You aren’t a certified diver, but want to see what the underwater world is like? Grand Turk is a great place to try scuba diving! Let one of our PADI Instructors teach you the fundamentals and guide you on an actual dive underwater! We put a maximum of four students with one instructor for our Resort Course trip, in accordance with PADI standards. You will start by meeting with your instructor to learn a some basic dive theory and how to use all your scuba diving gear. Then you will go to some shallow water (about 5 feet) with a sandy bottom area and practice a few skills, in order to get used to everything. Once everyone is comfortable in shallow water, you get to go on a real dive to the coral reef and the wall, under the supervision of your instructor. You then have the option of doing additional dive(s) under direct supervision of a Blue Water Divers instructor. Please note that you are not a certified diver following a Resort Course.

Prerequisites: Minimum participant age of 10 years old and a PADI Medical Form completed prior to arrival.

If you are interested in taking a Resort Course and you are visiting via cruise ship, check out more details here.  If you are staying on island, check out more details here.

Ready to take the plunge and earn your scuba certification?  Become a certified PADI Open Water diver by taking the full PADI Open Water course, which includes all books, materials, tanks, weights, instruction, training dives, open water dives, rental equipment and certification. The full PADI Open Water Diver course takes approximately four elapsed days, covering five academic modules, shallow water training, and four open water training dives. There are four quizzes of 10 multiple choice questions each and a final exam of 50 questions (which are mostly multiple choice). This course may be shorter or longer than four elapsed days, dependent upon your individual comfort level in the water and scheduling availability. Upon the successful completion of this course you are certified to scuba dive!

For those who wish to do their book reading and tests from home before coming to Grand Turk, we offer a PADI Open Water eLearning Referral course. You simply sign up for PADI’s Open Water eLearning course from home and complete the coursework online.  When you register online with PADI for an eLearning course, should you wish to purchase an Enhancement Pack, please do so at the time of registration. Once you complete the online portion, PADI issues you a certificate of online training completion. Then, all that’s left to complete when you arrive on Grand Turk is one quiz, your shallow water training and your four open water checkout dives before you are certified to scuba dive!

For those who have completed their coursework, including quizzes and tests, as well as their confined water training with a PADI dive shop at home before coming to Grand Turk, we offer a PADI Open Water Referral course.

If you are staying overnight on Grand Turk you can check out more details and pricing here.

Prerequisites: Minimum participant age of 10 years old (10-14 year old divers earn a Junior Open Water Diver certification) and a PADI Medical Form completed prior to arrival.

The Advanced Open Water Course is not just limited to “advanced divers,” although they too can benefit from this continued education. This course was actually designed to be taken immediately after your Open Water Course. The full Advanced Open Water course includes all books, materials, tanks, weights, instruction, training dives, and certification. One of the unique things about the Advanced Course is that, unlike most other PADI courses, YOU get to choose your curriculum. The course takes approximately three days and consists of five dives: Underwater Navigation, Deep, and Peak Performance Buoyancy, plus two elective dives. The elective dives can be chosen from any of the following: Night Diver, Boat Diver, AWARE Coral Reef Conservation, and Multilevel Diver.  Underwater Naturalist, Digital Underwater Photography (camera is not included), and Fish Identification.

For those of you who would like to study at home, this course has an eLearning option, where you can do the bookwork before arriving on Grand Turk and simply complete your five open water dives with an instructor during your time on Grand Turk.  We call this the Advanced Open Water eLearning Referral option.

This course may be shorter or longer than three elapsed days, dependent upon your training selection, and scheduling availability.

If you are staying overnight on Grand Turk you can check out more details and pricing here.

Prerequisites: Minimum participant age of 12 years old (12-14 year old divers may earn a Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification) and a PADI Medical Form completed prior to arrival.

Want to be able to glide through the water with as much ease as your instructor? Want to be able to match them on air consumption? The Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty is your ticket! Do you ever wonder WHY we must protect our grouper, or what makes parrot fish so important to the ecosystem? The Project AWARE Specialty is right up your alley. Want to impress your friends with your knowledge of marine species’ names and behaviors? Sign up for a Fish Identification and/or Underwater Naturalist course.

We offer many different PADI specialties for those of you who want to master certain aspects of your diving including: Coral Reef Conservation, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Project AWARE Specialist, Project AWARE Fish ID, Underwater Naturalist, Deep Diver, Multilevel Diver, Night Diver, Underwater Navigation, Equipment specialist, Emergency Oxygen Provider, Underwater Photo and Search and Recovery.

Specialty Courses require certain course materials that have to be ordered ahead of time, so please let us know if you are interested in them PRIOR to arriving on Grand Turk.

Prerequisites: Varies depending on the chosen speciality; please ask us for details. You will need to complete a PADI Medical Form prior to arrival.

You have been diving for some time now, and you would like to continue your education beyond Advanced Diver. Whether you eventually want to become a Divemaster, or you just want to make sure that you will always be there for your buddy, the Rescue Diver certification is provides valuable experience. The full Rescue Diver course includes all books, materials, tanks, weights, instruction, training dives, and certification. At the end of this two day course you will be trained on how to safely handle all the most common diving injuries and emergencies. Most divers will tell you that this is their favorite course to take. It is a good challenge, provides important information that could save a life, and is a fun learning experience!

For those of you who would like to study at home, this course also has a Rescue Diver eLearning Referral option. Then, when you come to Grand Turk, you complete the water portions of the training with your instructor.

This course may be shorter or longer than two elapsed days, dependent upon your training and dives selection and scheduling availability.

If you are staying overnight on Grand Turk you can check out more details and pricing here.

Prerequisites: Minimum participant age of 18 years old.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

EFR Primary and Secondary Care training within 24 months. This training may be completed completed with us on Grand Turk as well.

A PADI Medical Form completed prior to arrival.