Beginner Scuba Dive in Lahaina

Discover Scuba Diving in Maui

Experience the thrill of breathing underwater during your Maui vacation by participating in a Discover Scuba Dive with an expert instructor! Your day will start at a selected beach in West Maui, where you’ll receive a beginner scuba diving lesson. You will meet your instructor, complete the necessary medical paperwork, and attend a safety briefing. Your pre-rented scuba equipment, which includes a dive mask, wetsuit, boots, and open-heel fins, will be ready for you. Once you’re suited up, your introductory dive in Maui will begin with a walk into the ocean.

Discovering the magic of scuba diving in a safe environment is essential, so our dive shop in Lahaina guarantees small group sizes led by an experienced, attentive, and professional PADI instructor. We also offer private scuba diving lessons. Do you love sea turtles? This introductory dive is the best Maui activity to encounter a Hawaiian Green Turtle!

Your beginner scuba dive begins with a briefing about safety, skills, and necessary hand signals. Your dive instructor will slowly talk you through each confidence-building exercise before entering the ocean. The idea is for you to first get comfortable with these new skills on the ocean’s surface before practicing them again at a shallow depth. Your skill practice finishes up by signaling to each other that we are all feeling okay! At last, we use our lungs to hover off the sand and kick our scuba fins to swim away from shore.

This guided tour is for beginner divers who want to see a full array of colorful Hawaiian marine life living in the coral reef. Turtles, octopuses, moray eels, butterflyfish, and cornetfish are some animals you can expect to see. Maui’s scuba divers and snorkelers even hear male Humpback Whale songs from December to April. You can scuba dive during winter to listen to the whales as they roam the local channels near Airport Beach in Kaanapali, Olowalu Beach, and Mala Wharf in Lahaina.

Please note that this introductory scuba diving experience qualifies as a program only and does not qualify as a scuba diving certification. However, to get a scuba certification in Maui, check our PADI courses for all the details. In some cases, you may be able to apply this introductory scuba dive as credit towards earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification.

What to Expect Diving in Maui

You start with a scuba safety briefing at a pre-selected dive site near Lahaina and Kaanapali. All your rental scuba diving equipment is included and will be ready for you upon arrival. You can choose your mask, wetsuit, dive boots, and fins! Your morning continues with getting to know your scuba instructor, signing paperwork, and participating in a safety briefing. Then, you search for the best Hawaiian marine life in the warm ocean at one of our favorite spots. Airport Beach in Kaanapali features a vibrant coral reef teeming with endemic tropical fish, Hawaiian Turtles, Moray Eels, and octopuses. In the ocean, you begin by floating on the surface and breathing from your regulator with your face in the water. Then, you descend to the sandy bottom to start your beginner scuba dive in Maui!

You can book two scuba dives per trip. Please add your second dive to the reservation form during checkout. Please remember that all scuba divers cannot ascend or drive anywhere above 1,000 feet for at least 18 hours after completing two scuba dives. Maui has many roads, such as those in Makawao and Kula, that take you above 1,000 feet. It is imperative to plan your vacation accordingly if you hope to fly, drive your car up to Haleakala Crater, or go zip-lining AFTER scuba diving.

We offer an introductory dive with a popular photography package, which you can request on the reservation form during checkout. Book online now to scuba dive in Lahaina, Hawaii!