Course overview

Start diving sooner with the PADI Scuba Diver certification in Raja Ampat, a streamlined entry rating covering the first half of the Open Water course. You finish the initial knowledge sections, confined-water sessions and open-water dives to 12 metres in the calm shallows near Mansuar Island, ready to dive supervised and upgrade whenever you choose.

What you’ll learn

• Assemble, check and maintain scuba gear
• Perform essential skills like mask clearing and regulator recovery
• Equalise and manage controlled descents and ascents
• Achieve basic neutral buoyancy
• Dive under PADI professional supervision
• Follow core dive-planning and safety procedures

Prerequisites

• No experience or swimming certification required
• Minimum age 10
• Comfortable in the water
• Complete a medical questionnaire (physician sign-off if any condition applies)

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
   Knowledge and confined water

   Complete the first knowledge sections and three confined-water skill dives.
2. Day2
   Open-water dives

   Make two supervised open-water dives to 12 metres near Mansuar Island and certify.

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