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PADI eLearning®
It's easy to fit a scuba refresher program into your busy schedule. Using a computer or mobile device, watch videos of how to perform basic scuba skills and review dive planning and safety procedures - whenever, wherever it's convenient for you.
Connect with your instructor for a water session to earn a ReActivated card, or whenever you have a question.
- eLearning time commitment: 2-3 hours
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With Your Instructor
- Prerequisites:
PADI (Junior) Scuba Diver certification or proof of entry-level diver certification from another training organization with four open water dives
- Total time commitment: 2-6 hours
- Minimum age: 10 years or older
- Depth: Discuss confined or open water dive option with dive professional
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Want to share the experience or give the gift of endless adventure? You can now purchase PADI eLearning® and share it with a recipient of your choice! Whether you are purchasing the course as a gift or need to assign it to family members – it’s super easy.
- Purchase an eLearning course.
- Follow the link in your confirmation email or sign into your account to go to your Dashboard.
- From your Dashboard go to 'Manage Your Courses' section.
- Select the course you'd like to gift and enter the email of the gift recipient.
- The recipient will receive an email to start the eLearning course.
Scuba diving requires a minimum level of health and fitness. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.
Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. Instructors, divemasters and dive shop staff are not physicians and should not be asked for medical advice; only medical professionals can give medical clearance to dive.
If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).
Minimum age: 10
Course prerequisites: Scuba Diver certification or proof of an entry-level certification with four training dives, such as Open Water Diver.
ReActivate your scuba skills locally or while travelling.
Choose a dive shop close to home to:
- Support your local diving community
- Meet dive buddies in your local area
- Learn about your local ecosystem
Choose a dive shop away from home if you:
- Plan to travel to a dive destination on holiday
- Like to meet new people when travelling
- Have the time to complete your course while on vacation
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ReActivate your scuba skills locally or while travelling.
Choose a dive shop close to home to:
- Support your local diving community
- Meet dive buddies in your local area
- Learn about your local ecosystem
Choose a dive shop away from home if you:
- Plan to travel to a dive destination on holiday
- Like to meet new people when travelling
- Have the time to complete your course while on vacation
When you purchase ReActivate eLearning from our website, the price only includes the online study course. If you choose to complete inwater skill practice with a PADI Instructor, there will be an additional cost.
The cost for inwater training depends on class size, environment, and whether or not you need to rent equipment. Contact a PADI Dive Center or Resort for more information and pricing.
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If you plan to be somewhere without internet access, use the PADI Training app to download course content and study offline. Content can be downloaded in small sections with a total file size of approximately 866 MB. When you get back online, upload your progress so you can resume your training right where you left off.
The PADI Training app is available for Android™ and Apple® iOS devices. For the ideal experience, devices should be no more than three models old and running with the most current OS (operating system).
Once you've refreshed your skills, you may want to keep improving and expanding your dive knowledge.
- PADI Specialty courses are a great way to build new skills while exploring new corners of the underwater world.
- Not sure which specialty to try? The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is like a specialty sampler platter.
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ReActivate FAQs
Your PADI certification never expires, but if it’s been 6-12 months since your last scuba dive and/or the thought of assembling your dive gear makes you nervous, a refresher is a good idea. It’s better to be over-prepared and dive safely than risk a problem because you forgot something important. For just a knowledge review, complete PADI eLearning™. To get comfortable in the water again, also schedule time for an in-water refresher with a PADI Dive Professional.
PADI ReActivate is a fully personalized scuba refresher program – you’ll only have to cover the areas where your dive skills and knowledge need review. Move quickly through topics you know well, then dive deeper where your knowledge may have lapsed. Progress at your own pace, with as much (or little) guidance as needed from a PADI Professional to restore your mastery of fundamental scuba diving skills. A scuba refresher is an in-water dive skill review in a pool or confined water setting.
If you’re not a habitual diver (or have less than 20 lifetime dives), but you’re planning to scuba dive soon, you may want to take a refresher course before your next open water dive. Scuba diving requires specific skills and knowledge that can lapse if not practiced regularly.
Spend more time exploring the underwater world at your dive destination by completing your PADI ReActivate Scuba Refresher eLearning program in advance online and your in-water skill session with your local dive shop.
To receive an updated, ReActivated dive certification card, you’ll complete an in-water session with a PADI Dive Instructor, reviewing any skills you may have forgotten and performing fundamental dive skills: ascents and descents, assembling a scuba unit, and how to address common problems underwater.
A scuba diving refresher is the in-water skills component of the PADI ReActivate program under the guidance of a PADI Professional. In this session, you will review essential dive skills to get comfortable in the water again. Your PADI Pro will tailor the review to your specific needs. Here are some of the questions and skills that may be reviewed in a PADI Refresher:
- How many scuba dives have you made, and in what conditions and environments?
- When and where were your last scuba dives?
- What dive skills do you want to practice?
- How did your last scuba dives go? What would help you to improve them?
Next, the PADI Professional will watch you set up your dive gear, followed by pre-dive safety checks. Can you remember BWRAF (BCD, Weights, Releases, Air and Final okay)? Try using the saying ‘Breakfast With Rice And Fish’ to recall the correct order. Once in the water, you’ll demonstrate dive ascents, dive descents, mask clearing, mask removal and mask replacement, buoyancy control (neutral buoyancy, hovering, maintaining buoyancy while swimming), and alternate air source ascents to ensure you’re prepared if an out-of-air situation should occur.
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