Salty Fins Diving Courses

Offering a Wide Range of PADI Course Certifications

Each program is meticulously crafted to blend theory with practical application, ensuring that every diver not only understands the principles of diving but also gains hands-on experience in real-world diving scenarios.

Beyond technical proficiency, safety is the utmost priority. Our instructors are certified professionals with extensive experience in diving and teaching, equipped to handle any situation that may arise underwater. We adhere to the highest standards of safety protocols and regularly maintain our equipment to guarantee reliability and performance.

Moreover, Salty Fins Diving, LLC advocates for marine conservation and responsible diving practices, instilling a deep respect for the ocean environment in all our students.

Whether you are an individual seeking personal enrichment through diving or a group interested in team-building activities with a difference, Salty Fins Diving, LLC can tailor services to meet your specific needs.

Advanced Open Water Diver

Advance your skills as your practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving and make three specialty dives of your choice, which give you specialty dive credit towards specialty certifications.

Rescue Diver

Learn to identify and fix minor issues before they become big problems and gain more confidence underwater while have fun along the way!

CORE CERTIFICATIONS

Open Water Diver

The first scuba certification level, learn how to scuba dive in a relaxed and supportive learning environment. Come away with skills and knowledge to be able to dive at home or abroad.

Master Scuba Diver

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. The Master Scuba Diving rating places you in an elite group of respected divers; a rating only two percent of divers achieve.

Divemaster

Learn to lead underwater tours, assist with scuba classes. PADI Divemaster is the most popular and most recognized professional certification in the world.

Dive Against Debris

Learn how ocean plastic and trash cleanups not only keep your local dive sites healthier, but also how to contribute to a global database that documents our planet’s marine debris problem.

PADI AWARE Specialty

Make a difference for yourself and others by learning and applying tips to save the ocean through tangible actions and opportunities. A portion of the proceeds from your course funds critical conservation efforts.

Coral Reef Conservation

This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems. No prerequisites or age restrictions nor water sessions required.

Deep Diver

Learn how to plan deep dives, manage your gas supply and how to identify and manage narcosis. You'll learn about buddy contact procedures, safety considerations and buoyancy control at depth.

Dry Suit Diver

Unlike wetsuits, drysuits are filled with air. During your drysuit course, your instructor will teach you how to control the air in your drysuit along with your buoyancy.

Emergency First Response

Primary and secondary training teaches you what to do during critical moments. Learn how to perform CPR, provide first aid to ease pain, assess a variety of injuries and illnesses and practice bandaging and splinting.

SPECIALTY CERTIFICATIONS

Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver

Enriched air, also known as nitrox or EANx, contains less nitrogen than regular air. Breathing less nitrogen means you can enjoy longer dives and shorter surface intervals.

Night Diver

Although you've been scuba diving at a site many times before, at night you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge.

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover as they observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Elevate and improve your skills with this course.

Underwater Navigation

This course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way.

Wreck Diver

While observing responsible wreck diving practices, explore purpose-sunk wrecks, artificial reefs, or lost shipwrecks, airplanes and even cars that teem with aquatic life to create fascinating sites.

ReActivate Scuba Refresher

Get a "ReActivated" card through an engaging, efficient way that will refresh your diver knowledge and scuba skills.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

Discover Scuba Diving

If you’re interested in scuba diving, but unsure if you want to enroll in a scuba certification class, Discover Scuba Diving is the perfect way to test the waters. In a very short time, you’ll learn basic scuba skills and take your first breaths underwater.

Discover Local Diving

Are you an experienced scuba diver but new to the local area or environment? Schedule a Discover Local Dive class and learn about the area. Dive only from boats? This course may also be used to acclimate you to shore dives and entry through the surf.