Open Water Diver Course: Become an Independent Diver

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Pula

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Take the first step to become an independent diver with our Open Water Diver course. Learn theory, complete dives, and earn your OWD international certificate. Join us for a fun and educational experience!

Duration: 3 days

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Orca diving centre - The course spans three days, during which you’ll participate in 6 diving sessions. Each day, the morning session begins at 10:00 and concludes around 12:30, followed by a break until 15:00 when the afternoon session starts, ending around 17:30. The first 5 dives take place at our House reef, and the 6th dive is a complimentary…

What's Included

equipment rental
insurance
diving with instructor
e-learning
certification
briefing/debriefing

What's Not Included

Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
Hotel pickup and drop-off

Additional Information

Diving is fun, and this Open Water Diver course is your first step to become an independent diver. The course includes theory part with SSI materials (e-learning, watching movies, discussing with Instructor), 6 dives in the sea with complete equipment, SSI test, OWD international certificate AND T-SHIRT AS A GIFT.
The courses starts every Monday and…

Location

Orca diving centre

Verudela

We are located underneath Yacht club restaurant.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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219philippeg

Jul 4, 2025

Top center to discover scuba diving with great instructor. - Really nice club and top notch service. Exceptional instructor Yohann for my 2 daughters who was very patient. Perfect location also to discover scuba diving.

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K8368ieemilyg

Jun 15, 2025

One dive is never enough! - I decided to do my first solo holiday and a try dive would be the perfect adventure. I fell in love and had to book a course! So my solo holiday became a dive holiday which made it the best kind of holiday! I was made at home with the dive centre, so friendly and willing with advice making you feel at ease! I’ve since used the skills I learned on the course on another dive in a centre in Fuerteventura. I miss this centre so much I plan to book a trip again next year either to fill with dives or to further my education on another course! If I should say WHEN you book here you will not be disappointed! Beautiful part of the ocean.

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Luofeng_h

Oct 5, 2022

For this three-day... - For this three-day course, Marin is my instructor. He is super kind and reliable throughout the process. He definitely looked after as his buddy. Diving is a great experience and I will certainly dive more and more in the future. I wish all the best to Orca Diving Centre and would love to come back one day!

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Christloves_thesouth

Jul 15, 2020

Best Scuba Diving Place and Experience - My brother and I both did a “try scuba diving” course, and we had a blast! This staff at this place are super friendly and helpful and speak English. My brother and I enjoyed our time there so much, we also decided to pursue our diving certification for up to 12m. Our instructor Sergei was super nice and friendly. He was very patient and helpful with our group, and made the experience so much fun! I truly would recommend everyone to go here, and ask for him as he’s the best instructor I have ever had. This place is awesome! And there is a restaurant above Incase you are hungry.

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Guide62459597024

Jun 29, 2020

Save and happy diving in Pula - Sergej gave me the confidence to breathe calmly under water and with his great help it was easy to get the Open Water license. The Orca team around Olga and Marin gave us a great time and dives. Definitely recommendable! Ines & Mario

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Wolfgang

Aug 2, 2019

cool and friendly - very friendly and professional - we had our first diving experience their and have been really happy

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Midmark

Jun 22, 2019

Super ! 😁 - I took my “Scuba Diver”-license here. I did it in two days and it was very good. Thank you Sergei and Olga for good support 😎

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Cosmopolitan534326

Oct 5, 2018

AOW OW Lesson with Adawy - It is the first time I have a scuba diving lesson and experience at Dahab. I spend 5 days learning OW and AOW. I found out every staff very kind and energetic and system of ORCA is well organized Learning from Adawy, It was really good time. Truly recommend you to learn at ORCA

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_danny_kn

Sep 18, 2018

Fantastic Open Water Diver Course with Matt - I took the PADI Open Water Diver Course at Orca Diving Centre. I found the course was well organised and the team were good at adapting the course to our needs and schedule. Everyone at Orca was also very friendly and welcoming. I could tell that my instructor, Matt, was both very knowledgeable and very passionate about diving. He was an understanding instructor and was happy to go back over the exercises if there were parts I didn’t understand. We did the open water dives on Orca’s house reef and Matt showed me round a number of really cool spots whilst we were out. Aside from doing the required skills to meet the PADI certification, he also passed on useful practical guidance to help me in my future diving career. Overall, I would definitely recommend Orca to anyone looking to take a course or to try diving!

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Luna

Aug 15, 2018

Best Padi Open Water course with Matt - With Matt (or Matija) as an instructor, it was always fun and chill to go for a dive! He did everything at our pace and was really patient and responsible and taught us everything in a fun way! Thanks for giving us the scuba vibe, Matt! We like to SCUBA!

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From $566

up to 15 guests

1 - Adult