How travel instruction actually works
This is not a franchise with an instructor somewhere near you. It is one instructor, a PADI and NAUI Open Water Scuba Instructor who is also a USCG-licensed Master Captain, who will come and run your course on your coast. The shape of it:
- You send your dates and your area. Tell her how many divers, ages, and whether anyone is already certified. The form takes a minute.
- She plans the local logistics. Pool access for the confined-water skills, boat or shore access for the open-water dives, and a schedule built around the tides and the season where you live.
- You do the academics online, at your own pace. Self-paced e-learning is finished before the water sessions, so your in-water days are spent in the water.
- She teaches the course in your water. Confined-water skills, then your open-water dives — four of them for Open Water certification — with the same instructor throughout.
Give her more lead time and the plan gets better: more choice of pool, better boat slots, and a date picked for the conditions rather than against them.
Where she teaches
Every region below has its own page with the real dive sites, depths and local water, because where you learn changes what you learn. Pick your stretch of coast.
What she can run anywhere in the state
- Open Water Diver certification — PADI and NAUI, first-time divers through to certified, with the academics online and the dives in your local water.
- Private one-on-one lessons — the option most people choose when they are nervous, on a tight schedule, or want to move at their own pace rather than a class’s.
- Small-group, family and couples courses — she has certified parents and kids in the same weekend. Junior certifications start at 10.
- Scuba refreshers — for certified divers who have been dry for a while and want to get current again before anything ambitious.
- Continuing education — Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver, and Divemaster-level training and mentorship.
Two things that stay in Venice: the guided megalodon shark-tooth fossil dives, because that is where the fossil beds are — and her captain services out of her home port.
Honest note on cost and lead time. A travelled course is not a fixed-price product: the cost depends on how far she is driving or flying, how many divers you are, and how many days the course runs. Kaitlyn quotes every trip directly rather than publishing a number that would be wrong for most people. Send your dates and she will tell you exactly what it comes to.