In this basic course – also known as DSD, Discover Scuba Diving – you will learn how to dive up to 10 meters deep with one of our instructors. Take your first steps under the water and explore the marine world of Costa Rica. We are sure you will repeat the experience!
Become an SSI or PADI certified scuba diver and begin your lifelong underwater adventures with this globally recognized certification program. This really is the first big step you can take, and what better backdrop to this new challenge than the beautiful Pacific?
You will get personalized training as well as in-water practice sessions to ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater.
If you cannot decide which specialty programs are the best choice for you, join the Advanced Adventurer program, also known as Advanced Open Water Diver. With this scuba course, you will try different specialties before committing to any full specialty program.
It is a great way to experience what advanced diver training is all about – not to mention what we think is one of the best places to scuba dive in Costa Rica – and how valuable it can be to your diving skills. You will complete one open water training dive per specialty after a comprehensive briefing with your instructor.
These are the possible dives to get the advanced open water diver. You will have 5 dives in total, and you can choose 3 of them out of the options below.
- Deep diving (mandatory)
- Perfect buoyancy (mandatory)
- Navigation (optional)
- Search & recovery (optional)
- Waves, tides & currents (optional)
- Wreck diving (optional)
- Night dive (optional)
- and many more...
Learn how to protect yourself and other divers – identify stress, prevent accidents, and learn practical techniques to conduct rescues and provide emergency care. You will practice in a pool and in open water.
After this certification, you will be ready and confident to handle emergency and rescue situations.
This course’s alternative name is Emergency First Response.
It is an emergency first response course, also known as Rescue Diver, and provides you with the practical training and knowledge you need to act confidently as a rescue diver in a medical emergency. Learn about primary assessment, first aid, CPR, primary stabilization techniques, oxygen administration in diving emergencies, Automated External Defibrillator (AED) basics and more.
Deep dive up to 40 meters, the maximum of recreational diving, and discover the secrets of deeper waters. Spend more time under the water and less waiting when using Nitrox. In this course, you will gain new diving skills and knowledge by increasing your bottom times and safety margins and shortening your surface intervals. You will learn how to safely plan and dive deep with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen.
You also have the option to do only the Deep Dive course or Nitrox.
