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Overview of Training Levels

  
  There are several different levels of diving certification. The first and the one everyone has to start with is called the Open Water Certification. SCUBA training has evolved over the years to a sport with an injury rate that compares to bowling. There are also several different agencies that can certify you in SCUBA. I was certified through SSI when I first learned to dive and quickly switched over to the PADI agency upon taking my Advanced Open Water class. What a huge difference it made. PADI trains almost 70 percent of every diver that gets certified in the entire world. Coke doesn't have that kind of market share, and PADI has obtained this for a good reason. Level of training; no one in the diving industry spends more time and money on learning how to teach diving than PADI. Being a good diver does not make a good instructor. At Adventure Divers, we believe that teaching diving should be a FULL TIME JOB. Not something done on nights and week-ends by part timers. We never have and never will put you in the hands of a part time instructor, who may only teach one or two classes a year. We will also never put you in a class with more than 8 students. See how many dive shops can make that promise to you and LIVE UP TO THAT PROMISE! We will also never do your check out dive in an undesirable location, ie...cold water spring or quarry. You are going to be diving in the ocean so that is where we train you, off a boat and in salt water. Did you know there are instructor teaching today that have never even been diving off a boat in the ocean? Sad but true. Another promise is when you deal with Adventure Divers you will always deal with the OWNER! Never will you hear someone here say, "I don't know, I'll have to check with the owner." As far as I'm concerned, when you dive with us, you become part of our family, and hence a co-owner.
 

Robert Wade, Adventure Scuba Divers