Scuba Training Lessons at Rum Runner

Rum Runner Dive Shop offers a full range of NAUI and YMCA open water and specialty classes. Classes are limited to a maximum of 6 people to ensure personalized instruction and individual attention. We offer weekday, weekend, and combination class formats to meet your needs. Open water classes are scheduled on a regular basis.

We are a NAUI Pro-Platinum facility which means we have the expertise to train all levels of divers from beginners to instructors. We teach with the NAUI method which stresses safety at all levels. Our instructors ensure that your course is relaxed, complete and fun. We want you to be completely comfortable and competent when we issue you your certification so that you will enjoy many years of diving.

Contact the dive shop or call 252-439-4390 for upcoming classes.

Our Dive Training Programs:
(Click Each Course to Learn More)

• Skindiving / Snorkeling - Don't waste your time learning to snorkel by trial and error or while you are on vacation - learn before you go!
  
  
• Try Scuba - A two-hour introductory course to let you see what SCUBA diving is all about. Great teambuilding exercise!
  
  
• Scuba Diving - The entry level certification to SCUBA diving, this training prepares you to meet and exceed the industry standards for safe diving and enjoy the privileges of all basic certified divers.
  
  
• Advanced SCUBA Diving - Gain more confidence and capability through the NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification.
  
  
• Nitrox Diving - Add extended bottom time to your dives through the use of enriched air Nitrox (EANx)
  
  
• Specialty Dive Courses - Explore a variety of specialized training courses offered by both NAUI and the YMCA.
  
  
• Master Diver Certification - Hone your diving skills to the level of a NAUI professional leader through the Master SCUBA Diver certification.
  
  
• Technical Diving - Looking for a challenge? Want to go beyond the usual limits of recreational diving? Maybe you've wanted to go in that wreck or down that cave? Maybe you want to go deeper or just stay down longer?
  
  

How does Rum Runner Training compare to other certifications?

You will hear claims that one certifying agency is better than another and that their course is more complete than ours. While fun is the ultimate goal complete training is important for safe diving and each dive shop has the responsibility to provide the best training based on their own certifying agency standards. We take no short cuts, no abbreviated training here.

We train to the NAUI standards. A few examples of what we do:

• Yes we train with weight belts, which are not uncomfortable by the way, but if you travel you might need to borrow one in a far off place and you really should be able to use one.
  
  
• Our basic diver course almost universally includes a boat dive. If we cannot complete a boat dive due to weather we will arrange for an instructor or divemaster to be available on your first boat dive.
  
  
• The NAUI advanced course requires a deep dive to recreational dive limits (130 feet) with an instructor, other shops may claim their basic divers are trained to the level of NAUI advanced yet only train in a quarry (max depth 80 cold feet) and NAUI is the ONLY certifying agency that REQUIRES training in diver rescue in their basic course.
  
  

So before you sign up for training anywhere, talk to the staff of the dive shop, ask questions. Then decide and for safety sake don't take the short training road. In the long run you will have more fun.