Miles of coastline translate into miles of colorful reef and abundant aquatic life bordering each island. Although visibility peaks during the dry seasons (February to April and September to October), Bocas offers better-than-average conditions all year long even in our gentle rainy season! Due to warm water, calm conditions and highly competitive pricing, Bocas is amongst the most ideal places to participate in scuba education. Whether discovering the underwater world for the first time, advancing your existing certification, or simply in need of a refresher, the dive shop we selected to work with has instructors that are prepared to accommodate any of your diving needs.

Open Water Course:

This course will give students the foundational knowledge and skills to dive anywhere in the world, independent of supervision. Students will spend plenty of time in the water practicing skills and demonstrating their diving capability. The course is divided into three sections:

1) Theory (includes studying a manual, watching videos, completing some review tests, and taking a final exam)
2) Confined water sessions (practicing in shallow water)
3) Open water sessions (practicing in a little deeper water and further off the coast and discovering an incredible new world!)

The course includes the manual, certification upon completion & all necessary equipment.

Minimum age: 15 years / 10 years for Junior Open Water course
Maximum depth: 60 ft – 18 mts

Advanced Open Water Course:

This is the next step in training after the Open Water Course. In the Advanced Open Water Course, students will develop new diving skills which are required in order to properly do some more advanced diving.
Being an Advanced Diver means completion of training in five specialized areas of diving. Two of them are required which are:

A. Deep Diving
B. Navigation

Then the student gets to choose three areas from the following:

A. Search and Recovery
B. Night Diving
C. Wreck Diving
D. Underwater Naturalist
E. Multilever Diving
F. Peak Performance Bouyancy
G. Underwater Photography
H. Nitrox
among others.

This course does not have any written tests. Students will have to read the chapters in the book related to the dives they are about to make, answer the quizzes, watch some videos and that is it. Once finished, students will have gained lots of experience and had lots of fun.
For descriptions of all other courses: just write us and we will send you all details!

WHAT?

PADI Open Water Diver or the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification. Four immersions and theory classes are included and all equipment.

HoW MUCH?

For each dive course add $195 to the cost of your Spanish course.