Go to dive
For Certified Divers from Makarska
Two guided Boat Dives
If you are a certified diver, you should definitely explore our region during one of our guided boat dives along Makarska Riviera, which offers a rich diversity of dive areas, and a magnificent underwater show. Under the supervision of our certified diving guides, you will dive into the deep blue Adriatic Sea, and explore the prosperous and colourful reefs, coral walls, caves where life is striving. Our favourite inhabitants that we want you to meet are the sea slugs, the black sponges, the breams, the lobsters, and the seahorses. During our half-day boat trip, you could also explore some of the magnificent caves and wrecks of the area.
Dive Area
The Makarska Riviera is an Eden for divers. With more than 30 dive areas, you will surely find what will fulfil your desires. We usually go close to the islands of Brač, in the Vruja Bay, or near the Osejava reef. Each spot offers a brand variety of landscapes to explore, and to contemplate a lot of underwater marvels, like the Medići coral reefs, the Silver Cave of the Punta Rata Beach, or the Komelj wreck. We will choose the most suitable place for your dives, taking into consideration your level and your wishes, as well as the weather and sea conditions.
Programme
We will meet at 9:00 am at our dive centre. Once you are equipped, we will make our way to our semi-rigid inflatable boat. While we are driving to the first dive area, you can enjoy the landscape, and the view on the Biokovo Mountain. Before our first dive, the instructor will tell you a short briefing about the dive spot, and we are jumping off the boat. After the first dive, we’ll have a short break, and then starting our second dive the same way. We will return to where we started from around 2:00 p.m.
Included Services
• Certified dive guide
• High-quality diving gear
• 2 Scuba tanks (200 Bar)
Requirements
• Active Certified Open Water Diver licence (or higher level)
• Minimum age: 10 years
• Last dive within one year
• Swimming ability
• General health
• If you wear prescription glasses, you need to be comfortable wearing contact lenses
PADI
Night dive
The thought of dipping below the surface at night seems mysterious, yet so alluring. 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.
If you’ve wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Dive!
PADI O.W.D.
Open Water Diver Course
PADI® Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. A highly-trained PADI Instructor will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive learning environment. By the end of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad to the maximum depth of 18m and be an ambassador for the underwater world. The minimum depth wich is expected is 5m.
Learn to dive in a fun and safe environment. We are one of the most experienced dive operators in the region and will ensure you have a fun, relaxed and safe diving experience. The PADI Open Water diving Course is the most popular dive course for beginner divers. Although it’s possible to complete the Open Water Dive course in 3 days it is much more relaxed to complete it over 4 days.
The first day is spent getting familiar with the equipment, practising skills in shallow depth during 2 dives (swimming pool conditions) and going over theory with one of our multilingual diving instructors. The course is following with 4 more dives exploring the sealife and practicing your buoyancy.
On these 6 dives you will encounter a huge variety of marine life including seahorses, lobsters, seastars and thousands of species of fish. If you are lucky, you’ll see some stingrays and jellyfishes too!
After this course you will be fully and permanently certified to dive to 18 meters (Jnr OpenWater Course 12m) when accompanied by a similarly or more highly certified buddy. This does not however mean that you are an experienced diver and we would always recommend beginner divers to continue going with a guide and continuing their diver education.
During the Open Water Diver course, your instructor will ask you to:
• Float or tread water without aids for 10 minutes
• Swim 200 metres/yards with no aids or 300 metres/yards with mask, fins and snorkel
Junior Diver certification
Divers certified between the ages of 10-14 earn a Junior Diver certification
Junior Open Water Divers automatically become Open Water Divers at age 15. Any replacement certification card or eCard purchased the day after the diver’s 15th birthday will automatically show an Open Water Diver (not Jr. Open Water Diver) certification.
Children eight or older can try scuba diving in a pool (or pool-like environment). Ask your PADI Dive Shop about a Bubblemaker experience or birthday party. Children who are comfortable in the water can participate in the PADI Seal Team program, a multi-day pool diving experience.
Prerequisites
• Able to swim; medically fit for diving, comfortable in the water
• Total time commitment: min. 3 days
• Minimum age: 10 years or older
• Depth: expect shallow dives (12m/40ft), the maximum allowed depth is 18m/60ftmin.
Take This Course If You Want to
• Explore the other 70 percent of our planet
• Support ocean protection
• See things you’ve never seen before
• Learn from a scuba diving expert
• Carry the world’s most recognized scuba certification
Learn How to
• Be a confident and skilled diver
• Assemble and use scuba gear
• Manage your buoyancy
• Respectfully approach marine life
• Handle common problems
Subset of the PADI O. W. D. course.
Scuba Diver course
This course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course. If you're short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you.
The PADI Scuba Diver course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course. If you’re short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you ̶ particularly if you expect to go scuba diving primarily with a dive guide. This course is an intermediate step for earning an Open Water Diver certification, if that’s your ultimate goal.
PADI Scuba Divers are qualified to
• Dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional to a maximum depth of 12 metres/40 feet.
• Obtain air fills, rent or purchase scuba equipment and participate in dive activities as long as properly supervised.
• Continue dive training by completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification and taking certain specialty diver courses.
To enroll in a PADI Scuba Diver course (or Junior Scuba Diver course), you must be 10 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required, but you can try it first through the Discover Scuba® Diving program.
The PADI Scuba Diver course consists of three main phases
• Knowledge Development (eLearning, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving – just the first three of five sections of the Open Water Diver course.
• Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills – just the first three of six dives of the Open Water Diver course
• Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore – just two of four dives of the Open Water Diver course.
Requirements
• 10 years old or older.
• Adequate swimming skills.
• Good physical health.
• No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
PADI A.O.W.D.
Advanced Open Water Diver Course
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You'll practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving and make three specialty dives of your choosing (it's like a specialty sampler platter). For every specialty dive you complete, you can earn credit toward PADI® specialty certifications.
Here are a few of the many options: Deep, Digital Underwater Imaging, Dive Against Debris, Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & rescue, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigation, and Wreck Diver.
The course includes five dives: a deep dive below 18m/60f, a navigation dive, and three specialty dives. Gain experience, build confidence and discover your diving abilities.
Prerequisites
• Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
• Total time commitment: min. 2-3 days
• Minimum age: 12 years or older
• Depth: The maximum depth depends on your age, but maximum depth is up to 30 metres/100 feet
Take This Course If You Want to
• Gain more diving experience
• Practice navigation
• Sample different types of diving
Learn How to
• Explore below 18m/60ft
• Improve your buoyancy
• Use a compass
Course prerequisites
PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver, or qualifying entry-level certification. The minimum age to start the JUNIOR Advanced Open Water Diver course is 12.
• Divers 15 or older earn an Advanced Open Water Diver certification
• Divers between the age of 12-14 earn a Junior Advanced Open Water
• Diver certification Divers 10-11 can earn a Junior Adventure Diver certification. Upon turning 12, they can complete the deep dive and earn a Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
Divers certified as Junior Advanced Open Water Divers automatically become Advanced Open Water Divers at age 15. Any replacement certification card or eCard purchased the day after the diver’s 15th birthday will automatically show an Advanced Open Water Diver (not Jr. Advanced Open Water Diver) certification.
AOWD is a great course which really opens up the range of diving activities you can take part in, this is a very practical course with little reading and lots of diving. You do a total of 5 dives. The 2 mandatory dives are Underwater Navigation Dive and Deep Dive. Then you choose 3 of the specialty diving skills listed below. Prior to each of these dives we go through some theory and have a thorough briefing. On the dives there are some exercises to complete and we teach you specific skills to make you an all round better diver.
Underwater Navigation
Learn to navigate using both a compass and natural navigation techniques to find your way around underwater.
Deep Dive
Learn to dive down to 30 meters (Junior Advanced 18m) and increase your diving opportunities. Now you can be the one telling the stories about what you saw on the Deep dive…
Peak performance buoyancy
Although we will be working on your general diving skills throughout the course, this dive will concentrate 100% on your buoyancy skills. We will be taking you into our specifically designed underwater structure to hone your skills.
Drift Diving
Not much swimming involved here, just get in the water and let the current take you along the reef.
Computer Diving
Increase your allowable bottom time while staying well within the safety limits, this module covers use of diving computers.
Wreck dive
Explore the sunken ships in the deep blue and learn how to behave diving by a wrack.
Boat diver
Learn boat diving etiquette, terminology, and important do’s and don’ts.
Fish identification dive
Learn how to identificate various types of fishes underwater!
Underwater Digital Photography
This speaks for itself, but isn’t as easy as you think as unfortunately fish don’t pose.
Night Diving
Diving by torchlight, this specialty opens up a whole new world, as the daytime life goes to sleep, the night shift comes out in the form of lobsters, crabs, shrimps and the phosphorescence has to be seen to be believed.
This course can save lives
Rescue Diver Course
The PADI® Rescue Diver course will change the way you dive – in the best possible way. Learn to identify and fix minor issues before they become big problems, gain a lot of confidence and have serious fun along the way. Discover why countless divers say Rescue Diver is their favorite scuba course.
The water training sessions are serious fun. You’ll practice handling scenarios such as a leg cramp and assisting a tired diver by role-playing with other students and your instructor.
The rescue diver course is a challenging & informative course that will build your confidence as a recreational diver. You will complete 12 Open Water Training Exercises which emphasize a divers ability to be flexible and adapt to a variety of different emergency situations. Once you have mastered these exercises you will get the chance to test your skills in a number of staged emergency scenarios.
By the end of the course you will have expanded your knowledge of diving, increased your level of diving skill and be more aware of what is happening in the diving environment.
All this training will prepare you to properly respond to diving and other emergency situations, and could one day help you to save a life. At the end of this course you will be prepared to become a Padi Professional and enrole in the Dive Master course.
Requirements
• Open Water Diver/Adventure Diver/Junior Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification) with completed Underwater Navigation Dive; EFR Primary and Secondary Care training (or qualifying training) within 24 months
• Total time commitment: min. 2-3 days
• Minimum age: 12 years or older
• Depth: max 40m
Prerequisites
• Rescue Divers certified between the ages of 12-14 earn a Junior Rescue Diver certification. Any replacement certification card or eCard purchased after the diver’s 15th birthday will automatically show a Rescue Diver (not Jr. Rescue Diver) certification.
• Any diver with an Open Water (or Jr. Open Water) Diver certification may enroll in a PADI Rescue Diver course, complete Rescue Diver eLearning and participate in Rescue Exercises in confined water.
• To participate in open water Rescue Exercises and be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver, the student must complete the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and hold a PADI (Junior) Adventure Diver certification. A PADI (or other qualifying) Advanced Open Water Diver certification also meets this prerequisite.
• Certification also requires CPR and first aid training within the past 24 months. If you don’t have this training, you can enroll in an Emergency First Response® (EFR) Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course with your PADI Instructor.
Take This Course If You Want to
• Be a better dive buddy
• Improve your navigation skills
• Enroll in a divemaster course
Learn How to
• Help other divers
• Fix minor gear issues
• Use an emergency oxygen kit
Leader who mentors and motivates others
Dive Master Course
Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.
Share your passion for scuba diving by becoming a PADI Divemaster. As a divemaster you’ll supervise scuba diving activities and assist with scuba classes. PADI Divemaster is the first step in your diving career.
The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities.
Topics and practical workshops include
• The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
• Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
• Diver safety and risk management
• Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
• Business of diving and your career
• Awareness of the dive environment
• Dive setup and management
• Mapping an open water site
• Conducting dive briefings
• Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive
• Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course
• Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs
Prerequisites & requirements
• Age Requirement: 18 years or older
• Course: Rescue Diver, 40 logged dives, CPR and First Aid certification within 24 months, medical clearance to dive
• Time Commitment: Approximately 50 hours