- Course length: 200 hours
Your Occupational SCUBA Diver certification is the first step to becoming a Commercial SCUBA Diver and is integral to working in Aquaculture, Scientific Diving and so much more!
Are you ready to begin your underwater career? The Commercial Scuba Diver course is a short, but thorough program that will give you the training and expertise to enter your chosen career with confidence.
Upon completion, graduates are certified to CSA standards as an Occupational Scuba Diver, allowing them to conduct commercial diving operations using scuba equipment to a maximum depth of 30 metres (100 feet).
Career opportunities include aquaculture diving, seafood harvesting, engineering, environmental inspections, archaeological investigation, public safety diving, search and recovery, police operations, small vessel maintenance, and underwater film/video production.
Course hours: 200 hours. Full time 8:30am to 5pm (Monday to Friday). Some weekend work may be required. Online e-learning outside of the regular program hours.
Program includes:
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- Underwater navigation & environmental survey work
- Underwater search and recovery, hand tools, knot tying,
- Seamanship and vessel docking
- Full face mask diving
- Environmental Survey
- Knot tying
- Low vis diving
- Hull inpections
- Current diving & Dive rescue,
- Life line / tether line diving, digital imaging
- Aquaculture diving techniques
- Dive rescue
- Aquaculture diving techniques
- Zinc changes
Be the best you can be...train in the ocean!
Online Study Materials - $1750 + GST
Books - $295 + GST
Tuition - $7995 (price increasing for courses after March 2023)
Certification Fees - $110
Other Fees: $7000 - this is an estimate - for personal diving equipment
Certifications: DCBC (Diver Certification Board of Canada) certification, DIVESAFE International certifications
This program is approved by the :
DCBC(Diver Certification Board of Canada)
PTIB (Private Training Institutions Branch)
Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training (AEST).
Note: Tuition fees are tax exempt. T2202A CRA tax forms will be sent to students in February after your graduating year.
Hear from our past students.
The instructors provided the best information, were always keen to help and not belittle anyone. VERY PATIENT! Provided excellent service with the COVID situation. Thank you for all the help, to all the DiveSafe Family.
Sam H.
Thank you to all the faculty members. Peter, Kelly you two are doing great. All of the hard work you put into this course is so appreciated! I hope we make you proud.
Brian K.
“Rate the instructors A B C D” ← GOD TIER. Diving the Columbia was amazing!
Susan R.
Very pleased with this course, I love the connections I made and I feel all the skills learned in the course will be used. Thank you very much guys. Really appreciate the course and time you put into it!
Mark H.
