PADI Open Water Course 2025 Dates
New courses starting every month:
Jan 9, 11, 18, Additional Classroom and Open Waters to Follow
Feb 12, 16, 23, Additional Classroom and Open Waters to Follow
March 12, 16, 30, Additional Classroom and Open Waters to Follow
April 5, 3, 12, Additional Classroom and Open Waters to Follow
May 1, 3, 10, Additional Classroom and Open Waters to Follow
Visit our Events Page for our full Training Calendar
Happy PADI Open Water Students
DDS Divers Have Superior Skills
Most other peoples divers
Open water students working on buoyancy and trim in the pool during a padi open water diver course.
Exploring local shipwrecks
Learn to Scuba Dive – PADI Open Water Diver Courses and beyond with DDS
Learn to Scuba Dive with Dan’s Dive Shop, Canada’s Oldest, yet most modern thinking dive training facility.
Scuba Diving is the most unique, freeing, exciting and relaxing life experience in the world. Spend your life exploring above and below with us. Did you know are thousands of great dive sites, shipwrecks, geological dives and cold water reefs and wrecks too?
Diving locally with DDS is a very fun way to gain more experience, familiarity and upgraded training along the way too.
Start Today with our PADI eLearning option and learn at your own pace and book your 6 additional classroom sessions with us along with your pool training as we help you start your journey into the underwater world.
At Dan’s, We offer you a more thorough, progressive and modern approach to scuba diving education. We’ve taught divers from every province in Canada, most US States and from around the world in other countries.
Fact: Over 35% of our Students come from the GTA and Surrounding Areas. People are willing to travel for better training or fly us out or drive us out to them. If you’re looking for a scuba diving course nearby, we’re available anywhere we’re needed.
When you Learn to Scuba Dive at DDS, we will help to save you from making the incorrect training and gear purchases and instead, we will offer you the best skills training and equipment at the best prices possible.
Students drive or fly into visit us for the highest Quality Training and Equipment. We have Taught Students from Every Province in Canada and MOST US States.
Our Approach Diving is a lifestyle for us. We introduce you the right foundation skills, efficiency, finesse, team diving concepts, while balancing the physical and mental aspects of diving to build upon as you progress through the life long adventure sport of scuba diving.
There is a Difference
Our DDS Divers and Instructors are the most skilled and respected recreational and technical divers in the water.
You’ll notice our divers look different underwater in comparison to the vast majority of the dive population.
You’ll learn how the right equipment configuration and fundamentally sound skills can set the stage for better diving.
Taking a more modern, “Team” approach to your diving and developing the essential skills and maintaining them is part of the tun too.
We Spend More Time in the Classroom, Pool and Open Water Dives to make you the best Diver you can be.
Personal Attention
At DDS, Teaching Scuba Diving is about Quality not Quantity, so don’t get “sucked into” a too good to be true $99 base price scuba courses. They aren’t quality oriented and they are never the price you see first, which is deceptive. That course will cost you more like $800 and most times you don’t even have an Instructor in water with you, which is a major violation of training agency standards.
No one offers a better, more thorough, more professional, more quality oriented scuba program than we do and we prove it time and time again when you get into the water.
Don’t be Deceived by “Fly by Night” Instructors or Dive Stores.
No one offers a better, more thorough, more professional, more quality oriented scuba program than we do and we prove it time and time again when you get into the water.
DDS Divers offer superior trim, posture, buoyancy, techniques
At Dan’s, You’re more than just a number to us, you’re going to be part of our scuba diving family as a DDS Diver, so we’d like to develop you into the diver we want to dive with, by starting you off right with the proper skills, equipment configuration and knowledge that all divers should be privy to.
Our Cancellation Policy: You may reschedule your class within a 2 week time period. No shows or last minute cancellations will be subject to rescheduling fee. If you can’t do the class, you may transfer your class fees to someone else who can.
Want Some New Challenges?
For divers wanting more of a challenge we offer the finest training in advanced, specialty, professional, technical, cave and rebreather diving courses. Welcome to Dan’s Dive Shop.
Dive Course & Events Calendar
Check out are upcoming dive courses and events. From begginer, to advanced, we offer the best in dive training.