Discover Scuba Diving

Try scuba diving without certification with Silent World’s supervised Discover Scuba Diving package!

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to breathe underwater?

If you want to try scuba diving, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, then Discover Scuba Diving is for you. You can try scuba diving close to home or while visiting on vacation through our PADI courses. While not a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is a quick and easy introduction to explore the underwater world.

Discover Scuba Diving Rates

  • Discover Scuba Diving Course: (Pool & Boat Dive) – $250.00
  • Discover Scuba Diving Course: (Pool Experience ONLY) – $125.00
  • Duration: 4 to 7 hours

What will you learn?

You will learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Professional.

If you make an open water dive, you’ll practice a few more skills in shallow water to prepare for your adventure.

To sign up for the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience, you must be at least 10 years old.

(No prior experience is necessary, however, you need to be in reasonable physical health, a comfortable swimmer, and willing to sign a waiver.)

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How To Start

You can start now by purchasing our PADI Discover Scuba Diving course through our online booking system. Once purchased, please give the dive shop a call to officially schedule your Discover Scuba Diving Course.

What Will You Need?

Prior to purchasing the PADI Discover Scuba Diving Course please:

  • Review the PADI Medical Form
  • Make sure to be a “good” swimmer. This is defined as being able to swim in the ocean without assistance from others or flotation devices for extended periods/ distance.
  • There is a swim and float test done as part of the Open Water course, including continuously swimming 200 meters without mask, fin, or snorkel and a 10-minute float test.
  • ALL scuba-related equipment is INCLUDED in the price. (Mask, snorkel, fins, buoyancy control device (BCD), regulator set, scuba tanks, and weights.)

What Will Your Schedule Look Like?

We offer this program as a combination of a pool session plus a 2-tank boat dive, guided by an instructor, OR as a pool session ONLY.

FULL Day Experience (usually from 9AM – 4:45PM):

  • 9AM – Meet PADI Instructor at Silent World for gear sizing and academic material review.
  • 10AM – Meet PADI Instructor at pool training facility for confined water skills.
  • (Address for pool will be provided the day of by Silent World staff member.)
  • 12:15PM – Meet PADI Instructor at Silent World for boat check-in and your two tank dive trip.

Pool Only Experience:

  • 9:30AM – Meet PADI Instructor at Silent World for gear sizing and academic material review.
  • 10AM – Meet PADI Instructor at pool training facility for confined water skills.

(Address for pool will be provided the day of by Silent World staff member.)

What Will Silent World Provide?

  • Professional staff members and instructors to guide you through your course.
  • All the scuba related equipment you need for the duration of the course. To include: mask, snorkel, fins, buoyancy control device (BCD), regulator set, scuba tanks, and weights.
  • Price includes – ​Everything you need for your Discover Scuba Diving Course: academic materials, PADI Professional Instructor, pool session and two open water dives (to include related fees), scuba related equipment.

Check out some scuba diving highlights below!

Key Largo Dive Sites

Horseshoe Reef

Horseshoe Reef is one of our favorite dive sites within the Key Largo Dry Rocks Area. With depths ranging from 5ft to 25ft this makes an amazing dive site for Open Water Divers, Photographers and Snorkelers alike. Horsehoe Reef has surprises waiting around every corner – winding swim throughs, a large formation of elk horn coral and home to an abundence of Parrot Fish, Sergent Majors and Lobsters!

Fingers Reef

Southeast of the Elbow, this reef forms a spur and groove formation featuring coral ridges, topped by giant Elkhorn corals. These shallow coral colonies provide excellent habitats for schooling grunts and other tropical fish. This is a great site for photographers given the shallow depths and massive variety of fish.

Carysfort Reef & Carysfort Ledge

Carysfort is one of the largest major reef systems in the sanctuary. The beautiful reef consists of acres and acres of shallow reef systems, edged by a steep drop off to 75 ft – Carysfort Ledge. Along the sloping wall there are beautiful arrays of Coral formations and fish life. If snorkeling make sure to swim near Carysfort lighthouse to visit the Elkhorn coral gardens.

Train Wheels Reef

Train wheels reef is the resting place of a an old sunken supply barge. While the wreck has become part of the reef, the cargo the ship was carrying that day – train wheels for the Flagler Railroad- are still found scattered around the ocean floor. Large Elkhorn Coral has adopted & grown from the wheels which protect large schools of fish!

Anchor Chain Reef

Just south of the City of Washington dive site is the Anchor Chain Reef dive site. Upon first glance of this site, it’s easy to see how it received its name. A large fishing barge used to utilize these anchors as other ships came to unload their fishing hauls for the day. In 1960, Hurricane Donna caused irreparable damage to the barge, leaving wreckage that is still there to this day.

Banana Reef

Banana Reef is on the most southern end of the Grecian Rocks area. Banana Reef gets its name from the long and sloped ledge that well, looks like a banana! It’s a beautiful place to dive in Key Largo.

Benwood Wreck

The S.S. Benwood was a steam-powered cargo ship that was built in 1910. On April 9th, 1942, the Benwood was lost in a collision in Key Largo. It is believed by many that the shipwreck was then used for aerial target practice by the U.S. Army after WWII ended. It’s one of the most popular shipwreck dive sites in Key Largo.

Christ of the Abyss Statue

Christ of the Abyss

Widely considered one of the most popular dive sites worldwide, the Christ of the Abyss statue is the third bronze of the original mold, the “Il Christo Degli Abissi” from the Mediterranean Sea. Because the site is relatively shallow, the site attracts not only divers but snorkelers as well.

City of Washington Wreck

City of Washington Wreck

An iron-hulled steamer named the City of Washington, or S.S. City Washington, was launched in 1877. The ship was used for passenger transport and cargo trade, often traveling between New York, Cuba, and Mexico. During the Spanish-American war, the ship was used as a transport ship for troops. A tugboat was towing the City of Washington and another ship, but the ship ran aground, and the City of Washington, unfortunately, broke up and sank on July 10th, 1917.

N. North Ledges Reef

On the north end of the French reef, the North Ledges provide beautiful views of spur and groove coral formations, and sand channels that are parallel to the main reef. Hawksbill, Green, and Loggerhead turtles are often found at this reef, as well as Southern Stingrays, Nurse Sharks, and Green Moray Eels. The ledges also are home to large schools of bait fish.

S. South Ledges Reef

S. South Ledges reef is the deepest section of the reef, as well as the southernmost point. It’s a very steep drop-off, and another beautiful dive location in Key Largo. It’s relatively close to the City of Washington Wreck.

Spiegel Grove Wreck

In June of 2002, the Spiegel Grove was sunk in Key Largo. Fascinatingly, the ship was turned upright by Hurricane Dennis in 2005, allowing divers an opportunity of a lifetime to see the vast marine life that call the ship home. The ship is becoming an entire reef ecosystem.

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