Scuba Diving Courses
All scuba diving courses run through Blue Lagoon Divers are PADI certified, offering premium quality experiences underwater. We start new courses every day, which menas there is always a chance to start this unique adventure with us!
Discover Scuba Diving Experience
The “Discover Scuba Diving Experience“ is a great way for you to see why so many people all around the world love to practice diving.
If you want to try scuba diving before you commit your time and money to a full course, then this is definitely the way to start your experience. The “Discover Scuba Diving Experience” lasts over three hours and consists of a private session with an instructor in very shallow water.
The total price for this course is €95 and includes all of the following:
We offer both morning and afternoon trips, so you can fit this around your own holiday schedule.
What’s involved?
When you arrive, you will be briefed by your instructor on how to communicate underwater, how the pressure will affect you, what kind of equipment you will use, and he will also show you some breathing exercises. Then, you will practice these skills in shallow water. In the end, we will debrief you on how you did and what you can do from there.
The price for this experience is €95.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst you’re diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- PADI Discover SCUBA diving logbook and materials
What will you learn?
You’ll learn some basic skills and hand signals to communicate with your instructor while starting to develop good underwater swimming and buoyancy technique.
Prerequisites
In order to participate, you must be at least 10 years old
What’s next?
When finished, you’ll have passed the first portion of the Open Water Course (Scuba Diving License). The certificate you get is valid for the following 12 months and will give you a small discount on the time it takes to complete the course and its price at any PADI dive center.
If you decide to complete the Open Water Course with us straight after, we’ll offer you a substantial discount!
Open Water Course
Ever wanted to become a certified diver to have your own license to dive? Not only to be able to dive all around the world but deeper and also at a cheaper price than non-certified divers!
This scuba diving course will give you all the skills necessary to become a certified diver and be able to handle any situation for yourself.
The course takes around three days to be completed.
What’s involved?
The total course consists of 5 mini pool/confined water sessions and 4 open water dives, which means you get a great chance to explore all that Symi has to offer under the surface.
There are also 5 small sections of theory that are fairly easy to get through which can be studied with either online materials, videos, or books depending on your preference.
Upon completion, you will be qualified to dive to a depth of 18m with a dive buddy worldwide. The total price for this course is €545.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst you’re diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
Also, you can complete all the required studying in the comfort of your own home and then just do the amazing diving when you arrive on the island. Follow the following link for the correct materials for the course, here.
What will you learn?
You will develop skills to handle everything, from difficult water conditions to equipment failure. When you put your faith in a PADI course, you can be sure that you’re in good hands.
Prerequisites
What’s next?
Once you’ve completed the Open Water Course, you can dive around the world at a much lower cost than non-certified divers, but keep in mind that it may just be the beginning of your adventure. Courses like the Advanced Course will teach you to dive deeper into unfamiliar environments. You can even get specializations that will put you a step ahead of everyone else.
Advanced Open Water Course
Only available for certified divers. This scuba diving course will give you the chance to experience a different way of diving while developing professional skills. Advanced Open Water Course‘s options range from visiting our local wrecks to learning techniques even used in underwater photography by experienced scuba dive masters.
This course takes place over 5 adventurous dives and can be split up to suit your schedule.
What’s involved?
There are 2 mandatory adventurous dives in the Advanced Open Water Course. These are Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation. You can choose the following three between:
-Underwater Digital Imaging
-Peak Performance Buoyancy
-Fish Identification
-Wreck Diving
-Underwater Naturalist
-Boat Diving
-Night Diving
-Search and Recovery
Upon completion, you will be qualified to dive to a depth of 30m with a dive buddy worldwide. The total price for this course is €395.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
Also, you can complete all the required studying in the comfort of your own house and then just start diving once you’ll arrive on the island. Click the following link to download the materials you must study to apply for the course, here.
What will you learn?
What you learn depends on what interests you, but thanks to this course, you will become a professional diver!
Prerequisites
- Must be 15 years or older.
- Must be certified as an Open Water Diver.
What’s next?
Keep diving and keep learning. The diving doesn’t stop at this point.
You can opt to do the Rescue Course to help manage problems underwater or on land.
You could even try something more technical like a different form of diving, such as side-mount where you learn to carry more cylinders.
Rescue Diver Course
The PADI Rescue Diver Course will expand your knowledge and experience beyond purely recreational diving because you’ll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and wellbeing of other divers. Whilst this scuba diving course is of a serious nature, it’s an enjoyable experience and a great way to build your confidence.
The course takes place over 5-7 dives and is a fairly intensive but hugely rewarding course.
What’s involved?
The rescue diver course will teach you to deal with exhausted, panicked, and unresponsive divers both under the water and on the surface. You will build on techniques learned in previous medical training courses and learn to apply them to in-water situations.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
What will you learn?
• Self-rescue and diver stress
• Dive first aid
• Emergency management and equipment
• Swimming and non-swimming assists
• Panicked diver response
• Underwater problems
• Missing diver procedures
• Surfacing the unconscious diver
• In-water artificial respiration
• Egress (exits)
• First aid procedures for pressure-related accidents
• Dive accident scenarios
Prerequisites
- Must be qualified as a PADI Advanced Open Water diver or equivalent.
- Must have a valid Emergancy First Aid Certification or training within the last 12 months.
What’s next?
The Rescue Diver Certification is a prerequisite for all PADI Professional level courses, beginning with the PADI Divemaster certification.
Dive Master Course
Working closely with a PADI Instructor as a mentor, you’ll expand your diving knowledge while sharpening your skills. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise scuba diving activities and assist instructors with student divers. You’ll be expected to act as one of the team, by behaving responsibly and safely with students to demonstrate ‘role model’ behavior.
Once qualified, your work can take you all over the world, doing what you love and getting paid for it.
It’s a tough scuba diving course to pass, you’ll be expected to be proactive in your learning, independent in self-study, and physically fit.
The course takes place over 1 month and is an intensive but hugely rewarding experience.
There is also an option to take part in the internship program, where the shop will sponsor the course for you. More details can be found here:
Dive Master Internship Program
Our Divemaster Internship Program is for non-professional divers who want to pursue a career in the recreational scuba diving industry.
The program will qualify you at the end of the season as a PADI Divemaster – the first professional level qualification. Our program works like this: in exchange for working for us for the summer season, our interns get their dive education – all the way up to PADI Divemaster for free.
Duties of a Divemaster intern include all aspects of the dive industry from assisting on the dive boat with courses and guided dives, filling scuba tanks, servicing equipment, and equipping divers, to working in the dive shop in sales or office duties. As their education progresses, interns take on duties such as leading groups of qualified divers and assisting instructors with courses.
Our interns gain, in addition to many dives by the end of the season, a valuable insight into this industry and experience in dealing with customers including qualified divers, course students, and beginners. We ensure that when our interns leave our program, they are fully qualified and experienced, ready to work anywhere in the world as professional scuba divers.
The learning curve for the courses is quite steep and there’s quite a lot of theory to study in addition to the day-to-day job, so self-motivation is essential. In addition to diving experience, desirable – though not essential – attributes of interns are a full driving license, spoken European languages, media, design and computer skills, and sales/retail skills.
You should know from the start that the hours in this industry are long and the work is sometimes hard, but if you have a passion for scuba diving and working with people, the rewards are immeasurable. If your goal is a career in the recreational scuba diving industry, this internship will teach you everything you need to know and more.
Interns will need to pay their own travel costs to Greece.
At the end of the season, we will always offer to hire Divemasters who fit well with the team!
What’s involved?
The Dive Master Course will teach to you to deal with exhausted, panicked, and unresponsive divers both under the water and on the surface. You will build on techniques learned in previous medical training courses and learn to apply them during in-water situations.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
What will you learn?
• Self-rescue and diver stress
• dive first aid
• emergency management and equipment
• swimming and non-swimming assists
• panicked diver response
• underwater problems
• missing diver procedures
• surfacing the unconscious diver
• in-water artificial respiration
• egress (exits)
• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
• dive accident scenarios
Prerequisites
- Must be qualified as a PADI Advanced Open Water diver or equivalent.
- Must have a valid Emergancy First Aid Certification or training within the last 12 months.
