Continue Learning with RAID

To make your learning experience a positive one, we broke away from the traditional instructional models and designed programs that makes mastering vital skills easier, more intuitive, and in many cases, safer.

Graduates from RAID courses therefore start right and continue that way: and that translates into more fun, more enjoyment, and a faster route to becoming a great diver.

Diving The RAID Way™ also means that many essential skills, like buoyancy and trim and understanding how much gas you will use on a dive, are part of your training from Day One. In many cases, these skills have been removed from many agencies’ basic courses. They teach these as specialties. That approach means the student not only pays more for training, but they also leave their courses with a critical gap in their knowledge and skill.

This is totally unacceptable in our view. When a diver learns to dive, they should exit the program with a thorough understanding and the knowledge needed to safely plan and execute dives at that level.

They should also have the skill set needed to maximize their safety, enjoyment, and comfort. Why would a diver learn to dive and then be told that they need to take another course “next weekend” to become proficient at controlling their buoyancy?

Learning to dive The RAID Way™ doesn’t mean we disagree with further diver education. Far from it. What it means is that the dive and your desires dictate what further continuing education you move on to… as an already skilled and comfortable diver.

If swimming on shallow coral reefs admiring all aquatic plants and animals while having fun doing your favourite hobby is your thing, then then you may not want to take your education any further, other than refreshing your scuba skills once in a while with your instructor.

However, you may want to dive deeper and longer, explore caves or wrecks, dive under ice or even use a different equipment configuration. Whatever you want to do, we have a safe training option for you.