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No, you do not need scuba certification to try diving. If you want to see Maui underwater, our dive shop offers an intro Discover Scuba Dive for $119 per person. Your cost includes all of your rental equipment, shallow water skills practice, and one dive from a beach in Lahaina!
If you want to learn to scuba dive in Maui, we also offer the PADI Open Water Diver course. You can complete this certification in as little as 2 days.
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Yes, advanced planning will secure your preferred date and time, especially if you plan to complete a PADI course. Regardless, Banyan Tree Divers Maui is a mobile dive shop in Lahaina, so we can offer a degree of flexibility to accommodate last-minute bookings! Call us at (808) 446-6099, even if you want to go scuba diving today!
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Yes! We include all of your rental scuba diving gear. You get to use quality equipment, like dive boots, open-heel fins, and comfortable dive masks!
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Yes, Banyan Tree Divers Maui scuba dives along the coastline in Lahaina. Scuba divers do not have to get up before sunrise and spend more than half a day boat diving to see the island’s best dive sites. In fact, most of the dive sites utilized by boat companies are accessible from a Maui beach. So if you want to experience scuba diving with us, let our professional team show you our favorite spots!
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Yes, absolutely! You can complete your PADI Open Water Referral Dives with us! All you need to do is provide us with your referral paperwork and PADI eLearning results. Your referral paperwork must show you completed 5 confined training sessions with your previous instructor.
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Make your reservation online or call us at (808) 446-6099. We are open 7 days a week from 8 am to 6 pm, Hawaii Standard Time. Book now to secure your Maui scuba diving lesson, tour, or course with us!
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Yes, Banyan Tree Divers has teamed up with a top Maui boat companies, Dive Maui and Makai Adventures, to provide high-end private boat diving and snorkeling excursions. We visit Maui diving locations such as Molokini and Lana’i as well as others in Lahaina, Kapalua and Olowalu. Contact us for more information about private boat diving.
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You can complete most PADI scuba certification courses in two to three days. However, PADI Scuba Diver and PADI Adventure Diver are one-day courses. PADI Open Water Diver, for example, requires a minimum of two days.
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Certified divers can take the next step by earning a PADI Adventure Diver or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification. These courses focus on training dives to develop your scuba diving skills, allowing you to explore specific aspects of diving. The Adventure Diver course combines any three training dives from the entire PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and may get completed in one day. PADI Advanced Open Water Diver comprises five dives over two days. Both the Deep and Navigation dives are compulsory for the Advanced course leaving the three remaining dives as your electives. You can choose from Peak Performance Buoyancy, Scooter Dive, Underwater Naturalist, and Underwater Photography. The Advanced Diver course is a prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver course. You may even apply your training dives toward PADI Specialty Diver ratings! Please check out our course pages for more information about training beyond the Advanced Open Water level or directly contact us for further information and scheduling details.
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We are lucky to have excellent dive conditions all year round. Yes, it’s always possible to dive here! An extraordinary time to dive is when thousands of Humpback Whales migrate home to Maui. Scuba diving with us during the six months from December to May is the best time to have a chance to witness this unforgettable spectacle. The whales safely spend the winter months here, mating, giving birth, and socializing, while we enjoy listening to their songs throughout every dive!
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Scuba diving in large groups can lead to hazardous interactions with Maui’s ocean environment. We are a small dive shop and keep our group sizes small to provide the best service and safety and protect the fantastic coral reefs along Lahaina. Our beginner groups have a maximum of 4 introductory divers, and we offer private diving.
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No. There are no hidden costs, and we always include all of your rental dive gear. There can be additional fees for PADI eLearning (paid directly to PADI) for some courses. If you are not sure of the total cost, please double-check with us before making your reservation.
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Yes, absolutely! If you are PADI certified and forgot to bring your certification card, then it’s easy to look up your PADI profile online. We recommend you download the PADI app on your phone, so your proof of certification is always with you!
If you got certified by a scuba organization other than PADI, please provide us with your logbook. If you do not have a logbook or certification card, don’t worry, you may still dive by starting with a Scuba Review Dive.
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Yes! Guests of any certification level may dive together because Maui scuba diving sites allow us to keep dives shallow. You can reach a maximum depth of 40 feet most of the time.
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Our dive shop in Lahaina operates a 48-hour cancellation policy, so you will receive a full refund if you cancel before this. However, cancellations within 48 hours are not eligible for a refund.
The decision to reschedule scuba diving lessons, tours, and courses due to poor weather conditions remains at the discretion of Banyan Tree Divers Maui.
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If you are at least ten years old and stand to be in good medical condition, you will most likely NOT require a doctor’s clearance to scuba dive. All non-certified divers and those enrolling in PADI certification courses will be required to fill out a medical statement. If you must answer “Yes” to any medical questions, then a clearance from your doctor will be necessary before you begin scuba diving on Maui with us. Please note that a signed medical form is mandatory for professional-level courses like the PADI Divemaster program.
Preview the medical questionnaire.
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One dive requires you to wait a minimum surface time of 12 hours before ascending to altitude (above 1000 feet). When you make two or more dives in a day, you must wait a minimum surface time of 18 hours.
