Learn to dive at UWV

Underwater Vision is pleased to offer many different scuba courses, for all levels of diver. All our instructors are PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) certified, which means your learning environment is safe, professional, fun, and catered to your needs. Read our staff profiles to get a sense of the professional and fun community we've built at UWV.

If you are not yet a certified scuba diver browse through our courses for uncertified divers.

If you are already certified, have a look at our courses for certified divers.

Courses for uncertified divers

Open Water Diver

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

  • Knowledge Development (online, home study or in a classroom ) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
  • Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
  • Open Water Dives to review your skills and explore!

Discover Scuba Diving

You learn the basics you need to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional. One thing you'll learn is that you really can breathe underwater and whether you like doing that or not. You will:

  • Learn what wearing scuba equipment feels like and how easy it is to move around underwater while wearing it
  • Find out what it's like to breathe underwater and learn whether you can be comfortable there
  • Learn some basic skills and safety rules that will carry over to your full scuba certification course when you take the next step

Courses for certified divers

Advanced Open Water Diver

You'll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to:

  • Underwater navigation
  • Deeper water diving (typically anywhere from 18-30 metres/ 60-100 feet)
  • A sampler of three more Adventure Dives of your choice

Specialty Courses

Hone your diving skills in these areas:

  • Boat diving
  • Deep diving
  • Digital underwater photography
  • Drift diving
  • Enriched air diving
  • Multilevel diving
  • Night diving
  • Peak performance buoyancy
  • Underwater naturalist
  • Underwater navigation
  • Wreck diving

Rescue Diver

What You Learn:

  • Self rescue
  • Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
  • Emergency management and equipment
  • Rescuing panicked divers
  • Rescuing unresponsive divers

Divemaster

What You Learn:

  • Self rescue
  • Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
  • Emergency management and equipment
  • Rescuing panicked divers
  • Rescuing unresponsive divers