PADI Open Water course Schedule :

The first day – after you arrive in Hurghada to “Red Sea Diving Academy” at our diving Center. One of the employees will welcome and invite you to see the diving center, such as the main office, the teaching and video room, the diving equipment room, the equipment drying room after diving, and then the swimming pool in which the diving training takes place on the first day of practice. Next, you will visit our boat to see where we put diving equipment, air tanks, and other staff. This you must know before starting the diving course, after that, you will sit with one of the academy coaches to fill out the paper form to register for the Open Water (Open Water Diver) license with a medical form and the safety model. Then the instructor will give you E-Learning (Open Water Course) in your native language and provide you with an explanation of the content of the E-Learning and how to deal with it. After all, in the especially teaching and video room, the instructor explains diving equipment (information about each piece of equipment), how to disassemble, install and wear diving equipment, and explain the theory about diving signals used under the water, then explains 24 diving exercises (skills) and how to perform these skills in the swimming pool first before diving into the open sea.

Below you will find these skills:

• Installing, wearing, and removing equipment.
• Pre-Dive Safety Check (BWRAF).
• Entering deep water.
• Check for surface buoyancy.
• Switch between regulator and sprinkler.
• Descent in five points, using buoyancy control to stop descent without touching the bottom.
• Restore the regulator and empty it.
• Take off the mask, put it back in, and empty it.
• Air Cut Exercise and Alternative Air Source Use.
• Ascent with the help of an alternate air source.
• Breathing from a continuous flow regulator.
• Neutral buoyancy, rising and descending with a low-pressure blower.
• Climb through five points.
• Emergency boarding with controlled swimming.
• Inflate the BCD orally and heat for at least 60 seconds.
• Swimming underwater without a mask.
• Remove the weight system and put it back underwater.
• Remove the scuba gear and put it back underwater.
• Remove the scuba equipment and put it back on the roof.
• Remove the weight system and return it to the roof.
• Surface diving while descending from the surface and emptying the stalk using the forcefully inflating method upon reaching the surface.
• Disconnect the low-pressure blower hose.
• Re-install loose cylinder tape.
• Shedding weights in an emergency.

Training on these skills takes place in the swimming pool on the first day of diving training (five dives) for the training takes five hours.

The second day – the morning of the second day on the boat you will install your equipment for diving with assisting your Instructor.

The instructor will explain some of the skills that will be performed in the open sea at a depth of 8 meters at the first dive site (first dive) The duration of the dive ranges from an hour or a quarter to an hour.

After first diving, you will eat lunch and then continue reading your E-Learning “PADI Open Water” during the Boat moving to the second dive site, then you will practice the next skill (the second dive).

On the third day – the morning of the third day on the boat your instructor will explain the next skills which you will be performing in the open sea at a depth of 12 meters during the first dive. The duration of the dive ranges from an hour or a quarter to an hour. After first diving, you will eat lunch and then continue reading your E-Learning “PADI Open Water” during the Boat moving to the second dive site. Next, in the second dive, you will practice the next skills and finally reach a depth of 18 meters. It is the maximum depth for a Course Open Water Diver. At the end of your course, your instructor gives you the final written exam (theoretical test).