Sports : Scuba Diving
duplays.com offers numerous PADI-certified courses and programs (see below). From beginners to individuals looking for more extensive training, please contact us for your needs. Description of PADI Courses and Programs Bubblemaker
The Bubblemaker program introduces scuba diving as an activity that allows children to experience the underwater world. Under close supervision, participants swim around on scuba in shallow confined water – just playing. Colorful Bubblemaker emblems, decals and toys along with a recognition certificate and card complete the program experience.
PADI Seal Team The PADI Seal Team keeps children diving, learning and having fun until they are ready to enrol in the PADI Junior Scuba Diver Course or Junior Open Water Diver Course. The PADI Seal Team consists of five Aqua Missions after which youngsters can continue with the PADI Master Seal Team Speciality Aqua Missions.
Discover Scuba Diving The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program introduces people to diving in a highly supervised and relaxed manner. Under the guidance of a PADI professional, new divers learn basic safety concepts about the dive environment and equipment in a closely supervised, underwater environment.
The Discover Scuba Diving course takes place off from the beach area at Jumeirah Beach Hotel where one can view corals, sea urchins, shrimp, sea cucumbers and wide variety of fish and sea life.
Scuba Review The PADI Scuba Review program helps certified divers update their dive knowledge and skills, especially after a period of diving inactivity.
PADI Scuba Diver The PADI Scuba Diver certification is a subset of the Open Water Diver course that allows individuals to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI professional at depths up to 12 meters. PADI Scuba Divers can at any time continue their dive training to complete the Open Water Diver certification.
Open Water Diver Upon completion of the PADI Open Water Diver certification, a diver is qualified to dive with a buddy, independent of supervision and within the limits of their training and experience, to depths up to 18 meters. Open Water divers can then continue their dive education with the Advanced Open Water Diver or dive speciality courses.
National Geographic Diver The National Geographic Diver Course is designed to increase a diver's understanding of the importance of the aquatic realm and broaden the diver's awareness while scuba diving through buoyancy control, navigation and aquatic life identification.
Adventure Diver The Adventure Diver program provides divers with a means to explore special diving interests and gain dive experience. This program allows divers to learn various underwater tasks that broaden awareness of the environment and capabilities as divers. The Adventure Diver certification consists of any three adventure dives.
Advanced Open Water Diver Any diver who completes the Adventure Diver course in addition to the Underwater Navigation Dive and the Deep Dive can be certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver. Certification as an Advanced Open Water diver allows the individual to dive to depths of 30 meters.
Rescue Diver The PADI Rescue Diver course is a significant step in expanding a diver's knowledge and experience which is why the Rescue Diver certification is a prerequisite for all PADI leadership-level training (PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor and Open Water Scuba Instructor).
Rescue diver training expands the basic problem, prevention and accident management skills that student divers learn beginning with the Open Water Diver course. At the Rescue Diver level, students are ready to learn to manage more complex dive emergencies and to apply direct intervention techniques to assist others in an emergency. Prior to certification as a Rescue Diver, students require an Emergency First Response (EFR) certification.
Dive Master As the entry to professional levels in diver training, the PADI Divemaster course marks a pivotal role in the PADI system of diver education. Those who join the PADI Divemaster ranks assist with the training of student divers, supervise activities for certified divers and gain valuable knowledge about the workings of a dive center. Full certification as a PADI Dive Master requires 60 completed dives and current Emergency First Response certification.
AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation The AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation Speciality course teaches divers and non-divers about the vital role coral reefs play in the marine environment and how these ecosystems are currently threatened. The course familiarizes participants with the current state of the world's coral reefs and explains how individuals can help protect the living reef from further decline. This program is a non-diving course that only contains classroom presentation.
Peak Performance Buoyancy The purpose of the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality course is to polish a diver's buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level through knowledge development and practical skills application.
Project Aware Specialist The Project AWARE Speciality program is designed to familiarize divers and non-divers with the plight of worldwide aquatic ecosystems. This program is a non-diving course that only contains classroom presentation.
Profiles of our Instructors: Danielle Danielle Berggren began scuba diving in the fall of 2004 in Roatan, Honduras. After receiving her PADI Open Water certification, she continued her courses in Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver. Upon arrival in Dubai in 2006, Danielle signed up for the PADI Divemaster course at the Pavilion Dive Centre. In the summer of 2007, she completed her divemaster certification and began the Open Water Scuba Instructor course. Danielle was certified as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor in the fall of 2007.
Ghazi Ghazi Gashut completed his PADI Open Water diver course in Dubai the summer of 2006. Realizing his insatiable hunger for diving he dedicated most of his free time to diving and pursing a number of PADI continuing education courses leading up to the highest recreational diver rating the Master Scuba Diver. Ghazi then signed up for the Divemaster course in the spring of 2007 to take the first step in his professional diving career. Ghazi attained his PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor rating in the fall of 2007.
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