THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO LEARN
Your next chapter starts here.
From your first underwater experience to specialist training, explore the pathways and find the questions to ask before booking.
CHOOSE YOUR TRAINING PATH
Courses by agency
Ten core course guides per agency, each with its own FAQs. These selections cover key pathways, not every programme in each agency’s catalogue.
Explore entry-level certification, continuing education, specialties and professional training.
Explore 10 course guides →SSIBuild practical skills through Open Water, continuing education, specialties and professional programmes.
Explore 10 course guides →TDIExplore technical foundations, open-circuit decompression, mixed gas, overhead and rebreather training.
Explore 10 course guides →NAUIExplore entry-level diving, continuing education, rescue skills and leadership training.
Explore 10 course guides →General course guides
recreational
Learning to Dive
What entry-level scuba training actually involves, and how to judge a course before you book it.
Explore this courserecreational
Open Water Diver
The entry-level certification that allows independent recreational diving to around 18 metres.
Explore this courserecreational
Peak Performance Buoyancy
The short course with the biggest effect on how good a diver you actually are.
Explore this coursefreediving
Freediver
Breath-hold diving as a trained discipline — a different sport that shares the water with scuba.
Explore this courserecreational
Advanced Open Water Diver
Five guided specialty dives that extend depth to 30 metres and introduce navigation and other skills.
Explore this courserecreational
Enriched Air Nitrox
Diving with elevated oxygen to extend no-decompression limits — the most commonly taken specialty.
Explore this courserecreational
Drysuit Diver
Using a drysuit as a second buoyancy system — essential for serious cold-water diving in southern Australia.
Explore this courserecreational
Night Diver
Diving after dark, where familiar sites become completely different and nocturnal life emerges.
Explore this courserecreational
Underwater Navigation
Finding your way with a compass and natural references — essential for Australian shore diving.
Explore this courserecreational
Drift Diver
Diving with current rather than against it — a necessary skill for many of Australia's best sites.
Explore this courserecreational
Underwater Photography
Taking photographs that are worth keeping — which starts with buoyancy, not with a camera.
Explore this courserecreational
Rescue Diver
The course most divers describe as the hardest and the most genuinely useful they have taken.
Explore this courserecreational
Deep Diver
Extending recreational limits to 40 metres, with the gas planning and narcosis awareness that requires.
Explore this courserecreational
Wreck Diver
Diving wrecks safely, and understanding where external touring ends and penetration begins.
Explore this coursetechnical
Cavern Diver
Diving within the light zone of an overhead environment — the first genuine step into overhead training.
Explore this coursetechnical
Sidemount Diver
Carrying cylinders at your sides — redundancy, streamlining and access through restrictions.
Explore this courseprofessional
Divemaster
The first professional rating — guiding certified divers and assisting with training.
Explore this coursetechnical
Advanced Nitrox
High-oxygen decompression gases and oxygen-clean equipment — not ordinary recreational Nitrox.
Explore this coursetechnical
Decompression Procedures
Planning and executing dives with a mandatory decompression obligation.
Explore this courseprofessional
Instructor
Teaching and certifying divers independently, after an instructor development course and examination.
Explore this coursetechnical
Cave Diver
Full overhead penetration diving, where direct ascent is not available at any point.
Explore this coursetechnical
Trimix Diver
Adding helium to manage narcosis, oxygen exposure and gas density at depth.
Explore this coursetechnical
Closed Circuit Rebreather Diver
Recycling breathing gas to extend duration, reduce bubbles and optimise oxygen exposure.
Explore this course