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@myfairpoint.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 $250 and up.  Total cost for certification, starting at $725 (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!