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PADI Scuba Diving Certification Classes in Minnesota | PADI Scuba Diving Certification courses | At Scuba Center we've been teaching scuba diving certification classes since 1973. We were Minnesota's first PADI 5 Star Training Facility and have grown to become Minnesota's largest Scuba School (Dive Shop). We feature certification from PADI, the worlds largest diver training organization. PADI Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Divemasters teach and offer scuba diving services in more than 180 countries. This means wherever your dive travels take you, you can be confident the local diving community will recognize your PADI certification card. | Now offering PADI eLearning online diver education courses! | PADI Five Star Instructor Development Centers meet all PADI Five Star Dive Center standards and provides the same level of service. They also meet additional training requirements and offer PADI Instructor-level training. If your goal is to become a PADI Scuba Instructor find a PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center near you, by visiting the online PADI Dive Shop Locator. | Eagan and Minneapolis locations

At Scuba Center we've been teaching scuba diving classes since 1973. We were Minnesota's first PADI 5 Star Training Facility and have grown to become Minnesota's largest Scuba School.

We feature certification from PADI, the worlds largest diver training organization. PADI Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Divemasters teach and offer diving services in more than 180 countries. This means wherever your dive travels take you, you can be confident the local diving community will recognize your PADI certification. To locate class information, dates, and pricing click on the appropriate class link below. If you are looking for forms please see our forms page.

Scuba Center offers both traditional courses and PADI eLearning.
 

Beginning Scuba Lessons in Minnesota | PADI Open Water Diver | The PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Open Water Diver Certification course consists of two parts: classroom and pool training, followed by four open water training dives. Upon completion of both parts you will be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver. This beginning certification is recognized in the US, Caribbean and around the world. | Scuba Center Beginning Scuba Lessons

PADI eLearning Options
PADI eLearning Scuba Certification Courses | Start your scuba lessons online!PADI eLearning is internet based (online) course work that you can access from anywhere via the world wide web. With PADI eLearning, you can sign-up and complete the knowledge-based dive training from the convenience of your home, office or on the road, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. After completing the online knowledge-based portion of the course, the PADI eLearning system plugs you into training with your PADI Instructor at Scuba Center for the best part: diving!
 
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PADI Open Water certification Dives in Minnesota | The fun part about this course is . . . well, just about all of it because learning to dive is incredible. You breathe underwater for the first time (something you’ll never forget) and learn what you need to know to become a certified diver. During the course, you’ll make four open water certification dives dives at local dive sites under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. | Scuba Center PADI Open Water Certification Dives

PADI Advanced Open Water Classes in Minnesota | Exploration, Excitement, Experiences. They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver course. The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving. | Scuba Center PADI Adventures in Diving (Advanced Open Water)

PADI Rescue Diver Classes in Minnesota | “Challenging” and “rewarding” best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course. Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur. The PADI Rescue Diver crewpak includes all materials required to complete the PADI Rescue Diver course – including a pocket mask. You’ll learn how to think like a rescue diver and preview skills you’ll practice with your PADI Instructor. | Scuba Center PADI Rescue Diver

PADI Divemaster Course in Minnesota | Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications. | Scuba Center PADI Divemaster
PADI Professional Development Class Information | Instructor Development Courses in Minnesota Instructor Development Courses PADI Professional Development Class Information
Look to our PADI Instructor Development section for more information on certification courses from PADI Divemaster to PADI Instructor and beyond (including EFR - Emergency First Response Instructor information). | PADI Five Star Instructor Development Centers meet all PADI Five Star Dive Center standards and provides the same level of service. They also meet additional training requirements and offer PADI Instructor-level training. If your goal is to become a PADI Scuba Instructor find a PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center near you, by visiting the online PADI Dive Shop Locator. | We are proud to serve Eagan and the surrounding communities including: Apple Valley, Burnsville, Cottage Grove, Farmington, Hastings, Inver Grove Heights, Lakeville, Little Canada, Maplewood, Oakdale, St. Paul, St. Paul Park, Stillwater, West St. Paul, Woodbury,... PADI Assistant Instructor PADI Specialty Instructor
PADI IDC (Instructor Development Course) PADI IDC Staff Instructor

EAN Specialty Certification | Enriched Air Nitrox Diving Classes in Minnesota Nitrox Courses Enriched Air Nitrox Diving Classes in Minnesota

More people are diving with enriched air and this means the demand for enriched air fills is also increasing. However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the PADI Gas Blender course comes in.

 DSAT Nitrox Gas Blender

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives. | Enriched Air Nitrox Diving Classes in Minnesota

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  PADI Enriched Air eLearning
Online Diver Education

DAN provides comprehensive training to the dive community by disseminating the latest information on topics related to diving safety through articles, reports, seminars, lectures and training programs. Safety and Medical Emergency First Response (EFR) provides convenient CPR, AED and first aid training for corporations, community groups and individuals.

DAN classes in Minnesota | DAN Education fulfills a key element of the DAN Mission by educating the diving public and the medical profession on the appropriate care for divers injured in dive accidents. This education takes on many forms, disseminating information on topics related to dive safety through articles, reports, seminars, lectures and training programs. | Diver Education: The first step in being prepared to handle a diving emergency is education. DAN courses teach you the first aid steps to care for an injured diver and interact with medical professionals.| www.diversalertnetwork.org

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EFR classes in Minnesota | Emergency First Response is the fastest-growing international CPR, AED and first aid training organization. With more than 31,000 instructors worldwide, Emergency First Response is backed by 36 years of experience in the development and delivery of instructional courses, training materials and educational curricula. Emergency First Response courses have gained widespread international acceptance. | www.emergencyfirstresponse.com

 Emergency First Response (EFR)
DAN Neurological Assessment Emergency First Response Instructor
DAN Emergency Oxygen Provider  
DAN Instructor Qualification Course IQC

PADI Specialty Diving Certification Class Information | Eagan and Minneapolis, Minnesota Specialty Classes & Experience programs PADI Specialty Diving Certification Class Information | Eagan and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Deep Diver Specialty * Full Face Mask Specialty * Sidemount Diver Specialty *
Diamond Reef Buoyancy Training Ice Diver Specialty * Snorkeling
Discover Scuba Night Diver Specialty * Underwater Navigator Specialty *
Dry Suit Diver Specialty * Scuba Review Underwater Digital Photo Specialty *
Equipment Maintenance Specialty * Search and Recovery Specialty * Wreck Diver Specialty *
* These courses count toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver.  Master Scuba Diver is the highest non-instructional certification in the PADI system of diver education.  For this level of achievement you must have 50 logged dives and hold PADI Rescue Diver certification along with five PADI Specialties.

All non commercial diving is categorized as recreational and within recreational diving there is sport and technical. Sport diving includes your open water certification, advanced scuba diver, and many other specialty course. Technical diving picks up where sport diving ends generally at nitrox (a breathing gas with oxygen levels greater than 21 percent). Nitrox is most divers first step into technical but it has also become very popular amongst sport divers so TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures would be a great start. Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures for the foundation of technical diving all other course will build on the knowledge and skills learned during these courses. Technical Diving Courses Although technical diving is commonly thought of as deep, there are a lot of courses that stay within the sport diving limits (40 m / 130 feet) such as Advanced Nitrox, Semi Closed Circuit Rebreather (SCR) and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) and Advanced Wreck to name a few. TDI has course curriculums that take you as deep as 100 m / 330 feet and do so in a manner that each course builds on the last and each course takes you a little deeper. By receiving training in this manner not only are your skills and knowledge increasing but so is your comfort level. | Technical Diving Certification Class Information
TDI is the largest technical diving certification agency in the world. As one of the first agencies to provide training in mixed gas diving and rebreathers, TDI is seen as an innovator of new diving techniques and programs which previously were not available to the general public. Training with TDI has provided divers with the opportunity to see such wrecks as the Andrea Doria, Luisitania and the Prince of Wales. TDI divers have explored underwater caves in Spain, Australia and Mexico and assisted as support divers on world record freedives done in the Red Sea. TDI’s professionals are held to the highest standard to ensure quality training throughout the world. This means that as a diver taking a TDI course, your instructor will have documented his experience and knowledge prior to achieving that rating. As an instructor candidate taking a TDI course, your TDI instructor trainer will have gone through the paces to achieve the highest level of training that TDI offers. TDI is committed to offering the highest quality technical diving training supported by the latest materials with the most up to date information and techniques. TDI’s training materials are written by authors that acutely conduct the type of diving they are writing about. Those same training materials are updated as technology and equipment change. | Technical Diving EducationTechnical diving picks up where sport diving ends, generally at nitrox (a breathing gas with oxygen levels greater than 21 percent). Nitrox is most divers first step into technical but it has also become very popular amongst sport divers so TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures would be a great start. Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures form the foundation of technical diving all other course will build on the knowledge and skills learned during these courses.
SDI Solo Diver TDI Advanced Nitrox TDI Decompression Procedures

PADI Scuba Diving Certification Class Forms Class Forms and Policies PADI Scuba Diving Class Information
Class Fee and Cancellation Policy PADI Medical Form -- (PDF)

The American Council on Education (ACE) recommends certain PADI certification courses for college credit.  A university or college may apply the credit to your major replacing a required course or a general elective.  Always contact your college or university before applying for credit.
 

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Scuba Center is proud to be a DAN Business Member | Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit medical and research organization dedicated to the safety and health of recreational scuba divers and associated with Duke University Medical Center (DUMC). They also offer a wide range of Scuba Diving and Dive Equipment Insurance programs. DAN is supported by the largest association of recreational scuba divers in the world. | "Your Dive Safety Association" | Join Divers Alert Network at www.scubacenter.com Find Scuba Center on Facebook | "Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc." | Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. | Follow Scuba Center on Facebook to keep up with the latest news in scuba diving equipment, snorkeling equipment, local diving, dive travel, and more. HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime. Follow Scuba Center on YouTube | Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. Videos available on YouTube include scuba diving equipment, snorkeling equipment, dive travel, and scuba diving techniques.
 

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