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LEARN TO DIVE WITH OCEAN QUEST SCUBA
– Real Training. Real Reefs. Real Adventure.
At Ocean Quest Scuba, we believe the best training happens in the real world—not just at the edge of a beach. That’s why all our courses are taught by experienced instructors and include dives right off our custom dive boat, Sunny Sunday, on West Palm Beach’s living reefs.
Whether you’re new to diving or looking to advance your skills, we’ll help you become a confident, capable diver ready for a lifetime of adventures.
- Ages 10 and up welcome.
- Flexible scheduling to fit your life.
- Small groups, personalized training.
Entry-Level Programs
Open Water Certification
Your passport to adventure!
Become a certified diver in as little as 3 days.
Become a certified diver in as little as 3 days.
- Complete your home study, then pool training with our instructors
- Two half-days of open water dives from Sunny Sunday
- Lifetime certification is recognized worldwide
Refresher Course
Already certified but haven’t dived in a while?
Choose the refresher you need:
Choose the refresher you need:
- Full review (pool + academics + two-tank dive)
- Quick gear review onboard with private guide
- Includes all rental gear and tanks
Continuing Education
Advanced Open Water
Take your diving further with 5 adventure dives:
- Required: Deep Dive (70+ ft) & Navigation
- Choose 3 others: Wreck, Photography, Drift, Boat, Night, and more
- Expand your limits, build confidence, and unlock new sites
Rescue Diver
One of the most valuable and rewarding courses you’ll ever take.
- Learn self-rescue and accident prevention
- Assist buddies and handle real-life scenarios
- Two days of training on the boat and beach
Dive Master
Your first step into professional diving.
- Work alongside our instructors on real courses
- Supervise certified divers on reef dives
- Gain hands-on experience with 20+ dives from our boat
- Strong academic preparation for future instructor training
Assistant Instructor
gain practical teaching experience with an active SDI Instructor.
- Teach and certify students in the SDI Snorkeling Course
- Conduct the SDI Inactive Diver/Refresher Course
- Teach approved specialties after receiving instructor training in those specialties
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Specialty Courses
Looking to focus on a specific skill?
We offer a wide range of specialties, all including books, certification, gear, and boat dives.
We offer a wide range of specialties, all including books, certification, gear, and boat dives.
Advanced Buoyancy Diver
Master Your Buoyancy. Transform Your Diving.
Without buoyancy, there’s no good diving. SDI Advanced Buoyancy Diver isn’t just another card; it’s your pass to becoming a truly capable diver. You’ll gain major safety, especially on ascent and at your safety stop. Improve your body position, reduce effort and gas consumption, and treat the marine environment with the respect it deserves.
Without buoyancy, there’s no good diving. SDI Advanced Buoyancy Diver isn’t just another card; it’s your pass to becoming a truly capable diver. You’ll gain major safety, especially on ascent and at your safety stop. Improve your body position, reduce effort and gas consumption, and treat the marine environment with the respect it deserves.
Advanced Diver Certification
The SDI Advanced Diver certification is designed as a program to transition divers from novice to advanced, enhancing comfort and competence in the water. This course offers a deep dive into four SDI, TDI, or ERDI specialty areas, preparing you for more challenging and rewarding diving experiences.
Boat Diver
Boat Diving occurs every day around the world; whether is it an inland lake or in the Caribbean, South Pacific or Read Sea, divers can explore the underwater world located off-shore. Dive boats vary from small private vessels to a large live-aboard dive boats. The SDI Boat Diver Course covers the “how-to’s” of boat diving from how to board, proper boat etiquette, entry(s) and much more. The course will also introduce you to the various types of boats you may be diving from.
Computer Nitrox Diver
Extend your bottom time and increase your enjoyment on every dive.
Switch to Nitrox and turn every dive into a longer and more enjoyable experience. By breathing an oxygen-enriched mix, you extend your bottom time and increase the flexibility in your dive profiles. It’s the smart choice for divers who want to make the most of every minute underwater, feel more confident, and enjoy every second in the blue.
Switch to Nitrox and turn every dive into a longer and more enjoyable experience. By breathing an oxygen-enriched mix, you extend your bottom time and increase the flexibility in your dive profiles. It’s the smart choice for divers who want to make the most of every minute underwater, feel more confident, and enjoy every second in the blue.
Deep Diver
SDI’s Deep Diver Course is a must for any diver wishing to explore a little more, go a little deeper, and learn the risks and benefits associated with deep diving. Many interesting sights lay just beyond open water diver training limits such as: beautiful wall dives, shipwrecks, and critters that don’t come into the shallows.The purpose of this course is to provide the necessary training to plan and execute dives that are beyond the depth range experienced during an SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course.
Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)
The SDI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diver Course is designed to train divers in the use of a Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) and familiarize them with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of using a DPV in a non-overhead environment.
Drift Diver
Drift diving allows a diver to travel over a large area without expending much energy. You simply get neutrally buoyant and enjoy the dive as the scenery moves past you. The SDI Drift Diver Course covers the “how-to’s” of drift diving from, how to enter and exit drifts, what to do if you get caught in a drift and wish to get out, how to get out of the drift to observe something special, and much more. The course will also introduce you to the various types of drift currents you may be diving in.
Marine Eco Diver
Divers have a vested interest in protecting the marine environment. In many cases, divers do not have environmental information about local sites. This specialty is designed to increase the open water diver’s understanding of marine and freshwater environments, the problems facing these unique ecosystems, and the role that diver’s play in protecting our marine resources.
Search & Recovery Diver
This specialty is designed to acquaint the diver with special skills and techniques necessary to successfully plan, execute and evaluate a search and recovery dive.
Underwater Navigation
Divers are intensely fascinated by navigation… It allows them to make their way back to a special spot discovered on an earlier dive. They use the tricks and techniques of navigation to find an ideal exit point at the end of a dive without the need for an uncomfortable surface swim.Your SDI Underwater Navigation Specialty course will help you overcome the obstacles inherent to finding your way underwater.
Night/Limited Visibility Diver
Many divers find that night diving is their favorite type of diving. As with all specialty diving applications, procedures are different than those associated with open water diving. The purpose of this course is to acquaint the open water diver with the procedures, techniques, and potential hazards associated with diving at night, or in limited visibility.
Solo Diver
At one point or another, many divers have found themselves alone during a dive, whether it was intentional or not. SDI’s Solo Diving is the practice of self reliant scuba diving without a “dive buddy.”Solo diving, once considered technical diving and discouraged by most certification agencies, is now seen by many experienced divers and some certification agencies as an acceptable practice for those divers suitably trained and experienced.
Wreck Diver
Wreck diving can be one of the most exciting aspects of sport diving, however every effort must be made to maximize safe diving techniques. The SDI Wreck Diver Course will discuss the equipment and techniques commonly employed while wreck diving. This course may be taught as a non-penetration, 2 dives required, or as a limited-penetration course, requiring 3 dives. Limited-penetration is defined as a swim through or within the ambient light of entry point.
Enriched Air Certification (Nitrox)
95% of our divers use enriched air—and for good reason!
- Longer bottom times
- Less fatigue and fewer post-dive headaches
- Safer gas for repetitive dives
Complete eLearning or book work, then join us for a two-tank dive trip to finish your certification in one day.
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TDI Courses
Technical Diving International (TDI) courses for the diver looking for something a little more extreme.
Courses include Introduction to Technical Diving, Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox, Cavern and Cave, and CCR.
Courses include Introduction to Technical Diving, Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox, Cavern and Cave, and CCR.
Intro to Tech Diving
The TDI Intro to Tech Course is an introductory course that expands on recreational training by improving dive planning methods, in-water skills, and streamlining existing gear configurations in a controlled and fun learning environment.
Advanced Nitrox Diver
Are you looking to expand your dive time? Maybe you’re a scientific diver or photographer looking to stay in the water a little longer?The TDI Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 percent within your current certification level to a maximum depth of 40 metres/130 feet during dives that do not require staged decompression.
Decompression Procedures Diver
Are you finding your no- decompression limits (NDLs) a limiting factor to dives? Do you have to ascend sooner than you would like? As sport divers, planned decompression is not something that we do or have been taught.The TDI Decompression Procedures Course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving.
Nitrox Gas Blender
Have you ever wondered how your nitrox cylinders are filled? Do you like the “behind the scenes” look at what makes a dive happen? Take the TDI Nitrox Gas Blender Course to find out how your cylinders get filled with nitrox! The TDI Nitrox Gas Blender Course will take you through the blending of nitrox in an easy-to-understand format.This course provides the training required to competently blend nitrox gas.
Advanced Gas Blender
Are you ready to progress on as a Gas Blender? The TDI Advanced Gas Blender Course picks up where you left off in the previous sequence in training, the TDI Nitrox Gas Blender course.After successful completion of the TDI Advanced Gas Blender course, you will be able to engage in the blending of oxygen and helium based gases.
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FRTI Courses
First Response Training International (FRTI) courses review common techniques
to treat serious emergencies, as well as less serious, more common issues.
to treat serious emergencies, as well as less serious, more common issues.
Adult, Child & Infant Emergency
This course is cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid, and automated external defibrillator (AED) use combined into one program. It is designed to teach the techniques to administer CPR, first aid, and utilize an AED in emergency situations involving infants, children, and adults.
STAY SAFE AT WORK
This course covers everything from how a virus spreads to utilizing personal protective equipment (PPE) and even documentation and cleaning procedures. Most importantly, it was created in an easy to digest format, where employees can move at their own pace (typically takes one hour to complete) to ensure they understand exactly what will be expected of them going forward.
Bloodborne Pathogens
This OSHA* and ILCOR compliant course is intended to teach users about pathogens that can be encountered through bodily fluids. Designed for workplace use it teaches participants about the hazards, prevention, and solutions for fluid events. This course meets workplace requirements for individuals with a reasonable risk of encountering fluid interactions.
O2 Administration Course
This course is intended to teach emergency oxygen (O2) administration. This program covers equipment and procedures for administrating oxygen as an emergency procedure. Equipment selection and use for decompression illness emergencies are detailed with practical components to train a well rounded rescuer.
Ready to Start Your Diving Journey?
About Ocean Quest Scuba
Why Train with Ocean Quest?
- Dive off a USCG-certified custom boat
- Learn on real reefs, not just beaches
- Instructors with decades of teaching and local experience
- Snacks, drinks, and a relaxed, supportive atmosphere
Ready to Start Your Diving Journey?Don’t wait—your underwater adventure begins here.
Call us at 561-776-5974 or [Contact Us Online] to reserve your course today!
- Enriched Air (Nitrox) – our most popular course!
- Deep Diver
- Wreck Diver
- Underwater Photographer
- Underwater Naturalist
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Search & Recovery
