Scuba classes for every diver
From your first breath underwater to becoming an instructor, explore the complete range of PADI courses at Minnesota’s largest scuba school.
PADI certified
Recognized in 180+ countries wherever your travels take you.
eLearning options
Do the bookwork online, on your schedule.
In-store pool
12 ft deep and heated to 88° year-round.
Small groups
Experienced instructors who dive what they teach.
Beginner & Intro
Try it, then get certified. Every journey starts here.
PADI Discover Scuba
Wondering what it’s like to breathe underwater? Try scuba in a fun, relaxed session in our heated Eagan pool before committing to a course.
PADI Open Water Diver
Your lifetime scuba certification: eLearning, two pool sessions and four open water dives at Square Lake, recognized worldwide.
Continuing Education
Build skills, confidence and experience after your first certification.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Take your diving to new levels of excitement through adventure dives. Perfect for newly certified divers or experienced divers with plenty of logged dives.
PADI Rescue Diver
Building on Advanced Open Water, you’ll learn to recognize and prevent potential problems and how to manage them if they occur.
PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
Extend your no-stop limits and enjoy more bottom time with enriched air. The most popular PADI specialty.
PADI Master Scuba Diver
PADI’s highest recreational rating. Requires Rescue Diver, five PADI Specialties and 50 logged dives.
PADI Specialty courses
Dive deeper into what you love. Most specialties count toward Master Scuba Diver.
Refresher Programs
Once certified, you’re certified for life, but skills get rusty. Get back in the water with confidence.
PADI ReActivate
A quick refresher of dive knowledge via eLearning plus a skills session with a PADI Professional. You’ll receive a replacement card marked “ReActivated.”
Diamond Reef Buoyancy Training
A modular artificial reef that measures your buoyancy proficiency: ascent rates, hovering, breathing and body position.
Practice Pool Time
Certified divers can use our 12 ft, 88° pool to practice skills or test gear before a trip. Pre-registration required and space is limited.
Safety & Medical
Skills that matter in and out of the water.
Emergency First Response (EFR)
CPR, First Aid and AED training for anyone who wants to learn or update life-saving skills. Meets PADI Rescue Diver and Divemaster requirements.
PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider
Learn to recognize dive illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen and be ready to help others when it counts.
Freediving
Explore the underwater world quietly, on a single breath.
PADI Basic Freediver
A great first step: learn breath-hold technique, static and dynamic apnea and buddy procedures in a pool. Goal: 90-second static, 25 m dynamic.
PADI Freediver
Knowledge development, a confined water session and at least two open water sessions practicing free immersion and constant weight dives.
Technical Diving
For experienced divers ready to go beyond recreational limits with PADI TecRec.
PADI Tec 40
Your transition into technical diving: limited decompression dives to 40 m / 130 ft.
PADI Tec 45
Extend to 45 m / 145 ft with repetitive decompression dives, a full tec rig (backmount or sidemount) and accelerated deco.
PADI Tec 50
Complete the Tec Deep program: dives to 50 m / 165 ft using up to two decompression gases.
PADI Tec Sidemount
Learn to configure and manage multiple cylinders in sidemount. Can be integrated with Tec 40, 45 or 50.
DSAT Nitrox Gas Blender
Proper procedures, equipment requirements and hazards involved in blending enriched air nitrox.
Professional Development
Turn your passion into a profession. Scuba Center is a PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center with two PADI Course Directors on staff.
PADI Divemaster
Your first professional rating. Expand your capabilities, assist instructors and lead certified divers.
PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC)
Become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor and help people transform their lives through diving.
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Share your experience with up-and-coming instructors while gaining instructor-trainer knowledge.
PADI Instructor Examination (IE)
An independent, objective evaluation of academics, confined water, open water and professionalism. IEs are scheduled periodically in the Twin Cities.
EFR Instructor
Learn to teach Primary Care (CPR), Secondary Care (First Aid) and Care for Children courses.
Public Safety Diving
Specialized training for dive rescue and recovery teams. Learn more about our Public Safety program.
PADI Public Safety Diver
Search and recovery in limited visibility, special communications, self-rescue and evidence handling. Requires Advanced Open Water to start and Rescue Diver to finish.
PADI Surface Support Specialist
The topside role: scene management, witness interviews, evidence bagging and tender duties.
Want to become a PADI Instructor?
With two PADI Course Directors on staff, our Five Star IDC has launched dive careers across the Midwest and beyond.