Diving Courses

Mallorcadiving.com follows the PADI framework on scuba diving education; the world’s largest scuba diving training organization. The PADI framework is tailored from your very first encounter with scuba diving or wanting to become a scuba diving professional. There are more than 6000 dive shops and resorts around the world that recognize the PADI program.

Mallorcadiving.com offers the entire range of educational diving from Scuba diver to Instructor training, and we can proudly say that we are the largest educational scuba diving institution on the island of Mallorca.

All courses from Scuba Diver to Dive Master are run continuously from April to November. Our Instructor’s training (IEC) program is run in October every year through our center in Alcudia.

Whether or not you want to take a small step in your diving career or you want to aim for the top, mallorcadiving.com is the safest bet for the island of Mallorca.

Course overview:

Scuba Diver

Short on time and long on the urge to become a certified diver? The PADI Scuba Diver certification might just be for you. This course requires less time than the PADI Open Water Diver course, covering only the first three of five sections of Knowledge development, the first three of five pool sessions, and the first two of four open water training dives, resulting in a limited certification. Particularly if you expect to go scuba diving primarily in the company of a dive guide or if you have limited time to devote to scuba certification, consider becoming a PADI Scuba Diver.

This certification allows for ample dive experience and is a good warm-up for the Open Water Diver course, if that’s your ultimate goal. PADI Scuba Divers are qualified to:

• Dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor to a maximum depth of 12 metres / 40 feet
• Obtain air fills, rent or purchase scuba equipment and participate in other diving activities as long as they have the required supervision
• Continue their dive training and complete PADI Open Water Diver certification

Open Water Diver

Get your PADI scuba certification. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world Under The Waves, this is where it starts.

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle. During the PADI Open Water Diver course you will learn to understand the basic principles of scuba diving; you will do confined water dives to learn basic scuba skills and you will do Open Water Dives to review your skills and explore!

Advanced Open Water Diver

Exploration, Excitement, Experiences; They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver Course. The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.

You’ll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to underwater navigation, deeper water diving (typically anywhere from 18-30 meters/60-100 feet), and a sampler of three more Adventure Dives of your choice.

Rescue Diver

Challenging” and “rewarding” best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course. Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur.

The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them. Most divers find this course both demanding and rewarding, and at the end, say it’s the best course they’ve ever taken.

During the Rescue Diver Course, you will learn self rescue, recognizing and managing stress in other divers, emergency management and equipment, as well as rescuing panicked and unresponsive divers.

Divemaster

Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications.

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems as well as help others improve their scuba. You put this knowledge into action through a structured internship or series of practical training exercises.

Open Water Scuba Instructor Course (OWSI)

Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

The Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program is one of two distinct components of PADI’s Instructor Development Course (IDC)—the core of PADI Instructor training. The first portion is the Assistant Instructor course followed by the Open Water Scuba Instructor program. The OWSI program is a minimum of four days. It introduces you to the entire PADI System of diver education and concentrates on further developing your abilities as a professional dive educator.

After becoming an Open Water Scuba Instructor, you will be able to conduct the entire range of PADI programs from Discover Scuba Diving up to Divemaster, and make Scuba Diving a career choice, not just a hobby.

At Mallorcadiving.com, we run our OWSI-program annually in October from our center in Alcudia.

Read more about PADI’s educational framework here (http://www.padi.com/scuba/padi-courses/default.aspx)