Padi Dive Centres – Padi Dive Schools
Padi Dive operators that offer PADI products and services are members of the PADI International Resort and Retailer Associations. The association comprises approximately 4700 authorized PADI Dive Centers, resorts, dive boats, dive operators and hotels that offer PADI instruction and other related services. These facilities are your source for dive equipment, education, travel and other dive opportunities. To be an association member, PADI Dive Centers and Resorts must adhere to specific strict standards that assure you’ll get the best training and service.
PADI has designed classifications for members that signify varying levels of commitment to offering PADI diver education, dive equipment sales, services and dive experiences. The primary classifications are: PADI Dive Centers and Padi Resorts are where scuba divers find diver education, scuba diving equipment and opportunities to go diving. You’ll find PADI dive shops and PADI dive professionals all over the world. The PADI Dive Shop Locator makes it easy to find a dive operation close to home or one in a faraway travel destination. All PADI Dive Centers and Resorts meet minimum requirements for dive services and many have earned higher ratings by offering additional training and services. Use the following descriptions to better understand the different retailer and resort levels.
PADI Five Star Dive Center Membership is awarded to progressive PADI Dive Shops that excel in providing scuba divers with a full range of scuba certification programs, scuba gear selection, and scuba experience opportunities. To qualify as PADI Five Star Dive Center, a dive shop must meet elevated service and business standards and both promote and offer only PADI scuba diving lessons as their recreational scuba diver training. These dive shops also actively promote underwater environmental awareness and embrace the PADI System of diver education, with a commitment to providing quality training, products, services and experiences.
PADI Five Star Instructor Development Centers (Five Star IDCs) are dive centers that not only meet all PADI Five Star Dive Center standards, but exceed with the plus to offer PADI instructor-level training. Five Star IDCs have at least one PADI Course Director on staff and are committed to offering PADI Instructor Development Courses and continuing education opportunities to dive professionals.
Easy Divers Cyprus a PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center excels in using the PADI System of diver education to introduce people to scuba diving, and then provide the continuing education that allows individuals to progress on to the dive professional level courses. If your goal is to become a PADI Scuba Instructor, Easy Divers in Cyprus a PADI Five Star IDC will help you start earning the world’s most recognized and desired professional scuba rating. Padi Instructor!
The oxygen component affects your safe depths in Nitrox diving. When diving with air, the nitrogen component gets tricky (nitrogen narcosis) 30 meters. The oxygen component in air does not limit your maximum diving depth of 40m. When you increase the oxygen percentage your maximum safe depth may be determined by the oxygen component.
When you use the DSAT Equivalent Air Depth Tables, you don’t need a Nitrox calculator to know that the popular Nitrox Tables 32 limits the maximum safe diving depth to 33m. Also popular Nitrox Tables 36 limits your safe depth to 28m. Exceeding the oxygen limits is far more hazardous than exceeding the nitrogen limits, but for most divers these depth limits are not an issue, they hardly ever go that deep anyway. At many places, in Protaras, Cyprus for instance, the best part of the reef is between 5m and 21-24m, so why go deeper. Going deeper only empties your tank sooner. Usually Nitrox is more expensive than air, on an average you pay twice as much.
When you go to Easy Divers in Protaras you can get your NITROX FREE of charge. To enhance safety in diving, Easy Divers will also let you use a SUUNTO Dive Computers, whether on Dive Trips or your Diving Course. S.A.F.E. DIVING.
Easy Divers is a PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Centre. In 2006 we changed our policies for safer diving. Our FREE NITROX we started the program in January 2007. It has already got hundreds of favourable comments on the safety for divers and an exceptional amount of votes for our FREE use of dive computers.
High Standards, There is no greater priority than creating safe and responsible new divers. I hope that by setting such presidents, other Diving Centres in Cyprus will follow suit with a temporary offer of Free Nitrox.