RMIT Underwater Club -- PADI Courses and Training

2007 SCUBA Diving and Course Information

Opportunities exist for current members to enroll in advanced or specialist dive courses at heavily subsidised rates. Places are limited, so contact the Underwater Club for further details. The RMIT Underwater Club arranges dive courses for club members at substantial savings.

PADI Open Water Course
PADI Advanced Open Water Course
PADI Rescue Diver Course
PADI Dive Master Course
Dive Instructor Contact & Course Dates

PADI Open Water Course

Get ready for an adventure!

You are about to experience the excitement and beauty of the underwater world. You will discover diverse aquatic wildlife, mysterious ship wrecks and an amazingly beautiful world. Port Phillip Bay is home to wildlife and wrecks that will capture your interest and imagination for a lifetime. You are about to discover that it is not possible for a non-diver to understand what diving is really like. You will see marvellous and fascinating aquatic life first-hand, as well as experiencing sensations which are unique to diving - like the thrill of breathing under water for the first time, and the feeling of floating weightless.

The PADI Open Water Course will give you the training and skills you require to visit the underwater world in safety.

Photo courtesy of Simon Rickard ©

For further details, see program outline (PDF)

Advanced Open Water Course

Are you looking for new underwater experiences? Would new skills help expand your diving opportunities? Do you want a chance to pursue diving activities that really interest you?

The Advanced Open Water course allows you to get a taste of different underwater experiences - explore the wonders of deep diving on the famous World War 1 submarines, the mystery of diving at night amongst the leafy sea dragons at Portsea, the freedom of being able to navigate your own way around a dive site or just simply drift along and explore the wonders of the underwater world. The Advanced Open Water Diver course involves two compulsory adventure dives, deep and navigation, plus three dives that you choose from dives such as Night, Drift, Naturalist, Boat, Wreck or Search and Recovery.

Photo courtesy of Simon Rickard ©

For further details, see program outline (PDF)

Rescue Diver Course

"Diver, Diver. Are you ok??!" How would you react to a diving emergency? Can you assist your buddy until help arrives? Do you know how to prevent diving accidents before they happen?

What better way is there to develop your confidence in the water and prepare you for professional level courses than learning how to take care of someone having a problem? Rescue training is good to possess for all circumstances. To realize that you could help someone in the water that has problems makes your own diving second nature.

This is a course that we take very seriously, but also make a lot of fun, providing training in realistic scenarios with a touch of humour. Over a minimum of two days we conduct classes in treating with oxygen, responding to distressed divers above and below the water and focus on preventing problems. Rescue training is a must for the active enthusiastic diver.

It is also the beginning of a career in diving and leads into the divemaster and instructor courses. CPR training are prerequisites for completion of a PADI Rescue Diver course. We can complete this training for you, or accept other valid certifications.

Photo courtesy of Simon Rickard ©

For further details, see program outline (PDF)

Dive Master Course

Are you ready for challenge and responsibility? Do you want to increase your diving knowledge and skill level? Are you considering becoming a Dive Leader or a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor?

If you answer "yes" to one or more of these questions, then the PADI Dive master program is for you. It's a great industry to be a part of. Sit down at a table with a group of dive instructors and dive masters and you are surrounded by a table of stories from diverse cultures and talents. We've all been attracted to the dive industry from a variety of backgrounds, drawn together by a passion for diving and a desire to live in the tropics. Whether you are a computer programmer stuck behind a desk, glued to a screen, or a student tired of living in libraries, or simply just lost for direction in life, diving offers a great career and loads of opportunity.

The dive master course offers you a lifestyle. You get to do, day after day, what you enjoy doing. The dive master program not only allows you to gain more diving experience, but also teaches you how to guide dive tours and control groups of students.

The dive master course involves developing your knowledge of dive theory, assisting on dive courses to develop control and problem-solving of diving activities; guiding tours and map-making, working on customer relations and underwater navigation; and a lot of fun.

For further details, see program outline (PDF)

Dive Instructor Contact & Course Dates

You can view the 2007 PADI Dive Course Summary including course dates as a PDF document.

Our Chief Club Instructor, Simon Rickard, is happy to give you more information about SCUBA dive training with the RMIT Underwater Club. Please contact:

Simon Rickard on lcp@sellen.org.au

Being a dive professional is not just about a career it is a lifestyle