If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure, and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts with DSM Dive on Gili Trawangan & Lombok. Get your Open Water Certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.

The Gili Islands are considered one of the best places to do your course due to our dive site’s condition and quality. DSM Dive guaranty you a course in small groups and maximum safety under the direction of experienced Instructors.

The PADI Open Water Diver course usually takes three days as your first adventure in diving. We like to teach in small groups with a maximum of 4 students per instructor, so you and your friends will get the most out of it.

1. The first day contains knowledge development in the morning and confined water training (diving in the swimming pool) in the afternoon. It is the day with the heaviest workload.
2. The second day is a boat trip with two separate open water dives, and you may finish the theory in the afternoon or evening (up to you).
3. The third day is another boat trip with two dives followed by processing your certification paperwork! The PADI Open Water Diver license is recognized worldwide and valid for life, allowing you to dive independently to a maximum of 18 meters (in a buddy team).

For the boat trips with the open water dives, we go diving around all three Gili Islands, which offer various dive sites around Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno, and Gili Air. We choose the two best dive sites daily, depending on the ocean conditions, and each dive is up to one hour long.

The Open Water course divided in 3 parts : Theory | Confined water | Open Water Dive.

The Theory

Theories will be divided into five chapters. For each chapter, you will watch one video while answering multiple-choice knowledge review questions. You will also have a textbook to aid you should you clarify any of the concepts. After each chapter, your instructor will take up the questions with you and explain in further detail anything you had trouble with or anything that further interests you related to the material.
Following each chapter, you will have a closed-book quiz with ten questions. It is to help reinforce your diving knowledge and prepare you for the final exam. The final exam contains 50 multiples choice questions, and you need to score 75% or higher to pass. Don’t worry; our instructors will prepare you well in advance, and you will cruise through it!
We provide a classroom with air-conditioning to watch the videos, or you can take a tablet pre-loaded with the videos to your accommodation.

The Confined Water

We have a swimming pool where you will practice all the skills and procedures to ensure that you are comfortable with the equipment. You and your instructor will practice the skills together, and we do not hesitate to take extra time as needed. Your instructor will explain the steps on the surface for each skill and then provide a slow demonstration underwater of exactly how to do the skill before you perform it yourself!

The Open Water Dives

To complete your training, you have to do four open water dives, the fun part! The first two dives will be to a maximum depth of 12m, and the next two dives will be to a maximum depth of 18m. At the beginning of each dive, we will repeat a series of skills you already practiced during the confined sessions (it usually takes 5 – 10 minutes at the beginning of each dive). After we complete the skills, we go into exploratory mode and search for every kind of marine life you can imagine!

The Certification

The PADI Open Water Diver license is recognized worldwide and valid for life, allowing you to dive independently to 18 meters max. This experience will expand your understanding of the ocean and how lucky we are to explore the wonders it holds.