Open Water

PADI Open Water course brings the unbounded and adventurous "Open" together with the familiar, supportive "Water" into the unique chimera Open Water. This is not Water Open; it's Open Water, and I mean Open. It's open and it's water, but it's more; it's Open Water. It's space and it's liquid. You can't go anywhere without Open Water. Nitrogen and that.

Open Water is Open Water. If you still don't understand Open Water, maybe diving's not for you. It's quite possible to live a successful life without diving at all; Margot Fonteyn and Ivan the Terrible are two obvious examples. There's no need to feel bad about it, but you should consult a PADI dive professional before you do anything rash.

Successful students may fly PADI barrage balloons above their homes. The PADI barrage balloon has plays the theme from Dynasty and has "I've got a PADI Open Water Certificate" painted on each side, in letters four feet tall. The message can be read loud and clear 24/7 thanks to PADI searchlights, which you can hire from your local PADI star dive centre.

Book an Open Water course now and win a Replica Potato Masher!

As Philip Larkin says:

If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.

Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;

My litany would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,

And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.