Underwater Sports Scuba Classes

Diving Certification

Learning how to scuba dive is fun and easy!
Your Scuba lessons begin with academic study at home, at your convenience. Complete your academic and confined water training in our retail facilities and heated pools. After completing four adventure dives in the Puget Sound (See Referral Information), you've completed the requirements for your Open Water Scuba Diver Certification card!

Before your class begins...

As a new diver, you'll need to provide some items in order to begin your diving adventure.
These items are:

To make it easy on you we offer packages specifically designed for new scuba students.
Your course tuition includes the use of everything else you'll need for the course including Regulator System, BCD, Tanks, Weights, and Wetsuit.

Students should also download and fill out the
PADI Medical Questionnaire. If any of the answers are "YES", students will need a doctors approval prior to the first class session.

Tuition Explained...

SCS Package

The Scuba Certification System (SCS) is designed to get a new student everything they need to begin class. This system provides the student with high quality equipment that is theirs to keep.
The SCS package includes:

Quality Mask
Flexible Snorkel
Standard Booties
Open Heel Fins – (Paddle Style)
Use of Gloves for the Adventure Dives
Academic Materials
Course Tuition

You will find the SCS Package under the Tuition Options when registering for your course on-line.
Upgrades to the items in the package are available at special prices for students, ask about them when you come in to get sized and pick up your equipment and books. For comfort and efficiency we strongly suggest upgrading the fins to Open Heel Split Fins.

Tuition and Books

This option is available to students who already have their own Mask, Snorkel, Fins, Booties and Gloves.
This package includes:

Academic Materials
Course Tuition

We will want to inspect your personal equipment well prior to the start of the class. For safety reasons we reserve the right to approve/disapprove any items for safety and/or suitability reasons.

Tuition

This option is for students who already own their Mask, Snorkel, Fins, Booties, Gloves, and Academic Materials.
This package includes:

Course Tuition

We will want to inspect your personal equipment well prior to the start of the class. For safety reasons we reserve the right to approve/disapprove any items for safety and/or suitability reasons. Please bear in mind that Academic Materials cannot be shared, each student is required to tear out the original exercises and turn them in to the instructor.

Convenient Scheduling

Underwater Sports offers classes to fit anyone's schedule. We offer one, two, and three week programs, day, evening, or weekend classes.
For trickier schedules, we offer one–on–one private instruction based around your schedule.

Class Referrals

Referrals are available for students who either don't want to, or don't have time to complete the Adventure Dives in Puget Sound. Students doing a referral program receive paperwork which they take with them to other parts of the world to complete their dives.

We do not recommend referrals... new divers certified in temperate waters tend to find diving in warmer waters easy, the opposite is definitely not true. Plus completing your class during your vacation wastes time that you could spend fun diving!
You will end up paying whoever is finishing your Referral for your Adventure Dives, this can be quite expensive depending on where you are going.

There is no cost difference between a Full Open Water Course and a Referral Course. Students who complete a Referral Course receive a one weekend gear rental FREE when they return from their trip.

Let's Go Diving!

After certification, we offer numerous opportunities to continue diving. Join us for local one day and weekend trips throughout Washington and British Columbia.

We're on the cutting edge of exotic tropical dive travel too. As the Northwest's top dive travel center, Underwater Sports runs several guided trips each year to the best dive destinations in the world!

Join the Underwater Sports MudSharks. Our in–house dive club offers new divers, and old, a chance to meet dive buddies, plan dives and events, and just get out and dive. Membership is free, all you need to do is sign up and you're on–board.