Learn to Scuba Dive Through Deree with the Seals
Deree has joined forces with the Seals Scuba Diving Center, based in Piraeus, to offer you SCUBA PADI open water certification at various times during the academic year.
The certification course is in three parts over about three weeks in length. The introduction to certification begins online; there is a portion where students meet for training in the Deree pool and then progress to the final portion of the training in open water near Athens.
Is scuba diving for you?
Are you a good swimmer? Do you enjoy swimming? Do you love the open sea? Do you have a sense of adventure? Like to explore? If the answer to those questions is yes, and you are a member of the ACG community—students, faculty, and staff—you are welcome and encouraged to sign up. An underwater world waits for you!
- Register for SCUBA certification with the Seals here.
- If you are a Deree student and are interested in joining Deree’s Aqua Club, the information is on this page here.
**Remember all forms and waivers required by the Seals and the Deree Athletic Department must be filled out to take the course and to use the pool.**
The first SCUBA certification program begins on May 13, 2024 (online).
SCUBA diving is a fantastic way to satisfy multiple emotional, physical, and social needs all at once. From relieving stress to improving blood circulation, to sharpening our focus, scuba diving comes with a host of unparalleled benefits.
What’s more, it allows you to travel to places you wouldn’t have thought possible and to experience the famous pristine blue waters all over Greece.
Boasting a total of 617 Blue Flag beaches and a 13,676-kilometer coastline, Greece, with its turquoise waters, varied sea life, ancient wrecks, coral reefs, and year-round sunshine, is an ideal haven for SCUBA divers.
Learning to SCUBA dive will create an immediate environmentalist and conservationist in you no matter where you dive in the world, and here in Greece it is a way to enjoy, to appreciate, and to protect the blue seas of Greece.
**Please be on time. This is important as our pool access is strictly limited.**
Monday, May 20 @ 11:15 am | Deree pool #1 with Seals SCUBA instructors
Wednesday, May 22 @ 11:15 am | Deree pool #2 with Seals SCUBA instructors
Thursday, May 23 @ 11:15 am | Deree pool #3 with Seals SCUBA instructors
Fri May 24 @ 11:15 am | Deree pool #4 with Seals SCUBA instructors
Saturday May 25 & Sunday May 26 @ 9:15 am | Open Water Dive #1 (Meet Seals SCUBA instructors @ Deree pool)
Monday, May 27 @ 11:15am | Deree pool #5 with Seals SCUBA instructors
Wednesday, May 29 @ 11:15 am | Open Water Dive #2 (Meet Seals SCUBA instructors @ Deree pool for transport to the sea)
Friday, May 31 @ 11:15 am | Open Water Dive #3 (Meet Seals SCUBA instructors @ Deree pool for transport to the sea)
Saturday, June 1 & Sunday, June 2 @ 9:15 am | FINAL Open Water Dive #4 (Meet Seals SCUBA instructors @ Deree pool for transport to the sea)
The second SCUBA certification program begins on June 24, 2024 (online)
Monday, July 1 @ 3:10 pm | Meet Seals instructors @ Deree pool
Tuesday, July 2 @ 3:10 pm | Meet the Seals instructors @ Deree pool
Wednesday, July 3 @ 3:10 pm | Meet the Seals instructors @ Deree pool
Thursday, July 4 | The college is closed for American Independence Day but there will be a class. Details to be annnounced by the Seals.
Friday, July 5 @ 3:10 pm | Meet the Seals instructors @ Deree pool
Saturday, July 6 & Sunday, July 7 | Open water training and certification near Athens on these days and is weather dependent. Details to be announced by the Seals the previous week at the pool.
530 € (inclusive) to be paid directly to the Seals.
This course includes:
- Mask and snorkel
- Fins
- Weights
- Regulator
- BCD (buoyancy control device)
- Wet suit
- Boots
- E-learning course materials
- Transportation to open water final certification location/s
- PADI certification e-card
- Designated Deree pool use (for training)
- Seals Diving Center T-Shirt
- Vat
- Diving insurance during the course
* All the gear will be returned to the Seals at the conclusion of the course. If the student is serious about a future in diving, we do encourage them to purchase their own mask, snorkel, and fins before the course begins, and this can be done so through the Seals Diving Center.
** You must fill out ALL required paperwork issued by the Seals to take the course and to dive.
*** You must fill out ALL required paperwork issued by the Deree Athletic Department to use the pool.
For more information contact:
Dr. May Cardaras
Director of The Demos Center + Faculty Advisor to Deree’s Aqua Club
Email: [email protected]