COURSES
First time Scuba Diving ?
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Discover Scuba Diving
Have you always wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater?
If you want to try scuba diving, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is for you.
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What to expect :
You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of our instructors
(Ratio 4 students per instructor).
All training skills are done in a pool, if you choose the ocean option or in an open cenote, if you choose the Cenote option. Before you make your open water dives, you will go over the scuba equipment you use to dive and how easy it is to move around underwater with your gear.
You will have fun swimming around and exploring.
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Option 1: Training skills in a pool + 2 open water dives
Option 2: Training skills in an open cenote + 2 open water dives
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Open Water Diver Certification
If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.
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Highlights :
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Become a licensed scuba diver in just a few days, no prior experience required
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Breathe underwater for the first time (something you’ll never forget)
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Have tons of fun under and above the water with your fellow dive students
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Enjoy weightlessness, a unique experience
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What to expect :
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The Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases. The first is Knowledge Development, which covers everything you need to know about basic techniques, terminology and safety procedures in scuba diving, this is done via PADI elearning, completed at home. The second is Confined Water Dives, which are training sessions conducted in the sheltered, beautiful Playa Chica bay. These sessions give you the opportunity to get used to the gear you'll be using and practice the basic skills of diving and techniques to keep you safe. The third is your Open Water Dives. This is what it's all about - you'll make your first dives in the ocean! During four dives, you'll perform various skills under water and on the surface to make sure you're a safe and competent diver. The training portion usually only takes up the first part of the dive, meaning that you will get to spend a big part of your time diving with your instructor and exploring the underwater world. As soon as your open water training dives are approved by your instructor you will be certified as a Open Water Diver! This means you will be allowed to rent diving equipment and dive anywhere in the world down to 18 meters, lifelong!
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Continuing Education Courses
Advanced Open Water Diver Certification
Experience new adventures and learn new skills with an instructor by your side. Designed for Open Water divers who want to improve their abilities. Explore more diverse dive sites, be able to dive that little more deeper and therefore open up many more beautiful dive sites. Become more comfortable underwater!
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You’ll build on the skills you already possess to become a more confident diver and to better adapt to dive site conditions.
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Explore more diverse and challenging dive sites
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Dive deeper, try night dives, explore shipwrecks, visit unique marine life only seen in deeper dives or drift dives
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These dives can be credited towards your PADI specialty certifications.​
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What to expect :
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The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills and making you more comfortable underwater. The Knowledge Development is done via PADI eLearning before you arrive and then its all about diving, there are 2 core dives: Deep and navigation and then a choice of 3 more, including Wreck, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Photography and Nitrox, you can discuss your options with your instructor and come up with the best 3 for you. There's no exam because this course is truly about having fun and gaining experience. For every dive you complete, you can earn credit toward speciality certifications.
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Rescue Course Certification
It's quite often said by divers who have taken the Rescue diver course that although the course is one of the most challenging its also been the most rewarding diving course they have completed
Highlights :
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Expand and deepen your knowledge, and confidence to better enjoy the underwater world.
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Learn to anticipate problems before they become real
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Be confident in your ability to respond to problems either with yourself or others
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If you are thinking about becoming a PADI pro, this course will point you in the right direction
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What to expect :
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Theory for the PADI Rescue Course can be completed online through PADI eLearning prior to arrival to the Dive Centre to begin your course. This helps prepare you for your in water activities by giving you prior knowledge and theory behind the different exercises.
The course consists of 10 in-water exercises and a number of scenarios you complete at the end once you've become confident in completing the different exercises.
As part of the PADI Rescue Diver course you will also complete an emergency assistance plan for the dive site where your training will be conducted.
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Emergency First Response Certification
Emergency First Response® primary and secondary care training teaches you what to do in the critical moments between when a life-threatening emergency occurs and when emergency medical services arrive.
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Learn how to perform CPR, provide first aid that eases pain, assess a variety of injuries and illnesses and practice bandaging and splinting.
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Learn what to do in the critical moments between when a life-threatening emergency occurs and when emergency medical services arrive. Learn how to perform CPR, provide first aid tha
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Be prepared in an emergency
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Improve your first aid skills
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Respond to a variety of illness and injuries
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What to expect :
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The Emergency First Response® Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course combines flexible self-study and in-person training. Through the first phase the course will teach participants how to respond and provide care when faced with life-threatening emergencies. Practice a skill until you feel confident before moving on to the next one. Learn eight essential skills for helping others in an emergency. Get hands-on experience administering CPR using a special manikin, practice bandaging and splinting, and apply your new skills in a role-playing scenario.
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Instructor Development Course
Turn your passion into your profession and join us for your PADI IDC. PADI Instructors are the worlds most sort after diving instructors. GO PRO Family,one of the most successful IDC centers in Playa del Carmen, has conducted IDCs for the past 20 years with unrivalled success. With PADI Platinum…..
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Become a PADI Pro
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Be taught by the best, Platinum Course Director and 3 experienced Master instructors….
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10 days of hard work and perhaps a little stress but loads of fun at the same time
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Be totally prepared for the Instructor Examination
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Special packages of instructor level continuing education courses available after the IDC
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What to expect :
Once you have signed up for our IDC we will start to send you theory workshops to prepare yourself for the IDC. If you arrive a few days early we can add Skills workshops to fine tune your DM level skills. During your IDC your Course Director and experienced staff will conduct a number of presentations and workshops, we will teach you the PADI system of education and how to teach both in the classroom and in the water. You will be required to conduct a number of dry and wet presentations. There are a couple exams that need to be completed, dive related theory (don't worry we will conduct a number of theory workshops beforehand to get you ready) and standards. By the end of the IDC you will be more than ready to face the PADI Instructor examination (IE). The lE is the final hurdle to overcome before officially becoming a PADI Instructor; its a 2 dax prostamme conducted by specially trained PADI examiners.
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Become a TDI Cave Diver
( Cavern, Intro to Cave, Full Cave)
TDI Cavern Diver
Are you a serious adventure seeker wishing to explore overhead environments? This course is designed to develop the minimum skills and knowledge for cavern and overhead environment diving within the limits of light penetration, and outline specific hazards associated with cave diving. The objective of this course is to train divers in the proper planning, procedures, techniques and hazards of cavern diving.
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You will learn and practice how to:
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Properly deploy a guideline
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Properly follow a guideline with eyes open and closed (simulating loss of visibility)
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Air share with a buddy with eyes open, following a guideline
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Air share with a buddy with lights off and eyes closed, using touch contact while following the guideline
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Simulate a primary light failure and use back up light to exit
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Demonstrate buoyancy control, proper trim, and propulsion techniques
and more….
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What to expect :
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The TDI Cavern Diver course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
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Policy for cavern diving
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Gas management procedures and management to include dissimilar volumes
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Psychological considerations of cavern diving
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Equipment considerations including cylinder options, regulator options, Buoyancy compensator/harness options, proper weighting, reel options and equipment configurations
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Communication (light and hand signals)
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Swimming techniques
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Physiology
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Cavern environment
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Cavern conservation
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Problem solving
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Accident analysis
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Cavern diving etiquette
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If you don't have a Sidemount qualification there will be extra time and costs to include this.
TDI Intro to Cave
This course is an introduction to the basic principles of cave diving utilizing a single primary guide line. Introductory cave diving is the second level in the development of proper techniques for cave diving, directly building upon the cavern diver course. The objective of this course is the perfection of skills taught in the cavern diving program, in addition to the adoption of additional techniques and procedures required for elementary cave dives.
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TEC 40/45/50
Technical diving is diving that takes divers beyond recreational scuba diving limits. Because the surface is effectively inaccessible in an emergency, tec divers use extensive methodologies and technologies and training to manage the added risks.
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Highlights:
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Rise to the challenge
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Extend your limits and open the door to deeper diving expeditions
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Possibility to continue with Tec 45 and Tec 50 course
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Rise to the challenge
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Extend your limits and open the door to deeper diving expeditions
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Possibility to continue with Tec 45 and Tec 50 courses
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What to expect :
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Tec divers use extensive methodologies, technologies, and training to manage the added risks, and you will be introduced to these in the Tec 40 course.
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You will learn about:
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Technical diving equipment, proper rigging and set up,
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Gas planning, oxygen limits, and decompression planning,
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Team diving techniques and handling emergencies,
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Mission planning and execution,
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How to think like a technical diver.
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Diving will occur in the cenotes or a combination of ocean and cenotes.
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Training is performance-based based and certification is not guaranteed. The minimum course length is 3 days.
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If you don't have a Sidemount qualification there will be extra time and costs to include this.