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PADI Online Scuba Training
Start your scuba training digitally whenever, wherever it’s convenient for you. PADI eLearning is the easiest way to fit scuba lessons into your busy schedule. Work at your own pace, online or offline, using your computer or mobile device. Schedule in-water training whenever you’re ready.
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Available eLearning Programs
Beginner
Open Water Diver
Learn how to safely explore and protect the underwater world, perform basic dive skills and set up scuba equipment.
Beginner
Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care
Learn CPR, how to provide first aid to ease pain, and how to assess and respond to injuries in the critical moments until medical help arrives.
Continuing-Education
Advanced Open Water Diver
Take your dive skills to the next level. Practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving, and make three specialty dives of your choice.
Continuing-Education
Rescue Diver
Learn to identify and fix minor issues before they become problematic, respond to dive emergencies, and recognize and manage stress with other divers.
Continuing-Education
Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
Extend your bottom time, shorten your surface intervals and dive deeper on repetitive dives.
Continuing-Education
ReActivate Scuba Refresher Program
Haven't been diving in awhile? Renew your scuba skills and move quickly through topics you know well to build confidence for your next underwater adventure.
Continuing-Education
Digital Underwater Photographer
Share your adventures and learn how to use underwater strobes, reduce backscatter, safely photograph marine life, and choose photo equipment.
Continuing-Education
Dry Suit Diver
Learn how to control the air in your drysuit, buoyancy, common drysuit problems, and basic repairs and maintenance in order to dive more places.
Continuing-Education
Deep Diver
Reach new depths, discover new dive sites, and learn about deep dive planning, dive limits and gas management.
Continuing-Education
Underwater Navigator
Find the boat without surfacing, learn how to use a diving compass, and improve your navigation and underwater observation skills.
Continuing-Education
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Find the perfect balance: Dive with less weight, and improve your buoyancy control and air consumption.
Continuing-Education
Wreck Diver
Learn how to survey and explore wrecks responsibly with special finning techniques, lines and reels, and avoid common problems.
Continuing-Education
Night Diver
See the underwater world after sundown and learn how to navigate, ascend and descend, and use your dive light to communicate at night.
Continuing-Education
Search and Recovery Diver
Help recover lost items, plan a search operation, improve your navigation skills, learn underwater search techniques and how to use a lift bag.
Continuing-Education
Equipment Specialist
Avoid missing dives and learn how to manage basic gear repairs, fix equipment problems, and clean, maintain and protect your equipment.
Continuing-Education
Diver Propulsion Vehicle
See more, conserve air, and learn how to manage your depth, avoid issues and travel faster with a DPV.
Continuing-Education
Drift Diver
Gain confidence diving in currents and practice buoyancy control, entries and descents, and using surface signaling equipment.
Continuing-Education
Boat Diver
Learn boat diving etiquette, terminology, how to properly stow gear, and potentially practice using lines or deploying a surface marker buoy (SMB).
Professional
Dive Theory
Gain professional level knowledge about how diving affects the body, how to identify and avoid diving injuries, and how different dive gear works.
Professional
Divemaster
Gain professional level skills to lead dives, assist with classes, give a dive briefing and conduct scuba refresher training.
Explore Your Options
1
Learn to Dive Close to Home
Complete the online training while connected with a PADI Dive Shop near you and complete 100% of your training close to home.
Benefits: take as much time as you need and connect with your local community of divers
2
Start at Home, Finish on Vacation
Complete the online training and pool training with a local dive shop and complete the open water dives while on holiday.
Benefits: support your local dive shop, don’t waste valuable vacation time studying and practicing skills, spend more of your vacation time diving
3
Learn on Vacation
Complete all elements of your scuba course (independent study, pool practice, and open water dives) — while on vacation. Use PADI eLearning to finish your independent study online before or during travel to minimize classroom time.
Benefits: learn to scuba dive abroad, meet other student divers from other parts of the globe
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PADI eLearning FAQs
Get answers to the most common questions about PADI’s online courses.
How long do I have access to my eLearning program?
The most popular online PADI programs do not expire. Take as much time as you need to complete: Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Enriched Air Diver and the Instructor Development Course (IDC). After finishing your online training, you can go back and review the study material as many times and for as long as you want.
For PADI eLearning programs not listed above, access expires after 12 months. You’ll receive an email 90 days and 60 days before access to the program expires. If you lose access, don’t worry, you can still complete your training. Contact a PADI Shop to discuss your options.
I want to change the PADI Dive Shop associated with my course
Once registered, you can’t change the PADI Dive Center or Resort associated with your online program; however, you may complete your training with any PADI Dive Center, Resort or Instructor worldwide. Where you complete your training is up to you, so it’s not necessary to change the store or instructor associated with your online program.
Can I buy a PADI eLearning program as a gift?
Of course! PADI eLearning gift passes allow you to give the gift of scuba diving to anyone in the world with an email address. You can even include a custom gift message. Visit the PADI eLearning gift pass page to learn more or purchase a program.
How do I access my online material offline?
If you plan to be somewhere without internet access, use the PADI Training app to download course content in advance. Use the app to study offline, and when your internet connection is restored, upload your progress.
The PADI Training app is available for Android and iOS. For the ideal experience, devices should be no more than 3 models old and updated with the most current OS.
You don’t need the PADI Training app to access your online material, only offline. You can use a mobile browser or desktop/laptop browser to complete your scuba training online whenever you have an internet connection.
I can’t remember my PADI eLearning login
Your PADI eLearning username is the email address you used during registration. If you have already tried your primary email, try any secondary or older email addresses. Your password information will be sent to the email address associated with your account. If you’ve forgotten your password, you may also reset your password.
I still need help
No problem. Our customer service team is available to help Monday-Friday during regular business hours. When your local PADI Office is closed, your PADI Dive Shop may also be able to help.
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