Learning to Scuba Dive is fun, safe and rewarding.

The professional staff at Maine Divers Scuba Center can provide instruction from entry level to professional certifications for PADI and NAUI. With PADI eLearning you can begin right now and learn at your convience. Simply click on the PADI eLearning link and follow the instructions to begin diving today! This is a self-paced, web-based instructional program. While you do knowlege development on-line, we will arrange pool time to get you diving, and then coordinate the 4 open-water checkout dives required for certification. If you would like to do a "referral" and do your certification dives on a Caribbean vacation, we can do that! Our staff is available to answer any questions you may have about learning to dive. Contact us at Maine Divers: 207-775-3467; or email us at mainedivers@verizon.net.

BASIC OPEN WATER A scuba course can be arranged to fit your schedule. Call us at 775-3467. Cost: $495. Price includes certification, course materials (or e-learning online), logbook, and use of scuba gear for training. Students provide personal equipment: mask, snorkel, fins, booties, hood and gloves, plus choice of Recreational Dive Planner (RDP), priced from $195 and up. A wetsuit/shorty for the pool is highly recommended (available to buy or rent). Total cost for certification, starting at $690 (depending on personal gear selected).

ADVANCED OPEN WATER Improve your skills and safety and don't be left on the dock. Many dive operators require Advanced Open Water certification for wreck, deep and drift dives. For Advanced Open Water, you may join a class in progress. Come in to sign up and get the book. There are 5 dives: underwater navigation and deep dives are required, plus 3 additional speciality dives (e.g., drift diving, search & recovery, computer/multi-level, night diving, etc). Cost: $425, includes textbook, certification, and two boat dive trips. Students provide own gear (rentals are available). Note: an underwater light is required for the night dive; use of specialized equipment may have additional fees.

RESCUE DIVER Build your skills and confidence as a diver. For Rescue diver you may overlap a class in progress. Cost: $395, includes textbook, certification, and boat dive. Rescue Diver also requires current First Aid/CPR certification.

DIVEMASTER Available on request. Cost: $595; student pays for course materials and PADI Divemaster application fee. Divemaster certification also requires having a current First Aid/CPR certification.

MASTER DIVER Want to get to the top of the bottom sport? Want to show that you have the bottom time and the barnacles to prove it? With Rescue Diver certification, current FA/CPR certification, and 5 five speciality dive certifications, you can become a PADI Master Diver!

Technical Diving Classes

Maintaing proper buoyancy while
manipulating a deco gas cylinder.

Intro to Tech Diving:

The TDI Intro to Tech course is the perfect course for divers who have heard about technical diving and want to find out more about this exciting branch of advanced recreational diving. This course walks students through the special techniques, planning procedures and skills that set technical diving apart from traditional sport diving. It will show them how to improve their dive planning methods, in-water skills and streamline their existing gear configuration, in a non-threatening and fun learning environment. This course requires 3 open water dives.

Advanced Nitrox Diver:

The TDI Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 to a depth of 40 metres/130 feet during dives that do not require staged decompression. Often taught in conjunction with the TDI Decompression Procedures course, this can be considered the foundation of your technical diving career. This course requires 4 open water dives. If conducted in conjunction with the Decompression Procedures course, a total of 6 ocean dives are required.

Decompression Procedures Diver:

As sport divers, planned decompression is not something that we do or have been taught. The TDI Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned, staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 45m/150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal sport diving limits. The TDI Decompressions Procedures course combined with the TDI Advanced Nitrox course forms the foundation of all other technical courses. This course requires 4 open water dives. If conducted in conjunction with the Advanced Nitrox course, a total of 6 ocean dives are required.