MAR DE HIELO
Espais Portuaris, local LD-4 , Tarragona, tarragona, ESP
About the Center
MAR DE HIELO, located in Tarragona, Spain, is a PADI 5-Star Dive Center and a recognized SSI facility. It offers a comprehensive range of diving courses, from Discover Scuba Diving to the Instructor Development Course, including specializations in Technical Diving and Boat Diving. Its facilities feature lockers, WiFi, a bar, a classroom, equipment rental, a dive shop, and nitrox fills.
The center is characterized by its passion for the sea and diving, dedicated to providing clients with an unforgettable experience. Their highly qualified instructors deliver personalized teaching, covering everything needed to dive safely and with confidence. They offer courses for all levels, from beginners to advanced divers, including specialized training and programs for children.
MAR DE HIELO organizes daily excursions to the best dive sites in Tarragona and surrounding areas, such as Salou and Torredembarra, allowing divers to discover a vibrant underwater world teeming with marine life. They also arrange national dive trips to locations like Columbretes or the Medes Islands, and international expeditions to destinations such as Malta or the Red Sea through their dive travel agency.
The center's multilingual capabilities are a key feature, with staff fluent in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Catalan, ensuring a welcoming environment for international divers. Their facilities include a dedicated classroom for training, professional equipment rental services, and on-site nitrox filling capabilities, ensuring divers are fully equipped for their underwater adventures.
Available Courses
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.
underwater navigation
The PADI Underwater Navigation course improves your observation techniques and teaches you to use the compass more accurately underwater.
Technical Diving
Curso de buceo técnico para inmersiones avanzadas con mezclas de gases, descompresión y equipamiento especializado.
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
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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