night Dive, Search and Recovery Dive, Underwater Naturalist Dive, Wreck Dive, Enriched Air Dive (for those continuing to their Enriched Air Diver certification), and others. Each dive is accompanied by a brief classroom session which can be expanded upon through self-study using the excellent course manual.

After this course you will be fully certified to dive anywhere in the world, to a depth of 30 meters (100 ft).

This amazing course will expand your knowledge and experience level and show you a different side of scuba diving. You'll learn safety and rescue skills for helping yourself and you'll learn how to rescue other divers in a variety of situations.

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. You'll cover the following topics:

Self-rescue and diver stress
Emergency management and equipment
Panicked diver response
In-water rescue breathing protocols
Exits with victims
Dive accident scenarios

Enriched Air, also known as Nitrox, is a blend of air with additional oxygen that gives you longer bottom times with increased safety. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

You'll learn: Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox, enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations, managing oxygen exposure.

You can combine this with an Advanced Open Water Diver certification to make the most of your diving experiences afterwards.

Safely extend your depth range to 40m (130 ft) with the PADI Deep Diver course.

In addition to performing a dive to 40m (130 ft), you will learn more about emergency breathing equipment and other diving techniques useful for deep diving.

Have you ever lost anything in the water? This course will teach you find underwater objects and bring the to the surface.

This course is a fun course where you learn very useful skills. You'll learn different search techniques, how to find small and large objects and you'll learn working with a lift bag.

Have you ever lost your way in “blue” water or on a flat, featureless ocean bottom? You want to find a certain point in the sea? The Underwater Navigation Course teaches you how to use your compass in an efficient way and how to use other clues for underwater navigation.

You'll also learn navigation patterns, relocating a submerged object, underwater map making, distance estimation under water

PADI Open Water Diver certification (or equivalent)

Never dived at night? Try it. Get to know a whole new view on the underwater world. You can see the day time creature sleeping (mostly fish) and you'll find creature you rarely see out in daytime: crabs, lobsters, squids and cuttlefish, nocturnal nudibranch species. You'll see the corals feeding or spawning, a whole different part of the the reef becomes alive.

You'll learn about Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems, buoyancy control at night, underwater navigation and night, and of course using a dive light.

PADI Open Water Diver certification (or equivalent)

Just getting started with your new digital camera? Or you have been taking underwater photos already but are not satisfied with the results? Or, you don't have a camera yet, but want to try it anyway? Take the PADI digital underwater photography course. You'll learn techniques how to achieve sharp and colorful pictures, how to compose pictures, how to improve your camera settings and how to maintain your camera equipment.

Every underwater photograph on this website was taken by us in Eilat using an ordinary digital camera.

Get a deeper understanding of the entire underwater flora and fauna. Have more fun by being a better observer.

You'll learn the major aquatic life groupings, interactions and factual information that dispels negative myths, the role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships, symbiosis, responsible interactions with aquatic life and more.

Have you ever asked yourself: What's that fish? This course helps you with tips and guides for easy fish identification.

You'll learn how to identify characteristics of fish families and species, fish survey techniques and strategies, and how to practice fish identification dive planning, organization and procedures.

Did you identify the red frogfish in the photo?

PADI Open Water Diver certification (or equivalent)

The Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers. You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.