Five day PADI Open Water Course

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• Hat, sunglasses and sunscreen
• Swimsuit and towel
• Overnight bag with changes of clothing, including warm clothing and socks for overnight wear
• Toiletries

Bedding and bath towels are supplied on board. Excess baggage can be stored at our Draper Street office at check in.

Please review the Diver Medical Examiner’s Evaluation Form and if you answer yes to any of the health questions, you will need to bring the completed form with you to your physician to receive a physician’s letter/medical clearance before you start your course. This clearance must be no older than 90 days before your course start date.

Everyone undertaking training for an entry level recreational diving certificate must be at least 10 years of age. If the diver is under 18, parental or guardian consent should be obtained for the diver to undertake training for an entry-level recreational diving certificate.

If the diver is under 12, the operqator must be informed before the course starts, as a private instructor will be needed.

We strongly recommend travel insurance to cover you if your trip is cancelled due to illness, poor weather, travel delays, cancellation or alteration of the scheduled itinerary, lost luggage or legal costs. Travel insurance may not cover diving accidents and treatment/evacuation. For that we recommend separate insurance like that offered by Dive Assure. They offer comprehensive insurance packages specifically for scuba divers.

Dive Assure also offers a rider which includes coverage specific to overnight experiences, including flight cancellations or delays resulting in missed departures, vessel mechanical failures, medical inability to dive, inclement weather (in addition to named storms/cyclones) and other incidents. A severe storm or named cyclone in the region may delay our departure or require the trip to be cut short or cancelled. If travelling in the cyclone season (December to April) we advise the purchase of (well prior the due Travel Date), insurance that covers force majeure events (being events outside the control of the parties, such as natural disasters).

Scuba diving and in-water activities are not covered by all travel insurance policies, and policy wordings should be read carefully. It is important to note that in the event a customer requires medical emergency services; the evacuation, medical, and vessel relocation expenses are at the financial responsibility of the customer. Please note that current liability insurance and current personal dive injury/evacuation insurance are prerequisites for the PADI Scuba Diving Instructor Training Program.

Regulations state that for a single, no decompression dive, you should not fly or go to altitude for at least 12 hours. For multiple dives you should not fly or go to altitude for at least 24 hours.

It is required by Queensland law that you must wait at least 24 hours after diving before going to altitude or flying – there is no guarantee that following these recommendations will prevent decompression sickness. Currently there are no guidelines regarding diving after flying.

Altitude is defined as 300m/1000ft above sea level. Certain other tourist attractions around Cairns and Tropical North Queensland involve travelling to altitude. These include the Atherton Tablelands and the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, so we recommend a gap between booking these experiences and any dive course or trip.

Our overnight experience diving usually finishes by midday and our day trips by 2pm, which makes it easier to plan some down time between diving and flying/going to altitude.