English, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Danish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, German, French, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional.

For information on other available languages please contact your PADI Dive Center.

In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and a tank. The equipment you wear varies, depending upon whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water.

Check with your local dive center about the gear you’ll use during this course and get advice about everything you need from your PADI Instructor.

You can start your learning now with PADI’s home-study materials – Open Water Diver eLearning. You should also stop by your local PADI dive shop to enroll in the course and speak to a PADI Instructor about scheduling time for inwater training. Your instructor will also answer any questions you have along the way and check your progress to make sure you understand important scuba diving information.