Courses
PADI Recreational Courses
PADI Open Water Diver
Classroom, Pool Sessions and e-Learning
Your PADI Open Water Diver course is the first step toward safely exploring the underwater world using scuba. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of scuba diving in a structured, supportive environment—combining knowledge development with hands-on skill practi...
PADI Discover Scuba Diving
Experience the Underwater World for the First Time
Ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater? The PADI Discover Scuba Diving program is your chance to try scuba diving in a safe, controlled environment—without committing to a full certification course.
Under the guidance of a certified instru...
PADI Reactivate
Get Back in the Water with Confidence
If it’s been a while since your last dive, the PADI Reactivate (or Scuba Refresh) course is the perfect way to regain your skills and confidence before returning to open water. This program is designed for certified divers who haven’t been diving recently and want to...
Enriched Air Nitrox Course --
Enriched Air, also known as “Nitrox” is a form of breathing gas that allows divers to extend their bottom time and reduce nitrogen loading. It is PADI’s most popular specialty course. By becoming a Nitrox diver you will not only have longer no decompression limits, you will gain a significant advantag...
PADI Advanced Open Water --
Our PADI Advanced Open Water course will take your diving to the next level! This course helps you build confidence in Navigation, fine-tune your Buoyancy skills, experiencing Deep Diving and introduce you to different diving activities such as Wreck Diving, Delayed Surface Marker Buoy deployment or maybe Underwater Na...
PADI Rescue Diver --
The PADI Rescue Diver is one of the most rewarding courses you will ever take! This course teaches you the techniques to avoid and manage problems and improves your confidence as a diver. During the course you’ll become a better buddy by enhancing your ability to identify potential problems and by practicing...
PADI MASTER SCUBA DIVER --
The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.
PADI Open Water Exam - Lake George, NY --
Complete your PADI Open Water Exam on the shores of Lake George!
Open Water Exam - Jamestown, RI / Stonington, CT --
Complete your PADI Open Water Exam with Scuba Shack
PADI Specialty & Distinctive Specialties
Diver Propulsion Vehicle
Glide farther, faster, and with effortless control as you master the use of underwater scooters. The PADI DPV course teaches you how to plan, operate, and dive safely with propulsion vehicles—unlocking longer ranges, smoother exploration, and a whole new level of underwater freedom.
Boat Diver
This course helps you expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboards. You'll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat.
*Price does not include any boat charter fees, park admission, tanks, weights or other costs.
PADI Boat Diver eLearning sold separa...
Deep Diver
Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 40 metres/130 ft. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, and buoyancy control.
*Price does not include any boat charter fees, tanks, weights, park admission or other costs
PADI Deep Diver eLearning sold separately
Equipment Specialist
Know Your Gear. Dive with Confidence.
The PADI Equipment Specialist course is designed to help divers better understand, care for, and maintain their scuba equipment. While this course does not certify you to service life-support equipment, it gives you valuable hands-on knowledge that can help prevent pro...
Dry Suit Diver
Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often. This suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.
*Price does not include any boat charter fees, park admission, drysuit rental fees or other costs
PADI Dry Suit Diver ...
Night Diver
The underwater world changes as day creatures retire & nocturnal organisms emerge. If you've wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, enroll in the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.
*Price does not include any boat charter fees, tanks, weights, park admission or other costs
PADi Night Di...
Ice Diver
Ice diving is one of the most adventurous scuba specialties. Learn the roles and responsibilities of support personnel, tenders, and safety divers. See beauty that few others ever experience.
Contact Scuba Shack for availability.
Dates:
Classroom: Wednesday, February 18th, 2026, at 6:00PM
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
You want to dive with less effort, dive longer by using less gas, preserve visibility and protect fragile marine life. The Peak Performance Buouancy class will help you improve your diving skills and become more relaxed and confident. A great class to take right after your open water certification! Tanks and weights ar...
Underwater Naturalist
Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites - New England Style with Scuba Shack. Tanks and weights are not included.
Course fee includes your PADI Underwater Naturalist Manual
Underwater Navigator
Are you ready to be more confident and competent with your underwater navigation? Then the PADI Underwater Navigator course is the one for you!
Price Includes:
eLearning
Three open water dives
*Price does not include any boat charter fees, tanks, weights, park admission or othe...
Wreck Diver
Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually team with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery.
*Price does not include any boat charter fees, tanks, weights, park admission, food, lodging or other costs
PADI Wreck Diver eLearning sold separately
Coral Reef Conservation
Everyone likes to scuba dive or snorkel in warm, clear water on a vibrant coral reef, yet many people know little about what they're seeing or the importance of reef ecosystems. This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems.
Dive Against Debris
Make a difference on every dive. Activate the inner citizen scientist in you. Learn how ocean plastic and trash clean up not only keep your local dive site healthier, you can also contribute to a global database documenting the marine debris problem.
Purchase your PADI Dive Against Debris online learning here.
PADI Professional Training
PADI Divemaster
Start Your Professional Journey
Scuba Shack’s PADI Divemaster training program is an intense program representing 75 clock hours of instruction and custom tailored to go beyond the standard PADI Divemaster course offered by other shops. PADI Divemaster represents the first level of professional designatio...
PADI Instructor Development Course
Lead the Way
Scuba Shack's PADI Open Water Instructor Development Course (IDC) is 13-week course of study that fully prepares a PADI Divemaster to participate in the PADI Instructor Examination.
Cost: $2900 (includes PADI IDC Crew Pak)
Emergency First Response Instructor
CPR and First Aid are key skills that are important to everyone, not just scuba divers. As an Emergency First Response Instructor, you teach skills based on internationally recognized emergency care guidelines, and you can offer courses to anyone. The great thing about EFR courses is that they make learning easy by pro...
Scuba Shack
Foundations and Principles of Diving (Distinctive Speciality) --
NOW A PADI SPECIALTY!
What’s the difference between Foundations & Principles of Diving and what’s been learned in your Open Water Scuba Certification and other classes?
Foundations and Principles is designed to introduce and build a solid foundation of skills and knowledge that...
Blue to Brilliant - Diving Into Underwater Imaging (Distinctive Speciality) --
Do you want to learn more about capturing images in the underwater world? Our Blue to Briliant - Diving into Underwater Imaging workshop takes the student thru the fundamentals of underwater photography and videography, provides in-water sessions to practice skills and finishes with post-processing your images and vide...
Introduction to Snorkeling --
Snorkeling is a great way to explore the underwater world. Maybe scuba diving just isn't your thing, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the beauty of a tropical reef when you are on vacation or a local lake when you are closer to home. Our Introduction to Snorkeling course will get you ready for some exc...
Pool Practice --
Do you need to get back in the water and practice? Maybe you want to dial in your buoyancy and weighting? Or work on your propulsion and trim? Then sign up for one of our upcoming practice pools sessions.
Please make sure you check the times as they do vary by date.
Marine Ecosystem and Coral Reef Awareness Course
Course Overview
Dive into the fascinating world of coral reefs and marine ecosystems! This course blends marine science with real-world conservation, giving participants a deeper appreciation for the underwater environments that sustain life on our planet.
Through classroom discussions and visuals, you’ll e...
Emergency First Response
Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care
Be capable. Be prepared. Be confident and be able to provide emergency first aid. This course focuses on building confidence in lay rescuers and increasing their willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency.
*This course fee covers your eLearning, classroom and practical sessio...
Technical Training
Introduction to Technical Diving --
The Intro to Tech Course is an introductory course that expands on recreational training by improving dive planning methods, in-water skills, and streamlining existing gear configurations in a controlled and fun learning environment.
PADI Tec 40 Course --
The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational diving to technical diving. It's a natural progression from Tec Basics, or it can be your first tec diver course. It is the bridge between no stop diving and technical decompression diving.
Price: $780 (includes PADI Tec 40 Crew Pak and eLearning)
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First Response Courses
Emergency Care and Oxygen Provider Bundled Class
Emergency Care course covers cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid, and automated external defibrillator (AED) use combined into one program. It is designed to teach the techniques to administer CPR, first aid, and utilize an AED in emergency situations involving infants, children, and adults. This...
