SCUBA TRAINING
Start Diving. Keep Learning. Dive With Confidence.
Whether you’re taking your first breath underwater or looking to become a more confident and capable certified diver, scuba training should be about more than checking boxes.
I teach scuba through Sugar Land Dive Center in the Houston area, with an emphasis on developing safe, comfortable divers who understand their skills and genuinely enjoy being in the water.
Learn to Dive
Your underwater adventure starts here.
Learning to scuba dive opens the door to an entirely different world. The PADI Open Water Diver course is the starting point for becoming a certified scuba diver and is designed to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to dive safely with a buddy.
Training combines knowledge development, confined-water training and open-water dives, giving you the opportunity to learn and practice essential scuba skills before putting them to use in an open-water environment.
I teach Open Water scuba through Sugar Land Dive Center, where students have access to the equipment, facilities and support of an established PADI dive center throughout their training.
What You’ll Learn
Open Water training builds the foundation for safe, confident recreational diving. You’ll develop skills both above and below the surface, including:
DIVE SKILLS
Equipment setup and use
Buoyancy and trim fundamentals
Mask and regulator skills
Safe descents and ascents
DIVE KNOWLEDGE
Dive planning and safety
Understanding your equipment
Managing air and depth
Responsible diving practices
CONFIDENCE UNDERWATER
Comfort in the water
Problem-solving skills
Buddy awareness
Putting your skills together on real dives
How Training Works
Your Open Water training progresses step by step, giving you time to understand the material, practice your skills and become comfortable before moving on to open-water diving.
01 • LEARN
Knowledge Development
Learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, equipment, dive planning and safety through PADI’s knowledge-development program.
02 • PRACTICE
Confined Water Training
Get comfortable with scuba equipment and develop essential diving skills in a controlled pool environment with instructor guidance.
03 • DIVE
Open Water Training
Put everything together during your open-water training dives and demonstrate the skills needed to become a certified PADI Open Water Diver.
READY TO START DIVING?
Open Water training is offered through Sugar Land Dive Center in the Houston area. Contact me if you’d like to learn more about upcoming training or getting started.
Keep Learning
Certification is the beginning, not the finish line.
Some of the biggest improvements in diving happen after Open Water, when you have the opportunity to refine your skills, improve your buoyancy, become more comfortable underwater and explore new ways to dive.
Continuing education can help you become a safer, more confident and more capable diver while introducing you to new skills, environments and ways to get involved in the underwater world.
Continuing Education & Specialty Training
PEAK PERFORMANCE BUOYANCY
Improve buoyancy control, trim, weighting and efficiency underwater.
PADI AWARE
Learn more about ocean conservation and how divers can help protect the underwater environment.
DIVE AGAINST DEBRIS
Learn how divers can survey, document and help remove marine debris while contributing useful conservation data.
AWARE CORAL REEF CONSERVATION
Explore how coral reef ecosystems work, the threats they face and what divers can do to help protect them.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO WORK ON NEXT?
Not sure which course or specialty makes sense for you? Tell me a little about your diving experience, what you’d like to improve, and where you want your diving to take you.