PADI SCUBA DIVING COURCES

SCUBA DIVING FOR EVERYONE

Padi Discover

Scuba Diver

Try diving with PADI

 

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, Discover Scuba Diving is for you. While not a scuba certification course, it is a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world.

 

You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional, and get to use all the equipment needed by a scuba diver. First we’ll get comfortable in the swimming pool and practice a few essential skills, and then we’ll head out to the ocean for a shallow and relaxed entry-level exploration dive.

Want to upgrade to PADI Open Water Diver?

 

Once successfully completed, the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience will count towards your PADI Open Water Diver course. This means you have already completed the first day of the full PADI Open Water Diver course and there is no need to redo any of the training already covered.

Padi OPEN Water

Scuba Diver

Learn to dive today!

 

Looking for adventure? Diving is one of the world’s most adventurous activities. Love nature? No other environment approaches the abundance and diversity of a pristine coral reef, or the intriguing life in a lake or flooded quarry. Does discovery drive you? Even at frequently visited dive sites you’ll see things most people never see and go where most people never go.

The PADI Open Water Diver course is more than just learning how to dive. It is a lifestyle change, in more ways than you can imagine! You will find that your holidays are going to revolve around exploring the oceans all around the world, you will become more in touch with nature and you will look at the world through new eyes.

 

The PADI Open Water Diver course is where it all starts. Upon completion, you will be able to scuba dive to a maximum depth of 18m anywhere in the world. You will learn and practice the fundamental basics of scuba diving and safe diving practices.

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Advanced Scuba Diver

Broaden your horizons

Expand your underwater world by making dives in the pursuit of new discoveries, abilities and experiences. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is about new skills that make diving more rewarding, and opening new activities and options when you go underwater. It’s about exploring dive sites you’ve not seen before, gaining experience with dive gear, and understanding more about how you see, feel and hear in the underwater world.You will learn how to think more like an experienced diver, which builds your abilities, skills and confidence.

You will also learn more about yourself and where your interests lie, so you can get more out of diving.

On the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course you will learn to dive to a maximum depth of 30m,  and how to navigate underwater. You will also enjoy 3 elective dives based on your interests, including options such as night diving, wreck diving, Nitrox, underwater photography, and many more. Your elective dives will be scheduled according to your preferences with the help of your PADI Instructor.

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Rescue Diver

Challenging and rewarding

When you first learned to dive in the PADI Open Water Diver course, you focused primarily on yourself and mastered knowledge and skills for taking care of yourself underwater. In the Advanced Open Water Diver course, your focus broadened to include the environment in a variety of situations. 

 

In the PADI Rescue Diver course, you’re about to enter the next stage, in which your focus broadens further to include other divers.

 

The PADI Rescue Diver course prepares you to help prevent and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies – minor and major – with a variety of techniques. 

The course will improve your skill and confidence as a diver, and prepare you to move on to the PADI Master Scuba Diver and PADI Divemaster levels. Most certified PADI Rescue Divers look back on their rescue training as one of the most challenging, sometimes demanding, and therefore most rewarding programs they’ve taken. The subject is serious, but the training is fun.

 

The PADI Rescue Diver course is also highly recommended for divers who wish to dive more independently from dive operators with other certified divers.

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Dive Master

PADI Divemaster – the world’s most respected dive leader.

 

The PADI Divemaster course is PADI’s first professional-level certification, and your first step to becoming a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. As a PADI Divemaster – by assisting with logistics, information and preparation – you play an important part in helping divers dive better and enjoy themselves more. You help them plan their dives and have more fun.

 

Through the PADI Divemaster course you will become a dive leader and learn to take control of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises, workshops, and hands-on practical assessments, you develop the skills to organise and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. 

 

You will also gain broad industry-wide dive knowledge, and you will become a role model to other divers

KeatZA
KeatZA
Brilliant instructors. The Apnea Addicts team look after you through the entire process and ensure that you are comfortable in the water and understand the fundamentals of the sport.
Reece Truter
Reece Truter
One of the best experiences I have had with a dive shop. I was blown away by how beautiful the African Sea Forest was and had many amazing dives from shore entry and off a boat all during my freediving course and improving my skills, reaching new depths and learning how to do it all safely.
Amber McLeod
Amber McLeod
Charl and Brit are amazing instructors 🙂 Doing my freediving instructor course with them. Super patient people and they have very adaptable teaching styles that will suit anyone. Very fun course!
Leroux Cloete
Leroux Cloete
Best in the business, took my free diving to the next level and will recommend it to anyone looking to dive safer and improve their diving.
YB Naidoo
YB Naidoo
Gareth did such an amazing job with Mischka, he reads people extremely accurately and helps them accordingly. I seriously recommend Gareth and his team if you value patience and understanding. Thanks for the breathtaking experience guys, well done!
Boy de Jonge
Boy de Jonge
Did my 4 day Open Water Course, both Gareth and Indi are very nice, highly qualified and know where to go for the best Cape Town dive spots. Highly recommend!
Jonathan Müller
Jonathan Müller
Great communication. Great instructor. My son loved it.

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Paradise42498870172
2023-11-09
Amazing diving and skill improving. I had such an amazing time in Cape Town while being shown around with Apnea Addicts Freediving. We visited many dive sites via shore and boat. All while improving my diving skills on freediving courses.
GoPlaces67263033124
GoPlaces67263033124
2023-11-07
Amazing Charl and Brit are amazing instructors 🙂 Doing my freediving instructor course with them and they have very adaptable teaching styles that will suit anyone. Very fun course!
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Passport38210741530
2023-11-07
Spear fishing trip Beautiful waters and friendly cow sharks + friendly charles. Will recommend this to anyone. Gona come back again for sure.
Leroux C
Leroux C
2023-11-07
If you are a free diver this is a must!!! Best in the business, took my free diving to the next level and will recommend it to anyone looking to dive safer and improve their diving.
Charl Marais
Charl Marais
2022-12-31
Super Cool Diving!! I was reccomended to this center for my diving, they are PADI IDC Freedive Instructor Trainer and Scuba Centre based in Simonstown. Working with one of the only PADI Freedive and Mermaid instructor-trainers in Southern Africa. The quality of diving and teaching that I did here was incredible, the life under the water was very cool!. Whether you are interested in scuba diving, freediving, snorkeling, boat tours or freediving – CTDC put together a personal package for you that suits your needs. A personalized experience with highly trained staff is what CTDC strives on!
Hayley C
Hayley C
2021-05-13
Amazing shore dives with great people! I was recommended this dive shop by a local and it was the best choice I could have made! It’s a small company, so you get an intimate, personalized experience. Joe was a fantastic coordinator and extremely knowledgeable about the sites and marine life. Philippe was my dive buddy and helped me feel really comfortable and took great care of me on our dives. We saw incredible kelp forests, beautiful coral, nudibranchs of many kinds, swam through rock formations, and a friendly seal even came by and gave us a quick show. I’m so glad I chose to dive in SA, and I’m even happier I picked Cape Town Dive Centre. Thank you Joe and Philippe!!
Tarryn B
Tarryn B
2021-05-07
PADI Open Water & Advanced Open Water courses – an unforgettable experience When I finally decided that it was time to learn to scuba dive (something I’d wanted to do for years), I signed up for the Open Water Course with the Cape Town Dive Centre because of a friend’s recommendation. From the minute the Open Water Course started, I loved everything about it! My instructor, Joe, was fun but also incredibly efficient and an excellent teacher. The course was quite difficult and complex so I wouldn’t have wanted to do it with just anyone. However, because of the way Joe taught and helped us under the water, I felt totally safe and calm. By the end of the course I was totally hooked on scuba diving! So much so, in fact, that a couple of months later I returned to the Cape Town Dive Centre to do my Advanced Open Water Course. For anyone who intends on continuing to scuba dive after completing the Open Water Course, I would strongly recommend doing the Advanced Open Water Course too. This course really expanded my knowledge and improved my capabilities, ultimately making me a much more competent and confident diver – with much improved buoyancy and air consumption as an added bonus! So, if the above isn’t already clear, let me say this: I would highly recommend going to the Cape Town Dive Centre to start and/or continue your diving journey! All of the staff are friendly and super well qualified, and will go out of their way to accommodate you and any concerns you may have. You are bound to have a phenomenal experience – in the water and out of it!
Claude Visagie
Claude Visagie
2021-04-10
First scuba dive What an amazing experience. Friendly instructors that are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Would recommend this to anyone visiting Cape Town and to all the locals!!
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott
2021-03-09
PADI open water diver course Just completed a PADI open water diving course with Cape Town Dive Centre. Was an amazing experience and loved every minute of it! Staff very professional and drilled us on every important aspect of the course. Great value for money and can really recommend it to anyone wanting to get into SCUBA
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BoardingPass760957
2021-02-08
You haven’t lived if you haven’t tried scuba diving! Our diving instructor Joe was already waiting for us with our gear when we arrived, which was great. He was very patient and helpful and made 200% sure we had all the basic skills mastered. I couldn’t complete my dive, but he continued with my son, who is now totally hooked on scuba diving. I’m giving the experience 4 out of 5 as it was too short, a 4-hour experience was advertised and it was under 2-hours from arriving to leaving (trying to get into the wet suits and the instructions was about an hour). I can wholeheartedly recommend this and trust me, you are in SAVE hands with these people, they know what they are doing and know how to handle emergencies. Thank you, Joe!

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