PADI® Open Water Diver, the first step in your scuba certification journey offers you the opportunity to learn with a highly trained Aegir instructor who will teach you the basics to dive in a relaxed and encouraging environment. Aegir Diving School located in North East Florida teaches these important scuba diving courses.
Your next step after obtaining your Open Water Diver Certification, this course will help you hone and advance your skills! You’ll learn the basics of underwater navigation, dive deeper, and choose 3 additional specialty dives to round out your interests such as a wreck or peak performance buoyancy dive.
If you’ve had some fun with your experiences so far, you might be interested in finding out why the Rescue Diver course is immensely popular with many divers! During this course you will role-play different scenarios that can come up while diving, such as helping a fellow diver with leg cramps or helping get someone out of the water.
Lisa Fairchild Daugherty2024-02-25Had a great guided dive with Matt on Rainbow River. He handled entry fees and water taxi, so all we had to do was gear up and enjoy! I rented gear from him, and the gear was in excellent shape. He is super friendly and made sure we got to check out all of the spots along the dive, pointed out animals, and also made sure we were ok along the dive. He was a very good guide. I would do another guided dive with Matt!Matthew Barajas2024-02-08THE BEST! these guys have been absolutely awesome. My wife and I booked a PADI advanced course with nitrox a year ago. My wife injured herself and we postponed only to have me injury myself right before we were supposed to make up our course. They have been accommodating and so nice. They helped us get the most out of our nitrox course and e-learning and will absolutely go do our dive with them in the near future. So nice. so understanding. really here to help you learn to dive. I trust them. 5+ stars.Clara Vinson2024-01-16Thank you so much for some great diving trips to Rainbow River and Devil's Den. You are the best! Patient and knowledgeable. We will see you again when getting ready for Palm Beach! Be safe!Jill Johnson2023-10-23Matt was the absolute best. From start to finish of my PADI Open Water Diver Certification and Enriched Air Diver Certification, Matt guided me through my E-Learning and in water dives making me feel confident in what I was doing the entire time. During a dive I had a painful ear issue canceling our day. Matt kept me safe by calling it, we did troubleshooting and figured out I have a swimmers ear issue and was able to complete my training the next day. He made me feel like I was taken care of and not a burden which speaks volumes about him as an instructor and the knowledge and patience he has for his students. I did the private class and highly not only recommend that but also Matt and his school.Mike Milk2023-08-21Matt was great! He is very passionate, knowledgeable, and is great at instructing. He’s was very patient and encouraging throughout the entire experience. The private instruction is the best method to learn and enjoy the experience. I highly recommend using Aegir!Daniel Presley2023-07-12I started this journey a year and a half ago and struggled with a different dive school/instructor. It took me that long to reach back out to someone because I was very discouraged by my previous performance even though I’m completely comfortable in the water. When I got ahold of Matt he made me feel confident in my abilities and everything literally seemed easy with him as my instructor. We were able to get extra pool time to work on what I thought I was going to have problems with and then that weekend got everything else knocked out at the springs!! Zero issues during training and I am very confident with what I learned and my abilities that I know I now have. I will be going back to him for Advanced after I have some dives under my belt and seriously highly recommend him for private lessons as that is what made me most comfortable!!Mlp Mlp2023-07-04Aegir Diving School is the place to learn! Matthew embodies the safety first mentality while simultaneously including the fun and exciting side of diving! He and his wife make an amazing team!Paola Perez2023-01-03Thank you Matt, The class was absolutely amazing and you are very knowledgeable, you made the class very fun and enjoyable.Nicolás Manzano Sánchez2023-01-03Matthew muchas gracias por todo. fue una experiencia increíble. Siento que abarcas todos los conocimientos de una manera muy amigable para todos. Además no solo te preocupas por compartirnos el conocimiento sino también por brindarnos una experiencia única que me deja muy animado a seguir aprendiendo de buceo. Espero poder seguir formándome contigo.Diana Gonzalez2023-01-01I had so much fun doing my certification. Matt is a great person and an awesome instructor, very nice and patient
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Lisa Fairchild Daugherty2024-02-25Had a great guided dive with Matt on Rainbow River. He handled entry fees and water taxi, so all we had to do was gear up and enjoy! I rented gear from him, and the gear was in excellent shape. He is super friendly and made sure we got to check out all of the spots along the dive, pointed out animals, and also made sure we were ok along the dive. He was a very good guide. I would do another guided dive with Matt!Matthew Barajas2024-02-08THE BEST! these guys have been absolutely awesome. My wife and I booked a PADI advanced course with nitrox a year ago. My wife injured herself and we postponed only to have me injury myself right before we were supposed to make up our course. They have been accommodating and so nice. They helped us get the most out of our nitrox course and e-learning and will absolutely go do our dive with them in the near future. So nice. so understanding. really here to help you learn to dive. I trust them. 5+ stars.Clara Vinson2024-01-16Thank you so much for some great diving trips to Rainbow River and Devil's Den. You are the best! Patient and knowledgeable. We will see you again when getting ready for Palm Beach! Be safe!Jill Johnson2023-10-23Matt was the absolute best. From start to finish of my PADI Open Water Diver Certification and Enriched Air Diver Certification, Matt guided me through my E-Learning and in water dives making me feel confident in what I was doing the entire time. During a dive I had a painful ear issue canceling our day. Matt kept me safe by calling it, we did troubleshooting and figured out I have a swimmers ear issue and was able to complete my training the next day. He made me feel like I was taken care of and not a burden which speaks volumes about him as an instructor and the knowledge and patience he has for his students. I did the private class and highly not only recommend that but also Matt and his school.Mike Milk2023-08-21Matt was great! He is very passionate, knowledgeable, and is great at instructing. He’s was very patient and encouraging throughout the entire experience. The private instruction is the best method to learn and enjoy the experience. I highly recommend using Aegir!Daniel Presley2023-07-12I started this journey a year and a half ago and struggled with a different dive school/instructor. It took me that long to reach back out to someone because I was very discouraged by my previous performance even though I’m completely comfortable in the water. When I got ahold of Matt he made me feel confident in my abilities and everything literally seemed easy with him as my instructor. We were able to get extra pool time to work on what I thought I was going to have problems with and then that weekend got everything else knocked out at the springs!! Zero issues during training and I am very confident with what I learned and my abilities that I know I now have. I will be going back to him for Advanced after I have some dives under my belt and seriously highly recommend him for private lessons as that is what made me most comfortable!!Mlp Mlp2023-07-04Aegir Diving School is the place to learn! Matthew embodies the safety first mentality while simultaneously including the fun and exciting side of diving! He and his wife make an amazing team!Paola Perez2023-01-03Thank you Matt, The class was absolutely amazing and you are very knowledgeable, you made the class very fun and enjoyable.Nicolás Manzano Sánchez2023-01-03Matthew muchas gracias por todo. fue una experiencia increíble. Siento que abarcas todos los conocimientos de una manera muy amigable para todos. Además no solo te preocupas por compartirnos el conocimiento sino también por brindarnos una experiencia única que me deja muy animado a seguir aprendiendo de buceo. Espero poder seguir formándome contigo.Diana Gonzalez2023-01-01I had so much fun doing my certification. Matt is a great person and an awesome instructor, very nice and patient