Thailand Diving & Adventure Holidays : Learn To Dive

1. Knowledge Development – This develops your familiarity with basic principles and procedures.
You learn things like how pressure affects your body, how to choose the best gear and what to
consider when planning dives.

You complete Knowledge Development on your own, reading each of five sections of the PADI Open
Water Diver Manual and watching the corresponding section of the PADI Open Water Diver Video
(which also previews skills you’ll learn). If you like learning with a personal computer, you can also
get the Open Water Diver Manual and Video together as a CD-ROM. You briefly review what you
studied in each section with your instructor and take a short quiz to be sure you’re getting it.
At the end of the course, you take an exam that makes sure you’ve got all the key concepts and
ideas down.

2. Confined Water Dives – This is what it’s all about – diving. You develop basic scuba skills in a pool
or in a body of water with pool-like conditions. Here you’ll learn everything from setting up your gear
to how to easily get water out of your mask without surfacing. You’ll also practice some emergency
skills, like sharing air – just in case. Plus, you may play some games, make new friends and have a
great time.

There are five confined water dives, with each building upon the previous. Over the course of these
five dives, you attain the skills you need to dive in open water.

3. Open Water Dives – After your confined water dives, you and the new friends you’ve made
continue learning during four open water dives with your PADI Instructor at a dive site. This is
where you have fun putting it all together and fully experience the underwater adventure – at the
beginner level, of course. You may make these dives near where you live or at a more exotic
destination on holiday.