Getting Started
Discover Scuba Diving: If you want to try scuba diving, but you’re not quite ready to take the plunge into a scuba certification course, we offer a half-day experience called a Discover Scuba Diving in a pool-like environment, with an open water dive. It’s a quick and easy way to find out if you like scuba diving.
Please noteADDITIONAL surcharges - which are not included below are applicable to Public Holiday Bookings (due to Govt requirements to pay staff double time).
Single Dive - $120.00
Have you always wondered what it's like to breathe underwater? If you want to try scuba diving, but aren't quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, then Discover Scuba Diving is for you.
The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program introduces you to scuba diving in a highly supervised and relaxed manner. It dispels common misconceptions about scuba by letting you try it for yourself. Under the guidance of a PADI professional, you will learn basic safety concepts, put on equipment and swim around underwater in a closely supervised environment. Discover Scuba Sessions typically require two to three hours to complete, including pool-side briefing, pool time, and debriefing.
While not a scuba certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world. To sign up for a PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience with The Scuba Doctor, you must be at least 16 years old. No prior experience with scuba diving is necessary, but you need to be in reasonable physical health. Are you ready to try it out?
You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional. If you make an open water dive, you'll practice a few more skills in shallow water to prepare for your adventure. Get ready to:
Whenever possible, an Orientation Session will be provided at The Scuba Doctor facilities prior to the Discover Scuba Session:
Boon Wurrung Country
1/49 Peninsula Ave
RYE VIC 3941
AUSTRALIA
Phone: 03 5985 1700
The objectives of the orientation session are as follows:
The Discover Scuba Sessions will take place at one of the pool facilities utilised by The Scuba Doctor.
Note: The Scuba Doctor Instructors may, at their discretion, introduce skills from the PADI Open Water Diver course Confined Water Dive One. Skills mastered during the Discover Scuba Diving program may be credited toward PADI Open Water Diver course requirements.
To participate in the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program, an individual must:
In order to participate in the Discover Scuba Sessions, you need only complete the administrative paperwork, and provide a willingness to learn and experience scuba diving.
You'll be provided with a buoyancy control device (BCD), regulators, dive computer, scuba cylinder, wetsuit, and weight belt from our collection of Scuba Equipment Rental gear.
You'll need to provide your own bathing suit and towel. We do not provide or hire out personal scuba diving items such as masks, snorkels, dive boots, fins, hoods, gloves, etc. You can buy these in our dive shop online or in-store.
We offer a bespoke, personalised, private experience in Melbourne and on the Mornington Peninsula. You will be the one and only priority of your diving Instructor and/or Dive Master. That is, unless you opt to share your instructor with a family member, partner or friend.
This lets you have a better experience. It's an unrushed experience. Working together with your personal Scuba Instructor and/or Dive Master you can choose which times of day you want to schedule your dives and experience.
Our personalised PADI Discover Scuba Diving programme simply mean a more focused experience, customised scheduling, and no down time waiting for others. The result is better divers and more time on each dive to explore with your Instructor and/or Dive Master. See Private Lessons.
Of course, our way is much more expensive that if you do a PADI Discover Scuba Diving programme with six or more others in a group situation. Please Contact Us for details.
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