So you’re looking to get your scuba certification here in landlocked Fort Worth, Texas. Why not become an Open Water Scuba Diver before your big trip? Certainly, you don’t want to use your valued vacation time taking classes? We make it easy for you to learn to scuba dive locally and it takes just to weekends to get your certification!
The PADI Open Water Diver course is the beginning of your underwater adventure! Imagine watching countless fish on a tropical reef as you glide weightlessly below the surface. Your newly earned scuba certification is your ticket to worldwide underwater exploration.
How Your Scuba Class Works
In the PADI Open Water Scuba Diver course, our instructors will take you through all the basics of learning how to dive. First, you start in the classroom at Lone Star Scuba in Fort Worth, both on Saturday and Sunday mornings. During the classroom portion, you will be introduced to the equipment and practical knowledge needed to safely enjoy your new sport. After the classroom portion it’s time to get in the water! Next, you will spend the afternoon on both days in a heated indoor Junior Olympic pool, not a tiny in-store pool. The pool is where you will learn and practice the basic skills of scuba diving.
Finally, after you have completed the classroom portion and confined water (pool) portion of the course, you will proceed to the following weekend’s open water check out dives. Where we hold these dives is highly dependent on visibility and water temperature. For this reason, we have many dive parks to choose from to afford you an enjoyable diving experience. You are required to do four open water dives but PADI only allows for three training dives a day. So, we split the check out dives up over both days.
Once you have completed the classroom, confined water and open water dives you will be PADI Open Water Scuba Diver certified! You will receive a certification card, a diver’s license if you will, that will allow you to dive all over the world using your brand new scuba skills.
Now That You Want To Learn To Scuba Dive How Do You Get Started?
To sign up for the PADI Open Water Scuba Diver course all you need to do is come by the store to fill out some paperwork, try on some equipment and pick up your books. There will be some reading to do, and some videos to watch, before the class starts. Therefore, you want to make sure you allow yourself enough time before the class start date to complete those items.
If reading a book is not your thing, and feel you need a little more screen time in your life, you do have the option of doing the classwork via computer, tablet or phone with PADI’s Open Water Scuba Diver eLearning course. The eLearning course allows you to come in a little later on that first weekend. More importantly, it gives you the opportunity to begin your learning now by clicking on the banner below:
What are you waiting for?
So, now that you’ve decided to expand your knowledge and skills, and dive into a new and exciting life full of wonders, check out our PADI Open Water Scuba Diver class schedule. Then, take a look at your calendar to see which class fits best. After that, come by the shop to sign up and add a little adventure to your life!
2025 Open water
18-19 & 25-26 January 2025
15-16 & 22-23 February 2025
01-02 & 08-09 March 2025
29-30 March & 05-06 April 2025
26-27 April & 03-04 May 2025
17-18 & 24-25 May 2025
07-08 & 14-15 June 2025
21-22 & 28-29 June 2025
12-13 & 19-20 July 2025
26-27 July & 02-03 August 2025
09-10 & 16-17 August 2025
23-24 & 30-31 August 2025
13-14 & 20-21 September 2025
27-28 September & 04-05 October 2025
11-12 & 18-19 October 2025
01-02 & 08-09 November 2025
06-07 & 13-14 December 2025
Accelerated open water
30-31 May - 01 June 2025
05-07 September 2025
