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Grateful Divers Worldwide

Participate

Come dive with us.

This page is for the adaptive diver — the person who wants to get in the water with us. If you are looking to help as a dive buddy instead, the Volunteer page is the one you want.

The path, in order

  1. Try it first at a Discover Scuba Experience (DSE). We encourage every prospective adaptive diver to try a DSE before committing to the full course.
  2. Medical questionnaire. Before anything in the water, complete the Diver Medical Participant Questionnaire (linked on this page). If any answer requires physician sign-off, that approval is needed before the DSE.
  3. Try the DSE, then decide. If they like it, they move forward into training.
  4. $100 deposit to get started — fully refunded upon completion of certification.
  5. Online academics. Self-paced eLearning, roughly 8 hours.
  6. Pool session.
  7. Two ocean sessions.
  8. Certified for life. Same lifetime certification as any other diver — the only difference is Grateful Divers Worldwide works out how many dive buddies they’ll need for their sessions.
  9. Join the WhatsApp community — same group as volunteers — and from there they can help recruit their own buddies.
  10. Ongoing dives after certification are covered through subsidies from Scuba4Good.

Diver Medical Participant Questionnaire

The form referenced in step 2 above. It includes the Physician’s Evaluation Form, so you can take the whole document to your doctor if sign-off is needed.

Download the questionnaire (PDF) — 869 KB, 3 pages, opens in a new tab

PDF · 869 KB · 3 pages · version date 2022-02-01