PADI Open Water Courses
Beginner Diver Scuba Diver; Minimum Age 10
eLearning Option
$405 Total
$175 +PADI eLearning $230
Referral Certification
eLearning Online
$505 Total
$275 +PADI eLearning $230
Full Certification
eLearning Online
Complete your academic learning online at your convenience. You will purchase the eLearning course from PADI. Download the manual and complete classroom and quizzes at home or on the go. Please use our eLearning link to purchase online courses from PADI and select Scuba Nashville as your dive shop.
Classroom Option
$372 Total
$372 +PADI Manual/DVD Shipping $8.95
Referral Certification
Classroom Option
Minimum 4 students
$485 Total
$485 PADI Manual/DVD
Shipping $8.95
Full Certification
Classroom Option
Minimum 4 students
Study the book and watch the videos at home, then come to our classroom for the written tests. Your instructor will go over the quizzes and answer any questions before you take the final exam. We have class most every week and pool training most every weekend.
* Referral Certification includes 2 pool training sessions. Referral does not include your 4 required open water check-out dives, and certification card. You’ll complete the 4 open water dives over 2 days while on your vacation destination. The instructor with whom you complete your 4th dive will certify you.
† Full certification includes 2 pool training sessions and your 4 required dives over 2 days, but does not include the $25 per day quarry entry fee for the 4 open water dives.
We dive in TN all summer while the water and weather is warm.
With eLearning option you complete your academic learning online at your convenience. You purchase the eLearning course from PADI. Download the manual and complete classroom and quizzes at home or on the go.
Please use our eLearning link to purchase online course from PADI and select Scuba Nashville as your dive shop. You must associate your eLearning with Scuba Nashville, if you do not associate your eLearning with us, you pay the classroom option price.
How PADI eLearning courses work.
Purchase the PADI eLearning course for yourself
or give them as a gift.
You will receive and an email from PADI with your receipt and the link to “Start eLearning”
You may use the link yourself, or forward it as a gift. Once you finish your online classroom you’re ready for your pool training.
We provide all gear for your first pool sessoon. Two pool session are included.
Extra pool sessions only cost $20 each. Come to as many extra pool sessions as you need.
Call us anytime during your online class. Your instructor will go over the questions you missed and answer any questions you have.
We have instructors available from 10:00 AM until 10:00 PM.
Call anytime for more information. 615-955-3483
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PADI Scuba Lessons Starting Every Week
Scuba certification is earned in 3 easy steps;
- Academic in classroom or eLearning at home.
- Pool Training
- SCUBA Check-out dives.
Full Certification option: You will complete your dives with Scuba Nashville
Referral Option: We will refer you to another instructor to complete your dives on vacation.
You may start anytime. You will progress at your own speed. We don’t keep all students in a group. Join any class or any pool session anytime.
- Prices are based on minimum of 4 students per classroom, and 6 students per pool or quarry session.
- Private SCUBA lessons are available for $200 divided by all attending students. An addition $25 per student will be added to pool or quarry dives.
SCUBA Quarry training located in Nashville.
You will not have to drive out of town to complete your check-out dives.
* SCUBA Lessons are non transferable and non refundable*
- Classroom sessions require a minimum of 4 students.
- Pool training and quarry dives require a minimum of 6 students.
- Private sessions cost $200. An addition $25 per student will be added to pool or quarry dives.
PADI Scuba Lessons include all gear for pool training.
All you need is a bathing suit and a towel.
We have PADI, NAUI and SDI Scuba dive training every weekend.
Continuing Education
Advanced Open Water - $185 +eLearning fee
Advanced is the most fun. Mostly all we do is dive. There is very little studying. You may start your Advanced certification as soon as you earn your Open Water Diver.
Includes: Five SCUBA Dives. Tanks and weights for your 5 dives.
Not-Included: Quarry entrance fees, gear rental, PADI eLearning or PADI Manual.
The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You will complete 5 dives; Neutral Buoyancy, Navigation, Deep Dive, and 2 others of your choice.
For the PADI Advanced Open Water Lessons, you should have or rent your own equipment. We provide tanks and air. You will have to make five actual dives (check-out dives). You will need a wetsuit for the deep dive in TN. The location of the check-out dives is up to you. In the Summer we dive locally, in the Winter we go to Florida.
Advanced PADI Certification Special
Sign up for Advanced Diver during your Open Water class and save $50. You will also receive free Scuba Gear rental for your Advanced Dives. Save a total of $90. Ask your instructor for details.
Rescue Diver Classroom Option- $275 +PADI Manual
Rescue Diver eLearning Option - $195 + PADI eLearning fees
You will need to purchase the $25 PADI Manual or, $189 PADI eLearning separately.
Learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver. Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken.
Includes:
- SCUBA rescue diving scenarios
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- Emergency management and equipment
- Panicked diver response
- In-water rescue breathing protocols
- Egress (exits)
- Dive accident scenarios
Required Equipment:.
- PADI Rescue Diver Manual $25 (or Optional eLearning fees)
- Your own SCUBA gear
- Wreck Reel
- Signaling devices both audio and visual (Safety Sausage)
- Pocket Mask for rescue breaths
- Cutting sheers or knife
- Compass
Rescue Diver students should have your own SCUBA and rescue equipment. We provide tanks and air. There will be 5 training sessions over two days, and a 50-question final exam.
Master Diver - $450
Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver. The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you’ve spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.
PADI Divemaster
PADI The PADI Divemaster course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, like perfecting the effortless hover, and refine your rescue skills so you anticipate and easily solve common problems. You’ll gain dive knowledge, management and supervision abilities so you become a role model to divers everywhere.
As a PADI Divemaster, you’ll lead others as you supervise scuba diving activities and assist with diver training. Whether you want to work at a faraway dive destination or close to home at a local dive shop, the adventure of a lifetime awaits you. PADI Divemasters are respected dive professionals who are aligned with the largest and most respected dive organization in the world.
$450 Includes:
All tanks during your course.
Not included:
-Study materials, Divemaster Crew-Pak #60553 *Call for current discounted price.
-PADI Divemaster membership fee ($128?) to be paid to PADI after completion of course.
You must have your own scuba gear. (BCD, Regulator, wetsuits, dive computer, and safety equipment)
Prerequisites:
- Minimum age 18
- 40 logged dives to start.
- Must own your own scuba gear
- Medical Physical
Divemaster Internship - $450
PADI Divemaster Crew Pak #60553‐ Digital DM w/Slates/Pro Bag- *$430.92
Specialty Courses
Complete you online classroom with PADI eLearning then complete your in water training with Scuba Nashville
The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba course. Why? Because scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives. If staying down longer and getting back in the water sooner sounds appealing, then don’t hesitate to become an enriched air diver.
If you’re a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enroll in the Enriched Air Diver Specialty course. Note that in some regions the minimum age is older than 12.
Reg. $200 eLearning, ($145 Classroom option special with purchase of any other lessons. Requires 4 students minimum to schedule a classroom session)
DPVs offer a thrilling way for scuba divers to see a lot of underwater territory in a short amount of time. They scoot you through the water allowing you to glide over reefs, buzz around a large wreck or weave through a kelp forest. Whether making a shore or boat dive, a DPV is a great way to see more and have fun doing it. (2 Dives Minimum)
If you’re at least 12 years old and a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher, you can enroll in the PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle course.
If you’re at least 15 years old and have earned a PADI Adventure Diver certification or higher, you can enroll in the Wreck Diver Specialty course. (2 Dives Minimum)
Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you’re going. The PADI Underwater Navigator 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. (3 Dives Minimum)
If you’re a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 10 years old, you can enroll in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. (3 Dives Minimum)
It happens: People accidentally drop things from docks, off boats or even while scuba diving. If you’ve ever lost something in the water and wanted to go find it, then the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. There are effective ways to search for objects underwater that increase your chances of success. And there are good and better methods to bring up small, large or just awkward items. Search and recovery can be challenging, but a whole lot of fun.
PADI (Junior) Advanced Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old can enroll in the Search and Recover Diver course. PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers with a PADI Underwater Navigator certification also qualify. (4 Dives Minimum)
Much of the world’s best scuba diving is accessible only by boat. Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course will benefit you because boats in various parts of the world do things differently. Scuba diving from a boat is fun and relatively easy because you usually descend directly onto your dive site.
If you’re a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 10 years old, you can enroll in the Boat Diver course. (2 Dives Minimum)
The lure of the deep. There’s something exciting and mysterious about exploring deeper dive sites while scuba diving. Sometimes it’s a wreck that attracts you below 18 metres/60 feet, and on wall dives it may be a giant fan or sponge. Whatever it is, to scuba dive with confidence at depths down to 40 metres/130 feet, you should take the PADI Deep Diver Specialty course.
If you’ve earned the PADI Adventure Diver rating or higher, and you’re at least 15 years old, you can enroll in the Deep Diver course. (4 Dives Minimum)
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 Diver Specialty course.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 12 years old, can enroll in the Night Diver specialty course. (3 Dives Minimum)
Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery, potentially unlocking a mystery or spying something others have missed. The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course is popular because it offers rewarding adventures while observing responsible wreck diving practices.
If you’re at least 15 years old and have earned a PADI Adventure Diver certification or higher, you can enroll in the Wreck Diver Specialty course (4 Dives Minimum)
Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course. (2 Dives Minimum)
Description
Includes:
One Pool Session
Two Open Water dives
Not Included: PADI FFM Manual, or eLearning.
Working divers, such as public safety divers, use full face masks because they protect the eyes and nose from contaminants in the water, provide comfort in cold water, and allow for communication. If you’re interested public safety diving, scientific diving, or venturing into extremely cold-water, then learning to dive with a full face mask is definitely for you. Because full face masks allow you to breathe from your nose, they are also beneficial for those who have difficulty using standard scuba masks. Diving with a full face mask offers a different experience and that alone may be reason to give it a try.
You need to be a PADI Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old to enroll in the Full Face Mask Diver course.
Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and with so many underwater cameras to choose from, it has become easier and more fun than ever to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures. The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly, whether you use a point-and-shoot camera or a sophisticated dSLR like the pros.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 10 years old are eligible to take the Digital Underwater Photographer course.
Upgrade from Scuba Diver to full Open Water Certification - $199
You may upgrade from Scuba Diver to Full PADI Open Water Diver. Scuba diver is popular with resorts and cruise ships. Scuba diver is restricted to 40 feet and must dive with a dive professional. Open Water Diver may dive to 60 feet with any certified dive buddy.
Your upgrade includes the PADI written exam, pool training and refresher, and your remaining 2 required check-out dives.
SCUBA Self Refresher - $99
Haven’t been diving in a year or two and want a quick scuba refresher before putting your gear back on? SCUBA Nashville’s Self Refresher program is the perfect way to update your dive skills and knowledge from you Open Water Diver Course before jumping back into the water. Come try out your new gear or use our gear. The self refresher is independent practice time for about an hour. If you need an instructor and a signature you will need the Full Refresher.
It’s quick and easy, and a good way to prepare for your next PADI course or get ready for a dive vacation. The price of this dive includes pool entrance fee, tank, weight, and any gear required. You get to play in the deep end for an hour or so. Sorry we don’t offer refresher course if its been over several years since your last logged dive.
FULL SCUBA Refresher - $199
You will need a FULL Refresher if you haven’t been diving for several years? You will need to Reactivate with PADI. (PADI Reactivate Link).
SCUBA Nashville’s FULL Refresher with an instructor. This program is the perfect way to update your dive skills and knowledge from you Open Water Diver Course before jumping back into the water. Our FULL Refresher Pool Dive starts with a briefing from your PADI professional on the fundamentals such as equipment set up, pre-dive buddy safety review. From there you will gear up and jump into the pool and complete all the in-water skills review, buoyancy check and finish up with some fun.
It’s a good way to prepare for your next PADI course or get ready for a dive vacation. After this pool dive you will have the confidence and skills to safely participate in additional deeper dives on our regularly scheduled boat trips. The price of this dive includes the instruction, tank, weight, and any gear required. Sorry we don’t offer refresher course if its been over 10 years since your last logged dive. Full Refresher you will join an open water class and complete all the skills. It will take 2 or 3 hours depending on your comfort level. You will need to Reactivate with PADI. (PADI Reactivate Link)
Try SCUBA - $100
This is your chance to try SCUBA without signing up for class. Spend an hour diving in a large, deep, indoor heated pool. If you decide you like SCUBA and sign up the same day, you may deduct the $50 from your SCUBA certification price. Pay with check or cash at pool to receive $50 deduction. I’ll even bring an underwater camera so you may take pictures of yourself and friends.