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.
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
What Our Divers Say
A few of the words divers have left us on Google and Facebook.
“Thank you for believing in me, even when I didn't and for never giving up.”
Savannah Mckenzie“Scubaversity gave me a sense of belonging and a set of friends for life.”
Brandon Leong“The Scubaversity team have always been accommodating and welcoming towards me.”
Keaton Timberlake“What an amazing journey, blessed with special people. I had so much fun.”
Jeff Smith“Service ALWAYS professional. Love for their work is so motivational.”
Liezel Scheepers, Facebook“Great bunch of people, fantastic facilities with superb instructors.”
Cliff Fowler, FacebookThe 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.