Open Water Diver-3 Day Class September 2,3, 4, 2026 at Lake Phoenix Scuba Park

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Open Water Diver-3 Day Class September 2,3, 4, 2026 at Lake Phoenix Scuba Park

This globally recognized certification program is the best way to begin your lifelong adventures as a certified scuba diver. Personalized training is combined with in-water practice sessions to ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater. You will earn the SSI Open Water Diver certification.

Becoming a scuba diver is the first step in a journey that will forever change the way you experience the world. You will explore the wonders of a weightless underwater world, interact with incredible marine life and discover ecosystems hidden beneath the surface. Tri-City SCUBA offers the SSI Open Water SCUBA Diver Course

1. Choose Tri-City SCUBA as your Dive Center. Once you have set up your profile and paid, Tri-City Scuba can release the class to you to complete. Please complete all required forms and set up your profile completely, including a selfie, address and emergency contact. Once you have completely set up SSI profile and filled out all required forms, we can schedule your Open Water Certification Class.

2. You need to stop by Tri-City Scuba to purchase your personal items/show us your purchased items and get fitted for the included rentals for your class at least 2 weeks prior to class start date.

3. Please complete your e-learning training course on either a computer, phone or tablet. You have until the Friday two weeks prior to the start of your classroom/confined water portion of you class to complete your paperwork, purchase gear or bring gear you already have to the shop for inspection, complete your e-learning online class and exam. If e-Learning is not completed by the Friday 2 weeks prior to the beginning of the classroom portion, student will not be able to participate in the rest of the session. Student will be able enroll in the next available class session that has an available spot, after paying a $50 administrative fee.

4. Classroom sessions will be help at Lake Phoenix Scuba Park. The classroom is where you get your first hands on learning. You will be show all the latest equipment used for SCUBA diving as well as learning all about our local diving opportunities.

5. Confined Water Training. Confined water dives will take place in the confined portion of Lake Phoenix and where you will take your first breaths underwater in a controlled shallow water setting. In this phase you will learn many important skills necessary to dive safely in open water. You will be given time to practice these skills until you and your instructor feel comfortable with you moving into the final phase of your certification.

6. Open water checkout dives. The final phase of the certification process are the open water dives. Here you will conduct several actual dives over at least two days. You will demonstrate the skills that you learned in the confined water training and even learn a few more skills prior to finishing your certification.

**The prices shown are for group classes with a 3 day schedule as noted. If student needs private lessons or additional days outside of group lessons, additional fees apply.

Open Water Course Details

Cost: $995 Includes digital learning, one classroom session, pool training/confined water, digital diver certification card, digital logbook, air fills. Use in all pool and 2 days of Lake Phoenix Entry, open water dives of the following: Tanks, Regulator with gauges, Buoyancy Control Device (BCD),Shearwater Peregrine Dive Computer, Wetsuit if needed, and Weights. Sign up for the entire class

We do offer private classes for an additional cost and we can work with your schedule. The prices shown are for group classes on either a 4 day or 3 day schedule as noted. If student needs private lessons or additional days outside of group lessons, additional fees apply.

The Student will be responsible for providing the following:

  • Personal Dive Gear – Mask, Snorkel, Fins, Boots, and DSMB safety marker.
  • When you purchase all of your personal dive gear from Tri-City SCUBA you will receive 10% off. Add a wetsuit and receive 15% off all items.

Add Enriched Air(Nitrox) to your certification!

What’s Nitrox and Why Should I Care?
When you learn to dive, most tanks are filled with normal air — the same stuff you’re breathing right now. Nitrox (short for Enriched Air Nitrox) is just air with a little extra oxygen mixed in.

Why does that matter? More oxygen means less nitrogen, and that helps in two big ways:

  • You can often stay underwater a little longer before needing to come up.
  • You’ll usually feel less tired after diving, especially on repeat dives in a day.

Think of it as a small upgrade that makes diving more comfortable and enjoyable, especially if you plan on doing a lot of dives on a trip.

When you sign up for your Open Water course, you can add the Nitrox certification at a discounted rate — so you’ll finish your training already set up with an extra skill that most divers add later anyway.

Please Fill out the following medical form as soon as you register, in case you answer “yes” so that you have time to see your doctor before class and and upload to SSI:

  • Check the SSI medical form. If you answer “YES” to any of the medical questions, Please take the medical form to your doctor for a medical evaluation and sign off. Participation in a diving course requires your doctors approval before the first day of in water class if you answered yes on the medical form.
  • Set up your profile at Divessi.com and choose Tri-City SCUBA as your Dive Center
  • **Private or special group lessons may be arranged. Cost may differ from the regular published prices and schedule.

Facts and Training Standards

10 Years Minimum Age for certification
6 Minimum Pool/Confined Sessions during Training
4 Minimum Open Water Dives during Training
18 m / 60 ft Max Depth

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Open Water Diver-3 Day Class September 2,3, 4, 2026 at Lake Phoenix Scuba Park

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Open Water Diver-3 Day Class September 2,3, 4, 2026 at Lake Phoenix Scuba Park

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