Scuba Diving Courses in MelbourneAt Academy of Scuba we pride ourselves in offering a range of courses to cater to all of our divers.
We have a Padi Open Water Course starting every weekend!
 PADI- standing for the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, PADI was the first training agencies that recognised the need for teaching a recreational diver instead of the 4 month course you used to have to do years ago. PADI trains 80% of the worlds divers and through high safety standards and quality insurance of its instructors ensures that it is the worlds leader in training people from an entry level through to insturctor courses and may speciality courses in between.
PADI is the world’s leading scuba diving training organization.
With more than forty years experience and 5300 dive shops worldwide, PADI training materials and services let you experience scuba diving from nearly anywhere.
PADI Divers carry the most respected and sought after scuba credentials in the world. No matter where you choose to dive, your PADI dive card will
be recognized and accepted. In fact, on most scuba diving adventures
you’ll be surrounded by other PADI Divers who made the same
certification choice you did – to train with the world’s largest and
most respected scuba diving training organization.
With more than 130,000 PADI Professionals and around 5700 dive shops operating in more than 180 countries and territories, you will likely find a dive shop that
can speak your language and offer you a comfortable learning
experience. To serve the needs of divers worldwide, translations of
PADI materials are available in at least 26 languages. 
 Creating Confidence to Care
 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.
Emergency First Response's course curricula are based on patient care
standards as published in the American Heart Association Guidelines
2005 Standards for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency
Cardiovascular Care, and the consensus view of the Basic Life Support
(BLS) Working Group of the International Liaison Committee on
Resuscitation (ILCOR). ILCOR is an international standards group
representing most of the world's major resuscitation organizations.
Focused on training the lay rescuer, the
Emergency First Response approach to training builds confidence in lay
rescuers and increases their willingness to respond when faced with a
medical emergency by teaching them the skills they need in a
non-stressful learning environment. Participants are also given as much
practice as necessary to master and retain these skills.
IANTD is the only EANx agency that offers training in all aspects of
EANx through continuing education programs. This allows you to expand
your knowledge and training with the top professionals in the field.
IANTD instructors are well trained, highly experienced and extremely
qualified. IANTD Standards and Procedures provide for the highest level
of EANx education and training available. IANTD (IAND, Inc.) was
founded by Dick Rutkowski, the former dive supervisor for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Mr. Rutkowski introduced
the recreational diving community to the technology of EANx. This
program was developed through NOAA during his tenure. Today the board
of directors and the membership of IANTD are composed of many of the
most experienced divers in the world pertaining to the use of breathing
gases other than air.
IANTD did struggle in the early years. As it was the first program to
offer certification in Enriched Air Nitrox, the company was kept at a
slow, yet steady pace from 1985 through February of 1992 with the
support of Hyperbarics International. In 1991 Tom Mount joined Dick and
IANTD became the FIRST to offer training programs in all aspects of
technical diving (Advanced Nitrox, Deep Air, Technical Diver, Cave and
Wreck Penetration, Normoxic Trimix, Trimix, Expedition
Trimix,Rebreathers, etc.) and now Free Diving too!
TDI is the largest technical 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 training supported
by the latest materials with the most up to date information and
techniques. TDI’s materials are written by authors that acutely
conduct the type of diving they are writing about. Those same
materials are update as technology and equipment change.
 The CDAA was formed in September 1973. At the time landowners throughout the Mount Gambier area of South Australia, were contemplating the closure of all holes to diving for fear of legal liability following a spate of diving fatalities in the water filled caves. With the forming of the CDAA, sinkhole divers hoped to prevent the wholesale closure of the dive sites by presenting a united voice in defence of their sport. They wished to indicate to landowners and the public at large that they were able to regulate their activities to acceptable standards of safety and training.
The newly formed CDAA set up a series of criteria and testing procedures. Initially these were a listing of all the popular cave diving sites divided into three different Categories based on their degree of difficulty. (This later expanded into the four levels of training - Cavern, Sinkhole, Cave, and Penetration - that now exist within the association). Cards were issued to divers to display to landowners to indicate their competency. The landowners gained confidence in the ability of the CDAA to produce safe divers and, as a result, the holes remained open.
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