
PADI Junior Open Water Diver
PADI Junior Open Water Diver teaches you everything you need to know to safely dive with a buddy. The course is the first scuba diving certification and enables you to dive to a maximum depth of 12m (for 10 and 11-year-olds) or 18m (for 12-to-14-year-olds).
PADI Junior Open Water Diver Highlights:
- Understand the basic principles of scuba diving and work at your own pace using the PADI eLearning system
- Learn the skills and techniques needed for diving in open water
- 4 open water dives with an OrcaNation Dive Professional
- The course is suitable for 10-to-14 years old
- Scuba dive to a maximum depth of 12m / 18m (dependent on age)
- PADI course duration is approx 3-to-4 days (flexible)
- Dive courses in Singapore (swimming pool) combined with an ocean experience at either Rawa Island, Malaysia or Komodo, Indonesia
PADI Open Water Diver
The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s best-known diving accreditation.
PADI Open Water Dive Course Highlights:
- Available to those aged 15 years or above
- Develop knowledge and experience to better understand the basic principles of scuba diving while working at your own pace using the PADI eLearning system
- Develop skills in confined water, learn the techniques required for diving in open water
- Complete several open water dives with an OrcaNation Dive Instructor
- Scuba dive to a maximum depth of 18m
- Course duration is approx 3-to-4 days (flexible)
- Dive courses in Singapore (swimming pool) combined with an ocean experience at either Rawa Island, Malaysia; Komodo, Indonesia or Bawah Resort, Anambas Islands


PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course is the second step in your development as a scuba diver. After completing your Open Water Diver course, this next stage certifies you to dive to a maximum depth of 30m. (21m maximum for 12-15 year olds who do the Junior Advanced Open Water.)
PADI Advanced Open Water Course Highlights:
- Available to those aged 12 years or above with the relevant certification
- Build on your existing knowledge and work at your own pace using the PADI eLearning system
- Complete a deep dive, and navigation dive plus 3 dives of your choice
- Dive to a maximum depth of 30m under the supervision of an OrcaNation Dive Instructor
- Prepare yourself for PADI Specialty Courses
- Scuba diving course duration is approx 2-3 days (flexible)
- Dive courses in Asia include Rawa Island, Malaysia; Komodo, Indonesia; Bawah Resort, Anambas Island
PADI Rescue Diver
PADI Rescue Diver focusses on dive specific rescue techniques in a variety of situations and emergency management skills and scenarios. CPR and First Aid training is a prerequisite for this course but can be taught in combination through the PADI Emergency First Response (EFR) course that all PADI Instructors are eligible to teach. The rescue course itself is a prerequisite for all further professional training levels.
PADI Rescue Diver Course Highlights:
- Available to certified PADI Adventure Divers aged 12 years or above
- Learn to manage more complex dive emergencies
- Perform a self-rescue
- Assist a tired (responsive) or panicked diver at the surface
- Respond from shore, boat or dock to dive related emergencies
- Identify and respond to a distressed, missing, or unresponsive divers underwater and on the surface
- Exit unresponsive divers from the water
- Provide First Aid for pressure related injuries and Oxygen Administration
- Maximum depth depends on previous diver training
- Scuba diving course duration is approx 2-to-3 day

