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PADI Learn to Dive 4 Day Open Water Course
Highlights
- Learn essential scuba skills in a safe environment with professional instructors during your 4-day course in Cairns.
- Explore the vibrant underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef through guided open-water dives after your training.
- Enjoy personalised attention in small classes of eight, ensuring a supportive learning experience throughout your diving journey.
- Benefit from convenient hotel transfers each day, making your diving adventure seamless and stress-free.
Take the opportunity to learn to dive while you’re in Cairns! With classes limited to eight participants, led by professional and friendly instructors, you’ll learn to dive and earn an internationally recognized PADI certification on your 4-day PADI Open Water dive course. Hotel transfers are included each day, and your course is gradual and safe. Learn basic scuba skills in the classroom, a pool, and confined water dives, then explore the Great Barrier Reef on open-water dives. Once you have completed your course, you’ll be a qualified PADI diver!
Itinerary highlights
Pool and Classroom Training
Spend the first two days learning the theory with classroom lessons and practice basic scuba diving skills, safety drills, and correct ascending and descending techniques during training sessions in a swimming pool.
Outer Great Barrier Reef Cruise
Once you are fully prepared, put your skills to the test in the open waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Enjoy two full-day cruises to the outer reef, each including two guided scuba dives—four dives in all—and experience the underwater wonders of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your instructor will be with you every step of the way to ensure that you stay safe and maximize your chances of spotting marine life, such as tropical fish, reef sharks, stingrays, and sea turtles. Both days at the reef include a delicious barbecue lunch served on board.
Upon completion of the course, you will receive your PADI Open Water Dive Certificate, which allows you to scuba dive up to a depth of 60 feet (18 meters), join certified dive tours, rent diving equipment, and take part in advanced PADI diving courses.
Tour details
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Available from 29 April 2026 to 31 March 2027
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Operation information
Down Under Cruise & Dive – Evolution Outer Reef Cruise
Departing daily from Cairns, travel in style and comfort onboard Evolution, the regions ultimate Great Barrier Reef day-cruise vessel.
Under the guidance of a fun and experienced crew, enjoy 5 hours split across 2 premium outer reef locations chosen for their water clarity, diversity and sheer abundance of marine life.
Upgrade your day to include a SCUBA dive (no experience necessary), and semi-submersible tour or join an exhilarating reef-scenic helicopter flight for a unique aerial perspective of this incredible natural wonder.
Take time out to relax on Evolution’s spacious outer decks, and enjoy a freshly prepared BBQ lunch, as well as complimentary cheese, crackers and a glass of wine on the cruise home.
The quality, affordability and range of experiences on offer place Evolution in a class of its own.
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Accreditations
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ATEC Domestic Ready
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ATEC Indonesia Host
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ATEC Muslim Host
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ATEC Tourism Trade Ready
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ECO Certified (Advanced Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
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Professional Association of Diving Instructors
Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- Queensland Tourism Industry Council
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- QLD – Tourism Tropical North Qld
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