Children and Diving

Padi Discover Snorkeling: never snorkeled before ? A bit scared or not a water talent? No worries, you can start of the beach here in water where you can stand up in, we offer life jackets and personal coaching. If you feel well after one day, then you can take your guide with you to our snorkel sites in Open Water.You will see it is easy and you can have lot’s of fun ! No minimum age, children (until 18 years) need written permission from their parents. This is fun for the whole family !!!

• Padi Shark AWAREness Distinct Snorkeling Speciality Course: after ca. 2,5 hour classroom discussions with video’s and your instructor, you will go out to safely interact with sharks, while snorkeling. Don’t worry: we do not have aggressive sharks, but we do need to learn some information about them to be able to protect them and find them ! After the snorkeling you will get a Padi Shark AWAREness certification card, which also contributes to the funding for the anti-shark finning and the protect the reef and protect the shark campaigns of project AWARE. (for more information about these projects: www.projectaware.org)

• AWARE Coral Reef classroom course: (one of the best books about nature is included in this course) in combination with your snorkeling trip. Nice to do with your whole family !! Is around 5 hours, also with video and breaks in the classroom and the next day we go out snorkelling to have a look at the reef. After the snorkeling you will get an AWARE Coral Conservation certification card, with which you sponsor the protect the reef campaigns of project AWARE. (for more information about these projects: www.projectaware.org)

• AWARE Kids: After coloring some fish pictures, having a look at Nemo the movie, we go and clean up a bit of beach after which we go into the water to cool of. Fun for the whole family and the children learn some responsibility as well.

• We also offer Emergency First Response (EFR) Courses (CPR, rescue breathing and first aid), Child Care Courses (for first aid for children) & Padi Emergency Oxygen Provider Courses for non-divers and divers. There are no age or other requirements for you to be able to participate in these courses !
  Wouldn’t it be fun to do this with your whole family and isn’t this very important for your children to learn ? The Emergency First Response Course is just a 1 day course ! If you find this very interesting you can add 1 more day and also do the Emergency Oxygen Provider Course and / or the Child Care Course and go more into depth.

• Padi Skin Diver Course: From 8 years children can start with this skin diving course, which next to snorkeling on the surface also teaches children how to responsible and safe dive under water while holding their breath. How to extend your time under water, how to interact with animal life under water, what to do and what not to do ? Fun for the whole Family.

• Padi Seal team: From 8 years, with a minimum of 4 children per group needed. Go on exiting missions under water in a swimming pool on compressed air (this is scuba diving for children until a max. depth of 4 meter in a swimming pool). Let children use their imagination and have a astronauts “free feeling” under water and play while diving on scuba under direct supervision of a Padi scuba dive instructor.

• Padi Bubblemaker Course: From 8 years of age you can do this in a pool or Confined Water until a max. depth of 2 meter with a Padi scuba dive instructor. Become a diver today, feel weightless and learn about diving and fish. We take children in a max.group size of 2 children per dive instructor, just to make sure their safety is very much taken care of.

Video about the Padi Bubblemaker Course

• For information about Padi Discover Scuba Diving and the Padi Junior Scuba Diving and Padi Junior Open Water Diver Courses, and Padi Junior Adventure Diver and Padi Junior Advanced Diver Courses, please see the course pages about these courses or click on the words to get there.

It is important to know that children from 10 and 11 years of age have a maximum depth of 12 meter, children of 12 to 14 (during and after completing their Padi Junior Advanced Course) have a maximum depth of 21 meter. When children of 10 and 11 are doing a diving course, instructors can take a max. of 2 students in this age group and an additional 2 divers that are not in this age group (so max. 4 divers) in one group !