Advanced Scuba Courses

When you are ready to advance your dive training, West End Divers offers the full range of Padi Scuba instruction from Advance Open Water course, through the professional rating of Padi Divemaster. For those wishing to expand their skill levels, we also offer almost all the Padi Adventure Dives, and Specialty Courses (we are sorry, the Ice Diving Specialty is not available at this time).

Scuba Refresher Course

Has it been a while since you’ve been Scuba Diving? Do you feel like your Scuba skills and knowledge are a bit rusty? Our team will help you review the equipment and skills learned in your Open Water class.

Adventure Diver

The Adventure Diver course is a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Have you always wanted to try Digital Underwater Photography, Fish Identification or Deep Diving? There’s a long list of Specialty Courses you can take part in during this program.

Night Diver                  Wreck Diver                Deep Diver

Drift Diver                   U/W Photography       U/W Navigation

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Advanced Open Water Course

Take the next step with the Advanced Open Water Course! For this course there are two required diving specialty skills- Deep Diving and U/W Navigation. For the additional three elective dives, you can choose from a variety of Adventure Dives.

Emergency First Response

Learn to manage accidents and emergencies in PADI’s internationally accredited First-Aid Course. This program will prepare you to handle not only diving emergencies, but also the basics of Primary and Secondary Care, treating injuries, administrating CPR, and more.

Rescue Diver Course

The Rescue Diver course will develop your confidence as a diver, give you experience in emergency management and prevention. Most divers fine this course both demanding and rewarding. You will learn:

Self Rescue

Recognizing and managing stress in other divers

Emergency Management

Emergency Equipment

Rescuing panicked divers

Rescuing Unresponsive divers

Master Scuba Diver

After you have obtained your Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver certifications, and have completed five specialty courses, you are qualified to obtain this rating. You have expended the effort to improve your skills and experience, so why not gain the recognition you deserve?

PADI Divemaster Course

Are you ready to take your scuba diving to the next level? Become a PADI Professional and take your career anywhere. See our PADI Divemaster page for all the information you need to get started.