GET YOUR PADI SCUBA DIVING CERTIFICATION IN HAWAII
Learn how to dive in Hawaii! Get your PADI Open Water Certification done in the beautiful Pacific Ocean and have a close interaction with the Hawaiian marine life. Dive the famous shipwrecks of O’ahu while working on your PADI Advanced Open Water Certification. Experience the thrill of scuba diving at night on the North Shore of O’ahu for your night diver specialty training, or any of the other specialty dive certification courses we offer! Completing your PADI scuba certification in O’ahu is the best way to learn your skills while appreciating and learning about the natural beauty of the ocean.
PADI DISCOVER SCUBA
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater? If you want to find out but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification, this Discover Scuba Dive is for you. Join us for a quick training session and guided tour around one of Oahu’s beautiful dive sites.
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater?
Discover Scuba Diving for beginners in Oahu: Be introduced to the fascinating underwater world and experience the sensation of breathing underwater while swimming with the sea life of Hawai’i. The Discover Scuba Diving program will let you safely try scuba diving while you’re on vacation and bring home memories that will last forever.
While not an actual scuba certification, during your Discover Scuba Diving experience you’ll learn important information and skills that will allow you to safely dive to depths of 30 to 40 feet, accompanied by a professional Padi diver instructor in the crystal clear waters of Oahu.
What you Learn
- Underwater pressure and how it affects your inner air spaces
- Signaling and underwater communication
- Swimming and breathing underwater
- Recognizing and interacting with the hawaiian marine life
- Scuba equipment usage
We offer the Discover Scuba Dive program for beginners in Oahu from boat and shore.
Diving from shore on the North Shore during summer is beautiful and very safe. Since we dive at a marine conservation district, boat diving and fishing is prohibited. Diving from a boat out of Honolulu is a great option in the winter months.
This is a real scuba diving paradise and it’s our favourite location to dive in Oahu. If you have absolutely fallen in love with diving after your discovered scuba experience, you can put your dives towards a Padi Open Water Certification!
Pricing
We Dive at Shark’s Cove in Pupukea Marine Conservation District. Price is $125 + taxes. The tour takes 2 hours to be completed and includes 1 dive. Add an extra dive for $45.00.
When winter comes around, swells will roll in and we may not be able to dive on the North Shore. In this case we will be shore diving at Electric Beach on the West coast of Oahu. This is a pristine dive site for all levels of divers. Price is $125.00 + taxes. The tour takes 2 hours to be completed and includes 1 dive. Add an extra dive for $45.00.
We offer scuba diving from boat on the South Shore of Oahu (Honolulu) where turtles, corals and fish are abundant, all year around. Price is $149.00 + taxes. The tour takes 3 hours to be completed and it includes 2 dives.
Pre-requisites
- Know how to swim
- 10 years and older
PADI RESCUE DIVER COURSE
“Challenging” and “rewarding” are the words that best describe the PADI Rescue Diver Certification. Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on your knowledge of how to prevent problems and manage them should they occur.
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“The PADI Rescue Diver Course is challenging and rewarding.”
Building upon the PADI Advanced Open Water, the PADI Rescue Diver course expands your diving knowledge on how to prevent and manage problems below and above the surface. Take your first steps toward a PADI professional with the most challenging and rewarding course we offer.
The PADI Rescue Diver Course develops your knowledge and skills to be able to assist other divers in trouble, manage dive accident situations, and perform diving first aid. Focusing on prevention, response, and correct accident management, this course makes you a reliable, safe, and valuable diving companion.
This course can be bundled with Hawaii Eco Diver?s Emergency First Response (EFR) Training, to accomplish both at one time.
What you learn
- Self rescue
- Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
- Emergency management
- Increased equipment knowledge
- Rescuing panicked divers
- Rescuing unresponsive divers
Pre-requisites
- Current
EFR - EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE COURSE
First aid and CPR are good skills for everyone involved in adventure sports. It’s also a mandatory pre-requisition for the PADI Rescue Diver Course. This Emergency First Response training will equip you to handle emergencies both in and out of the water.
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First aid and CPR are good skills for everyone involved in adventure sports. It’s also a mandatory pre-requesition for the Rescue Diver course. The emergency first response is a PADI affiliate that specializes in teaching these life savings skills.
Learn how to administer CPR on an unresponsive person and to provide secondary care for emergencies. An intensive emergency training course, not only for the diver, but for anyone that has a loved one who could potentially be in need. You never know when you may need to use it.
Price
Training cost:
- Group class: $165 + tax per person
Academic cost:
- E-learning program (online): $100.00 + tax per person
PADI DIVEMASTER COURSE
Looking for the first step to working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster Certification! Take it a step further and work with Hawaii Eco Divers in a Divemaster Internship. Learn More
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Get Divemaster certified in the beautiful waters of Oahu!
PADI Divemaster Certification with Hawaii Eco Divers
Scuba Dive Skills
During the PADI Divemaster program at Hawaii Eco Divers, you will learn scuba dive leadership skills through classroom, practical, and independent studies. You will complete water skills, stamina exercises, and training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and problem solve. Further, You will have the opportunity to expand your leadership ability in helping others improve their scuba skills.
Above all, this knowledge will take you to the next level of scuba diving qualification, which you will be able to utilize anywhere around the world! This can be completed through a structured internship or a series of independent certifications completed at your own pace. These courses are available on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Divemaster program cost include all book and certification fees.
Learning Materials Used
The PADI Divemaster crewpack includes everything you?ll need to start the Divemaster program. This complete set of materials includes:
- The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving ? a comprehensive overview of diving physics, physiology, and equipment;
- Divemaster slates;
- PADI Divemaster Manual;
- PADI Instructor Manual;
- Scuba Tune-Up Guidebook;
- DSD Cue Card;
- Pro Logbook.
Pre Requisites
In order to qualify for the PADI Divemaster program, you must be 18 years old.
Before achieving Divemaster status, you will complete four individual certifications and Emergency First Response Training. The certifications include Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Adventure, and Rescue Diver.
Read more about these certifications on these pages, or !
Divemaster Internship
Are you looking for the first step to working with scuba as a career?
SPECIALTY DIVE TRAINING
Become a specialty diver in one of the following categories. Get 5 specialties and become a PADI Master Diver.
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Become a specialty diver in one of the following categories on the North Shore and around Hawaii. Get 5 specialties and become a PADI Master Diver.
Night Diver Specialty
As the sun drops behind the tide pool at sharks cove, you gear up, and walk to the water’s edge. Although you have done this shore dive during the day, you drop into a whole different world. Your dive light brings the dark water to life, unveiling scene of nocturnal critters.
The Fun Part
Introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down. See your favorite dive sites from a whole new perspective at night.
What You Learn
- Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques, and potential problems
- How to control your buoyancy at night
- Entries, exits, and underwater navigation at night
- Nocturnal aquatic life, since many of the plants and animals you’ll see are different
3 Scuba dives total.
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationWreck Diver Specialty
Oahu is the capital of wreck diving in all the Hawaiian Island and Hawaii Eco Divers has access to most of them. Whether the result of a accident or sunk on purpose as an artificial reef, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes, and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they’re intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.
The Fun Part
The fun part of the PADI Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook. Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognizes that a small hole or open door likely caused the vessel’s demise.What You Learn
- Techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards
- How to research and learn the background of your favorite wrecks
- Wreck scuba diving equipment considerations
- Considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks
- Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four wreck dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
4 Scuba dives total
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationDeep diver specialty
After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There’s something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts dives. Oahu has amazing shipwrecks and they are all found in deep water.
What You Learn
- Techniques for diving in the deeper range of 18-40 metres/ 60-130 feet
- Deep scuba diving equipment considerations
- Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
4 Scuba dives total
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationDigital Underwater Photography Specialty Diver
Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever. The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today’s modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros.
What You Learn
- How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
- The PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
- The three primary principles for good underwater photos and videos
2 Scuba dives total
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationUnderwater Videography Specialty Diver
Other than taking someone diving, there’s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world: video. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again. Use your editing skills to share your clips with friends and family as well as with the world through YouTube, Facebook and more. Use your underwater videos to turn more of your friends into dive buddies.
What You Learn
- Selecting, maintaining and caring for your underwater video equipment
- Videography fundamentals, such as
- exposure
- focus
- shot types
- moves
- story line
- shot sequencing
4 Scuba dives total
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationUnderwater Naturalist Specialty Diver
Want to see new things on even the most familiar dive sites? Underwater Naturalist specialty course gives you insight on underwater ecology, habitats of both aquatic plants and animals, and symbiosis. This knowledge will help you look closer on your next dive to notice sea creatures and behaviors you may have previously missed.
The Fun Part
Learn about why some creatures behave the way they do and what their role is in the aquatic ecosystem.What You Learn
- Terrestrial and aquatic world major differences
- Key aquatic life groupings, interactions, and information that dismiss negative myths
- Roll of aquatic plants, predator/ prey interactions, and food chains within the ecosystem
- Responsible diver interactions with marine life
2 Scuba dives
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationPeak Buoyancy Performance Specialty
Would you like to move effortlessly underwater, use less air, and descent, ascent or hover as if by thought? Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled divers, you can achieve this too! The Padi Peak Buoyancy Performance specialty course improves the skills you learned as a beginner diver and takes them a step further.
The Fun Part
The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible.What You Learn
- Attain neutral buoyancy
- Use the right amount of weight
- Streamline your body for smooth movement through the water and saving air
- Hover effortlessly
2 Scuba dives
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certificationFish Identification Specialty Diver
One of the most common questions after surfacing from a dive is “what was that fish?”. If you find yourself asking this question frequently and would like to be the one with the answers instead, this Padi AWARE course is for you. Roughly 25% of the reef fish species in Hawaii are endemic, meaning they only exist here. Once you learn to recognize fish by main families and characteristics you can easily look up the local name or inquire about it with you dive professional. These basic fish identification skills can be applied on dives all over the world.
The Fun Part
You’ll find you enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures that you see. The fun part about this course is you can use the skills you learn on every scuba dive vacation because once you learn the main fish families and characteristics it will help you decipher the species you see all over the world.What You Learn
- How to Identify characteristics of fish families and species
- About the local endemic species of Oahu
- Fish survey strategies and techniques
- Dive planning, procedures, and organization for fish identification
2 Scuba dives
Pre-requisites – Open water dive certification