TDI / SDI Certified Training
Find Your Depth.
From your first breath underwater to the edge of technical exploration — every course at Elite Scuba is taught by TDI/SDI-certified instructors with real-world dive experience.
Training for Every Level
Whether you've never worn a mask or you're ready to push past recreational limits, we have a course built for where you are right now. All certifications are issued through TDI/SDI — recognized at dive sites worldwide.
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Beginner
Start Your Journey
Open Water Diver
The world's most popular scuba certification. You'll learn the skills and knowledge to dive safely and confidently to 18 meters. Includes pool sessions, knowledge development, and 4 open water training dives.
Prerequisites: None
Intermediate
Go Deeper
Advanced Adventure Diver
Build on your Open Water skills with 5 adventure dives including deep diving and navigation. Expand your comfort zone and unlock new dive sites that require advanced certification.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Rescue Diver
The course that changes how you think about diving. Learn to recognize and manage problems before they escalate, assist distressed divers, and conduct surface and underwater rescues. One of the most rewarding courses you'll ever take.
Prerequisites: Advanced Diver + First Aid
Divemaster
The first professional level in scuba diving. As a Divemaster you'll guide certified divers, assist instructors, and develop a comprehensive understanding of dive theory and leadership. The gateway to a career in diving.
Prerequisites: Rescue Diver + 40 logged dives
Specialty
Expand Your Skills
Computer Nitrox Diver
Learn to dive with enriched air nitrox using a dive computer. Understand the benefits of nitrox, oxygen exposure limits, and how to configure your computer for EANx dives to extend your bottom time.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Advanced Buoyancy Diver
Master the skill that separates good divers from great ones. This course focuses on precise buoyancy control, trim, and finning techniques so you can hover effortlessly, protect the reef, and conserve air.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Boat Diver
Get comfortable diving from boats of all types. Learn boat diving etiquette, entry and exit techniques, current awareness, and how to navigate back to the vessel after a drift or deep dive.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Deep Diver
Explore the deeper recreational limits with confidence. Covers narcosis recognition, gas planning for deeper dives, emergency procedures, and the unique conditions encountered below 18 meters.
Prerequisites: Advanced Adventure Diver
DPV — Dive Propulsion Vehicle
Learn to operate a diver propulsion vehicle safely and efficiently. Covers DPV handling, navigation, battery management, towing procedures, and how to use a scooter in overhead and open water environments.
Prerequisites: Advanced Adventure Diver
Drift Diver
Harness the current and let the ocean do the work. Learn to read water movement, maintain buddy contact in a drift, use a surface marker buoy, and plan dives around tidal and current conditions.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Night / Limited Visibility Diver
Discover a completely different underwater world after dark. This course covers dive light use, communication signals, navigation in low visibility, and how to manage the unique challenges of night and limited-vis diving.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Search & Recovery Diver
Learn systematic search patterns and lifting techniques to locate and recover objects underwater. Covers U-pattern, circular, and jackstay searches, plus the use of lift bags for bringing objects to the surface.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Underwater Navigation Diver
Never get lost underwater again. Master compass navigation, natural navigation cues, distance estimation, and multi-level navigation patterns so you can find your way back to the boat or exit point every time.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Wreck Diver
Explore the history and marine life of shipwrecks safely. Covers wreck penetration planning, guideline use, silt disturbance avoidance, and the skills needed to navigate inside wrecks without a guide.
Prerequisites: Advanced Adventure Diver
Sidemount Diver
Configure your cylinders alongside your body instead of on your back. Sidemount offers improved trim, easier cylinder management, and access to tighter spaces. A popular choice for wreck and cave divers.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Drysuit Diver
Extend your diving season into cold water with a drysuit. Learn inflation and deflation techniques, buoyancy adjustment with a drysuit, valve operation, and how to handle a suit squeeze or uncontrolled ascent.
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Technical
Beyond the Limits
Intro to Tech
A bridge between recreational and technical diving. Learn the fundamental skills of technical diving — buoyancy, trim, propulsion, and gas management — without the complexity of decompression diving.
Prerequisites: Advanced Diver
Decompression Procedures
Learn to plan and execute decompression dives using a single stage cylinder. This course covers decompression theory, gas planning, and the skills needed to safely conduct staged decompression dives.
Prerequisites: Intro to Tech or equivalent
Advanced Nitrox
Extend your bottom time and optimize your decompression using enriched air nitrox mixes up to 100% oxygen. Covers oxygen toxicity management, gas blending theory, and advanced dive planning.
Prerequisites: Nitrox certification
Ready to Get Certified?
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