Open Water Group Lessons

Columbus Scuba is excited to start your Open Water certification adventure! We have a staff of over 60 professionals with years of experience and extensive qualifications. Our Open Water courses ...

Flex Open Water Class

If you have a busy schedule and cannot make our normal four week sessions – no problem.  Flex Open Water lessons are designed to work around your busy schedule and are tailored to your need...

Check Out Dive Weekends

The Open Water dives are the final step to earning your Open Water Certification. You will complete 4 open water dives over the course of a two-day weekend. These dives are not included in the cost of...

Scuba Diver to Open Water Dive...

Are you a certified SCUBA DIVER (certified to 40ft and MUST dive with a professional) but not yet OPEN WATER (certified to 60ft and able to dive with another certified buddy)? We can upgrade your SCUB...

Missed Class

If you've missed one of your pool sessions for your Open Water Course, we can schedule a make up for you. These dates are just place holders for your payment and information. One of our staff memb...

Private Checkout Dives

Four open water dives are required to complete your open water certification. These four dives are completed over two days. If our scheduled Open Water Check Out Dives do not meet your schedule you...

Open Water Referral Checkout D...

Are you coming from another dive shop and need to finish your certification? We can do it! All we need from you is a referral letter stating you have completed the academics and confined water. Please...

PADI Freediver Course

Your first step toward discovering why freediving is becoming a popular way to explore beneath the waves. No previous freediving course is required.  Freediving is about inward power, discipli...

Try SCUBA

Interested in SCUBA diving, but not 100% sure if it is right for you? There is no pressure to sign up for a course. This session in a swimming pool will allow you to experience what it is like to brea...

Discover Scuba at Gilboa Quarr...

Do you want to Discover Scuba Diving in open water? At Gilboa Quarry, a trained professional will walk you through some of the basics of scuba diving and take you on an underwater tour of many of ...

Snorkeling

Skin diving is snorkeling while making breath-hold dives to observe aquatic life, up close and personal. It’s a great way to explore the underwater world when you’re not able to scuba ...

Refresher

Have you been out of the water for a while? Want to go over the skills and feel confident in the water? Some dive operations may require divers to have logged a dive(s) within the past year. &nbs...

Refresher at Gilboa Quarry

Have you been out of the water for a while? Want to go over the skills and feel confident in the water again? Some dive operations may require divers to have logged a dive(s) within the past year....

Advanced Open Water

Advanced Open Water builds upon skills acquired in your basic Open Water Diver course. This course can be taken immediately after completing Open Water and will advance your diving knowledge &...

AWARE Coral Reef Conservation

Interested in learning about coral reefs and their importance to the ocean? This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital sys...

CTS Cylinder Inspection

Become certified to inspect cylinders!   This one day course is compliant with U.S. Federal government regulations for Hazardous Materials training when dealing with high pressure cylinders...

PADI Deep Diver

The lure of the deep can be strong! Especially when there is a shipwreck or giant sponge belt beneath the limits you are currently trained to. The PADI Deep Diver course can adequately prepare you to ...

Diver Propulsion Vehicle

DPVs offer a thrilling way for scuba divers to see a lot of underwater territory in a short amount of time. They scoot you through the water allowing you to glide over reefs, buzz around a large wreck...

Drysuit Certification

Want to extend your diving season? Learn how to dive dry! Drysuits seal you off from the water, so you can stay surprisingly comfortable even in low temperatures. This 2 dive course will also expand t...

Enriched Air (Nitrox)

The academics for this course are done via PADI’s eLearning. The link will be emailed to you shortly after you register for the class. Since the email comes directly from PADI, please check your...

Emergency First Response

Learn the skills to provide first aid emergency care. CPR and rescue breathing, AED, preventing and caring for shock, spinal injury management, and the how to use barriers to reduce transmission of di...

Emergency Oxygen Provider

Knowing how and when to use emergency oxygen is a great skill to have and means you’re ready to help others should the need arise. Becoming an Emergency Oxygen Provider lets you breathe easy kno...

Equipment Specialty

Learn to manage basic scuba diving equipment repairs and adjustments, understand routine care and maintenance procedures and how dive gear works. We will go in depth about how gear works and basic mai...

Full Face Mask

Learn how to dive in a Full Face Mask! Learn new equalization techniques and experience diving with a completely dry face making the full face mask great for cold and warm water alike. Anyone interest...

Ice Diving

Take the icy plunge!   Teamwork is essential for ice diving, so we will start by learning the roles and responsibilities of support personnel, tenders, and safety divers. We will also discu...

Lion Fish Hunter

Native to the Pacific Ocean, lionfish are progressively invading the north-western Atlantic and the Caribbean, where they have no natural predators. Learn what action is needed to control the lionfish...

Navigation

Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you're going. PADI’s Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you...

Night Dive

See incredible nocturnal views while you develop the skills for night diving with the PADI Night Diver Specialty Course. -Learn the planning, organization, procedures, problems and hazards of night...

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They mor...

Photography

The Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly, whether you use a point-and-shoot camera or a sophisticated dSLR like the pros. The academics are done via PADI’s eLearning, in...

Rescue Course

One of Columbus Scuba's FAVORITE courses!! The PADI Rescue Diver course is one of the most challenging, yet most rewarding courses we offer! Why? Because you learn to prevent and manage proble...

Search and Recovery

At some point in your diving career, you or your buddy will either lose or find something underwater and the knowledge and skills you gain in the Search and Recovery Diver course will help you when yo...

PADI Self-Reliant/Solo Diver

This program has been designed to provide qualified divers with “self-reliant” training. During the Self-Reliant/Solo Diver course, you learn about potential risks of diving alone and the ...

Sidemount

($375 + $100 Gear Rental) Move your cylinder from your back to your side, take the pressure off of your back, and find more flexibility to move and enjoy your dive.

Underwater Criminal Investigat...

Ever play the game of Clue? Was it Plum with the candlestick in the library? Or Green with the wrench in the study?   In this course, you will learn about real life forensics, evidence reco...

Wreck Course

Wrecks are exciting windows to the past! Ships, airplanes, and even cars are fascinating to explore! Learn safety considerations for navigating and exploring wrecks, how to avoid common hazards, how t...

IANTD Advanced Nitrox

This Program is designed to extend the diver’s knowledge in the use of EANx for Sport diving. It further develops diving skills and provides a greater understanding of the EANx concept of di...

IANTD Technical Diver

This Program is designed to train divers to conduct dives to depths between 100 fsw and, at the instructor’s option, up to 170 fsw using custom blend breathing gas mixtures. To provide greater u...

Recreational Trimix Diver

The IANTD Recreational Trimix Diver program provides Sport Divers with a safer breathing medium within the depth limits of sport diving (130 fsw/39 msw), whilst utilizing helium to give an Equivalent ...

IANTD Advanced Recreational Tr...

This Program is designed to extend the diver’s knowledge in the use of EANx for Sport diving. It further develops diving skills and provides a greater understanding of the EANx concept o...

Normoxic Trimix Diver

The IANTD Normoxic Trimix Diver program is designed to train divers who wish to dive to depths between 39 and 60 msw (130 and 200 fsw), but do not wish to breathe air below 39 msw (130 fsw). Trimix af...

Closed Circuit Rebreather Clas...

A rebreather is a breathing device that recycles a divers exhaled breath, scrubs it clean of carbon dioxide and recycles that same breath so that the diver may use it over and over through out their d...

PADI Tec 40

The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It's a great place to start because it's the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver cou...

PADI Tec 45

The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You'll extend your depth limit to 45 metres/145 feet and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives...

PADI Tec 50

The third part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program is Tec 50. As a Tec 50 diver, you show that you've developed competency as a tec diver and have the skills to dive to a maximum of 50 metres/...

TDI Intro to Tech Diving

The TDI Intro to Tech Course is an introductory course that expands on recreational training by improving dive planning methods, in-water skills, and streamlining existing gear configurations in a con...

TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver

Are you looking to expand your dive time? Maybe you’re a scientific diver or photographer looking to stay in the water a little longer? The TDI Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enr...

TDI Decompression Procedures

Are you finding your no- decompression limits (NDLs) a limiting factor to dives? Do you have to ascend sooner than you would like? As sport divers, planned decompression is not something that we do or...

TDI Extended Range

Certain areas of the world provide spectacular dives at depths deeper than 130 feet but you may not have access (or very limited access) to helium. The TDI Extended Range course teaches you the proper...

Divemaster Course

Love scuba diving? Want to share it with others on a whole new level? Scuba divers look up to Divemasters (DMs) because they are leaders who mentor and motivate others. As a divemaster, you not only g...

Assistant Instructor (AI)

If you like people, have a passion for scuba diving and want an extraordinary life - become a PADI Assistant Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with o...

Instructor Development Course ...

If you have a passion for scuba diving and want to share your passion – become a PADI Instructor! Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others while doing...

IDC Staff Instructor

As a PADI IDC Staff Instructor you will help raise the next generation of PADI professionals as well as gain in-depth instructor trainer knowledge.   After a preassessment of your instruct...

Public Safety Diver

If you have the opportunity to work with local authorities and be part of a scuba diving rescue team, or conduct search and recovery dives, and maybe even underwater criminal investigations, this is t...

ERD Drysuit Ops Diver

The ERD Dry Suit Ops Course develops the knowledge and skills that are necessary for dry suit diving operations in emergency response diving. Introducing fundamental skills of dry suit diving and othe...

ERD Tender

The ERD Tender Course trains team personnel to properly line tend and participate within the public safety dive team in a non-diving roll. The ERD Tender role is so critical to the success of the miss...

ERD Underwater Crime Scene Ops

The purpose of the ERDI Underwater Crime Scene Investigations Program is to provide necessary skills and knowledge in performing underwater crime scene investigations, preservation, and proper documen...

ERD Full Face Mask Ops

The ERD Full Face Mask Course provides the skills and knowledge for the ERD diver to utilize full face masks for emergency response diving. This course can be scheduled on weekdays from May - October....

ERD I

This first level Emergency Response Diving Course is designed to give the certified open water diver, or open water certified public safety diver, the fundamental skills needed to safely function as p...

ERD II

The ERD II Course furthers the public safety diver’s knowledge and advances skill sets for emergency response diving. The ERD II Course will examine lifting techniques, encapsulation, a victim&r...

STAFF REGISTRATION

If you are a Divemaster in training, Divemaster, Assistant Instructor, or Instructor with Columbus Scuba, you can book a spot here to let us know if you plan to come up to the quarry to help for the w...