Open Water Dive Information
The four open water dives that complete your PADI Open Water Diver certification. Divers Den calls them Outdives, and they are the last step to your card.
Certification dives
The certification dives
You learn to dive by diving
With your instructor beside you, you repeat the skills you practiced in confined water — mask clearing, regulator recovery, controlled ascents and descents, buoyancy — and then get on with exploring. Once the four are complete and signed off, you are a certified PADI Open Water Diver.
- Dives
- Four
- Usually over
- Two days
- Maximum depth
- 18 m / 60 ft
Before you book
Three things have to be done first
- 01Your PADI eLearning, or knowledge development, is complete
- 02All of your confined water dives are finished and signed off
- 03You hold a package that includes open water dives, or you book them separately
The confined water dives really do come first. You must have completed all of them before signing up for Outdives — see confined water dives if you still need those.
Booking
How to get on a dive
Check the current dates
Outdive dates are scheduled each season. Contact the shop for what is currently on the calendar — info@diversdendiveshop.com or (603) 601-6708.
Sign up under the Open Water Course Group
Dives are booked under the Open Water Course Group rather than as a separate course.
All-In Combo? You have already paid
If you bought the All-In Combo your open water dives are included in the combo price, and you will see a zero dollar option when you sign up. Booked separately, the four dives are $275.
Where these fit
The packages that include them
Ask about the next Outdives
Dates are scheduled each season. Call or email the shop and we will tell you what is next on the calendar.