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Recreational Diving

Start your diving journey with internationally recognized certifications from PADI. These courses take you from your first breaths underwater through advanced open water techniques, rescue skills, and enriched air diving.

Diver in horizontal trim hovering beside a large orange gorgonian sea fan on a reef
Recreational

Advanced Open Water

4 days

4 days, 6 dives, 1 pool session — compass navigation, deep diving to 30m, night diving, and the skills that actually develop with deliberate time underwater. Not a checkbox course.

Single backmount diver lit against black water at depth, holding a deployed surface marker and gauges
Recreational

Deep Diving Specialty

4 days

4 days, 6 deep dives, 2 pool sessions. Extend your range to 40m — narcosis management, gas planning at depth, and the discipline that makes deep recreational diving genuinely safe.

Single-cylinder diver with camera and strobe in bright blue water, surrounded by a dense school of small reef fish above a rocky reef
Recreational

Enriched Air Nitrox

Half day – 1 day

Understand what you're breathing. Nitrox extends no-deco limits and reduces nitrogen loading — but also raises oxygen partial pressures. Online or in-person. Certification included.

Diver hovering mid-water beside a descent line among schooling fish
Recreational

Open Water Diver

5 days

Your first certification — 5 days, 6 open water dives, 2 pool sessions, maximum 2 students per instructor. Taught by instructors personally trained and certified by Donarun.

Underwater photographer aiming a housed camera and strobe at a reef swarming with fish
Recreational

Other Specialties

1–3 days

Night diving, drift diving, underwater photography, search and recovery, fish ID, and more — specialty courses taught by Donarun. Pricing tailored to your programme.

Sidemount diver in deep blue water, single cylinder marked 38m clipped along the body, palm fronds silhouetted at the surface above
Recreational

Sidemount Diver

4 days

4 days, 3 long dives, 1 pool session — proper sidemount configuration, buoyancy and trim specific to sidemount, and the body mechanics that make it feel like it was designed for you.

Diver hovering in open water beside a net-draped wreck bow surrounded by fish
Recreational

Wreck Diver Specialty

3 days

3 days, 4 dives — wreck assessment, safe navigation through the light zone, and the history, ecology, and discipline that makes wreck diving the most rewarding diving there is.