PADI 5 Star Career Development Centre · Est. 1993
The place you'd rather be. From your first breath underwater to a professional diving career — courses, coastal dive trips, and a 3000+ member tribe, all based at our own custom-built training facility in Gauteng.
PADI 5 Star Career Development Centre — the highest PADI rating, awarded to centres offering the full path from first dive to professional instructor.
November 2026
Courses starting, dive weekends, socials and trips coming up at Scubaversity. Tap a title for the full details, or get more info to reserve your place.
Sat 7 Nov. Try Dives 09:00 to 12:00, Rescue course 18:30. Live draw on Facebook, 10 Nov.
Rescue: pay a min. R1 000 deposit and stand a chance to win your course material free (worth R3 398)Sun 8 Nov (and Sun 6 Dec). Try Dives 09:00 to 12:00, Advanced Open Water 18:30.
Advanced Open Water: R6 500 in 3 interest-free steps. Bring a buddy and you both get R500 offWed 11 Nov, 18:30 at Scubaversity.
Sat 14 & Sun 15 Nov. All club members welcome.
Tuesday 17 Nov.
Leaves Wed 18 Nov. 4 nights from R4 999, 7 nights from R8 599.
Your Progression
Beyond the Pool
Who We Are
Since 1993, Scubaversity has trained and certified skilled, competent divers at our own world-class facility — four lecture rooms, a fully stocked show room, an Air & Nitrox filling station, and a training pool unlike any other in the region.
We're more than a dive centre. With over 3000 members, our club runs socials, coastal trips, and family-friendly events all year round.
Read our storyThere are plenty of places to learn to dive. Here's what's kept our members coming back for over three decades.
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PADI 5 Star Career Development Centre in Roodepoort
The course runs over 2 weeks: a Thursday evening session covering orientation, dry skills, and equipment fitting; pool sessions on the Saturday and Sunday; a lecture the following week covering dive planning (RDP) and safety; then open-water certification dives at Bass Lake or Miracle Waters over the closing Saturday and Sunday.
Discover Scuba is a supervised introductory dive session — no certification or prior experience needed. It's run in a confined pool environment in Gauteng under direct instructor supervision. Minimum age 10.
Pool and classroom sessions are held in Gauteng. Open-water certification dives take place locally at Bass Lake or Miracle Waters. Scubaversity also runs separate coastal dive trips to Sodwana Bay and Aliwal Shoal for certified divers.
BCD, regulator, and cylinder are included. Everything else (mask, snorkel, fins, wetsuit, weights, etc.) can be bought or rented from Scubaversity.
Yes — the course includes the standard PADI watermanship/swim test as set out in the PADI Open Water Diver course requirements. You don't need to be a strong swimmer, just comfortable in the water.
The Place You'd Rather Be
Take your first breaths underwater in our training pool, or join the club on the next coastal trip. Either way, the ocean is closer than you think.