Conch Republic Divers offers primarily private and semiprivate instruction. We do not try to be the fastest around or the cheapest-especially for the basic open water class. It is our approach that you only get certified once-you might as well do it right!

That said, I believe our price is competitive.  At the end of your course you will have a dive table and a log book. Our instructors are patient and thorough and have been diving for years.

Discover Scuba Diving Program is for those of you who would like to try scuba diving for yourself during your vacation but may not have time for the full course. This one day program is conducted by a instructor and consists of a short orientation followed by your first underwater experience in a swimming pool. By the afternoon you'll be ready for an actual scuba dive on a coral reef in shallow, calm waters. Actually you get to do two dives with us since we run half day two tank charters.You may continue to Dive with Conch Republic Divers and an Instructor for the remainder of your vacation or you may decide to compete your open water training. Conch Republic Divers will apply the Discover Scuba price to you class as long as you continue within 2 weeks.

Basic Open Water Course can be completed in a couple of ways. We offer the full course certification with PADI, SDI, SSI anI in an intensive fashion, usually requiring as little as 3 days to complete. This course requires one half day of lecture, one half day in the pool, a written exam and four open water dives. Since there is a lot of information to be absorbed in a short period of time, it is often best if you can get the book ahead of time, The Open Water Manual, and take your time reading it. If you do not have the opportunity to do this, we do have books available. In any case, it is often desirable to have a little more than the minimum amount of time available-this is vacation after all, and to do the full course in four days requires some pretty long days. You can also do eLearing with PADI or SSI and then complete the pool sessions and open water portion with Conch Republic.

We do require you to have your own mask, fins, and snorkel when taking the open water course. If you don't have your own we have plenty to choose from at our shop.

Another popular option is to do the pool and classroom work wherever home is and come down to the Keys for the Open Water Check Out Dives. Funny, when faced with the option of diving in a cold, dark quarry or lake, or coming to the warm, colorful waters of the Keys, a lot of people opt for coral and tropical fish! Check-out dives require two days, over the course of which you will make four dives.

In addition to the Open Water Course, we offer Advanced, Rescue, Divemaster, and Specialty courses. Unfortunately, we can not offer an Ice Diving Specialty. . . We do however offer several others such as Deep, Night, Navigation and Wreck, all of which require two days. Others, such as Nitrox, can be done in one. Night and Navigation can be done with only an open water certification. The others require you to have completed an advanced course prior to starting the specialty. Feel free to e-mail for more details!

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