Learn to Scuba Dive on Vancouver Island
Never been scuba diving before? That's exactly what this course is for.
We start at the beginning and teach you to become a safe, comfortable and confident diver — at your pace.
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Your First Scuba Diving Certification
PADI Open Water Diver is where scuba diving begins. You don't need any previous diving experience.
You'll learn how to use scuba equipment, breathe and move underwater, control your buoyancy and safely dive with a buddy.
Successfully complete the course and you'll earn a PADI Open Water Diver certification recognized around the world.
Learning to Dive Is Three Simple Steps
Learn
Complete your PADI online learning at your own pace and learn the basic principles of scuba diving.
Practice
Work directly with your instructor in confined water while you learn and practice your diving skills.
Go Diving
Take those skills into the ocean and complete your open-water training dives in real British Columbia diving conditions.
Why We Teach Differently
Most scuba courses are sold for a flat price and run on a fixed schedule. A group starts together and is expected to progress through the required skills together.
The problem is that people don't all learn at the same pace.
One student may master a skill immediately while another needs more practice. Someone may miss a scheduled class and fall behind. Others can become frustrated trying to keep up, while instructors still have a course schedule to complete.
Years of teaching divers have shown us that a fixed schedule doesn't fit every student.
That's why UB Diving built our training around the student instead of the schedule.
Our training is private for one or two students and charged at $55 per hour. You arrange your training schedule with your instructor and progress through the course at your own pace.
If you learn a skill quickly, you move ahead. If you need more time, you get more time.
You move to the next step when you and your instructor agree you're ready.
No large classes. No falling behind. No rushing to keep up with someone else.
Performance-Based Training
Your instructor teaches you the skill, you practice it, and you move forward when you can demonstrate it confidently.
The schedule doesn't decide when you're ready. You and your instructor do.
Learn in a Dry Suit From the Beginning
British Columbia has some of the best diving in the world, but our water is cold. That's why we teach our Open Water students in dry suits from the beginning.
Instead of learning in equipment you may never use again, you learn in the equipment designed for the diving we actually do here.
Dry suit training is incorporated directly into your course, so you learn those skills while you're learning to dive.
Learn in the equipment you'll actually use for British Columbia diving.
Learn With a Dive Center That Actually Dives Here
UB Diving is a family-run PADI Five Star Dive Center in Courtenay, British Columbia. We've been diving on Vancouver Island since 1994 and operating UB Diving since 1999.
We teach, dive, operate dive boats, service scuba equipment and support divers throughout British Columbia.
Our goal isn't simply to get you certified. It's to teach you to become a safe, comfortable and confident diver who is ready to actually go diving.
Simple Private Training Pricing
Private instruction for one or two students is $55 per hour.
You pay for the instructional time you need to successfully complete your training.
Your training equipment, dry suit, cylinders and weights are included.
Ready to Learn to Scuba Dive?
Your schedule. Your pace. Your instructor.
Start your PADI Open Water + Dry Suit training with UB Diving in Courtenay, British Columbia.
No experience necessary.
Contact UB Diving