PADI Discover Scuba · No Certification Needed
Breathe underwater for the first time — pool training and a real reef dive with your own PADI instructor, all in one day.
Try Before You Certify
Discover Scuba Diving is a one-day, supervised try-dive for first-timers — no certification required. You'll learn basic safety guidelines and skills in the pool with a PADI Professional, then take those skills to a real Key Largo reef. Ages 10+. No prior experience necessary — just reasonable physical health, comfortable swimming, and a signed waiver.
Duration: 4 to 7 hours · All scuba gear included
Pool session plus a guided two-tank open-water boat dive
Confined-water skills session with a PADI Professional
After purchasing online, call the shop to schedule your course date.
Get Ready To
Your Day
Pool session plus a 2-tank boat dive with an instructor — or pool only. Full-day experiences usually run about 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM.
Know Before You Go
What Silent World Provides
PADI Professional
Instructor guidance plus academic materials for your Discover Scuba experience.
All scuba gear
Mask, fins, BCD, regulator, tanks, and weights — included in the price.
Pool & open water
Pool session and two open-water dives on the boat package, including related fees.
Before You Book
PADI Medical Form
Review and complete the medical form before purchasing your course.
Be a good swimmer
Comfortable swimming in the ocean without flotation for extended distance.
Ages 10 and up
Minimum age for the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience.
Open-Water Adventures
Boat dives visit shallow Key Largo reefs chosen for conditions — sites are not guaranteed.
Just north of the Grecian Rocks, widely considered one of the most popular dive sites worldwide, the Christ of the Abyss statue is the third bronze of the original mold, the “Il Christo Degli Abissi” from the Mediterranean Sea. Because the site sits in about 25 feet of water, it's an ideal first ocean dive.
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One of our favorite dive sites within the Key Largo Dry Rocks area. With depths ranging from 5ft to 25ft, this makes an amazing site for open water divers and photographers alike — winding swim-throughs, a large formation of elkhorn coral, and an abundance of parrot fish, sergeant majors and lobsters!
Southeast of the Elbow, this reef forms a spur and groove formation featuring coral ridges topped by giant elkhorn corals. These shallow coral colonies provide excellent habitats for schooling grunts and other tropical fish — a great site for photographers given the shallow depths and massive variety of marine life.
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North of the Grecian Rocks, Carysfort is one of the largest major reef systems in the sanctuary — acres of shallow reef edged by a steep drop-off to 75 ft, Carysfort Ledge. Divers can swim near Carysfort Lighthouse to visit the elkhorn coral gardens.
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The resting place of an old sunken supply barge. While the wreck has become part of the reef, the cargo the ship was carrying that day — train wheels for the Flagler Railroad — is still found scattered around the ocean floor. Large elkhorn coral has grown from the wheels, protecting large schools of fish!
Just south of the City of Washington site. A large fishing barge used to utilize these anchors as other ships came to unload their fishing hauls for the day. In 1960, Hurricane Donna caused irreparable damage to the barge, leaving wreckage that is still there to this day.
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On the most southern end of the Grecian Rocks area, Banana Reef gets its name from the long and sloped ledge that, well, looks like a banana! A beautiful place to dive in Key Largo.
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The S.S. Benwood was a steam-powered cargo ship built in 1910, lost in a collision off Key Largo on April 9th, 1942 — and believed to have been used for aerial target practice after WWII. One of the most popular shipwreck dive sites in Key Largo, just east of Molasses Reef.
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An iron-hulled steamer launched in 1877, used for passenger transport, cargo trade, and as a troop transport during the Spanish-American war. While under tow she ran aground, broke up, and sank on July 10th, 1917.
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On the north end of French Reef above Molasses Reef, the North Ledges provide beautiful spur-and-groove coral formations and sand channels parallel to the main reef. Hawksbill, green, and loggerhead turtles are often found here, along with southern stingrays, nurse sharks, and green moray eels.
The deepest section of the reef and its southernmost point — a very steep drop-off and another beautiful dive location, relatively close to the City of Washington wreck, north of Alligator Reef.
Sunk in Key Largo in June 2002 — and fascinatingly turned upright by Hurricane Dennis in 2005. The USS Spiegel Grove is becoming an entire reef ecosystem, located northeast of Molasses Reef.
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Book Discover Scuba online, then call us to lock in your pool and boat dates with a PADI Professional.
