Ocean Adventures provides Scuba lessons and instruction for all levels of Recreational and Technical diving. We offer one of the largest arrays of classes available and provide expert instruction from your very first dive all the way through earning a professional Dive Master or Instructor rating.
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Training Options
Try Scuba: Discover Scuba Diving
You always wanted to try it, but never had the time or were unsure about a full certification course? When you participate in a Discover Scuba Diving program with Ocean Adventures, you will discover excitement, adventure, freedom and serenity. Nothing compares to the "weightless" exhilaration of breathing underwater. Only a diver knows that feeling!more info
Become Certified: PADI Open Water Diver Course
Come discover another world! Learn how to become weightless as you glide through kelp forests and explore local marine life. Our knowledgeable and experienced instructors will guide you through the course materials and then take you into our heated pool to practice skills and have fun. Then hop on one of our friendly and comfortable dive boats to start your Ocean Adventures.more info
More Adventure: Advanced Diver Course
To become a certified diver is only the beginning of your scuba adventures. The Advanced course will help you to become a better diver and builds more confidence. Anywhere you go diving, dive operators will recognize your competence and more likely take you to better dive spots than they would take new divers. more info
Prepare for What If... Situations: Rescue Diver
Challenging and rewarding best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever
taken.more info
Learn More: Dive Specialty Training
Everybody dives for different reasons. Some people are fascinated by ship wrecks, while others are amused by the abundant marine life, others again enjoy the thrill of night diving... There is something for all dive enthusiasts. Specialty Training offers divers the opportunity to learn more about specific type of diving they choose based on their interest. more info
Master Scuba Diver Recognition
Want it. Live it. Dive it. Master Scuba Diver. Join the Best of the Best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. more info
Emergency First Responder (non diving)
Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) teaches participants how to respond to life-threatening emergencies. The course focuses on primary care through a combination of knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice to make sure participants have the confidence in their ability to provide care when emergency situations arise.more info
EFR Instructor Course
As as Scuba Instructor, you will often teach classes that require a First Aid, CPR training as prerequisites to programs such as the Rescue Diver or Divemaster. By qualifying as an EFR Instructor, you will be able to teach your students yourself; and you don't have to worry about loosing your students to some other instructor.more info
Care for Children (non diving)
The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and how they differ from adult conditions.more info
Technical Diving: Introduction to DIR
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the holistic DIR philosophy of diving. The course focuses on the fundamental components of the the DIR approach, namely a simple, streamlined and efficient equipment configuration; proper pre-dive planning and preparation; proper buoyancy, balance and trim; efficient propulsion techniques; unified team diving strategies and situational awareness; proficiency in critical skill management and fun.more info
Become a PADI Pro: Divemaster
As a PADI Divemaster you can get a job anywhere. Tomorrow you can give up your 9 till 5 job, land on an island somewhere in the tropics, and have a job that many admires by the next day. It is possible. Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program.more info
Become a Scuba Instructor
Would you like to earn money from your hobby or just start a new carrier and forget about the 9 till 5 office job? These courses give you the opportunity to learn the necessary skills to be able to work with students, lead dives, get experience on boats and much more in a fun and exciting environment; maybe get a fulltime job somewhere in the tropics or during the weekends here, in California waters.more info
Specialty Instructor Training
PADI Specialty Instructors have the best of both worlds. Not only have earned the qualifications to conduct main stream dive programs such as the PADI Open Water Diver, Advanced, Rescue Diver and Divemaster programs, but they can also conduct PADI Specialty Diver programs. These programs help divers to hone their skills in specific area or facets of diving such as wreck, night and deep diving.more info
Master Scuba Diver Trainer
If you want to train your dive students to the highest purely recreational dive level in the PADI System of diver education, you'll want to be a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. By attaining this level, your dive students will know where to come when they want to learn from an expert.more info
IDC Staff Instructor
The PADI IDC Staff Instructor program is designed to provide you (PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainers) with the additional training necessary to staff PADI Instructor Development programs. This program builds upon your experience and abilities as a dive educator while concentrating on developing evaluation and counseling skills. Through independent study, classroom sessions, guided evaluation training and an internship, you’ll learn to teach the PADI Assistant Instructor program and assist with instructor development programs.more info
DAN O2 Provider
As a recreational diver, you can receive training to provide vital first aid that can make a difference to a scuba diver with decompression illness. The DAN Oxygen Provider Course provides entry-level training in the recognition and management of possible diving-related injuries using emergency oxygen first aid.more info
DAN Dive Emergency Management Provider
The great thing about the DEMP course is that while it encompasses four courses in one, it does it without repeating information. The DAN Dive Emergency Provider training incorporates the Oxygen Provider, Advanced Oxygen Provider, AED and Hazardous Marine Life Injuries trainings into one comprehensive course. more info
DAN Instructor Courses
To become a DAN Instructor you must complete the Instructor Qualification Course (IQC). Instructor Candidates will complete a Core Module that offers more information about DAN and explains how to teach DAN programs. Candidates will then complete the course module for each DAN Training Program they are interested in teaching. more info