Scuba Diving Courses

Allow our fully certified PADI or SSI instructors to enhance your diving knowledge. Gain confidence as you dive, be a better dive buddy, or become certified for the first time with any one of our Scuba Diving Courses.

Our experienced, multilingual instructors will teach you the skills you need for your personal level of diving.

Scuba Diving Courses Include

• certified dive instructor
• all necessary equipment
• all course materials
• all required certification fees

Available Scuba Diving Courses Courses

• Open Water Diver Certification
• Referral Open Water Diver Certification
• Open Water Diver Certification Refresher
• Advanced Open Water Diver Certification
• Medic/First Aid Diver Certification
• Rescue Diver Certification
• Divemaster Certification

Scuba Diving Course Descriptions

Open Water Diver Certification

Learn to dive! This course gives you the skills and certification card you need to dive in any ocean in the world. Sealife Divers' instructors love to teach new divers how to enjoy diving, and how to be a safe and confident diver. We don't rush you, but take each new skill at your pace so you can learn how to dive without stress or pressure.

This course includes four open water dives, academic lessons, and confined water training. For the third dive we visit a special site where we have the opportunity to dive with huge sea turtles.

Referral Open Water Diver Certification

Do your class room work and pool sessions at home, but dive with Sealife Divers in the beautiful Mexican Caribbean. Bring the proper proof from your local dive shop, and Sealife Divers certified PADI or SSI Instructors will take you for your final qualifying dives.

Open Water Diver Certification Refresher

Certified divers may want to take a refresher course to relearn diving skills or rebuild their diving confidence. If you haven't been on a dive for over one year, or if you have had a bad experience diving in the past, take a refresher course with Sealife Divers. Our friendly, patient, qualified instructors will help you love diving again.

It consists of a scuba diving review on land, plus a review of key skills in shallow water. Then a shallow dive is made to approximately 40 feet (12 meters). The option of doing two more dives with your instructor after the scuba review is available.

Advanced Open Water Diver Certification

The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Why Advanced Open Water Diver?

After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the underwater environment.

What do I need to start?

• PADI Open Water Diver certification
• Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

What will I do?

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure dive, the Underwater Navigator

Adventure Dive and three of the following:

• Altitude Diver Boat Diver
• Drift Diver Deep Diver
• Dry Suit Diver Dive Propulsion Vehicle
• Multilevel Diver Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Search and Recovery
• Underwater Naturalist Underwater Videographer
• Underwater Photographer Underwater Navigator
• AWARE Fish Identification Wreck Diver

How long will it take?

• Recommended Course Hours: 15
• Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days

Rescue Diver Certification

Why PADI Rescue Diver?

The PADI Rescue Diver will expand your knowledge and experience beyond purely recreational level because you'll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.

What do I need to start?

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 years old (12 for PADI Junior Rescue Diver)
• Successful completion of a sanctioned CPR program within the past 24 months

What will I do?

Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. During the five open water sessions, you'll cover:

• Self-rescue and diver stress
• dive first aid
• emergency management and equipment
• swimming and non-swimming assists
• panicked diver response
• underwater problems
• missing diver procedures
• surfacing the unconscious diver
• in water artificial respiration
• egress (exits)
• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
• dive accident scenarios

Medic/First Aid Diver Certification

Why Emergency First Response?

Emergency First Response gives you the tools you need to perform CPR and First Aid. Whether you're a diver or a non-diver, Emergency First Response prepares you to properly handle potentially life-threatening situations.

What do I need to start?

• No dive certification required
• No minimum age limit

What will I do?

This comprehensive program is composed of two core modules that can be taught in tandem or as stand-alone courses: Emergency First Response - Primary Care and Emergency First Response - Secondary Care. Together, these courses proved extensive instruction in CPR and First Aid, as well as providing optional (yet recommended) Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and Emergency Oxygen sections.

How long will it take?

Depending on the amount of home study, the Primary and Secondary courses maybe completed in as little as four hours.

Where can I go from here?

This course satisfies your PADI Rescue Diver CPR prerequisite

Divemaster Certification

Take the first step in your dive career and become a PADI Divemaster. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

What can PADI Divemaster do?

• Work at local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
• Assist PADI Instructors with students
• Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
• Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
• Teach PADI Discover Snorkeling programs
• Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
• Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
• Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion of an Emergency First Response Instructor course.

What do I need to start?

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization
• PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying certification from another training organization.
• Medical clearance signed by a physician
• 20 logged dives
• 18 years old

What will I do?

• Learn dive leadership through classroom and independent study sessions
• Complete water skills and stamina exercises in confined and open water
• Training exercises to test organizational and problem solving abilities
• An internship or series of practical training exercises

How long will it take?

Two weeks - three months

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