Dive Courses & Diving Trips

As a PADI Five Star Dive Center, we provide the full range of PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) scuba diving education programs, equipment selection and experience opportunities, while encouraging aquatic environmental responsibility.

All PADI courses are catered for and customized to suit your needs. Day or evening classes are held depending on your preference.

All classes are conducted with no more than six students per course. This enables our instructors to provide a more personalized diving experience. One-on-one instruction will be provided upon request.

We pride ourselves that all our students complete our courses as fully competent students. Over the years we have found that some students require a little more class time or pool time or even sea time. Within reason this is not a problem and this extra tuition will be given free of charge to ensure you complete your course as a confident and knowledgeable diver. You will not be signed off until your instructor is fully comfortable with your ability.

Foreign Language materials are available for most PADI courses. So, if English is not your first language then please ask our staff for the manual of your choice.

Scroll down past the flowchart or use the side menu to see more info about our most popular diver courses as well as any upcoming diving trips.

If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.

Learn to dive in the beautiful sheltered bays of the inner Queen Charlotte sounds. Your training dive sites can include fish reserves, ship wrecks and reefs. Learning to dive in this environment will give you the confidence to continue diving in temperate and tropical waters all around the world.

Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course. Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course.

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You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification.

The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.

One of the dives you can choose is diving against debris and take part in cleaning up our delicate Marlborough sounds under water environment - this is a very rewarding and satisfying skill that you can include into all your future dives.

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You learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed.

During the course, you learn to become a better buddy by practicing problem solving skills until they become second nature. Plus, the course is just fun – it’s serious, but still allows for lots of laughter in between the focused learning.

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Are you a certified diver but you haven’t been diving for some time?

Then before you jump back into the ocean, we strongly urge you to partake in one of our Scuba Review pool sessions. This course is designed for you to refresh your diving skills and to give you more confidence to undertake an ocean dive.

Do you have staff or employees that scuba dive in the work place?
Are you interested in gaining employment within the Aquaculture industry?

Marlborough has a large aquaculture industry and scuba divers working within it must have a certificate of competency from Work Safe to legally dive in the work place. This course has been designed to meet this need.

We offer this training in conjunction with the PADI training system whilst at the same time being assessed against Unit Standards as required by NZQA.

We organise one or more scuba diving trips each year. Please contact us for more information.