Start Your Scuba Adventure

At Anacortes Diving & Supply, we offer personalized training designed to help beginning scuba divers build confidence and develop the skills they need to enjoy the underwater world.

Our professional instructors will guide you step by step, from your first introduction to snorkeling and scuba through more advanced diving skills. You’ll train with modern equipment and learn practical techniques that make diving safer, easier, and more enjoyable.

Our scuba certification program combines three essential parts of training, each building on the last to prepare you for your first dives as a certified scuba diver.

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Step One:

Online E-Learning (Homework)

Once you sign up for your SDI Open Water Scuba Diver class, you’ll receive access to SDI’s online learning program. Before your first night of in-person class, you’ll complete the e-learning at your own pace from the comfort of your home.

You’ll learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including underwater safety, how pressure affects your body, dive planning, and scuba equipment. On the first night of class, your instructor will review the material with you, answer any questions, and make sure you’re ready to move on to the in-water portion of your training.

Step Two:

pool practice dives

Now it’s time to put your knowledge into action! During your pool sessions, you’ll learn how to assemble and use your scuba gear, experience your first breaths underwater, and practice the essential skills you’ll need for your open water dives.

With 8 hours of pool training, we give you significantly more time in the water than the typical 5-hour pool session offered by many dive shops. That extra time means more opportunity to practice your skills, build confidence, and work through any questions or gear concerns with your instructor before heading into open water.

Step Three:

Open Water Diving

Now it’s time to put everything you’ve learned into action! Your open water dives are where you’ll take the skills you practiced in the pool and apply them in the real underwater environment.

Our certification includes 3 full days of open water diving, compared to the 2 days commonly offered by other dive shops. That extra day gives you more time to practice, gain valuable experience, and enjoy diving in the beautiful underwater world of the Pacific Northwest.

Course Fees

Course Fee

Ready to start your scuba adventure? Our SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course is a two-week program that combines online learning, weeknight classroom and pool sessions, and two weekends of open water diving.

You’ll build your knowledge and skills throughout the course, progressing from e-learning to pool training and finally putting everything into practice during your
open water dives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

Group Open Water Course: $799 per person

Private Open Water Course: $1,499 per person

Upcoming Course Dates

Additional
Course Costs

Student Educational Kit: $159.99

Your Student Educational Kit provides access to your SDI online academic training, which you’ll complete before your first night of class.

Whats Included

What's Included

Your course tuition includes:

  • At Anacortes Diving & Supply we pride ourselves in operating a Professional Dive Center with the students’ safety as our number one concern!
  • More pool practice time, 8 hours of pool instead of most stores 5 hours.
  • More Open Water Dives, 3 days of diving instead of 2! This makes you a better and more confident diver.
  • We offer both Drysuit and Nitrox Specialty options with your Open Water Course
  • Locally owned and operated in Anacortes for over 40 years! Our experience makes a difference.

Personal gear is not included, but we have a great selection of masks, snorkels, fins, boots, and gloves right here at Anacortes Diving & Supply-with package deals available for our students!

Schedule Your Equipment Fitting

Personal Gear

You’ll need your own mask, snorkel, fins, boots, and gloves for your course. One of our trained staff members will walk you through the equipment and paperwork for class as fit and comfort are extremely important in Scuba, especially here in the Pacific Northwest!

A $50 personalized equipment fitting fee is collected when you sign up for the course. Once you complete your fitting and take the course, that $50 is refunded to you toward the purchase of your personal gear.

Requirements

Scuba diving certification badge from Anacortes Diving.

Requirements

  • Be in good health, a moderately good swimmer, and at ease in the water. The swim test consists of swimming 200 yards and treading water for 10 minutes.
  • Be at least twelve (12) years of age by the beginning of class. Any student between the ages of 12-14 must take a private open water scuba course.
  • Students are required to own their personal snorkeling system (mask, snorkel, fins, boots & gloves) by the first class session. We have several packages to choose from.
  • Class tuition, student kit, consultation fee and signed contract is due in full to save your spot for the course.
  • This student kit includes your on-line code, paperwork, logbook and carrying case.

Forms

Forms

Below are the forms that need to be completed before first day of class. If medical is not fully completed before first day of pool practice, You will have to reschedule at your own cost.

SDI Diver Medical Participant QuestionnaireOpen Water Class Learning Agreement