MAR DE HIELO
Espais Portuaris, local LD-4 , Tarragona, tarragona, ESP
About the Center
MAR DE HIELO, located in Tarragona, Spain, is a PADI and SSI certified dive center. It offers a comprehensive range of courses, from Discover Scuba Diving to Instructor Development Course, along with specializations in technical and boat diving. Its facilities include lockers, WiFi, a bar, a classroom, equipment rental, a dive shop, air fills (nitrox), and dive boats.
The center is noted for its dives at various sites along the Costa Dorada, including locations such as Dragonera (SES), El Vapor del Miracle, La Islita, El Chaparro, El Heinkel, El Muro, Las Cuevas de Cap Salou, Las Vigas, El Brut, and El Catalá. Beyond local excursions, MAR DE HIELO organizes diving trips to national destinations like the Columbretes Islands, Medes Islands, and Palamós, as well as international trips to Malta, the Red Sea, the Maldives, the Philippines, and Bali.
MAR DE HIELO boasts a team of passionate marine professionals dedicated to providing unforgettable diving experiences. They deliver quality training in multiple languages, including Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian, ensuring divers of all levels can learn and enjoy with safety and confidence.
Available Courses
underwater navigation
The PADI Underwater Navigation course improves your observation techniques and teaches you to use the compass more accurately underwater.
ice diving
Sign up for the PADI Ice Diving course if you are attracted to extreme, unusual and challenging diving situations, try ice diving. Diving under the ice is one of the most adventurous specialties because you face conditions and see the beauties that very few get to experience. Also, you might get a chance to play with the bubbles you exhale at the bottom of the ice.
Wreck Diving
Whether it's a purposely sunk ship to serve as an artificial reef for divers, or a ship sunk as a result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows into the past. Boats, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and are often teeming with aquatic life. Every wreck dive offers an opportunity to discover, possibly decipher, a mystery and to relive its history.
Diving with Nitrox
In the PADI Nitrox Diving course, you'll discover that diving with enriched air gives you more no-decompression time, especially on repetitive dives. If spending more time underwater and being able to return sooner sounds appealing, then don't hesitate to become an enriched air (Nitrox) diver.
Self Reliant Diver
Although most dives are done with a buddy, an experienced diver may want or need to dive without a buddy. During the PADI Self Reliant Diver course, you will learn the potential risks of diving alone and the importance of redundancy in equipment and the necessary backup equipment.
Open Water Diver
We will start by giving you a book, a DVD or access to an online platform, with which you will have to study the theoretical part. There you will find the basic fundamentals of autonomous diving. We will resolve any questions that may arise. Finally, there will be a multiple choice exam. In the practical part, dives are made both in confined waters to learn basic diving skills and in open waters where you will finish consolidating all the knowledge previously acquired. Requirements Basic swimming techniques Medical certificate "suitable for diving"
advanced diver
The PADI Advanced Open Water course helps you build confidence and expand your diving skills through different Adventure Dives. You log dives and develop skills, while trying out different specialties and gaining experience. You will plan your PADI Advanced Open Water learning schedule by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two mandatory dives: Deep Diving: During the Deep Adventure Dive, you will learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of diving deeper. Underwater Navigation: The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive hones your compass navigation skills and helps you navigate better using flutter cycles, visual references, and time. You will choose the other three to make a total of five dives. The other knowledge and skills you'll acquire will vary with your interests and adventures – buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and much more!
Rescue Diver
With the PADI Rescue Diver course you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water and you will become a more confident diver with your skills, knowing that you will be able to help others if they need it. During the course, you will learn to become a better partner by practicing problem solving techniques. The course prepares you to deal with diving emergencies, major and minor, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue drills, you put your knowledge and skills into practice. Topics include: Self rescue. Recognize and manage distress in other divers. Emergency management and equipment. Rescue panicked divers. Rescue unconscious divers.
divemaster
The PADI Divemaster course is the first level of professional training in recreational diving. PADI Divemasters are leaders who mentor and motivate others. They help instructors teach scuba courses and have leadership responsibilities. In the PADI Divemaster course you will learn to be a leader and take charge of diving activities. Through knowledge development sessions, exercises and in-water technique seminars, and through practical assessment, you will develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of diving activities. Complete eight knowledge development sections. Pass the Divemaster final exam. Pass the exercises in the water, workshops and practical evaluations. Topics and hands-on seminars include: The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster: - Supervise diving activities and help with student divers. - Diver safety and risk management. - Programs directed by Divemasters and specialized techniques. - The diving business and your professional career. - Awareness about the diving environment. - Organize and direct dives. - Make a map of an open water diving site. - Carry out diving briefings. - Organize a search and recovery project and a deep dive. - Direct a scuba review and a skin diver course. - Assist with Discover Scuba Diving programs and guide Discover Local Diving programs.
buoyancy mastery
The PADI Buoyancy Mastery course improves buoyancy control techniques. You will learn to move effortlessly, consume less air and keep floating motionless almost instinctively. You will be able to more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their environments. €150.00
Discover Scuba Diving
Bautismo de buceo para quienes desean tener su primera experiencia bajo el agua con la supervisión de un instructor profesional.
Instructor Development Course
Curso de instructor para formar nuevos profesionales del buceo capaces de certificar alumnos.
Technical Diving
Curso de buceo técnico para inmersiones avanzadas con mezclas de gases, descompresión y equipamiento especializado.
Advanced Open Water
Curso avanzado de buceo que amplía las habilidades del buceador con inmersiones de especialidad incluyendo profundidad y navegación.
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