1. PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
Start the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course today. The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you to 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. You don’t need to be advanced to take it - It’s designed to make you an advanced diver. 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 will try our different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of Scuba Cochin’s PADI instructors. You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.
2. PADI Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning Course
Start the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course today. The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you to 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.
You don’t need to be advanced to take it - It’s designed to make you an advanced diver. 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.
The theory for this course will be offered online through PADI’s eLearning facility.
You will try our different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of an Scuba Cochin’s PADI instructor. You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives.
During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.
Training with five dives:
» 1 dive of Tune Up/ Navigation
» 4 Specialty dives
» Certification & equipment are included
3. PADI Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) Course
Among the PADI specialty scuba courses the Enriched Air Diver Course is PADI’s most popular specialty. Why? Because enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives. If staying down longer and getting back in the water faster is what you are looking for, sign up to be an Enriched Air Diver today.
The theory for this course will be conducted in Scuba Cochin’s training facility at the kovalam Dive Center on Kovalam Beach Road. PADI manual,Certification & equipment are also included in the course fee.
During the course you will learn why air with higher oxygen and lower nitrogen content allows you to achieve a longer bottom time as well as enriched air equipment considerations. You will:
» Discuss managing oxygen exposure.
» Practice analysing oxygen content in your scuba cylinder.
» Set your dive computer for diving with enriched air nitrox.
4. PADI Wreck Diver Course
Whether purposefully sunk to create an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Ships, airplanes, cars and even motorbikes are intriguing to explore and usually teem with marine life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery, with the potential to unlock a mystery or spot something others have missed.
The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course is popular because it offers rewarding adventures, often unlocking dive sites that may not have been open to you before while observing responsible wreck diving practices. There are many different types of wrecks, some of which are protected by laws that guard their historical and cultural significance. Your training starts by reviewing guidelines for researching and respecting wrecks.
During four boat dives departing from our South Coast Dive Center at the Scuba Cochin Kovalam you’ll learn:
» Safety considerations for navigating and exploring wrecks.
» Surveying and mapping a wreck.
» Using penetration lines and reels to guide exploration.
» Techniques to avoid kicking up silt or disturbing the wreck and its inhabitants.
5. PADI Deep Diver Course
There’s something exciting and mysterious about experiencing deeper dive sites. Maybe it is a wreck or it may be a giant fan or sponge on a wall dive. Whatever lures you, to dive with confidence at depths down to 40 meters you should take the PADI Deep Diver Specialty Course.
Start by reviewing the reasons for deep diving and understanding your limits. Complete four deep dives with your instructor from our purpose built dive speed boats leaving from Scuba Cochin Kovalam dive Center near Trivandrum.
You will learn:
» Deep dive planning, buddy contact procedures and buoyancy control.
» Specialized deep diving equipment.
» Managing your gas supply, dealing with gas narcosis and safety considerations.
6. PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Course
Knowing how and when to apply emergency oxygen is a valuable skill for divers and anyone who is around divers (lifeguards, boat crew etc) to have. Become a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider and breathe easy with the confidence that you will be able to recognize scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen and are prepared to offer aid.
No prerequisites, age restrictions or water skills are required for this course.
On this course you’ll learn about dive injuries, different types of emergency oxygen equipment and safety considerations when using oxygen. It is a dry course. Then you’ll practice:
» Using a pocket mask on a non-breathing diver.
» Deploying a non-rebreather mask and a demand inhalator valve on a breathing diver.
» Assembling and disassembling emergency oxygen equipment.
7. PADI Night Diver Course
After the sun goes down the scene under the water changes to a whole new stage as day creatures retire and night creatures start duty. Start the PADI Night Diver Course and watch this whole new world come to light under the glow of your dive torch.
The course will teach you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your buddy while paying attention to details you may overlook during the day. The PADI night diver specialty includes three night dives and can be completed from Sasthamughal Lake near Hill Palace Ernakulum.
You will learn:
» Light handling and communication techniques.
» Entering, exiting and navigating in the dark.
» Identifying how plants and animals differ or change behavior at night.
8. PADI Rescue Diver Course
Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver Course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken. Why? Because you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed. During the course, you learn how to become a better buddy by practicing problem-solving skills until they become second nature.
This course introduces you to new dive theory, and new skills, practicing in shallow water, before venturing into open water to react to scenarios covering all you have learnt.
Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills.
Topics include:
» Self-rescue
» Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
» Emergency management and equipment
» Rescuing panicked divers
» Rescuing unresponsive divers
