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USEFUL WEBLINKS
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PADI is the world's leading scuba diving training organization and stands for Professional Association of Diving Instructors.
With more than forty years experience, over 136,000 PADI Professionals and more than 6200 dive shops and resorts worldwide, PADI certifications are widely recognised and PADI training, materials and services let you experience scuba diving from nearly any where.

Scuba diving with PADI Instructors, Dive Centers and Resorts can help transform your life through education, experience, equipment and environmental conservation.
BECOME AN ELITE DIVER!
Earn your diving 'black belt' with PADI
Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you've spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.

The path starts with earning a PADI Open Water Diver certification, followed by PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications). You also need to earn five PADI Specialty Diver certifications and have logged a minimum of 50 dives.

rectotec offers an extensive range of PADI Specialty courses. Visit our PADI Speciality section for the full list of courses we can deliver.
SCUBA DIVER
Enjoy supervised diving...
The PADI Scuba Diver course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course.

If you're short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver course might be right for you, particularly if you expect to go scuba diving primarily with a dive guide. This course is an intermediate step for earning an Open Water Diver certification, if that's your ultimate goal.

PADI Scuba Divers are qualified to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional to a maximum depth of 12 metres.

COURSE INFO
Prerequisites:
  • Minimum of 10 years old
Duration:
  • 2 Days
Includes:
  • Learning materials (either eLearning, Open Water Touch, Open Water manual and DVD package or a multimedia DVD-ROM) and a Certification Card
Cost:
  • £300.00
Further Information:
OPEN WATER DIVER
Your adventure starts here...
If you've always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world's most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases; Knowledge Development (either online, home study or in a classroom), confined water dives to learn basic scuba skills and open Water Dives to a maximum depth of 18 metres.
COURSE INFO
Prerequisites:
  • Minimum of 10 years old
Duration:
  • 4 Days
Includes:
  • Learning materials (either eLearning, Open Water Touch, Open Water manual and DVD package or a multimedia DVD-ROM) and a Certification Card
Cost:
  • £450.00
Further Information:
ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER
Increase your confidence and skills...
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water.

This course builds on what you've learned and develops new skills by experiencing 5 dives from a number of the Specialty courses PADI have to offer; 2 compulsory dives (Deep and Navigation) and 3 of your own choice. The 3 elective dives can be from any of the Specialty courses that rectotec have to offer.

On competition of the course you will be certified to dive to a maximum depth of 30 metres.
COURSE INFO
Prerequisites:
  • Minimum of 12 years old and be a PADI Open Water Diver (or equivalent)
Duration:
  • 2 Days
Includes:
  • Learning materials (either eLearning or Adventures in Diving manual) and a Certification Card
Cost:
  • £300.00
Additional qualifications awarded:
  • Each Adventure Dive in the course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course
Further Information:
RESCUE DIVER
Be the diver that others look up to!
The PADI Rescue Diver course is often described as one of the most challenging and fun, but also one of the most rewarding courses available.

The course is designed to introduce topics and skills progressively with constant assessment throughout the course. Focusing on rescue and rescue management this course teaches you self rescue, recognising and managing stress in other divers, emergency management and equipment and rescuing panicked and unresponsive divers.

COURSE INFO
Prerequisites:
  • Minimum of 15 years old (12 for Junior Rescue Diver), be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent) and have completed the Emergency First Responder course or trained and current for first aid and CPR within the previous two years. If you're not, why not combine this course with Emergency First Responder.
Duration:
  • 4 Days
Includes:
  • Learning materials (either eLearning or Rescue Diver manual), a pocket mask and a Certification Card
Cost:
  • £400.00
Further Information:
DIVEMASTER
Joins the ranks of the PADI pros...
POST TRAINING
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
On completion of the Divemaster course, you will need to hold a valid HSE medical that lasts for 12 months as well as professional diving insurance to work in the UK as a diving professional.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Are you looking to work in the diving industry? Do you want to be more than a recreational diver? Do you want to be a PADI Pro? If so the Divemaster course is for you.

The PADI Divemaster course is the first professional level and allows you to work as a assistant on PADI courses, supervise certified divers and even conduct some PADI programs independently.

The Divemaster training is conducted as an internship so the duration all depends on your commitment and time however the theory portion is available as e-learning if required. As well as assisting on courses and learning new skills, you will be refining all the skills you have learnt since Open Water Diver until they are at an instructor standard.

COURSE INFO
Prerequisites:
  • Minimum of 18 years old, be a PADI Rescue Diver (or equivalent), have 40 logged dives, have completed the Emergency First Responder course or trained and current for first aid and CPR within the previous two years and have had a diving medical within 12 months
Duration:
  • Internship
Cost:
  • £POA
Further Information: