🐠 All of our classes are private 🐠

This is our scuba practice monthly event. 

What happens after you get your Open Water certification? Do you feel ready to go scuba diving with just your buddy? Or would you like to work a bit more on your new skills? 

After you get your Search and Recovery specialty, when do you have a chance to work with a lift bag again? Or tie knots?

Would you like to have a taste of Rescue, or prepare for a drift dive by practicing with a DSMB?

We have a different, fun and empowering syllabus at each new session, and it is a great way to stay wet during the winter months, or as preparation for a scuba trip!

Gain confidence in performing your skills if and when needed with practice. Safety to us is always first!

$90 per person

Proof of Certification, Liability Waiver and  Medical Clearance are required. 

Through September 2025 we will be heavy on Open Water Scuba Certifications here in Chicago. The waters are warmer and local divers are outside enjoying the weather and wrecks, building up a joyful and supportive atmosphere to new divers. 

We have been exploring Pearl Lake in South Beloit with its underwater attractions, and we find it ideal for new divers to explore and discover the submarine, the school bus and various submerged boats! We drive together to the site to take advantage of some extra time to dive deeper into the knowledge reviews and talk about all sorts of topics related to SCUBA.

Our Open Water Certification includes: 

• PADI eLearning and Logbook 
• 6 to 8 hrs. of confined water time
• 4 open water dives 
• Tanks, weights, BCD, regulator, computer, and 7 mm wetsuit/hood/gloves *
• Caribbean Ecology Class- 1 hour with Maca
• Photographic record of your experience on surface and underwater
• Maximum scheduling flexibility
• Transportation assistance

* Mask, fins, boots, and snorkel are not included, as they are considered basic gear for all students.

🐠 All of our classes are private🐠

🐠 You are NEVER buddied up with a stranger 🐠

1:1 Private Course: $1000

$850 for 2+ students

 it is a 4-day course for future divers who plan to travel to an inspiring destination and explore the underworld with us.

With Kung Fu Divers 

WE TRAVEL WITH YOU! 

All open water dives are completed In Florida at the famous Blue Heron Bridge, and off the coast of Palm Beach or Key Largo. 

We are ambassadors to the Aquatic Realm and merit time to educational programs: ocean awareness, waterways conservation and preservation, marine biology, and sustainability of resources.

The Florida Experience includes:

• PADI Open Water Certification E-learning ($230)
  • Pool session
  • Check-out dives
• Nitrox Certification ($250 value)
• PADI Aware Class 
• Caribbean Ecology Class with Maca
• Photographic record 
• Two art-worked photos for printing
• Air and Nitrox tank fills
• 2-tanks charter to the beautiful reefs of Florida
• BCD, regulator, wetsuit, and weights included.

🐠 All of our classes are private🐠

🐠 You are NEVER buddied up with a stranger 🐠

 The CPR, AED, and First Aid Provider Program is designed to provide course participants with foundational knowledge and teach skills needed to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other lifesaving skills.

In addition to covering the basics of cardiovascular disease, shock, asphyxia, and external bleeding, this course addresses additional circumstances that may require EMS intervention.

The material covered in this section gives you academic knowledge in the areas of Scene Safety, Assessments, How to move injured and ill persons, bleeding management, splinting, specialized injuries, burns, temperature-related issues, and medical emergencies.

You can choose between Emergency First Response or Divers Alert Network as your agency for this curriculum (price will vary). 

After you have completed the required e-learning and the skills-development portion of the course, your instructor will process your credentials. Certification will be valid for 2 years.

 Most certified PADI Rescue Divers look back on their training as one of the most challenging, sometimes demanding, and therefore most rewarding programs they've taken. The subject is serious but the training is fun!

When you first learned to dive in the PADI Open Water Diver course, you focused primarily on yourself and mastered knowledge and skills for taking care of yourself underwater. In this course you are about to enter the next stage, in which your focus broadens further to include other divers. 

Become mentally and physically prepared to handle emergency situations with a variety of techniques. Accurately assess a situation and intervene a problem that could potentially become more serious. Improve your skills and confidence as a diver, and prepare to move on to the PADI Master Scuba Diver and PADI Divemaster levels!

🐠 All of our classes are private🐠

🐠 You are NEVER buddied up with a stranger 🐠

 In our efforts to spread the love and respect for the animals we see when we dive, we have combined the PADI Aware specialty with Maca's own Ecology Class.

• Learn who fish are: Something is going on in their heads. Ocean animals are INDIVIDUALS because of the relationships they build, they are SENTIENT entities whose world is worth contemplating. 
• Who we are to them: Do you know what UMWELT means?*
• We all live here: tips on how to COEXIST. The PADI AWARE Specialty course equips you with tangible actions and opportunities to bring about positive ocean change.

This course is a unifying and leveling force for professional and recreational divers, kids and teens, and everyone else! We invite you to stop, pay attention, and observe. 

* UMWELT= The mind and the world are inseparable because it is the mind that interprets the world for the organism. Because of the individuality and uniqueness of the history of every single organism, the umwelten of different organisms differ. 

🐠 All of our classes are private🐠

🐠 You are NEVER buddied up with a stranger 🐠