PADI Open Water Diver is the most popular dive program in the world and is your key to the underwater world. PADI certification is recognized at dive centers worldwide, which means that entire oceans are now available to you.
The Open Water Certification Course consists of two parts: Classroom/Pool Training and Open Water Training Dives.
Open Water Courses is done in one of two ways:
• Weeknight course: This class meets once a week for six weeks alternating every week between classroom and pool sessions. The cost of this course is $225.00.
• Executive Course: This course is done in a weekend, starting on a Friday night and running through Sunday. The cost of this course is $299.00.
Class size is limited to 8 students to ensure that you receive as much personal attention as possible.
The price of Classroom and Pool training includes the use of all Scuba equipment except for mask, snorkel, and fins which must be purchased by each student from Hoboken Dive Center and can be done during the first night in class. In addition, classroom materials - text book, instructional video, dive tables, and log book must be purchased. The cost of these items is $89.95. Please note that the cost of the Open Water Training Dives is not included in the price of the Classroom and Pool Training.
Please be aware that our Open Water classes fill up quickly and that full payment is required to hold your place in a class.
The Advanced Open Water Diver program offers certified Open Water Divers an opportunity to gain additional experience and skills under the direct guidance of a HDC professional. Advanced Open Water is an in-water performance based course and consists of five dives, typically taken over a single weekend.
AOW certification allows you to participate in more advanced diving activities with a maximum recommended depth limit of 30 meters/100 feet.
PADI's Advanced Open Water Diver program has something for everyone. This in-water, performance-based program includes a total of five dives. You will be required to do a navigation and a deep dive, you will then need to do three other dives out of which we recommend you do the night, wreck, and search and recovery dives. But you can pick from any of these dives:
• Altitude Diver
• Boat Diver
• Drift Diver
• Deep Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Dive Propulsion Vehicle
• Multi-level Diver
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search and Recovery Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Underwater Videographer
• Underwater Photographer
• Underwater Navigator
• AWARE Fish Identification
• Wreck Diver
You can do all your training in one weekend at Dutch Springs, or you can do one day at the quarry and two dives on a Jersey shore wreck dive.
The price of the class is $249.00 plus any rental and boat fees.
Equipment that you will need that is not rented by us includes: Mask, Snorkel, Fins, Boots, Gloves, Light and Slate. If you are doing a wreck dive, you will also need a knife.
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Why PADI Ice Diver?
Looking for extreme diving? You've found it. The PADI Ice Diver Specialty certification allows you to test the limits of fun.
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 18 years old
What Will I Do?
You'll learn ice diving planning, organization, techniques and potential problems as well as site selection, preparation, special equipment and safety diver procedures. You'll then put this all into practice when you ice dive within the light zone (within 40 meters/130 feet total distance from the surface, including vertical and horizontal).
How Long Will It Take?
• Recommended Course Hours: One classroom session and an optional pool night.
• Minimum Open Water Training: three dives over two days
Where Can I Go From Here?
Your Specialty course may count as one of five Specialty certifications required for your Master Scuba Diver certification. Join the thrill seekers who find their adventure of a lifetime under the ice.
Why PADI Wreck Diver?
The lure of exploring sunken vessels, airplanes and automobiles is something most divers can't resist. The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course introduces you to wreck diving and helps you develop the skills and knowledge necessary for safe and fun wreck diving.
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Advanced Open Water or an equivalent dive rating, with experience and knowledge to the satisfaction of the PADI Instructor. PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver or an equivalent rating.
• Minimum age: 15 years old
What Will I Do?
Information contained in your wreck diver program includes:
• The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of wreck diving
• The preparation and use of lights, air supplies, special equipment, penetration lines and reels
• Limited-visibility diving techniques and emergency procedures
How Long Will It Take?
• Recommended Course Hours: 24
• Minimum Open Water Training: four dives over two days
What Will I Need?
• Wreck-Pak, which includes manual, video and log insert
• Standard dive kit and suitable exposure protection
• Wreck reel; minimum 250 ft
• Lift bag or SMB; minimum 50 lbs of lift
• Redundant air source (pony bottle; minimum 30 cubic ft or equivalent setup)
• Arm slate w/pencil
• 2 cutting devices
• 2 light devices
How Much Does the Course Cost?
The price of the course is $350 plus the Wreck-pak, rentals and required gear. Optional boat add-on with instructor is at divers' expense. Rentals are available at Hoboken Dive Center.
Where Can I Go From Here?
Your Adventures In Diving Wreck Adventure Dive may count towards this Specialty certification at instructor discretion. This Specialty certification also counts as one of five Specialty certifications required for your Master Scuba Diver certification.
Wreck penetration-training dives are limited to within the light zone and within 40 metres/130 feet from the surface, vertical and horizontal distance included. If the wreck used for training is located in deep water (over 18 metres/60 feet), the Deep Diver rating is recommended as a prerequisite for the Wreck Diver program.
Training Option 1: Discover Dry Suit Program
This program provides an opportunity to experience the fun and comfort of diving dry! Our Discover Dry Suit program includes a pool practice session with a suit provided for pool use. A Dry Suit may then be rented for use during your Open Water, Advanced Open Water or Rescue training dive weekend. Please note this program allows you to dive dry only under the direct supervision of an instructor. It is not a full specialty certification course. There is no certification card issued upon completion of this program.
Costs:
• $25 pool session with dry suit provided
• $75 weekend rental of dry suit
• $25 weekend rental of insulated dry suit undergarments
Training Option 2: Dry Suit Specialty Course
A PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty certification will be awarded to participants who successfully complete our full program. The specialty course includes 1 classroom session, 1 pool session and 2 open water training dives. Areas of study and training include: the physiology of heat loss, selection criteria of dry suit materials, seals, valves and insulation, dry suit diving techniques and procedures, care and maintenance and advanced buoyancy control techniques. As a PADI specialty certification, this course may be credited toward the requirements for certification as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.
Equipment Requirements:
Mask, fins, snorkel, boots, gloves, weight system, (ankle weights are highly recommended), BCD*, Regulator*, Tank*, Hood*.
Cost:
• $170 with suit provided for pool training
• $95 when you take the dry suit specialty course in conjunction with the PADI Advanced Open Water course and choose dry suit diving as an elective
• $75 weekend rental of dry suit
• $25 Weekend rental of insulated dry suit undergarments
*No charge when you purchase a dry suit from Hoboken Dive Center Dry Suit Diver Crew Pack $44.50.
Why Underwater Naturalist?
If you're interested in aquatic life then the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course is for you. This course is an introduction to the underwater aquatic environment and will help develop safe and responsible aquatic life interaction techniques.
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 10 years old
What Will I Do?
During your PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course, you'll learn underwater naturalist dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also get an overview of the major aquatic life groupings, interactions and factual information that dispels negative myths. You'll put this information into practice during your two open water dives.
How Long Will It Take?
• Recommended Course Hours: 12
• Minimum Open Water Training: Two open water dives over one day
Where Can I Go From Here?
Your Adventures In Diving Underwater Naturalist Adventure Dive may count towards your Underwater Naturalist Specialty course at instructor discretion. This Specialty course also counts toward one of the five required Specialties for the Master Scuba Diver rating.
Why PADI Night Diver?
When you go night diving you'll see a whole new world. Even your local dive site takes on a new personality at night, as many underwater creatures and plant life (different from those you see during the day) are active at night.
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 12 years old
What Will I Do?
You'll learn night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also learn how to control your buoyancy, navigate and communicate at night. Since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different, you'll also get an introduction to nocturnal aquatic life.
• Recommended Course Hours: 12
• Minimum Open Water Training: three dives over one day
What Will I Need?
• Night-Pak, which includes manual, video and log insert
Where Can I Go From Here?
Your Adventures In Diving Night Adventure Dive may count towards the Night Diver Specialty course at instructor discretion. In addition, the Night Diver Specialty course counts as one of five Specialty courses required for your Master Scuba Diver certification.
Why PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver?
By diving with enriched air rather than standard air you can extend your no decompression limits. This means more time underwater. For example, if you dive to 15 metres/50 feet on air, your no decompression limit is 80 minutes. But, diving on EANx36 gets you 220 minutes of no decompression time - an increase of 140 minutes.
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 years old
What Will I Do?
The PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty certification emphasizes the theoretical and operational considerations involved with enriched air diving.
How Long Will It Take?
• Recommended Course Hours: 12
• Minimum Open Water Training: Two dives over one day
What Will I Need?
You'll need your PADI Enriched Air Crew-Pak, which also includes an Enriched Air 32 percent Table, Enriched Air 36 percent Table and Equivalent Air Depth/Oxygen Exposure Table.
Where Can I Go From Here?
You can apply this Specialty course towards your Master Scuba Diver certification.
Why PADI Rescue Diver?
The PADI Rescue Diver will expand your knowledge and experience beyond purely recreational level because you'll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 years old (12 for PADI Junior Rescue Diver)
• Successful completion of a sanctioned CPR program within the past 24 months
What Will I Do?
Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. During the five open water sessions, you'll cover:
• Self-rescue and diver stress
• Dive first aid
• Emergency management and equipment
• Swimming and non-swimming assists
• Panicked diver response
• Underwater problems
• Missing diver procedures
• Surfacing the unconscious diver
• Inwater artificial respiration
• Egress (exits)
• First aid procedures for pressure related accidents
• Dive accident scenarios
How Long Will It Take?
• Recommended Course Hours: 25
• Minimum Open Water Training: Five sessions over two days
What Will I Need?
• PADI Rescue Diver Crew-Pak
• PADI Rescue Diver video
Where Can I Go From Here?
The PADI Rescue Diver certification is a prerequisite for all Professional level PADI courses, beginning with the PADI Divemaster certification.
Take the first step in your dive career and become a
PADI Divemaster. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.
What can PADI Divemasters do?
• Work at local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
• Assist PADI Instructors with students
• Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
• Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
• Teach PADI Discover Snorkeling programs
• Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
• Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
• Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion of an Emergency First Response Instructor course
What Do I Need to Start?
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization
• PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying certification from another training organization
• Medical clearance signed by a physician
• 20 logged dives
• Minimum age: 18 years old
What Will I Do?
• Learn dive leadership through classroom and independent study sessions
• Complete water skills and stamina exercises in confined and open water
• Training exercises to test organizational and problem solving abilities
• An internship or series of practical training exercises
How Long Will It Take?
• From two weeks to three months
What Will I Need?
• Divemaster Training Package
• Divemaster Video
• Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
• Diving Knowledge Workbook
• PADI Instructor Manual
• Log Book
Why PADI Scuba Review?
The PADI Scuba Review program fulfills many functions within the PADI System of diver education. Its primary purpose is to help certified divers update their dive knowledge and skills, especially after a period of diving inactivity.
Cost:
$89 and includes all equipment and Scuba Tune-up book.
How Long Will It Take?
The PADI Scuba Review consists of one night in a local pool with a PADI Assistant Instructor who will assist you in skill review.
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