Can’t decide whether to get your scuba certification while on vacation or at home before you travel? With a PADI® Open Water referral, you don’t have to choose! A PADI referral allows you to complete most of your scuba training at home – then, finish your certification dives once you're here. This means you can avoid studying during your vacation! 

Sign-up at a PADI shop at home and do the confined water work in a pool and theoretical part with your local instructor. After completion, your local instructor will sign your PADI Referral forms. Our instructors will complete your training with 4 open water boat dives. Once certified, you can spend the rest of your time exploring with your dive buddy and gaining additional dive experience. 

Course prerequisites: 

• 10 years minimum age 
• Able to swim, medically fit for diving, comfortable in the water 
• Original referral forms from your local dive center; completed knowledge and confined-water dives

Time commitment: 

• Referral Open-water dives: 1.5 days (4 dives)