All PADI Courses and Specialties.

Create your own scuba diving journey. Find an overview of all PADI Courses and Specialties available at Scuba Elite.


Overwhelmed? Get in touch and let’s create a personal plan together. If you already did find some inspiration, book your next scuba diving adventure on Bonaire with us here.

Learn to dive.

BEGINNER

Start diving and immerse yourself in the blue waters of Divers Paradise. Getting started is easy. Choose your beginner program and enroll online with PADI eLearning After finishing your dive theory, complete your in-water training in just a few days at Scuba Elite.

all prices include dive equipment and tanks, but exclude PADI eLearning fees

Discover Scuba Diving

You want to try scuba diving, but aren't quite ready to take the certification course. The Discover Scuba Diving is the perfect fit for you and no prior experience with scuba diving is necessary.

Course details.
Duration: 4 hours
Including: all dive equipment
Price: 129 usd per person

Optional: If you are really enjoying diving, you can book an additional scuba dive right after your first diving experience for 59 usd per person, excluding a tank.

Open Water Diver eLearning

In 2 to 3 days, we will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to become a certified diver. We'll take you through the fundamentals of diving, including equipment setup, underwater communication and safety procedures. But that's not all - our experienced instructors will guide you through a series of open water dives, giving you the opportunity to put your new skills into practice and explore the beautiful underwater environment of Bonaire.

Course details.
Duration: 2 - 3 days
Including: all dive equipment
Price: $365 per person

Open Water Diver eLearning
Referral course

Your time on Bonaire is precious and you want to get the most out of it. That’s why the Open Water Diver Referral course is probably your best solution!

Start your dive theory at home and complete your confined water sessions with a dive shop near you. After completion, your local instructor will give you a referral form. Finish your Open Water course with us on Bonaire in only 1,5 day!

Course details.
Duration: 1,5 day
Including: all dive equipment
Price: $299 per person

Improve your skills.

CONTINUE DIVING

You are a certified diver who wants to enhance scuba skills. Discover more of the underwater world and improve your knowledge to unlock more dive sites and experiences. The famous wreck ‘The Hilma Hooker’ is ready to be explored by you as an Advanced diver. The Advanced Open Water course and the PADI Specialty Program are just some clicks away.

all prices exclude dive equipment, tanks and PADI eLearning fee if applicable

  • Your PADI certification never expires, but if you haven't been diving in a while, it's better to be over-prepared than risk a problem because you forget something important.

    Get underwater again and refresh your diving skills within a few hours. Together we will review the dive theory, practice some skills you learned earlier and go on a fun dive together.

    Course details.
    Duration: 4 hours
    Including: dive equipment and a tank
    Price: $69 per person

    Buy your elearning here

  • The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills during 5 dives. Exploring wrecks, depths and learning to navigate? This will all be covered in the Advanced Open Water course.

    Besides learning about underwater navigation and deep diving we will make three types of specialty dives that interest you. This course is truly about having fun and gaining experience as a diver!

    Course details.
    Duration: 1,5 to 2 days
    Excluding: dive equipment, tanks and additional gear (dive computer, compass and knife) is not included in the price
    Price: $199 per person

    Buy your elearning here

  • The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills during 5 dives. Exploring wrecks, depths and learning to navigate? This will all be covered in the Advanced Open Water course.

    Besides learning about underwater navigation and deep diving we will make three types of specialty dives that interest you. This course is truly about having fun and gaining experience as a diver!

    In this course package there is an add-on. After buying your Enriched Air Diver eLearning, you will also become a certified Enriched Air Diver.

    Course details.
    Duration: 1,5 to 2 days
    Excluding: dive equipment, tanks and additional gear (dive computer, compass and knife) is not included in the price
    Price: $199 per person

    Buy your advanced elearning here
    Buy your enriched air diver elearning here

  • The Advanced Open Water course consists of five adventure dives. Navigation and deep diving are mandatory, and together with your instructor you will choose the other three Adventure dives.

    A night dive is one of those possible Adventure dives. For an additional $25 per person we are excited to show you the reef by night. Hunters are awake, while the reef goes to sleep. It’s an amazing adventure and will give you the confidence to explore more dive sites by night.

    Course details.
    Duration:
 1,5 to 2 days
    Excluding: dive equipment, tanks and additional gear (dive computer, compass and knife) is not included in the price
    Price: $224 per person

    Buy your advanced elearning here

  • This course will make you more aware of your surroundings on a dive site, under water or on the boat. We have a vast experience in safety courses, so Scuba Elite is the place to be to become a more confident diver and a better dive buddy. During the course you will learn how to proper prevent and, respond to, emergencies.

    You'll practice multiple scenarios such as a leg cramp and assisting a tired diver by role-playing. Learn how to help other divers, improve your navigation skills, fix minor (gear) issues and use an emergency oxygen kit.

    At the end of the course there will be two scenarios for you to participate in to show your rescue skills. This is a super fun and hands on course to enhance your skills as a diver and possible to become a dive professional in the future.

    Course details.
    Duration: 1,5 to 2 days
    Excluding: dive equipment, tanks and a pocket mask
    Price: $269 per person

    Buy your rescue elearning here

Specialty courses.

Choose your own adventure and enhance your scuba diving skills! Learn more in depth about for example deep diving, wreck diver or fish identification.

Would you like to reach the highest level of recreational diving? Join us with 5 specialties, and you will become a PADI Master Scuba Diver. At Scuba Elite we offer two different packages at a special rate. Learn more about Eco Master Scuba Diver or Explore Master Scuba Diver in the menu below.

CONTINUE DIVING

all prices exclude dive equipment, tanks and PADI eLearning fee if applicable

  • If you like making multiple dives in one day, or taking multi-day dive trips, getting Enriched Air Nitrox certified will unlock longer dives and shorter surface intervals.

    Enriched air, also known as Nitrox or EANx, contains less nitrogen than regular air. During this course, you will learn how to analyze a tank, fill out an enriched air log, and set your dive computer for Nitrox.

    Course Details.
    Important: this is a non-diving course.
    Number of dives: 0
    Duration: 1 hour
    Price: only eLearning costs, you will pay $0 at Scuba Elite

    Buy your enriched air diver eLearning here

  • Try deep diving and explore more of the underwater world. You will have a chance to visit the famous Hilma Hooker on Bonaire.

    During the Deep Diver course, you'll learn how to plan deep dives, manage your gas supply and how to identify and manage narcosis. Also you'll learn about buddy contact procedures, safety considerations and buoyancy control at depth.

    As a result you will dive to a maximum depth of 40m/130ft. During four dives with a PADI Instructor, you'll practice descents, buoyancy and safety stops. Through hands-on exercises, you'll discover how deep dives affect color, physical objects and your brain.


    Course Details.
    Number of dives: 4
    Duration: 1,5 to 2 days
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $236 per person

    Buy your deep diver elearning here

  • Wrecks are fascinating! Do you want to take a closer look at the Hilma Hooker?

    Every wreck is different. During the Wreck Diver course, you’ll learn how to explore different types of wrecks by investigating their layout, history and hazards, and practice specialized wreck diving skills. During four dives with your instructor, you’ll survey and map a wreck, practice special finning techniques and may use penetration lines.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 4
    Duration: 1,5 days
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $236 per person

    Buy your wreck diver elearning here

  • Help recover lost items by effective underwater search patterns and techniques, and learn how to use a lift bag.

    If someone loses an item underwater, you can be the diver that finds the missing object. During this Search and Recovery Course you’ll learn how to find lost objects underwater and practice different types of underwater search patterns. Besides that, you will learn how to use a lift bag.

    During four dives, you'll locate objects large and small using different search patterns, and eventually plan your own search operation.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 4
    Duration: 1,5 day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $236 per person

    Buy your search and recovery elearning here

  • If you've wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course and see the dive sites of Bonaire in a different way.


    Although you've been scuba diving at a site many times before, at night you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.

    Proper training will make your first night dive more enjoyable. You’ll learn how to navigate in the dark, where the most interesting creatures hang out, and gain night diving tips from your instructor. Practice underwater navigation at night and learn how to find entry and exit points in the dark. Your instructor will share night diving tips, teach you how to stay in contact with your buddy, and avoid disorientation.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 3
    Duration: 2 afternoons
    Excluding: dive equipment, tanks and dive light rental
    Price: $199 per person

    Buy your night diver elearning here

  • Tired of getting lost? Learn how to navigate underwater like a pro!

    The PADI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. Practice using a compass on the surface, then apply your skills underwater during three dives. Learn how to estimate distance, follow natural clues and practice finding your way back to the shore.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 3
    Duration: 1 to 1,5 day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $199 per person

    Buy your underwater navigator eLearning here

  • Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. Buoyant divers observe aquatic life more easily without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too! The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves your buoyancy skills and elevates them to the next level.

    Buoyancy control is essential to becoming a confident, relaxed diver. Being perfectly balanced allows you to use air more efficiently and approach marine life in a conservative way. You will learn how to determine how much weight you need and where to place the weights to streamline your body position. During two dives you’ll fine-tune your weighting and master neutral buoyancy with inwater practice.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 2
    Duration: half day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $119 per person

    Buy your peak performance buoyancy elearning here

  • Make a difference on every dive. Learn during the Dive Against Debris Diver Specialty course how cleanups keep your dive sites healthy, and learn how to contribute to a global database that documents our planet’s marine debris problem.

    You will participate in a Dive Against Debris survey and take real action keep your dive sites from ocean plastic and debris. Sort, record and report the marine debris you collect. After your dive, you’ll weigh, sort, record, dispose of and report your marine debris to the PADI AWARE Foundation™ database.

    Plan and execute a dive with a buddy to remove underwater marine debris and show appropriate judgment as to which objects should and shouldn’t be removed from the ocean.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 2
    Duration: half day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $75 per person. This money will be donated to an charity foundation on Bonaire.

    Buy your dive against debris elearning here

  • If you’re looking for an adventurous dive and contribute to a healthy reef, this is the specialty for you! The Lionfish is an invasive species here on Bonaire. Meaning, they don’t belong to our reefs natural habitat.

    After a hurricane the lionfish ended up on our reefs without any natural predator to hunt on them. This means they ended up on the top of the food chain really quick. The lionfish eats and hunts on the fish that keeps our underwater eco system in tact. So by doing that, the lionfish disturb our reefs.

    As a Lionfish hunter you’re allowed to hunt on these predators with the guidance of a local hunter. Join us in the battle against the Lionfish and dive for a healthier reef. After the theoretical session, we will practice with the hunting device and go for two dives.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 2
    Duration: half day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $175 per person

    This course is not available in eLearning, you will receive a manual at Scuba Elite to study your knowledge development.

  • Would you like to see new things, even at dive sites on Bonaire that you visited many times before? If it’s a yes, sign up for the Underwater Naturalist Course!

    During this course, you will get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. Why will you see new things? Because we will focus on symbioses, underwater ecology, aquatic plant and animal habitats. You will notice behaviors between for example the parrotfish and the trumpetfish. Also probably, you will see creatures you may have previously missed.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 2
    Duration: half day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $165 per person

    This course is not available in eLearning, you will receive a manual at Scuba Elite to study your knowledge development.

  • “What was that fish?” One of the most asked questions heard after a dive. Do you want to be the scuba diver with the answers, then take the Fish Identification Specialty course. After this course, you will enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures and can identify the main fish families and their characteristics.

    During two dives, you'll learn how to identify characteristics of local fish families and species. Fish survey techniques and strategies.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 2
    Duration: half day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $165 per person

    This course is not available in eLearning, you will receive a manual at Scuba Elite to study your knowledge development.

  • Ever wondered which turtle you saw during your dive? Our Caribbean Sea Turtle ID Specialty will help you identify all the different sea turtles and their behaviors on Bonaire during two dives. After this course, you are confident enough to tell your dive buddy’s which turtle you saw, and which differentiates them from each other.

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 2
    Duration: half day
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $165 per person

    This course is not available in eLearning, you will receive a manual at Scuba Elite to study your knowledge development.

  • Would you like to reach the highest level of recreational diving? Join us for 5 specialties, and you will become a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

    Our “Eco” Master Scuba Diver Program consists of five specialties:

    1. Fish Identification

    2. Underwater Naturalist

    3. Caribbean Sea Turtle Identification

    4. Lionfish Hunter

    5. Dive Against Debris eLearning

    Course Details.
    Number of Dives: 10
    Duration: flexible planning, 3 to 4 days in total
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $599 per person

    The other four specialties don’t have an eLearning, so Scuba Elite will provide you manuals to complete your knowledge development

  • Would you like to reach the highest level of recreational diving? Join us for 5 specialties, and you will become a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

    Our “Explore” Master Scuba Diver Program consists of five specialties:

    1. Deep Diver eLearning

    2. Underwater Navigator eLearning

    3. Search & Recovery eLearning

    4. Wreck Diver eLearning

    5. Night Diver eLearning

    Course details.
    Number of Dives: 18
    Duration: flexible planning, 6 days
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks
    Price: $999 per person

Become a Pro

Explore your limits.

BECOME A PRO

Want to be surrounded by people that share your passion? The blue ocean of Bonaire as your office? Turtles, rays, sea horses and all the other cool marine animals as your colleagues? Become a PADI Professional and turn your passion into a job! Start your career at Scuba Elite and contact us for options.

all prices exclude dive equipment, tanks and PADI eLearning fee if applicable

  • You are not a diver yet, but you are planning to become one and continue your diver training all the way to divemaster? Our “Zero to Hero” program is your best choice.

    Program Details.
    The following courses are included in the program:

    1. Open Water Diver eLearning

    2. Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning

    3. Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) eLearning

    4. Rescue Diver eLearning

    5. Emergency First Responder eLearning

    6. Emergency Oxygen Provider

    7. Divemaster eLearning

    Price: $1999 per person. This price is excluding the PADI Divemaster fee.
    Including: dive equipment and tanks for your Open Water Diver course
    Excluding: dive equipment and tanks for all following courses: Advanced Open Water Diver, Rescue Diver and Divemaster
    Duration: our planning is flexible, so we will put together a plan to make your dream come true.

    If you have questions about this program, please contact us. We can for example set up an online meeting and provide you with all the answers you need. We are also willing to discuss all the possibilities for internships at Scuba Elite to become a divemaster.


    At Scuba Elite you will receive a manual for the Emergency Oxygen Provider to complete your knowledge development part of the course.

  • Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities and work (and travel) around the world. Do what you love! Not convinced if Divemaster is your next step? First check out the new free PADI introduction to Divemaster.

    Sounds like a dream? Make it reality and contact us to see if our course matches your plans.

  • Are you willing to really work towards learning people how to dive and become a PADI open water scuba instructor? Assistant Instructor is the last step. Contact us for more information and let’s put together a plan to make your dream come true.

Emergency Care
& Safety.

We also offer Emergency Care & Safety courses for businesses and groups

  • An accident can happen anywhere at any time. By participating in the Emergency First Response training you will learn how to perform CPR and provide first aid to someone in need, wether it’s inside or outside the water.

    Learn skills and built confidence to step forward and provide care. At Scuba Elite we will teach you what to do in the critical moments and how to provide care until emergency medical services arrive. Assess a variety of injuries and illnesses and practice bandaging and splinting. Get hands-on experience administering CPR using a special manikin and apply your new skills in a role-playing scenario. After this course, you will definitely be prepared when an accident occurs.

    Course Details.
    Important: this is a non-diving course.
    Number of Dives: 0
    Duration: 1 day
    Price: $119 per person

    Buy your Emergency First Responder eLearning here

  • Knowing how and when to use emergency oxygen is a great skill to have and means you're ready to help others should the need arise.

    Becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider gives you the tools knowing that you can recognize scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen, and are prepared to offer aid.

    Course Details.
    Important: this is a non-diving course.
    Number of Dives: 0
    Duration:
    Price: $160 per person

    This course does not have an eLearning. Scuba Elite will provide a manual to get you through your knowledge development.

FAQs.

  • Yes, absolutely! We are more than happy to assist and advise you, because we understand that all the different courses and specialties can be a little overwhelming. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We are really looking forward to meet you.

    Contact us:

  • PADI eLearning is the knowledge development part of your course. You need to work through all the theory, before your in-water activities start at Scuba Elite.

    PADI eLearning had two major benefits:

    1. You will save time during your stay on Bonaire, because you can start learning at home with your own device.

    2. At Scuba Elite, we are trying to be as environmental friendly as possible. This means that we deliver all our courses and specialties eLearning if available, because this means less paper.

    What are the consequences of PADI eLaarning for the course and specialty prices?

    An eLearning course or specialty consists of 2 parts you need to pay for:

    1. eLearning through padi.com (knowledge development)

    2. In-water training sessions at Scuba Elite

    First you will buy your knowledge development at the padi.com website. After you finish your eLearning, you contact Scuba Elite to make an appointment to finish your course with in-water-training sessions. For your training at Scuba Elite, you will pay at our dive shop. This means, you will pay for two different parts of the course at two different places: one part at padi.com and the other part at the Scuba Elite dive shop. The price displayed on the website is only the price for the in-water training activities at Scuba Elite.

    Courses that are not eLearning will be fully charged at the dive shop.

    For the exact rates, please check out our pricelist.

  • Since it’s our mission to discover the reefs of Bonaire in a more personal way, we only offer courses and specialties in a group with a maximum of four divers.

  • We do not have a real-time schedule available for you yet. We are working on this at the moment.

    But, we are happy to tell you that we are very flexible and have instructors and dive guides available. Please contact us, and make sure you pre-book your preferred service as early as possible.

  • After you’ve decided which course, specialty or other services you would like to book, please contact the dive shop and reserve your spot.

    Your options to get in touch:

  • You can reach us in many different ways:

    We are looking forward to meet you!