PADI & TDI Classes
We offer a wide range of classes for everyone and their schedules; whether you just want to check into diving and discover what it is like, or you’re getting back to it and looking to tune-up your skills. We also have a wide range of offerings for the experienced diver all the way thru PADI Instructor and more.
Academics are usually offered online thru PADI.com for most classes and have become the preferred method for many, but we do retain the ability to have you study at home and come to the shop for review and testing. All pool, lake, and testing sessions are done through the American Dive Zone. Some classes such as CPR, First Aid, Nitrox and others can be taught thru the shop.
Here are a few of the classes we offer:
Try Scuba gives you the chance to see what scuba diving is all about. You are guided thru a dive in a pool with supervision to see if you enjoy diving. This experience is usually done during Open Water Class Pool sessions. Call (616) 949-9577 for dates and times.
Scuba Tune-Up
Here is your chance to hop into the pool or lake and refresh those skills you worked so hard to master. What a great thing to do before that next trip or coming into a new season. Water time is required, but many choose to work the academic skills also. This can be done on your own with your old manuals or with the PADI Scuba Tune-Up Manual. There is even an online class. The pool time is generally in conjunction with the Open Water pool schedule.
PADI Open Water Diver
This is the entry-level course that will prepare you for a lifetime of diving adventure. Full certification consists of academic time in conjunction with pool sessions followed by 4 Open water dives with an Instructor within a year.
We conduct at least 2-4 Open Water pool classes monthly. Most do the academics online which takes 6-12 hours total time.
The Open Water Certification Dives consists of 4 dives at the lake or quarry, generally over a week-end. Your dive gear rental is part of this package. You are required to provide mask and snorkel in the pool and add fins when we do the Open Water Certification Dives at the lake.
If you elect to do all your training locally you may start class any time of year and do your dives in the spring, summer, or fall with ADZ at a local lake.
Open Water Referral
Open Water Referral Class is where you can take your filled-out logbook and paperwork to your vacation destination after all class and pool training and work with a PADI Instructor there for your dives. You have 1 year to complete the dives following your pool sessions.
*Other schedules and Private classes are available.
*Mask and snorkel required.
*Completion of On-line Class or manuals & testing required
PADI Emergency First Response
PADI’s version of CPR & First Aid. It can be a Life Saver!
Do not go another day without it!
Can be taken by anyone 12 or older.
*Manual Required
PADI Advanced Open Water
This PADI Advanced Diving program provides divers with a structured means to explore special diving interests and gain dive experience. Advanced Open Water diver is often the first step novice divers take after their initial certification. The program allows students to customize their training path and learn various underwater tasks that broaden their awareness of the environment and their capabilities as divers. A diver who completes the Deep Dive, the Underwater Navigation dive and three additional specialty dives earns the Advanced Open Water certification. Simply sign up for this class and we will do the dives on weekends at the lake or on our trips. You may also study for this online and complete the study portion and reviews there and the dives with the American Dive Zone.
Class price includes study in the classroom or on-site, 5 guided dives, air, certification card, and a lot of fun.
*Manuals required
*Dive gear NOT provided (Rental available)
*Air provided
PADI Rescue Diver
The PADI Rescue Diver course is an important and crucial step in expanding a diver’s knowledge and experience beyond a purely recreational level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves to consider the safety and well being of other divers. Many have considered this the best class for improving their own dive skills.
Rescue Diver training readies student divers to foresee and prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies using a variety of techniques. You can now take the academics On-line and complete the Water Skills portion through the American Dive Zone; generally an evening of equipment skills followed by a weekend of diving completes the class. This class is normally run in May, July and late September.
*Price includes class dives, air, and certification card.
*Completion of online class required.
*Does NOT include gear use, rental is available
*CPR/First Aid is a requirement of this level. We teach it or other classes may substitute.
Master Scuba Diver
Once you complete Rescue Diving and tally up 5 PADI Specialties you can apply for this prestigious rank denoting the highest level of Recreational Diving.
Enriched Air/Nitrox
This class will enhance your diving by giving you additional bottom time to enjoy the dive and …..some say…..feel better when you’re done. The best use of Nitrox is on multi-dive days.
This class can be done in one night, a weekend session, or on-line. No dives are required.
*Manual & charts required for shop based class
PADI Dive Master
The PADI Divemaster course is the first step into Professional status as a diver. You build upon what you have already learned to date and add to your academic, swimming, and diving capabilities. It is a hands-on course that involves class time, class monitoring, home study, stamina training, pool and lake work under the direction and guidance of PADI Instructors.
Price includes class, pool, pool fees, dives, and air.
*Manuals, Workbooks, Charts, Cue cards, etc. NOT included
*Dive Gear NOT Provided (Rental Available)
*Dive Fees and PADI Dues NOT Included
*DiveMaster Insurance is available thru the shop
PADI Open Water Student Instructor
If you wish to make that big step and learn how to teach others the wonders of diving we no longer have to send you elsewhere. Our PADI Course Director, Dave Chidester, can work out classes for your time schedule and keep all the training local.
Price includes class, pool & lake time, and any gas needed.
*PADI Manuals, workbooks, charts, cue cards, etc. not included
*Dive Gear NOT Provided (Rental Available)
*Dive Fees and PADI Dues NOT Included
*Instructor Insurance is available thru the shop
Dive Theory Online
This online class is for anyone wanting that next level of understanding of the physics and physiology of diving. Great for DiveMaster and Instructor Candidates.
TDI Advanced NITROX
For those who would like to safely enjoy deeper dives, this course enables you to plan for and use air and Nitrox on non-decompression dives to 130’.
Price includes on-line class, 2 dives, mix gas, and certification card.
TDI Decompression Procedures
Training and practice on the theory, planning, and skills needed to perform decompression dives. All training dives are within 130’ depth limits and done using both single and multiple Nitrox mixes. High emphasis is placed on Dive Planning, equipment set-up, buoyancy regulation, and skills.
TDI Helitrox
This course enables you to dive deeper and longer while avoiding the problems of Nitrogen Narcosis by breathing Trimix (Helium & Oxygen mixed) and also shortening deco times with 50-100% Nitrox mixes. Learn how to dive to 150’ with the same Narcosis of 80’ on Air.
Price includes on-line class, 2 Nitrox Deco dives/max 130’ & 2 Trimix deco dives/max 150’, Air & Nitrox, and certification card.
PADI Specialties:
BOAT
CORAL REEF CONSERVATION
PADI O2 PROVIDER
DEEP
DRIFT
DRY SUIT
ENRICHED AIR/ NITROX
EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDER
EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST
PADI NITROX GAS BLENDING
ICE
MULTILEVEL
NAVIGATION
NIGHT
PEAK BUOYANCY
PROJECT AWARE
SEARCH AND RECOVERY
UNDERWATER DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY I & II
WRECK
ADDITIONAL CLASSES OFFERED
Call (616) 949-9577 or email for more information.