PADI is the world's largest diver training organisation and St Nicholas Beach Diving Centre is Zakynthos's leading PADI Diver Development Centre. With a fully equipped class room and situated close to ideal open water training sites we are dedicated to giving you the best in diver training.
Whichever PADI course you choose from, learning to dive upto professional, you will immediately be impressed with the friendly, encouraging, professionalism of all our instructors.
The ratio of students to instructor is very small, often one to one which means you get the individual attention to progress at your pace!. On arrival in resort your course is tailoured to your holiday schedule and plans
PADI COURSES
SCUBA DIVER COURSE: Conducted over 2 days (min), this diving course has recently been introduced by PADI for those who wish to do shorter certification courses. This certification allows you to dive to a maximum depth of 12 meters under the supervision of an Instructor or Divemaster. Should you wish at a later stage at your convenience, further continued education qualifies
you to your Open Water Diver certification.
OPEN WATER DIVER COURSE: Normally a 4 day (min) program, the course can be done in sections. For example you could do the academics at your local PADI dive centre and once completed you would be issued a referral form for you to continue your diving course in our warmer clearer waters. Alternatively you could do the entire Open Water Diver course with us in a relaxed fashion according to your holiday schedule. This certification allows you to dive anywhere else in the world.
ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE: Basic Advanced Open Water Course including 5 dives conducted over 3 days (min). Specifically for improving your diving skills, this fun course offers you
the opportunity to learn diving specialties such as night diving (now not a compulsory dive), deep diving, underwater navigation, underwater photography, multilevel planning, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater digital photographer and many more...
EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE: A requirement for the Rescue Diver Course. A 1-2 day course ideal for both divers and non-divers. Everybody should take advantage of learning all about CPR
and life saving techniques by our highly experienced instructors.
RESCUE DIVER COURSE: Your next step in diver education. Within 4-5 days this course will teach you how to assist another diver under various circumstances and self rescue diving skills. On completion this allows you to follow the Master Scuba Diver certification or the professional rating of Divemaster.
SPECIALTIES: We offer many dive specialties such as deep diver, underwater navigation, wreck diver, night diver, peak performance buoyancy. However underwater photography is one of our favourite specialties. Underwater photography is most rewarding as afterwards you can take your diving memories back home with you!
MASTER SCUBA DIVER COURSE: 5 PADI specialties together with your Rescue Diver certification will prove that you have attained diving's highest non professional rating.
DIVEMASTER: Your step into the professional world of scuba diving. In a friendly working environment, the candidate will have the opportunity to learn all the aspects of the diving industry. The requirements for the completion of this rewarding course are: 60 logged dives, the same understanding of the academics as required for Instructor level and a good overall performance in all dive related activities.
