Course overview

Begin your certified-diving journey with the PADI Basic Diver programme in Tarkarli-Malvan, covering essential scuba skills and a supervised open-water dive in the calm, sheltered bay beside Sindhudurg Fort. It is a confidence-building first step that credits toward the full PADI Open Water Diver certification.

What you’ll learn

• Assemble and check basic scuba equipment
• Breathe and move comfortably underwater
• Clear the mask and recover the regulator
• Manage basic buoyancy and equalisation
• Use core hand signals and buddy procedures
• Complete a supervised open-water dive

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• No prior experience required
• Reasonable comfort and basic swimming ability
• Basic medical questionnaire / fitness to dive

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Theory & confined water

   Work through the scuba basics and practise core skills in the calm Tarkarli shallows.
2. Day2
   Open-water dive

   Apply your skills on a supervised open-water dive in the sheltered bay near Sindhudurg Fort.

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