Online Knowledge Building:  You can do all your academic training Online from anywhere when you create your account with PADI.  Sign up online by clicking on the PADI eLearning logo. Give them your registration information and see our name at the bottom of each page.  You'll know that you are also signing up with us.

     As you go through the sign up process, you will be charged $120 by PADI.  This includes all that services that PADI offers Online which are all the basic educational material (available from wherever, whenever) and administration of the required quizzes.  Your Dive Connections Instructor will still be available to you throughout the process to answer all the questions you will develop as you learn.

Local Services:   When you sign up Online, you will be contacted by our local team to get you started right today, in the water.  

          Instructor Academic Assistance: Your Instructor will answer all your questions and will amplify your basic academic training with all the information you need to go diving wherever you will be going.  Locally or internationally, we have most likely been there and we can prepare you, even take you there or introduce you to local folks who can help you provide you all the services you need.  come in a see the equipment.  Touch it, Try it on. Ask questions of a trained professional.

          Pool Skill Building: We will arrange the best time for you to get into our pool facilities and we'll make sure you have an instructor that will work with you throughout your training to answer all of your questions.  Want extra pool time?  Just ask. We want you to be ready and comfortable going into Open Water.

$359 - Our one fee covers most everything.  We will provide you with your crew pack, dive log and recreational dive planner, instructor fee, pool fees, rental scuba gear and all of the benefits and services our customers and dive buddies have come to rely on.  We will also provide your with a credit for taking you class online (see side panel).

We provide everything you will need to learn to dive, but we just ask that you provide your own Mask, Snorkel, Fins and Booties.

     Mask, Snorkel, Fins & Booties: Bring your own or get them from us, but a properly fitting, quality set of personal gear is a must for you to enjoy scuba or snorkeling wherever you may go.  Don't scrimp here or you won't be comfortable in the water.

Open Water Certification: After completing the Knowledge and Skill building portion, you will be able to complete your certification by performing 4 open water dives under the supervision of an Instructor.  These dives assure that you will comfortably transition your skills from the pool to the wilds of open water.  The cost of these dives are assessed when you go diving and you have all sorts of options, but you can generally figure that the dives will run $250 to $350 to include the dive, rental gear and instruction.

      Local Dives - We do our local dives in very clear water at Lake Rawlings
      Group Dive Travel - Join us on a trip.  Check out out Travel Calendar.
      Referred Individual Travel - We will be happy to arrange an instructor wherever ... Ask John

909 Gardens Blvd
Charlottesville, VA  22901
434-964-9200