Dive Courses

lessons in the pool

The Byron Bay Dive Centre is the only diving facility in Byron Bay that issues PADI, SSI and NAUI diving certifications.

All confined water training is conducted at the dive shop, an instructor training facility, located in the heart of Byron Bay. Here we have a fully equipped classroom and a training pool heated to 25 degrees Celsius.

All open water-training dives are boat dives conducted at Julian Rocks Marine Reserve. Here you will swim with tropical species such as turtles and manta rays, as well as many interesting southern ocean animals including friendly blue gropers and wobbegongs. All this only a five-minute boat ride from Byron Bay.

Qualified scuba diving instructors supervise all course dives.

The following PADI, SSI and NAUI dive courses are available at the Byron Bay Dive Centre:

Introductory Course
This course starts every day and takes approximately 5 hours to complete. The course includes equipment hire, one swimming pool lesson and one dive at the Julian Rocks Marine Reserve with an instructor.

Passport Diver
The Passport certificate starts every day and only takes 2 days to complete. The course includes equipment hire, tuition, swimming pool lessons, and two scuba dives at Julian Rocks Marine Reserve.

Dive course poolside teaching

This course certifies you to dive with a divemaster anywhere in the world. Also you can upgrade this certificate to Open Water level anywhere in the world by completing the difference (ie. 2 swimming pool lessons, 2 dives and theory).

Open Water Diver
The Open Water course takes four days to complete. The course includes equipment hire, tuition, swimming pool lessons, 4 scuba dives and a snorkelling lesson at Julian Rocks Marine Reserve.

single diver in trench

Once certified you will be able to dive independent of an instructor, at any dive shop anywhere in the world.

Refresher Course
The scuba Refresher starts every day and takes approximately 5 hours to complete. The price includes equipment hire, one swimming pool lesson and one dive at the Julian Rocks Marine Reserve with an instructor.

 Advanced Open Water
The advanced course takes 3 days to complete and includes specialty dives such as Boat diving, Underwater naturalist, Navigation diving, Drift diving and Deep diving.

Rescue Course
The Rescue course takes three days to complete. This course includes classroom sessions, 2 pool sessions and 4 boat dives.

resuscitation training in the pool

The rescue course is divided into two components. The first deals with recognising and avoiding stress whilst engaged in diving activities and hence avoiding rescue situations. The second component deals with rescue management and the initiation of rescues.

Divemaster
The Divemaster course is both fun and challenging, instilling you with the necessary skills to perform as a confident dive leader.

Dive group posing underwater

This program takes eight days plus we have traineeships available for the right candidates.

Open Water Instructor
The Open Water Instructor course takes you the next step from Divemaster level. This course will provide you with the necessary skills to be an effective dive educator.