Discover Scuba Diving
$59.99
Includes course material and rental gear, with no additional costs. A simple way to experience scuba before committing to certification.
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TRAINING • ADVENTURE • COMMUNITY
Your first scuba certification
Course materials, equipment use, confined-water training, four open-water dives and certification fees included.
No equipment purchase required.Prefer private training? Add $150.
From your first breath underwater to advanced, professional and technical diving, train with a local team focused on practical skills, confidence and real-world diving.
Not sure where to start? New divers can begin with Discover Scuba or Open Water. Certified divers can build experience through continuing education and specialties, while experienced divers can progress into professional or TDI technical training.
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Includes course material and rental gear, with no additional costs. A simple way to experience scuba before committing to certification.
Ask about Discover Scuba →Course materials, equipment use, confined-water training, four open-water dives and certification fees included.
Private course: add $150. New Open Water students receive up to 20% off gear purchases; conditions apply.
Program: classroom/theory review, confined-water training and four open-water dives. Standard swim/tread-water requirements apply.
Explore the Open Water course →For inactive divers who want to refresh core knowledge and skills before getting back in the water.
Five dives in five environments. $449.99 base price or $599.99 with rental gear included. Email for scheduling.
Build problem-solving, prevention and rescue skills. Add $89 for DAN CPR/First Aid if required. Email for scheduling.
Includes online learning and an in-store practical session.
Charter cost, if required, is not included.
Develop the skills needed for comfortable cold-water drysuit diving.
Advanced self-reliance and independent-diving skills for qualified divers.
Learn configuration, trim, gas management and procedures for sidemount diving.
Techniques and procedures for diving when visibility is reduced.
Build knowledge and experience for deeper recreational dives.
Refine trim, buoyancy and in-water control.
Plan and conduct dives where current is part of the environment.
Strengthen natural and compass navigation skills underwater.
Add $100 if you do not have your own DPV.
Discuss your technical certifications, logged experience and professional goals with our team to plan your next leadership step.
Includes all course material.
Build a foundation in buoyancy, trim, propulsion, team awareness and technical equipment configuration.
Prerequisites: Open Water certification or equivalent and at least 25 logged open-water dives. Minimum age 18, or 15 with parental consent.
Training: Dive planning, gas management and practical skills, with a minimum of three training dives. This is a foundation course within your existing certification limits.
Includes all course material.
Plan and use enriched-air mixtures up to 100% oxygen within your training and certification limits.
Prerequisites: Nitrox certification or equivalent and at least 25 logged open-water dives. Minimum age 18, or 15 with parental consent.
Training: Oxygen exposure, gas analysis and labelling, equipment considerations and gas-switching skills. TDI specifies at least four dives when taken separately. Planned decompression requires the appropriate additional certification.
Includes all course material.
Learn to plan and conduct staged decompression dives, with a maximum training depth of 45 m / 150 ft.
Prerequisites: Age 18 or older, Advanced Adventure / Advanced Diver certification or equivalent, and at least 25 logged open-water dives.
Training: Decompression planning, team procedures, gas switches, SMB deployment and contingency skills. Dives stay within the limits of your gas certifications and training.
Combined package. Includes all course material.
Combine advanced gas planning with staged decompression training in one coordinated program.
Prerequisites: Meet the entry requirements for both courses: age 18 or older, Nitrox and Advanced Adventure / Advanced Diver certifications or equivalents, and at least 25 logged open-water dives.
Training: The combined program requires at least six training dives. Your instructor confirms the schedule, equipment configuration and readiness for each stage.
Develop equipment setup, independent-cylinder gas management, trim and practical sidemount skills.
Prerequisites: Age 18 or older and Open Water certification or equivalent.
Training: Cylinder handling, propulsion, buoyancy, communication and problem solving in a sidemount configuration. Training does not extend your existing depth, decompression or overhead qualifications.
Daily fee for additional coaching if required.
Use additional practice to work on buoyancy, trim, propulsion or equipment configuration. Ask our team about your goals and availability.
Lead. Explore. Inspire.
Take the next step with Divemaster training at Scuba Finatics in Ottawa. Develop your leadership skills, expand your diving knowledge and build practical experience with our local dive community.
Starting at$999.99
Includes course materials.
Talk to our team about your certifications, experience and goals. We’ll help you plan your next step.
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Includes all course material, Instructor development, & Instructor evaluation.
Talk to our Ottawa team about your goals and the right course for you.
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