The Referral Course is designed for individuals who are able to complete an amount of their training prior to going on holiday. The knowledge development and confined water segments of the Open Water Course are carried out and signed off by a PADI Instructor in your home country, leaving just the final segment to do here at the College.

This segment is made up of four open water dives the last two are to a maximum depth of 18m. During these dives you will show that you have mastered all that you have learned in the previous two areas and before completion the student must complete a 200m swim and a 10-minute tread water.

PADI Open water Divers are qualified to:

• Dive with a buddy independent of supervision while applying the knowledge and skills they learn in this course, within the limits of their training and experience.
• Obtain air fills, scuba equipment and other services.
• Plan, conduct and log open water no stop dives when properly equipped and when accompanied by a buddy in conditions that they have either had training or experience in.
• Dive to a maximum depth of 18m.