FLED/DiveCenter | PADI Open Water Skills List
The PADI Open Water Skills are surprisingly easy to learn and most people enjoy practicing them a lot. Best of all you get rewarded with a scuba diving certification after completing all the skills.
Practicing the scuba skills from this list can be fun, but sometimes also little scary. Every person is different and it depends on your comfort level and motor skills how easy completing the PADI Open Water Diver Skills will be.
You can learn these PADI Open Water Skills by enrolling in a PADI Open Water Diver Course at FLED Dive Center. You can explore our website for more information. After you successfully completed the course with a PADI Instructor you receive the PADI Open Water Certification.
Scuba Diving is considered a fairly safe activity and problems rarely happens. If problems do occur during a scuba dive you can in almost all cases easily solve them.
PADI Open Water Skills List:
- Dive Equipment Assembly
- Put on dive equipment using proper technique
- Buddy Check
- Giant Stride Entry
- Inflate/Deflate BCD at the Surface
- Buoyancy Check at the Surface
- No Mask Breathing Surface
- Snorkeling
- 5 Point Descent Over Sensitive Bottom
- Regulator Clearing Two Methods
- Regulator Removal & Recovery
- Partially Flooded Mask
- Alternate Air Source Stationary for 30 Seconds
- Swim Maintaining Buoyancy
- Air Check
- Skin Dive
- Snorkel to Regulator Exchange
- Fully Flooded Mask
- Mask Removal & Replacement
- Air Depletion & Signal
- Mask Removal & Replacement for 1 Minute
- Exit Using the Ladder
- Cramp Release at the Surface (with a buddy)
- Neutrally Buoyant (Fin Pivot LPI - Optional)
- Cramp Release Underwater (with a buddy)
- Hover for 30 seconds
- Alternate Air Source Swim for 1 Minute (with a buddy)
- CESA - Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent
- Tired Diver Tow 25 Meters
- Scuba Unit Removal & Replacement at the Surface
- Hover Orally Inflate for 1 Minute
- Free Flowing Regulator for 30 Seconds
- No Mask Swim
- Emergency Weight Belt Drop
- Weight Belt Removal and Replacement Underwater
- Scuba Unit Removal and Replacement Underwater
- PADI Mini Dive
- PADI 5 Point Ascent
- Orally Inflate the BCD at the Surface
- Equipment Disassembly
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