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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.
Where you dive in Aqaba
Training dives take place in Aqaba’s warm, clear Red Sea, from our boat Laila 1 or from the shore, at easy, sheltered sites.
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.
PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
The most popular PADI specialty: stay longer and add a wider safety margin.
Why dive with Dive Aqaba
Aqaba’s original dive centre
Founded in 2002, Dive Aqaba is the mother of the diving industry in Aqaba. Many of our former students went on to build their own dive companies.
We dive every day of the year
Daily boat trips and shore diving all year round, holidays included.
Clean air, deep expertise
Top-quality air is the basis of our technical and deep diving, and our team has logged trimix dives beyond 100 m since 2007.
Our own boat and beach club
Laila 1 for daily trips, and a private beach club with dive sites that only Dive Aqaba can dive.
Ask about dates for this course
Call or message us on WhatsApp: +962 79 669 9008. Tell us what you want to dive and when.
Scope, prerequisites and length are confirmed at enrolment, because PADI standards can change.