OCCUPATIONAL DIVING COURSES

We had such a great experience with Melanie for our PADI Advanced Open Water certification. She’s passionate about diving and her teaching approach is very professional. We did the training before going on a liveaboard and it was perfect. Thanks for everything!

Mel is the most patient and caring instructor.she took my grandchildren with tank on their backs for the first time.They had never had used tanks on backs before. They fell in love with diving and want to learn when they get older.Thanks Mel for showing my grandchildren a new experience of there life.. your amazing

I did the rescue diver course with Mel. She is a great instructor! 🙂 Melanie helped me feel very comfortable and confident learning new scuba skills. 100 % recommend doing any dive course with her.

I completed my Advanced Open Water course with Mel. I found her to be extremely organised, professional and very helpful. She made the course a lot of fun!

We had the best time ever with Octupus dive! The whole day was amazing. Mel picked us up in the morning for our scuba diving session in the lake. After the dives we had hot coffee and ginger cookies, we stopped at Gallos to buy some chocolates and on the way back we tried to spot platypus in Yungaburra! It felt like we were on a road trip! I totally recommend it, can’t wait to go back!

very tentative and knowledgeable instructor!

Mel was hands down the best SCUBA dive trainer I’ve had! And I’ve had many. I completed Adv OW and Rescue Diver with Octopus Dive last year. The experience was second to none. Mel and her partner Fred are dedicated to their student’s learning and give clear and logical instruction. Mel also taught my CPR course, and did a great job of that too. Highly recommended.

Mel is an absolute legend! Helpful, fun and thorough. Would recommend her to anyone! Best dive course I have done!Thanks Mel

So happy we found Melanie at Octopus Dive!!! Completely professional experience getting my kids (ages 12&14) Open Water certified. We traveled to Cairns from The Netherlands for their in-person training, but she was a great communicator long before that, as we made our plans and the boys took the online portion of the course. She even held a zoom session with them to review what they had learned so far and to ensure all our expectations were in-sync. Once we met her in-person, she really began to exceed expectations! As a teacher she is equal parts serious and fun and developed such a great rapport with the kids. She was patient and kind, firm and fair. Melanie even acted as a bit of a tour guide, pointing out sights along routes to and from dive sites and even took us for a hike to see a platypus in the wild. She is just so genuinely kind and fun! We are already planning a trip back next year to further the kids’ (and parents’) training with Octopus Dive. It was that good!

Melanie is a great instructor , friendly, patient and accomodating with regard to a combination of pool, lake and ocean dives during courses if needed. It was the first time also that I had done a Padi certification with a private instructor in a small group which was also a positive experience. I live in Atherton and I was able to complete my entire rescue diver course at lake eacham which was so convenient compared to going down to cairns a d then heading out to the reef and back! I would recommend anyone interested in doing any dive courses to contact Melanie to arrange to do their PADI certification through Octopus Dive.

Melanie was an amazing instructor and really helped throughout all dives and a great person just to chat with. Would 100% do it again qnd again.

I did my diving course will Melanie from octopus dive for my job and I can say I was really impressed, she is a wonderful person with a bubbly attitude and her training was amazing, she just wants you to succeed and will help you in anyway she can, I would highly recommend anyone looking to do their diving courses in Cairns to go and have a chat with Melanie from octopus dive she's a legend

Got my Rescue Dive statement of attainment from Mel. She is professional, friendly and community minded, which is so important in a business. Highly recommend 🙂

I arrived in Far North Queensland with a relatively narrow window for scuba diving and Mel made it work perfectly. She is very flexible and we did a refresher course in her pool (although she is happy to come to your pool if it suits, or take you to a lake). We then went for a lovely day of diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Mel sorted all the logistics and everything for me. She’s a wonderful teacher and great company. If I ever come back to Queensland I’d love to dive with her again.

I recently completed a rescue course with Mel. Mel made the training interactive and fun. I would highly recommend her for any dive training around Cairns. Thanks Mel!