Diving courses · PADI
PADI Open Water Diver
The world’s most popular entry-level scuba course and your first full certification.
Starting point
Age 10+
Duration
3 to 5 days (2 to 3 days after eLearning)
Included
Instructor, materials and certification (confirmed in your quote).
Prerequisites
- Age 10 or older (Junior Open Water Diver for ages 10 to 14).
- Swimming: 200 m and 10 minutes floating or treading water in deep water.
- Good health: medical questionnaire, with a doctor’s consultation if required.
- No prior diving experience.
What you will gain
- The physics, equipment, environment, dive planning and safety that every diver needs.
- All essential skills in shallow water: mask clearing, buoyancy control, sharing air and more.
- Four open-water dives: the first two to 12 m, the last two to 18 m (ages 10 and 11 stay at 12 m).
- A certification recognised worldwide, which lets you dive with a buddy anywhere.
How the course works
There are three parts: knowledge development (five segments, each with a short quiz), five water skill sessions, and four open-water dives. The more theory you do at home with PADI eLearning, the less classroom time you need. If you start the course elsewhere you can finish it with us on a referral. After this course, continue with PADI Adventure Diver or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.
Your path
This course
PADI Open Water Diver
Related courses
PADI Bubblemaker · PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
All courses: Beginner courses
What next? Your next steps
PADI Adventure Diver
Three adventure dives in one day, no exam, and every dive counts toward Advanced Open Water.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Five adventure dives that build confidence, extend your depth limit to 30 m and open every next step.
Why Dive Krakow
50+ years of experience
Our Course Director has been teaching diving since 1976. That is half a century of practice we pass on in every course.
10,000+ students
We have trained more than 10,000 students, from their first breath underwater to professional and technical levels.
We train instructors
We also run professional courses: from Divemaster, through the IDC, to instructor specialties. Knowledge passes on to the next generation of instructors.
Science and practice
We teach from deep scientific knowledge and years of hands-on experience, including in technical diving.
The full PADI path
Everything in one place, from a try dive to professional courses, so you always know the next step.
Current promotion
The Tsereve Challenge: Everest in reverse
100+ metres is the Mount Everest of scuba diving. Far fewer people have dived that deep than have stood on top of Everest. Join the challenge: training, warm-up dives and the descent to 100+ m. Start from zero or from any point in your diving, even as a Tec Trimix 65 diver.
The final programme includes a certificate and a t-shirt. We run it in cooperation with Dive Aqaba.
Ask about dates for this course
Write or call: dive@divekrakow.com, +48 451 653 223. We will agree dates, scope and price.
Scope, prerequisites and length are confirmed at enrolment, because PADI standards can change.