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Open Water Diver

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Technical Diving

Snorkeling

Boat Diving

Advanced Open Water

Curso avanzado de buceo que amplía las habilidades del buceador con inmersiones de especialidad incluyendo profundidad y navegación.

Rescue Diver

Curso de rescate que enseña a prevenir y gestionar problemas en el agua, mejorando la seguridad del buceador.

Bubble Maker

- Dive with local experts with more than 20 years of experience. - 1 adult can come as a free passenger on board. - Incredible diving experience for children between 8 and 9 years old. - One instructor per child, diving to 2 meters for 20 minutes. - 3 hours and 30 minutes of an unforgettable adventure - Daily excursions at 15:00 p.m. - After diving it is possible to snorkel. - It is the best way to learn to dive safely. - Under PADI professional standards. - Explore the underwater world in a safe environment.

SCUBA DIVER

This PADI course guarantees you the ability to dive to a depth of 12 meters under the supervision of a Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor, along with being able to rent equipment on the 5 continents. The course contains two clearly differentiated parts, online theory and practice that can be done in at least 2 days. Online Theory It includes the first 3 theory modules of the Open Water manual that are carried out online with the support of video sessions and a review of knowledge at the end of each section. In our school you will do the knowledge review up to section three but we recommend that you finish all the theory, and so if in the future you want to progress to being open water you will only have to do 2 modules in pools or confined water and 2 open water dives in anywhere or with us. You can also do the theory online with e-learning and just do the practices with us, Practice Pool/Confined Water: 3 sessions in the pool or in confined water where the Instructor will teach you the functionality of your equipment, you will perform exercises such as controlling your buoyancy with the vest, removing the mask underwater and the regulator, along with other exercises that They will provide you with the knowledge for a safe and appropriate response in real situations. Open water You will carry out two supervised dives in open water to a maximum depth of 12 meters where you will practice the exercises learned and put theory into practice in the sea.

Open Water Diver (OWD)

Brief description of the Course This is PADI's flagship course and guarantees you the ability to dive to a depth of 18 meters without the supervision of a Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor, along with being able to rent equipment on 5 continents. The course contains two clearly differentiated parts, online theory and practice that can be done in at least 3 and a half days. These parts are explained below. Online Theory (approximately 8 hours) It includes the 5 theory modules of the Open Water manual, supported by video sessions on the PADI e-learning platform, together with the exercises that you must complete at the end of each section. Once you have finished the theory you will take an online exam (99.99% of students pass it). Before carrying out the practices in the pool or confined water, it is necessary to have completed the knowledge review up to section 3. Practice Pool/Confined Water: 5 sessions in the pool or in confined water (approx. 2 m deep bay) where the Instructor will teach you the functionality of your equipment, you will perform exercises such as controlling your buoyancy with the vest, removing the mask under the water and the regulator, together with other exercises that will provide you with the knowledge for a safe and adequate response in real situations. Open water: You will carry out 4 supervised dives in open water to a maximum depth of 18 mt in the last two, where you will practice the exercises learned and put theory into practice in the sea, these dives are carried out from our boat. Duration The duration of the course may vary depending on your availability and learning capacity, but a minimum of 3 days is required to complete it, as shown below and as a guide. First, we will send you the codes to access the online platform so that you can get to section 3 and fill in the questions at the end of the section or, if you wish, finish all the theory online and the final exam.

advanced diver

The PADI Advance Open Water Diver diving course consists of 5 specialty dives (2 compulsory and 3 free choice), before making the dives we will give you the access codes to the PADI online platform, and you must read the section corresponding on the platform and fill in the knowledge review for each end of the section (1hr per section), of these 5 specialty dives, the 2 mandatory are deep and navigation, and the remaining free choice that our instructors strongly recommend are these: Buoyancy control (important to optimize your air resources and avoid accidents due to loss of buoyancy) Search and retrieval (closely related to navigation) Multilevel with computer or another of your free choice, which you will consult with our Instructors. Once we give you the access codes, we plan your course, doing the easiest and shallowest dives on the first day such as: Navigation and buoyancy control, and the next morning deep and those of free choice. what will you learn The knowledge and techniques that you will acquire in the Advanced Open Water Diver course vary according to the interest you have and the adventures you have, but include Practical aspects of deep diving Physiological effects of deep diving. More ways to use your underwater compass. How to navigate using fin strokes, visual references and time. How to best use your dive computer and the electronic Recreational Dive Planner TM (ePIRTM). And much, much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. Specialty dives are listed below: Deep Diving specialty dive: You will descend to a depth greater than 18 mt, and with a maximum limit of 30 mt, we will teach you deep diving techniques, both ascent and descent, so that you can enjoy your dives in complete safety along with that you will learn new concepts about diving to these depths. Buoyancy mastery specialty dive: You will master buoyancy, which is synonymous with diving comfortably and with less air consumption, as you will learn buoyancy techniques that will be very useful in all your dives Search and Recovery Specialty Dive: You will learn the types of search and recovery along with their potential dangers, you will plan search and recovery dives and develop Recovery procedures. Specialty Dive in Navigation: You will learn the use of the compass and how to orient yourself underwater, we will teach you distance estimation techniques and the use of underwater paths, together with you will learn to use the nav finder to follow irregular trajectories. Fish Identification Immersion: You will identify the local fauna and you will be able to distinguish their habitats and behavior, you will learn what the AWARE Project is and we will teach you Identification strategies. Immersion from Boat: Practically all of them include this because you will dive from our boat, but you will learn nautical terminology, procedures, safety equipment and boarding procedures. Multilevel and Computer Immersion: You will carry out a fully planned staggered immersion with the instructor, you will use the computer to be able to record your descent and ascent for later treatment and you will learn to plan a multilevel immersion. You will learn promotion procedures. Specialty night dive: You will dive in the vicinity of twilight with the need to use a flashlight, you will observe that the environment is the same, but the reaction of the fauna is different, we will also observe different species that you would not see during the day. We will teach you how to plan Night Dives, use night diving equipment and techniques to overcome stress in night diving. Specialty dive in a sunken ship: You will dive in a wreck and you will be able to observe the biotope created by it, where a diverse fauna lives in it, we will teach you wreck diving techniques, where certain rules are necessary to take into account to be able to dive in a safe way.

RESCUE DIVER

You will learn the skills of assisting and rescuing someone through techniques and knowledge that will be applied in certain real circumstances. The structure of the course is based on five chapters of the manual that each begin with a rescue drill. The theory of the course is based on the PADI Rescue Diver Video. The course prepares you for diving emergencies using techniques and practical exercises will be carried out with simulations in two different rescue and emergency scenarios. The topics included in the manual are: Self rescue. Recognizing and managing the distress of other divers. Emergency management and equipment. Rescue of panicked divers. Rescue of unconscious divers. So, as you will see, it is an eminently practical course and it brings you closer to the PRO level of PADI with the Dive Master course.

Emergency First Response (E.F.R)

The Emergency First Response (E.F.R) course is a first aid course that trains you to assist a person in an accident in a non-professional way, no immersions are made and this course is also totally necessary to obtain the PADI RESCUE DIVER Diving course.+ This CPR and First Aid course is not just for divers, you will learn emergency medical skills to gain confidence in the event of a medical emergency. You will also learn to use basic life support (BLS) CPR and perform rescue breaths at a non-professional level along with the basics of first aid and equipment.

divemaster

Work in a diving center anywhere in the world with your Divemaster title, in this program you will work closely with a PADI Instructor and you will develop your leadership skills, which qualify you to supervise diving activities and thus you will be able to help the Instructors, this qualification it is a requirement to access the PADI Assistant Instructor and the PADI open Water Scuba Instructor. Once you have finished the Dive Master Diving Course, you will be authorized to: Supervise activities by planning, organizing and directing dives. Your most common tasks will be: Assist a PADI Instructor. Lead the PADI Skin Diver course and Discover Snorkeling. Run the Padi scuba Review program. If you qualify as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, you will be able to direct the program Discover Scuba Diving (very carried out in all diving centers). Guide Open Water students during dives 2, 3 and 4 along with other more skills and responsibilities that will be shown to you in the course.