Jacques Cousteau
JOIN BLUE MARLIN DIVE as you begin your diving adventure, gain your next level of certification or become a professional diver. Each Blue Marlin has earned the PADI 5 Star rating and caters to veteran divers and novices alike with a full array of PADI courses.
Blue Marlin’s passionate, award-winning PADI Instructors are committed to you as a student, ensuring that divers not only check off the PADI requirements but truly improve their diving. Hailing from all over the world, they teach courses in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, Danish, Swedish, Catalan and Hindi. Even though we are a larger school, we believe in small groups: this allows students more one on one attention and also helps us to get to know you better! At Blue Marlin Dive, we believe in family and find many of our students and instructors develop lifelong friendships. Unless otherwise specifically requested, we take a maximum of 4 students (*6 at Gili Trawangan) per experienced instructor. We also provide dive computer rental free of charge for the duration of your course.
Blue Marlin Dive is a name you can trust. Now known as Indonesia’s largest dive company, remember that Blue Marlin started out as just one instructor with a couple sets of gear intent on sharing the underwater beauty of the Gilis. Twenty-seven years later, we have earned numerous awards from PADI for our outstanding contributions to diver training, continuing education and the scuba industry. These awards are a representation of the hard work and passion we carry to work every day.
We encourage all divers to take advantage of our large network as all Blue Marlin Dive locations are happy to offer a 10% discount on all continuing education.
If you are pushed for time or just want to give yourself a head start on the theory, we recommend that you sign up for PADI’s e-learning.
Please be aware that diving is a physical activity and before beginning any PADI course, we must verify you are in suitable diving condition. LEARN MORE HERE.
Receive a free fun dive (value IDR 540.000) when you book any PADI course online!
*Not Valid For Komodo or Lombok
Are you ready for your big adventure? You should be! You are about to embark on a journey exploring a whole new world untouched by the frantic pace of everyday life. However, as scuba diving is a technical sport, all scuba courses require personal study time to master theory. If you’d like to clear your holiday/travel time and get a head start on your scuba ‘homework’, we recommend PADI’s E-Learning.
Learning to scuba dive has never been more convenient! Whether you’re on the go or want to take it slow, complete the knowledge development portion of your PADI course online before you arrive. The e-learning module is fairly self-explanatory but if you have any questions during the study process, please feel free to contact us. Please note that e-learning does end up being more expensive as you will pay PADI directly for the theory portion of the course on top of Blue Marlin’s discounted course price.
Why Choose eLearning?
Before you arrive at your chosen Blue Marlin, you must be sure that you are in a suitable physical condition for the sport of diving. At the start of the course, every student must complete and sign a PADI Medical Statement, which includes a number of questions relating to your medical history. By answering the questions, you will discover if you’ll require a doctor’s check-up before taking to the water. (PADI insists on this if your medical history shows a ‘contra-indication’ to participating in diving.)
Answer each question carefully. If you are unsure of the answer to any of the questions, you should answer “yes”. Sign and date the bottom of your statement.
If any of the answers you give to the questions are “yes”, visit your doctor for a medical examination, taking your statement with you to show him/her*.
If your doctor is satisfied with your health, you are ready to start your course. However, you must bring BOTH your signed Medical Statement and your doctor’s clearance with you, as we are required to keep these with your training records.