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Courses

Divemaster

Divemaster

DIVEMASTERS WANTED! JOIN THE TRIBE!

Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.

Share your passion for scuba diving by becoming a PADI Divemaster.  As a divemaster you’ll supervise scuba diving activities and assist with scuba classes.  Becoming a PADI Divemaster is the first step in your diving career.

Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational SCUBA diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with PADI Instructors, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level.

 

PADI Divemaster Course

Price $999 – includes PADI Crew pack and training

PADI member fees upon completion of course are extra.

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To earn your Divemaster rating, you will complete a series of knowledge development sessions, water skill workshops and hands-on assessments for the following:

  • The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
  • Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
  • Scuba diver safety and risk management
  • Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
  • Business of diving and your career
  • Awareness of the dive environment
  • Scuba gear setup and management
  • Mapping an open water site
  • Conducting dive briefings
  • Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive
  • Conducting PADI ReActivate scuba refresher and skin diver course
  • Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs
  • 18 years or older
  • Certified Rescue Diver
  • 40 logged dives
  • CPR & First Aid certification with 24 months
  • Medical clearance to dive

It is highly reccommended that once you reach professional levels of training that you have your own gear. In addition to basic scuba equipment, the PADI dive professional also needs;

  • 2 surface signalling devices (one audible and one visual)
  • Knife or cutting tool (except where prohibited by law)
  • Compass
  • Time monitoring device

Knowledge development can be done in one of two ways:

  1. Take our Home Study/Classroom Program: you will have classroom sessions (either virtual or in person) to review and provide assistance as needed.
  2. Take our eLearning Option: We provide you with an access code that allows you to go online and take the online (eLearning) course for knowledge development. We will track your progress and will communicate online or in person as you work through the course, providing assistance as needed.

Completed either during our regular pool sessions or in a shallow, controlled area at West Hawk Lake.

Here, you will do the required demonstration quality skills circuit and conduct classes such as ReActivate, snorkeling and Discover SCUBA Diving.

Offered during our regular training sessions at West Hawk Lake, you will get a chance to help with a variety of classes including Open Water, Advanced Open Water and Rescue.

You will also conduct a dive site briefing and manage the dive site during training sessions.

If not already Search & Recovery and Deep Diver certified, you will be required to perform each of these dives (not the full certification).

Dive site mapping will also be conducted in open water, you are able to choose a dive site that suits you best.

  • A great option to pair with your Divemaster course is to become an Emergency First Responder Instructor.  Click to learn more..
  • Consider taking Dive Theory Online, another PADI eLearning® program, that takes you step-by-step through dive physics, physiology, skills, equipment and environment, plus a Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) review. By successfully completing Dive Theory Online, you can get credit for half of the Divemaster Final Exam.

Bubblemaker and Seal Team

Bubblemaker and Seal Team

Have you kids experience SCUBA diving under the direct supervision of a PADI Pro where they will take their first breaths underwater in water shallower than 2 metres/6 feet.  The minimum age is 8 years old and they can do a trial session, Bubblemaker, or take a 5 session course, Seal Team, and learn skills to prepare them for their full certification course at age 10.  Once they are 10 years old, they can qualify to take the PADI (JR.) Open Water course so these classes are a great way for them to ‘test the water’ before they hit double digits!

Bubblemaker is as fun as it sounds – a chance for kids to blow bubbles by scuba diving. Children who are at least 8 years old can use scuba gear to breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water.

Bubblemakers get a chance to:

  • Experience scuba diving under the direct care and supervision of a PADI Pro.
  • Take their first breaths underwater in water shallower than 6 feet.
  • Learn about and use scuba diving equipment.
  • Have lots of fun.
  • Have a party or celebrate a birthday by throwing a memorable, exciting Bubblemaker event with friends and family at Diver City SCUBA.

A child must be 8 years old or older. Kids must be comfortable in the water, but no prior experience is necessary. Parental approval is required.

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The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting AquaMissions. Do cool stuff in the pool, and meet friends.

The PADI Seal Team program teaches responsibility and respect for the aquatic realm.  It is a 5 session course that covers how to;

  • Use basic SCUBA gear and breathe underwater
  • Equalize ears and mask
  • Recover and clear a regulator
  • Clear a mask of water
  • Breathe from an alternate air source
  • Maintain proper buoyancy
  • Demonstrate good surface habits
  • Communicate underwater with hand signals

A child must be 8 years old or older. Kids must be comfortable in the water, but no prior experience is necessary. Parental approval is required.

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Discover Snorkeling

Discover Snorkeling

Price $25 per person.

The Discover Snorkeling Experience is geared for everyone who wants to experience the underwater world from the surface. This lesson is approximately 1.5 hours and includes pool-side and in-water instruction.
Our staff will teach you techniques that make you feel more comfortable in the water; learn how to correctly fit your mask to keep water out, proper breathing techniques through a snorkel, and how to make shallow dives below the surface to interact with aquatic life, up close and personal!

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Discover SCUBA Diving

Discover SCUBA Diving

Price: $40 per person.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater? If you want to find out, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover SCUBA Diving will let you try SCUBA to see if you like it.

The Discover SCUBA Diving experience is geared for everyone 10 years of age and older and includes 2 hours of fun!  Our instructional staff will show you a short video and then it’s off to the pool to learn some basic SCUBA techniques.

While not an actual SCUBA certification, during the Discover SCUBA Diving experience you’ll learn how to use scuba equipment in shallow water and get a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world!

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During our regular pool sessions, either Pan Am or Cindy Klassen, you will be paired up with a divemaster or team of divemasters depending on your class size.  Typically we keep these class sizes small but if you are a group we will ensure that we have enough staff for you all to enjoy the experience.

You will have 1 hour of briefing to understand the equipment and skills that you will be practicing.  Then you will start in shallow water and work your way to the deep end if you are comfortable.

This is a great first step, before a full certification, if you are unsure if breathing underwater is for you!

Do you have a pool in your backyard.. or know someone that does?

We are able to offer the same experience in the comfort of your own oasis.  Working the same as the Discover SCUBA’s at the City Pools, we will have 1 hour of briefing then 1 hour of in water time.

For the more adventurous type, we can also offer a Discover SCUBA at West Hawk Lake.

Though most of the equipment would be the same, you will also be fitted for a 2 piece 7mm wetsuit, hood, gloves and boots.  You are responsible for the transportation of the equipment and yourself.

Again, you will have 1 hour of briefing on land and 1 hour in the water.  You will start in a shallow, controlled area of West Hawk Lake where you will have a chance to practice some skills and get acquainted with the equipment.  If you are comfortable we will be able to dive around the dive site to a maximum depth of 40 feet.

Additional fees will apply.

Open Water Diver

Open Water Diver

Want to learn how to SCUBA dive?

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures, or simply see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts! Getting your PADI certification is fun, easy, and lasts a lifetime!

Open Water Course Price:

$599 – Includes course crew pack, rental gear, learning materials, and all pool and local open water instruction!

You will have 10+ hours of SCUBA instruction with one of our amazing PADI Pro team members as well as plenty of academic learning to better understand the sport, the gear, and the process! All gear will be brought to and from the pool and maintained for you – all you need to do is show up with a ready mind and a sense of adventure! We will fit you for your Open Water dives in West Hawk and make sure you have everything you need to make your certification process fun and educational.

$499 PADI Referral Program (Open Water Dives completed elsewhere)

This option allows you to take all the foundation knowledge of SCUBA diving here in Winnipeg with us during our regularly scheduled pool time and then take your certification dives at any PADI destination of your choice WORLDWIDE! If you’re going away over the winter, learn before you go to maximize the amazing experiences you can have while on vacation. Our referral program is a must for all Snow Birds.

At Diver City SCUBA we have some great options that allow you to progress through the course in a way that best meets your needs. We start a new group of pool sessions every 2-3 weeks, so you never have to wait long to get started!

Have a tricky schedule and might not be able to make it each class? Live out of town and have trouble with the long commute? Need a faster training schedule for a last minute trip booking? Do you have access to your own pool? Give us a call and we will do our best to help you with all your SCUBA training needs! We have instructors who can work with your schedule or even do private courses! Pop by the shop or give us a call for more information.

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Start Your eLearning Today!   (you will be redirected to PADI eLearning)

Get an intro to Open Water eLearning, with this sample product

Free of Charge – Introduction to PADI Open Water eLearning     (you will be redirected to PADI)

Knowledge development can be done in one of two ways:

  1. Take our Home Study/Classroom Program: Complete your academics with a text book and an online video, which your PADI instructor will explain how to properly use for building your diving knowledge. We’ll work with you throughout the course to help explain key concepts and answer any questions. All quizzes and reviews will be completed in person.
  2. Take our eLearning Option: We provide you with an access code that allows you to go online and take the online (eLearning) course for knowledge development. We will track your progress and will communicate online or in person as you work through the course, providing assistance as needed. There is a short Quick Review that will need to be completed in store.

It is important to realize that both the Home Study and the eLearning approaches allow you to progress at your own speed and to do your learning at the times that are best for you; the flexibility of these programs is what has made them so popular.

Start Your eLearning Today!   (you will be redirected to PADI eLearning)

Free of Charge – Introduction to PADI Open Water eLearning     (you will be redirected to PADI)

All of what we learn about SCUBA diving is taught and practiced in a controlled, pool-like environment.  We have two options for confined water:

  1. Learn in the pool: Expect to be in the pool for 1 hour per night for 5 nights. Your instructor will meet with you before and after each pool session to discuss what you’ll be learning and answer any questions.
  2. Shallow area of West Hawk Lake: We can complete the skills over two days; either a weekend or during the week.  Offered from July to mid-September when the water temperature is warm.

At Diver City SCUBA, we believe in keeping class sizes small to ensure you have plenty of one on one time with your instructor.

During one of the confined water sessions, you will be required to swim 200m with no swimming aids (or 300m with a mask, snorkel and fins), as well as float or tread water for 10 minutes.

Open Water Dives consist of four different SCUBA dives done in the ocean, a lake, river or another natural body of water. During your open water dives, you will practice the skills you learned in confined water, and explore the underwater world along with your instructor. There are different options for your open water dives:

1. Local:

If you are doing your full Open Water certification through Diver City SCUBA, we use West Hawk Lake, approximately 90 minutes east of Winnipeg, as our Open Water dive location. Diving locally is seasonal and is done between June and October each year. West Hawk Lake offers lots of great dive sites to explore as well as training areas to practice your skills.

2. On a Diver City SCUBA Trip:

Or join us on one of our planned trips;  Get away with Diver City SCUBA on a trip and complete your full certification with just 1 dive shop.  We’ll happily complete your full Open Water certification anywhere we are headed.  Additional fees may apply depending on location.  Check out our travel page to see where we are headed next!

3. Any Other PADI Dive Centre World-Wide:

If West Hawk Lake isn’t your ideal dive location, you can do your 4 Open Water dives with any PADI instructor anywhere in the world, like Hawaii, Mexico, Australia or the Caribbean! This is a great option if you are planning or already have a winter vacation booked to somewhere warm. PADI’s global network makes this possible through the Referral Program recognized all around the world. With the referral program, Diver City’s price is reduced and there will be a fee charged by your destination dive centre to complete the open water dives (fees vary from dive centre to dive centre).

So you have Knowledge Development (Home Study or eLearning), Confined Water Training where you’ll learn all your in-water skills, and four open water dives. That’s it! Simple, fun, and the beginning of your underwater adventures.

Become a PADI certified diver today and open the door to a whole new world!

Start Your eLearning Today!   (you will be redirected to PADI eLearning)

Open Water SCUBA Instructor

Open Water SCUBA Instructor

Are you ready to join the ranks of the dedicated professionals who teach the world’s most progressive and popular scuba diver education programs? Then Go PRO with an Instructor Development Course.

The Instructor Development Course (IDC) is made up of two parts – the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. Most dive professionals complete the entire IDC and go on to attend an Instructor Examination (IE), which is the final step to earn a PADI Instructor certification.

Successfully completing just the AI course results in a PADI Assistant Instructor qualification. When an AI is ready to progress, attending an OWSI program allows entry into an IE to earn a full PADI Instructor rating.

A PADI Divemaster who has been a certified diver for six months may enroll in the PADI Instructor Development Course. You also need:

You also need to be an Emergency First Response Instructor, but you can earn this rating during your instructor training.

What will you learn?

Over a few classroom and pool sessions, and typically one day at West Hawk Lake, the IDC teaches you to conduct all PADI core courses. You’ll be able to organize and present information, conduct skill development sessions and control open water dives. Basically, you become a better public speaker and get really good at demonstrating skills while watching out for student diver safety. Key topics include:

  • PADI Standards and Procedures for courses you can teach with in water workshops
  • Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
  • Risk Management and Diver Safety
  • The Business of Diving and your role as an instructor
  • Marketing Diving and Sales Counseling

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Master SCUBA Diver Trainer

Master SCUBA Diver Trainer

The PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating sets you apart as a dive instructor who takes continuing education seriously and is committed to teaching a variety of courses. (Potential employers like this.) Being an MSDT signifies that you’ve got the experience and certifications to offer all the training a diver needs to become a Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate recreational diver rating.

All PADI Instructors who have certified at least 25 PADI Divers and have earned at least five PADI Specialty Instructor certifications can be Master Scuba Diver Trainers. This rating is the next step up the professional ladder and is a prerequisite for IDC Staff Instructor as well as for many TecRec Instructor ratings.

Not there yet? Ask your PADI Course Director about a Master Scuba Diver Trainer prep course.

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IDC Staff Instructor

IDC Staff Instructor

Just as scuba divers look up to divemasters, instructor candidates really respect IDC Staff Instructors. As the name implies, IDC Staff Instructors assist with instructor training and share their wisdom and experience with new PADI leaders. Taking the IDC Staff Instructor course provides you with in-depth knowledge of the instructor development process and prepares you to shape the next generation of PADI Professionals. It’s also a great career move.

Master Scuba Diver Trainers (MSDTs) who are ready to be excellent role models and agree to use the PADI System and components in their entirety may enroll in an IDC Staff Instructor course.

What will you learn?

After a preassessment of your instructor-level knowledge of dive theory, exemplary dive skills and role-model presentation techniques, you’ll participate in these sessions:

  • Instructor development standards, procedures and curriculum
  • How to organize and conduct the PADI Assistant Instructor course
  • The psychology of evaluation and counseling
  • Evaluating knowledge development, confined water and open water teaching presentations

Plus, you’ll get to audit an IDC or practice teaching many curriculum components.

As an IDC Staff Instructor, you can independently teach PADI Assistant Instructor courses as well as assist with IDCs and other instructor-level continuing education courses.

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