Learn To Dive With Scuba Adventures
START DIVING THE WORLD IN 3 EASY STEPS WITH SDI
Step 1
Get Smart
Start your SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course and master all the important academic information online or at your local dive shop. You can complete this phase through self-study, at your own pace, in the convenience of your home or office. All eLearning courses work on mobile and tablet devices too.
Step 2
Get Wet
For entry-level certification courses (as well as some continuing-education classes), the next step will be to complete your in-water skill-development training. This takes place in a swimming pool or similar body of confined water, under the supervision of an SDI Instructor.
Step 3
Go Diving
The final step is to complete the required number of SDI open-water training dives under the supervision of your SDI Instructor. Here you will apply what you have learned during your academic and skill-development sessions, while learning practical lessons that can only be gained through real-world experience in open water.
Get Started In The Deepest Pool in DFW
That’s right! We have the deepest pool in all of DFW and it’s perfect for your first experience of breathing underwater. It’s even heated so you’re able to train year-round!
Last Stop: The Scuba Ranch
After you’ve completed your online studies and your pool sessions, you’ll be ready to head to the Scuba Ranch in Terrell, Texas. We have our own dedicated pavilion, dock and underwater platform perfect for skills. During your dives you’ll find a “shark,” sunken planes and sunken boats.
Once you’re certified, you’re always welcome back to the Scuba Ranch for fun dives! We have courses and people diving every weekend!
Nitrox Course Included for FREE!
In recreational diving, Nitrox is referred to as any gas where the mixture of oxygen is greater than 21% thereby reducing the nitrogen content to less than 79%.
You’ll learn in your Open Water course that decompression sickness is caused by nitrogen bubbles forming in your body tissues. Breathing a lower percentage of nitrogen (or a higher percentage of oxygen) allows less nitrogen to build up in your body and therefore increasing your decompression limits and decreasing the risk of decompression sickness.
Scuba Adventures is committed to providing the best and safest diver education, which is why we offer this course completely FREE for all open water students.
Learn To Dive With SDI’s Open Water Scuba Diver Course
Who is this course for:
- Persons desiring to obtain a Scuba Diving certification
- Persons interested in underwater exploration
Course prerequisites
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
- Ability to swim 200 yards continuously
- Junior Open Water Scuba Diver Course (10 – 14 years old) (Students between the ages of 10 through 14 may obtain an SDI Junior Open Water Scuba Diver Certification if the following conditions are met: junior students are to train and dive under the direct supervision of a parent, guardian, or active dive professional.)
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course will cover all of the necessary skills and knowledge for open water scuba diving, including:
- The aquatic environment: vision, light, sound, heat loss, tides, currents, waves, surge, etc.
- Physics and physiology: buoyancy, pressure, air spaces, breathing compressed air, mixed gases, etc.
- Dive equipment selection, assembly, use and maintenance
- Dive planning
- Basic scuba skills including mask and regulator skills, swimming underwater, buoyancy control, basic rescue techniques, and emergency procedures
- And much more!
What's in it for you:
Upon successful completion of the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course, graduates may:
- Conduct open water dives in conditions similar to their training
- Continue their dive education by enrolling in SDI Advanced Diver and Specialty courses
SDI Open Water Scuba Diver minimum requirements:
- Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
- Satisfactorily complete the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver knowledge quests or equivalent online learning course
- Complete all open water requirements safely and efficiently
How do I take this course?
- Click Button Below To View Courses
- Locate the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver and click "Sign Up"
- Complete Your Contact Information and Payment
- Receive Your E-code via Email and begin your training immediately!
- When finished with your E-Learning, contact Scuba Adventures (972) 423-3483 and schedule your training dates
