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Dive courses & workshops

Make your dives matter

Whether you are taking your first breaths underwater, building on the skills you already have, or looking for ways to put diving to work for conservation, there is a course here for you.

Everything is taught in small groups by qualified instructors, so you get individual attention and the time to build real confidence in the water. We want you to leave a safer, more capable and more aware diver than you arrived.

Already joining a SORCE expedition? Most of these courses can be built into your stay. Short courses and some workshops are also open to visitors who are not joining a full expedition.

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On the reef

Evening lesson in Den with slide on screen

In the classroom

The dive store

Kitting up

Turtle under table coral among colourful reef

Reef life

Purple acropora

Coral gardens

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Recreational training

PADI dive courses

Duration, entry level and price are on every card. Open a card for what you will learn, what is included and what we ask of you before you start.

Before you arrive Complete your PADI eLearning and paperwork at home. Our PADI Instructors will send you everything you need ahead of your arrival, so your time with us goes into the water.

Open Water Diver

Your underwater journey starts here

Duration
3+ days
Entry level
Open to everyone
Fee
Rp. 6,000,000
You leave with
Open Water Diver
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The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world's most recognised entry-level scuba qualification, and your first step towards diving independently.

You will learn the principles and practical skills needed to dive safely and confidently, then take those skills into the ocean across four open-water training dives. Learning here also means starting out surrounded by tropical marine life, and our team will help you begin recognising the animals and ecosystems you meet.

What you'll learn

  • Fundamental scuba-diving principles
  • Dive equipment setup and use
  • Essential underwater skills
  • Buoyancy and controlled movement
  • Dive planning and safety
  • Tropical marine life and environmentally responsible diving

On completion you are certified to dive to 18 metres, within the limits of your certification and experience.

What's included

  • PADI eLearning
  • All scuba equipment for the course
  • Instructor-led theory and practical training
  • Five confined-water dives
  • Four open-water training dives
  • PADI certification
  • Drinking water, tea and coffee during training

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age 18
  • Comfortable in the water
  • A reasonable level of fitness
  • Medically fit to dive - confirmed by the PADI medical questionnaire
  • Complete PADI eLearning and forms before arrival

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Advanced Open Water Diver

Confidence, experience and depth

Duration
2 to 3 days
Entry level
Open Water
Fee
Rp. 5,000,000
You leave with
Advanced Open Water
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Advanced Open Water is all about exploration, excitement and new experiences. It extends your diving limit to 30 metres, and across five Adventure Dives you build experience in different conditions and skills, and with it greater confidence, awareness and control underwater.

The course is two required dives, Deep and Underwater Navigation, plus three Adventure Dives you choose yourself. There is no need to wait after Open Water: you can carry straight on if you are ready.

Choose your three Adventure Dives

  • Boat Diving
  • Drift Diving
  • Fish ID
  • Night Diving
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • Rescue
  • Search and Recovery
  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Digital Underwater Imaging*

*You will need your own camera, so ask us if you do not have one.

What you'll learn

  • Underwater navigation
  • Deep diving
  • The physiology of increased depth
  • Greater situational awareness

What's included

  • PADI eLearning
  • All scuba equipment for training
  • Five Adventure Dives with a PADI Instructor
  • PADI certification
  • Drinking water, tea and coffee during training

Prerequisites

  • PADI Open Water Diver or a recognised equivalent
  • Minimum age 18
  • Medically fit to dive - confirmed by the PADI medical questionnaire
  • Complete PADI eLearning and forms before arrival

Not dived for 12 months? We recommend a PADI ReActivate refresher first.

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Rescue Diver + EFR

Become the diver others can rely on

Duration
5+ days
Entry level
Advanced Open Water
Fee
From Rp. 6,000,000
You leave with
Rescue Diver
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Often described as the most challenging and the most rewarding of the recreational courses, Rescue Diver changes how you think underwater. Instead of concentrating on your own dive, you learn to recognise stress and developing problems in other divers, prevent situations from escalating, and respond effectively when help is needed.

What you'll learn

  • Self-rescue techniques
  • Recognising diver stress
  • Assisting tired and panicked divers
  • Responding to unresponsive divers
  • Missing-diver procedures
  • Emergency management
  • Rescue breathing
  • Diving and aquatic injury response
  • Emergency equipment use
  • Scenario-based rescue skills

Emergency First Response

A current EFR, or an equivalent CPR and First Aid qualification, is required for Rescue Diver certification. If you do not hold one, you can complete EFR training with us as part of your Rescue programme.

Fees

  • Rescue Diver: Rp. 6,000,000
  • Rescue Diver with EFR: Rp. 7,850,000

What's included

  • PADI eLearning
  • All scuba equipment for training
  • Practical rescue training
  • Two final rescue scenarios
  • PADI Rescue Diver certification
  • EFR training and certification where selected
  • Drinking water, tea and coffee during training

Prerequisites

  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a recognised equivalent
  • Minimum age 18
  • A recognised First Aid and CPR certificate from the last 24 months, or complete EFR with us
  • Medically fit to dive - confirmed by the PADI medical questionnaire
  • Complete PADI eLearning and forms before arrival

Not dived for 12 months? We recommend a PADI ReActivate refresher first.

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Deep Diver Specialty

Dive safely beyond 30 metres

Duration
2 to 3 days
Entry level
Adventure or Advanced
Fee
From Rp. 3,750,000
You leave with
Deep Diver
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For divers ready to go beyond the recreational limit of Advanced Open Water, the Deep Diver Specialty builds the skills and knowledge to plan and conduct deeper dives safely.

You will see how increasing depth affects your body, your equipment, your buoyancy, your air consumption and your decision-making, and learn the procedures designed for deeper recreational diving. On completion you are qualified to 40 metres, within the limits of your training and experience.

What's involved

  • Two to three days
  • Four training dives
  • Qualified to 40 metres on completion

What you'll learn

  • Planning deep dives
  • Depth-related physiological considerations
  • Gas management
  • Buoyancy at depth
  • Descent and ascent procedures for deep dives
  • Safety stops and emergency considerations
  • Greater environmental and situational awareness

Prerequisites

  • PADI Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water, or a qualifying equivalent
  • Minimum age 18
  • Medically fit to dive

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AWARE Specialty

Turn ocean awareness into action

Duration
Up to 3 hours
Entry level
Open to everyone
Fee
Rp. 2,000,000
You leave with
AWARE Specialty
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Marine conservation does not stop when you climb back onto the boat. The AWARE Specialty looks at the greatest challenges facing the ocean and, more importantly, at what individuals can practically do about them.

It is an eLearning-only course: you work through the PADI AWARE eLearning in your own time, in up to about three hours of reading, and we then issue your certification. There are no dives and no taught sessions, and you do not need to be a diver to take part. It suits anyone who wants to be a better advocate for the marine environment.

What's involved

  • PADI AWARE eLearning, in your own time, up to about three hours of reading
  • No dives and no taught sessions
  • We issue your PADI AWARE certification once you have finished

What you'll explore

  • The major threats facing marine ecosystems
  • Responsible interaction with the underwater environment
  • Sustainable choices and ocean stewardship
  • Practical conservation actions
  • How divers and non-divers alike can contribute
  • Ways into wider marine conservation work

Prerequisites

  • None. No diving certification is required.

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Dive Against Debris Specialty

Turn a clean-up dive into useful data

Duration
1 day
Entry level
Open Water
Fee
Rp. 2,250,000
You leave with
Dive Against Debris
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Marine debris is the most visible impact we have on the underwater environment, but removing rubbish is only part of the answer. This specialty teaches you to run systematic underwater debris surveys, remove appropriate debris safely, and record what you find so it can go into the global PADI AWARE dataset.

Your dive does not simply leave one reef cleaner: the data you collect contributes to a far wider understanding of where debris occurs and how the problem is changing.

What's involved

  • One day in total
  • A theory session on marine debris and how to survey it
  • One survey dive, collecting and recording debris
  • Your data submitted to the PADI AWARE global database

What you'll learn

  • The sources and impacts of marine debris
  • Planning a Dive Against Debris survey
  • Safe underwater debris removal
  • What should, and should not, be removed
  • Categorising collected debris
  • Recording and reporting survey data
  • The PADI AWARE reporting system
  • How citizen science supports marine management

Prerequisites

  • PADI Open Water Diver or a qualifying equivalent
  • Comfortable holding good buoyancy while working underwater
  • Medically fit to dive

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Going professional

Conservation Divemaster

Looking for your first professional diving qualification? Our Conservation Divemaster is a multi-week expedition combining the full PADI Divemaster with immersive marine conservation training and real field experience.

Explore the Conservation Divemaster

Next intake: every 10 weeks from the first Monday of March

Diver beside coral tree nursery with fragments
8-25weeks, starting
from eight
4intakes
a year
PADIDivemaster, plus
conservation training

Conservation training

Reef Check Eco-Diver

Learn to survey coral reefs using a globally standardised method, and come away able to take part in real monitoring.

Reef Check is an international coral reef monitoring programme that trains citizen scientists to collect standardised information about reef health. SORCE works with Reef Check Indonesia, and our team monitors within the GITA NADA Marine Protected Area.

The Eco-Diver course gives qualified divers intensive training in the methodology, the indicator organisms, substrate classification and reef impacts, then brings it all together in a complete underwater survey.

The four days

  1. Day 1

    Reef Check and survey methods

    Introduction to Reef Check, reef monitoring and the standardised survey methodology.

  2. Day 2

    Fish and invertebrate ID

    Identification lectures and workshops, then underwater training and assessment.

  3. Day 3

    Substrate and reef impacts

    Substrate and impact identification, underwater training and assessment.

  4. Day 4

    A complete survey

    Method review, then a full survey and an introduction to data recording and the Reef Check database.

As with all our courses, the fee does not include accommodation, meals, dive insurance or Marine Park fees. See details.

Confined waterSkills first, in water you can stand up in
TheoryDone online before you arrive, so more time in the water
Open waterYour first dives on a living reef
Putting it to workSurveys, clean-ups and monitoring

Short courses

Marine conservation workshops

You do not need weeks with us to learn something new. These are built for divers, travellers and families who want to experience the work without joining a full expedition.

Eco-Dive: Coral Restoration

Don't just visit a reef. Help restore one

Duration
Half or full day
Who for
Certified divers
Fee
From Rp. 1,200,000
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Learn how coral reefs work, why they are under threat, and how carefully planned restoration can support damaged reefs. After an introduction to coral biology and restoration we take you underwater to take part in the work alongside our team.

What you'll learn

  • Coral reef structure and ecology
  • The threats facing coral reefs
  • The principles of coral restoration
  • Coral nurseries
  • Fragmentation and planting techniques
  • Environmentally responsible diving

Options

  • One-dive workshop: Rp. 1,200,000, about half a day
  • Two-dive workshop: Rp. 1,800,000, about a full day

Prerequisites

  • PADI Open Water Diver or a recognised equivalent
  • Minimum age 18
  • Medically fit to dive

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Eco-Dive: Indo-Pacific Fish ID

Start knowing what you're looking at

Duration
Half or full day
Who for
Certified divers
Fee
From Rp. 1,200,000
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A reef becomes a different place once you can recognise what lives there. This workshop introduces the most common and most charismatic Indo-Pacific reef fish families, the roles they play, and the pressures many populations face, then takes that knowledge underwater to practise.

What you'll learn

  • Indo-Pacific fish family identification
  • Underwater identification techniques
  • Dive signs for common fish groups
  • The ecological roles of reef fishes
  • Overfishing and fisheries pressure
  • Fish conservation
  • Environmentally responsible diving

Options

  • One-dive workshop: Rp. 1,200,000, about half a day
  • Two-dive workshop: Rp. 1,800,000, about a full day

Prerequisites

  • PADI Open Water Diver or a recognised equivalent
  • Minimum age 18
  • Medically fit to dive

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Mangrove Restoration Experience

One of the coast's most important ecosystems

Duration
About half a day
Who for
Age 12 and over, no diving
Fee
Rp. 600,000
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Step into Lombok's mangrove forest and find out why these places matter so much to biodiversity, fisheries, coastlines and the communities living along them. You will learn the biology and the threats, then get hands-on with restoration work and our mangrove nursery.

What you'll learn

  • Mangrove ecology and biology
  • The services these ecosystems provide
  • The threats facing mangrove forests
  • Mangrove conservation
  • Nursery techniques
  • Planting propagules and saplings
  • Restoration and transplantation

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age 12
  • Under-18s must be with a parent or guardian
  • No diving certification needed

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CoralWatch Workshop

Help monitor coral health and bleaching

Duration
One day
Who for
Scuba or snorkel
Fee
From Rp. 1,000,000
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CoralWatch, based at the University of Queensland, is a citizen science programme helping people worldwide record coral health and bleaching. This workshop covers coral biology, bleaching and coral health, then teaches you the Coral Health Chart and its survey method. Scuba and snorkelling options mean divers and non-divers can both take part.

This is a workshop in the CoralWatch method, not a certification course: it does not lead to the PADI CoralWatch specialty.

What you'll learn

  • Coral biology
  • Coral bleaching
  • Coral disease and mortality
  • The CoralWatch methodology
  • Using the Coral Health Chart
  • Underwater survey techniques
  • Recording and submitting data

Options

  • Scuba workshop: Rp. 1,500,000
  • Snorkelling workshop: Rp. 1,000,000

Prerequisites

  • Scuba: PADI Open Water or equivalent, minimum age 18
  • Snorkelling: a competent swimmer, minimum age 16
  • Under-18s must be with a parent or guardian

Ask about the CoralWatch Workshop

Availability depends on current projects, staff and conditions, so please contact us before travelling if there is a particular workshop you would like to join.

As with all our courses, the fee does not include accommodation, meals, dive insurance or Marine Park fees. See details.

Want to add a course to your stay?
Tell us when you book.

We will help you work out what fits within your expedition, and whether a little extra time would let you get more from your training. Visiting Lombok and want to join us just for a course? Ask us about upcoming dates.

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