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PADI Skin Diver

PADI Skin Diver

Learn snorkelling and skin diving techniques including checking buoyancy, surface swimming, clearing water from your snorkel and performing effortless surface dives.

Skin diving is snorkelling while making breath-hold dives to observe aquatic life, up close and personal. It’s a great way to explore the underwater world when you’re not able to scuba dive or if scuba diving just isn’t your thing.

What the Course Entails

Padi Skin Diver course teaches you about:

  • How to choose, adjust and use skin diving equipment

  • Basic safety guidelines for being in and around the water.

  • Snorkelling and skin diving techniques including checking buoyancy, surface swimming, clearing water from your snorkel and preforming effortless surface dives.

  • Going on an optional skin dive at a local dive site.

    Course Duration: 1 Days

Course Pre-requisites

To enrol this course you must be:

  • Comfortable in the water.

  • At least 8 years old.

Course Flow

The PADI Skin Diver course teaches you how to enjoy watching life below the surface and comfortably venture underwater for short visits, whether you dive in a local freshwater lake or the big blue ocean, at home or on holiday at a dive destination.

How Can I Get Started?

Enrol in a course at your local PADI Dive Center or Resort, and get started earning your PADI Skin Diver certification. Ask your instructor about the PADI Discover the Underwater World video and companion piece - The Snorkeler’s Field Guide. Although not required for the course, the video has great tips that will come in handy when you hit the water and the field guide covers different underwater environments along with common aquatic life.

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