Much of the world’s best scuba diving is accessible only by boat. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course will expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboards. Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, scuba diving from a boat becomes even more fun once you understand a little more about them.
Much of the world’s best scuba diving is accessible only by boat. Scuba diving from a boat is fun and relatively easy often enabling you to descend directly onto your dive site.
Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course will help make every boat dive you enjoy a fun affair. You’ll expand your knowledge about a range of boats from small inflatables to large liveaboards.
After some self-study using the PADI Boat Diver manual you will complete two dives over a day with your PADI Instructor. You’ll gain experience scuba diving from a boat by completing two dives usually on one of our many trips in the UK and abroad.
You’ll learn boat terminology, boat diving procedures and etiquette, including how to enter and exit the boat and water, where to stow your gear plus boating safety, including how to locate safety equipment.
This course will also count towards the prestigious PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and the first dive of this Specialty course may count towards the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification.
Price
Basic Course: £149
Standard Course: £160.99
Executive Option: additional £50 on the Basic or Standard Course fee.
Elite Option: We’ll come to you! For an additional £100 on the Basic or Standard Course fee we’ll complete the training at your own facilities.
Pre-requisites
Min Age: 10 years old
Medically Fit: Complete this Medical Statement and have a GP countersign it if required.
Ability: You will need to be PADI Open Water Diver (or Junior Open Water Diver) certified to enrol onto this course.
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Knowledge Development
As part of the PADI Boat Diver Specialty Course, you’ll complete some Knowledge Development before the fun bits. This will be reviewed with your instructor before putting the theory into practice during two open water dives.
The theory side can be completed at you own pace before being reviewed. Currently only available as a physical manual, this can be collected from the NHDC Dive Centre.
Open Water Dives
Usually completed over the course of a day, you’ll complete two open water dives with your NHDC PADI Instructor. During these dives you’ll practice and come to master skills relating to the relevance of:
- Boat terminology.
- Boat diving procedures and etiquette, including how to enter and exit, and where to stow your gear.
- Boating safety, including how to locate safety equipment.
Ultimately you’ll gain a much deeper appreciation of boats and boat diving, making every dive from a boat a fun experience.
We’ll provide everything you need. We pride ourselves on ensuring there are no hidden costs.
We will provide all the basic, as well as specialised, equipment for diving from boats. Comfort is everything in scuba diving, therefore if you already have your own equipment, we’d encourage you to bring it along to keep you warm and comfortable while you dive.
As etiquette is one of the skills you’ll be improving, our Standard course students will receive a mesh boat bag to use and keep for many more fun scuba diving adventures.
Knowledge Development can be completed at your own pace but will be reviewed with the NHDC team before certification.
Open Water dives are usually completed over a day, conditions permitting. This specialty is ideally completed on one of our UK or overseas trips where boat access is (almost) guaranteed.
New Horizons aims to be flexible with arranging courses to suit your schedule so if the scheduled dates are not convenient please give us a call to discuss suitable alternatives.
On all of our PADI Boat Diver course options you will receive…
- Coaching and on-going support from an experienced, passionate and professional PADI Instructor
- Equipment Orientation (when using specialised equipment)
- 1 hour (minimum) Knowledge Review (with your NHDC PADI Instructor)
- 1.5 hours (minimum) Skills Development (open water dives)
- FREE rental of all required equipment (including, but not limited to: cylinders & air fills, dive computer, fins, mask, snorkel, drysuit & undersuit, specialist equipment [e.g. surface marker buoy])
- Course materials
- PADI Certification
Our dives may be completed in UK water, therefore we recommend you use a drysuit and undersuit for greater comfort in these sea conditions. If you have no previous drysuit experience, we will arrange a pool based orientation session for an additional £40 before your dives in Open Water so you are fully prepared and confident to jump in.
Please note, our course fees covers equipment rental, pool entry fees, PADI Certification fees etc, but do not cover entry fees to open water dive sites or trips fees. These vary according to location; please ask for further details.
Basic Course
All of the above
Standard course
All of the above, plus a mesh boat bag to stow all your equipment safely, securely and neatly.
Knowledge Development
Completed in your own time, this can be started at any time and completed at your own pace. Currently only available as a physical manual the course materials can be collected from the NHDC Dive Centre.
An initial £75 deposit will ensure course materials can be issued, allowing you to start as soon as you want!
The NHDC team will be on hand to help you through and answer any questions as you progress. We will then review things and allow you to ask any questions you may have before the fun bits start.
Open Water Dives
During the course of two dives, usually completed over a single day, you’ll put into practice the things you’ve been reading about.
We offer standard schedules, with a minimum of 1.5 hours spent in the water. You’ll learn more about boats, boat terminology and how diving procedures may vary between different types of boats.
This Specialty is ideally completed on one of our UK or Overseas dive trips where access to boats is (almost) guaranteed, as well as being able to tap into expert knowledge in the form of boat skippers or captains.
Basic Course
Complete the PADI Boat Diver course using the materials following our standard schedules.
Standard Course
Complete the PADI Boat Diver course using the materials following our standard schedules. Safely, securely and neatly store your equipment on board using a mesh boat bag provided for you to keep and use on many more adventures to come.
Executive Option
Our standard schedules are designed to offer flexibility, however, if these aren’t convenient, or if you feel you’d benefit from the more personal touch, we can tailor our schedules to a more bespoke timetable.
This executive option allows a 1:1 program, giving you the chance to work with a member of the NHDC team to become a master of deep diving.
Elite Option
If you have access to your own facilities, particularly your own boat, we can come to you! We will work with you to make a truly tailor-made course schedule. Use the course materials then when you’re ready, we’ll complete the Open Water dives at your own facilities. Choose to join us at our usual open water dive sites, or let us escort you overseas. There’s a whole world of possibilities.
Trip Completion
This course is ideally conducted and completed on one of our trips. Please get in touch with the team to discuss this option and applicable discounts.
Payment Plans
A single £75 deposit will allow us to issue the relevant course materials.
Further instalment payments can be made with the final balance paid before the open water dives. Talk to us about instalment payment options.
Let us know you want to join us! Simply send us a Course Booking Form and completed Medical Statement. Once we’ve received your deposit we’ll issue your course materials, so you can get started straight away!
Get in touch for our bank account details or to make payment over the phone.
Your place will be confirmed on receipt of the Course Medical Statement (Countersigned by a GP if required). Please note, we will not be able to start any in water activities without one!
