Discover Scuba Diving

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater. If you want to find out, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a full on course,Discover Scuba Diving will let you try scuba to see if you like it. While not an actual scuba certification, during the Discover Scuba Diving experience you’ll learn how to use scuba equipment in shallow water and get a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world.

What You Learn

• You learn the basics you need to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional
• Learn what wearing scuba equipment feels like and how easy it is to move around underwater while wearing it
• Learn some basic skills and safety rules that will carry over to your full scuba certification course when you take the next step

Requirements

•To take Discover Scuba Diving, you must be:
At least 10 years old

What you’ll achieve

•Apart from a fantastic experience like no other, you’ll receive credit towards an open water course if you choose to carry on

Discover Rebreather Diving

The Discover Rebreather experience dive is intended to introduce divers to rebreather diving in a controlled environment. There are several required skills and some optional skills. Most divers will enjoy a less intensive session; spending time swimming in the rebreather and adapting to the differences between OC and rebreathers is the most beneficial and enjoyable experience for them

Requirements

•To take Discover Rebreather Diving, you must be:
Certified as a PADI Open Water Diver or a qualifying certification from another training organization, 18 years old, 15 logged dives.

What you’ll achieve

•Apart from a fantastic experience like no other, you’ll receive credit towards an rebreather diver course if you choose to carry on

Open Water Diver Course

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle. You will gain a qualification that allows you a lifetime of limitless adventure and leave you with a choice of countless diving destinations….
Throughout the course you will learn and develop the fundamentals of scuba diving, including the use of diving equipment and the necessary skills and techniques to cope with problems that may occur.

Confined Water Training

• Five Confined water segments
• Learn and practice scuba diving skills and procedures
• All segments are conducted in the swimming pool

Knowledge Development Sessions

• Five modules for knowledge development.
• Introduce basic principles and professional dive knowledge.
• Completed at your own pace in your own time with the PADI E-learning system.

Open Water Dives

• Conducted on a dive boat at one of our Dive sites in and around the Sai Kung area.
• A total of four Open Water Dives completed within two days.

What’s included :

• PADI Open water Diver Manual or E-learning pass • PADI Log Book • PADI instructor tuition and certification fees • Pool hire, Boat hire and lunch • All required equipment for the course

Pre-requisites:

• Minimum age requirement is 10 years old • Able to swim 200m and tread water for 10mins • Fill out medical history form, liability release form and standards of safe diving practises form

Specialty Courses Lv 1

• Boat Diver - Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently.

• Digital Underwater Photographer - The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today modern digital equipment.

• Dry Suit Diver – Want to stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then dive dry. Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm! Even in surprisingly cold water.

• Emergency Oxygen Provider - Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider.

• Enriched Air Diver - Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

• Navigation Diver - Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.

• Night Diver - Introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down. See your favorite dive sites from a whole new perspective at night.

• Sidemount diver - Find a new and different way to configure your cylinders with the PADI Sidemount Diver course. Sidemount diving offers: an alternative way to streamline in the water , easier equipment transportation when topside, reduced lower back strain, provides redundant gas supply, ability to monitor all equipment because it’s in front of you and increases gas supply for longer dives .

• Peak Performance Buoyancy - Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who’ve mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart.

• Project AWARE Specialties - Project AWARE Foundation is the scuba diving industry’s leading nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to conserving the aquatic environment through education, advocacy and action. Besides completing the Project AWARE Specialty course, you can become a partner in the efforts to preserve the underwater environment.

• Underwater Naturalist - Look closer to see more on your next dive. Look for symbioses, predator/prey and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life. Learn not just what fish and animals are, but how they interact with each other and the environment.

Advanced Open Water Diver

The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.

Knowledge Development

Conducted in your own time via the PADI Adventure In Diving Manual. Once you have chosen the adventure dives you would like to conduct, fill in the relevant sections and bring them into us for record of completion.

Two Required Adventure Dives

• Deep Diving - Extend your range to 30m.
• Navigation Diving – Expand your compass skills using more advanced.

Three Additional Adventure Dives Of Your Choice

• Boat Diver – Learn about the equipment and parts of the boat.
• Night Diver – Plan, organize and learn about the procedures associated with night diving.
• Peak Performance Buoyancy – Learn about your position in the water and establish a comfortable breathing pattern.
• Search and Recovery – Learn about the methodical procedures for searching and recovering objects.
• Underwater Naturalist – Learn about the major aquatic life groups and the roles they play in the underwater world.
• Underwater Photographer – Learn to use and make adjustments to the pictures you take underwater.(Camera not included)

What’s Included

• PADI Adventures in diving manual • PADI instructor tuition and certification fees • Boat hire and lunch on the boat • Use of all training equipment required for the course

Pre-requisites:

• PADI Open Water Diver • 15 Years old(12 for Junior AOW Diver)

Speciality Lv 2

• Search and Recovery Diver - Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost “treasure”? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.

• Tec Sidemount Diver - The course is a great way to get started into technical diving because the skills you learn in this course will train you to handle multiple cylinders on a single dive. You can combine what you learn in the Tec Sidemount Diver course with other open-circuit tec courses that you take, or certifications you’ve already earned, to take advantage of sidemount’s cylinder configuration and handling advantages.

PADI Rebreather Diver

Think rebreathers are just for technical diving? Think again because the latest rebreathers are lightweight, easy-transportable units that use sophisticated electronics to simplify their use. Rebreathers allow longer no decompression limits, reduced gas consumption and unmatched wildlife encounters.

What is a rebreather?

The primary difference between rebreathers and open-circuit units is that rebreathers reuse some or all of the gas you exhale. There are two basic types of rebreathers: closed-circuit rebreathers (CCRs) and semi-closed rebreathers (SCRs).
The PADI Rebreather and Advanced Rebreather Diver courses use Type R units to introduce divers to rebreather diving within recreational dive limits. Type R rebreathers are electronically controlled and provide a back up for all the major systems and simplify training and use.
Because each rebreather model is different, you will need to qualify on each rebreather model. However, once you are qualified you will not need to repeat the entire course to earn your certification with a different Type R rebreather model. The PADI Rebreather Qualifier focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to use a different Type R rebreather model.

Pre-requisites:

• PADI Open Water Diver and PADI Enriched Air Diver certifications (or qualifying certifications from a recognized organization).
• 25 logged dives
• 18 years old

Advanced Rebreather Diver

This course expands on the basic knowledge you have already acquired and provides training to a maximum of 30 metres/98 feet (40 metres/130 feet if you have a PADI Deep Diver certification), including carrying a bailout cylinder.

Pre-requisites:

• PADI Open Water Diver and PADI Rebreather Diver certifications (or qualifying certification from a recognized organization) on the Type R rebreather used in the course.
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification (prior to PADI Advanced Rebreather Diver certification)
• 30 logged dives
• 18 years old

Rescue Diver Course

The PADI Rescue Diver will expand your knowledge and experience beyond purely recreational level because you'll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and well-being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.
Throughout the rescue course you will develop the Diver training you already have into skills that identify problems, how to prevent them and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies.

Knowledge Development Sessions

• Five knowledge development sections to ensure transfer of knowledge.
• Introduction to rescue management and legal procedures.
• Completed at your own pace either with PADI E-learning.

Open Water Training Dives

• Apply the training received in the pool for two simulated scenarios in open water.
• Conduct swimming and non-swimming assists.
• Minimum five sessions over two days (recommendation 25 Hours).

Emergency First Response

• Learn about primary and secondary care that extends beyond the diving world.
• Learn about skills like CPR and shock management and how to apply them to situations that may occur.
• You will achieve a stand-alone accredited CPR/First Aid qualification from the EFR course

What’s Included:

• PADI rescue diver manual • EFR training manual and DVD • Pool hire, Boat hire and Lunch on the boat • Scuba equipment necessary • PADI instructor tuition and fees

Pre-requisites:

• At least 15 years of age (12 for Junior) • Currently holds PADI advanced open water diver or junior certification

Master Scuba Diver

You have the passion. You want to join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. You want to live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world and go places and see things you have never experienced.

By becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction – writing your ticket to endless adventure and opportunities through the experience and scuba training that sets you apart.

The fun part

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you have reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you have acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments. See all the specialty diver courses offered.

Pre-requisites:

• 12 years old
• PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
• PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
• Minimum of five PADI Specialty Diver courses
• Minimum of 50 logged dives

Sidemount Diving

Mandarin Divers is proud to introduce PADI recreational and technical sidemount courses. Sidmount diving is not a new concept, but its application has spread from cave diving to recreational and technical diving. No matter if are a recently certified diver or a seasoned technical diver, you will love and enjoy diving sidemount! Without the need of carying heavy dive tanks in and out of the water.
With the ability to go and dive anywhere with added redundancy of gas and equipment, it is not only safer but also more fun to dive! Sidemount diving is easy.

What you learn

• A different approach to equipment configuration.
• How to configure and wear sidemount diving equipment using two cylinders for recreational diving.
• The different concepts and importance of: streamlining, trimming, advanced finning and buoyancy techniques.

PADI Tec Sidemount Diver Course:

The course goal is to qualify you to setup, plan and make dives using technical sidemount equipment. It requires you to demonstrate mastery of motor skills, buoyancy control, propulsion techniques and procedures used in technical diving.
You will develop your ability to assemble, configure and wear tec sidemount equipment using two main cylinders plus a minimum of two stage decompression cylinders. It provide tec divers the option to add sidemount to their equipment configuration.
The Tec Sidemount Diver certification alone does not qualify you to do technical dives, and it must be accompanied with core level tec diving.
The Tec Sidemount Course can also be run in conjunction with PADI Tec 40/45/50/Trimix 65/Trimix courses

Course includes: 2 knowledge development sessions, 2 practical application workshops, 5 OW training dives. Pre-requiste: AOW, or higher qualification with Tec diving trained background recommended.

What Is Technical Diving?

Technical scuba diving is defined as diving other than conventional commercial or research diving that takes divers beyond recreational scuba diving limits.
It is further defined as and includes one or more of the following:
• Diving beyond 40 metres/130 feet deep.
• Require decompression stops and using accelerated stage decompression with variable gas mixtures during the dive.
• Diving in an overhead environment beyond 40 linear metres/130 linear feet of the surface.
• Because in technical diving the surface is effectively inaccessible in an emergency, tec divers use extensive methodologies and technologies and training to manage the added risks. Even with these, however, tec diving admittedly has more risk, potential hazard and shorter critical error chains than does recreational scuba diving.

Tec diving isn’t for everyone, but for those who hear its challenge call, the PADI TecRec is the answer.

Tec Diver 40m

The Tec 40 Course is the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver course and consists of the first four dives. You'll learn to use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 mins of total decompression and not deeper than 40 metres/130 feet.
Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression. Since it's part of the course, your PADI Tec 40 course training credits toward the PADI Tec 45 and Tec 50 courses.

Prerequisites

• Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
• Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
• Be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
• Have a minimum of 30 logged dives, of which at least 10 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres / 60 feet.
• Have a medical form signed by your physician

Closed Circuit Rebreathers

Technical diving has been revolutionized by the development, availability and reliability of Closed Circuit Rebreathers. CCRs provide numerous benefits to the technical diver, including: reduced gas consumption, optimum EANx blends for decompression and a wider range of solutions to equipment problems.
Consequently CCRs potentially allow the technical diver a greater access to time underwater - greater time based on gas logistics when compared with an open circuit technical diver and more time available to find solutions to gas management problems. As time is a critical and a finite resource divers wanting to dive at and beyond the recreational envelope can now choose PADI Technical CCR training to achieve their goals.

Tec CCR Qualifier Programs

All Tec CCR courses are unit specific. Due to their differences, divers must be qualify on each and every specific unit that they want to dive on. However, once certified you will not need to repeat the entire course again if you want to learn to dive a different Type T CCR. The Tec CCR Qualifier focuses on the knowledge and skills divers need to cross over from one Type T CCR to another.

Tec Diver 45m

The Tec 45 course provides a transitional qualification while continuing to develop as a technical diver. The equipment requirements are the same as for the Tec Deep Diver Course. This diver is qualified to make limited technical decompression dives using the equipment and the procedures used at the Tec Deep Diver level. However, qualifications are narrow, reflecting comparatively limited training and experience. The expectation is that a Tec 45 diver plans to continue on to Tec 50.

You'll learn to

• Make single and repetitive dives to a maximum depth of 45 metres/145 feet.
• Use a single decompression gas of EANx, or oxygen, to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression.

In addition to the Tec 40 course requirements, the Tec 45 course consists of knowledge development, three practical application sessions, one confined or limited open water dive, two open water no stop dives (simulated decompression) and one open water decompression dive.

Prerequisites

• Certified as a Tec 40 diver or provide a qualifying certification from another training organization that qualifies the student to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet using air and EANx using open circuit scuba equipment.
• Certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or provide a qualifying certification from another training organization. Students who meet this prerequisite through a qualifying certification must provide proof of training in CPR and First Aid within the previous two years.
• Minimum age: 18 years.
• Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least 12 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet, and at least 6 (with or without EANx) dives were deeper than 30 metres/100 feet.