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Open Water Diver & Dive Against Debris eLearning Bundle

eLearning covers self-study material. Your dive shop will charge training fees.

About This Bundle

Learn how to explore & protect the underwater world and save with this limited time eLearning bundle. Start first with PADI Open Water Diver eLearning then develop skills to help save the ocean with the PADI AWARE™ Dive Against Debris® Specialty program.

Open Water Diver
Take the first step towards earning your first scuba certification level and getting your passport to explore our blue planet. Learn how to assemble and use scuba gear, manage your buoyancy, and handle common problems to become a confident and skilled diver.

Dive Against Debris® Specialty
Become a citizen scientist and make a difference on every dive with the Dive Against Debris® Diver Specialty. Learn how to conduct underwater surveys and contribute your data to PADI AWARE’s global database used to help inform conservation policy.

Included Courses

 
Beginner
Open Water Diver
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About the Course

PADI® Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. A highly-trained PADI Instructor will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive learning environment.

By the end of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad and be an ambassador for the underwater world.

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Take This Course If You Want to
  • Explore the other 70 percent of our planet
  • Support ocean protection
  • See things you've never seen before
  • Learn from a scuba diving expert
  • Carry the world's most recognized scuba certification
Learn How to
  • Be a confident and skilled diver
  • Assemble and use scuba gear
  • Manage your buoyancy
  • Respectfully approach marine life
  • Handle common problems

How to Earn your Scuba Diving Certification

Learn about scuba diving principles and terminology (either offline or online), then learn basic scuba skills in a pool (or pool-like environment) with a highly trained PADI Instructor. When you're ready, make four dives in an open water environment (the ocean, a lake) with your instructor supporting you every step of the way.
Independent Study

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PADI eLearning®

PADI eLearning makes it easy to fit scuba lessons into a busy schedule. Learn about scuba diving principles and terminology whenever, wherever it's convenient for you.

It's your course on your time. Study offline, or online using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor whenever you have a question.

  • eLearning time commitment: 5-10 hours
At The Dive Shop

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With Your Instructor

Practice using scuba gear in a pool (or pool-like environment) until you're comfortable. PADI training includes practice "mini dives" to help you build confidence in your new abilities before making four dives in open water.
  • Prerequisites: Able to swim; medically fit for diving
  • Total time commitment: 4-7 days
  • Minimum age: 10 years or older
  • Depth: expect shallow dives (12m/40ft), the maximum allowed depth is 18m/60ft
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Continuing-Education
Dive Against Debris
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About the Course

Make a difference on every dive by activating your inner citizen scientist. During the Dive Against Debris® Diver Specialty course, you’ll learn how ocean plastic and trash cleanups not only keep your local dive sites healthier, but also how to contribute to a global database that documents our planet’s marine debris problem. Under the guidance of your instructor, you’ll participate in a Dive Against Debris survey and turn your passion for the underwater world into real action.

Join the PADI Torchbearer™ movement of divers protecting our ocean planet and making every dive count.

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Take This Course If You Want to
  • Become a citizen scientist for marine conservation
  • Learn how you can truly make a difference for our oceans
  • Keep your local dive sites clean from ocean plastic and debris
Learn How to
  • Identify which objects should and shouldn’t be removed from the ocean
  • Conduct a survey: Sort, record and report the marine debris you collect
  • Contribute to PADI AWARE Foundation’s global database

How to Earn your Scuba Diving Certification

Complete Dive Against Debris eLearning, then make a Dive Against Debris survey dive, during which you’ll collect marine debris underwater. After your dive, you’ll weigh, sort, record, dispose of and report your marine debris to the PADI AWARE Foundation™ database.

Independent Study

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PADI eLearning®

PADI eLearning makes it easy to fit scuba lessons into your busy schedule. Complete the independent study part of your course whenever, wherever it's convenient for you.

Work at your own pace, online or offline, using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor for in-water training, or whenever you have a question.

  • eLearning time commitment: 2-4 hours
At The Dive Shop

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With Your Instructor

You'll plan and execute a dive with a buddy to remove underwater marine debris while demonstrating appropriate judgment as to which objects should and shouldn’t be removed from the ocean. After the dive, you’ll conduct a survey by recording and reporting your Dive Against Debris data.
  • Prerequisites: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver, PADI Freedivertm or PADI Advanced Mermaidtm (or qualifying certification)
  • Total time commitment: 1 day
  • Minimum age: 10
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The PADI Difference

For over 50 years, PADI has undeniably been the Way the World Learns to Dive®, setting the standard for the highest quality dive training, underwater safety and conservation initiatives while evolving the sport of diving into a passionate lifestyle.

30,000,000+

(and counting) PADI certified divers to date!

6,600

PADI dive centers and resorts across the globe

128,000

PADI Professional members worldwide

Bundle FAQs

 
Are eLearning Bundles Eligible for Additional Discounts or Combinable With Other Promotions?

Bundles are not combinable with other promotions or eligible for additional discounts. The price shown is the discounted rate.

 
Can eLearning Bundles Be Shared?

Course bundles can be split between two divers or gifted in entirety: i.e. keep AOW for yourself, but share EANx with your best dive buddy, or gift a bundle to a friend or family member!

  • Purchase an eLearning bundle

  • Log in to your account using the credentials you used to purchase the eLearning

  • Go to your dashboard to find the purchased course you’d like to gift and,

  • Click on “Share the course” and enter the email of the recipient to whom you want to gift the course