Open Water Diver Course
$700 (including 13% VAT) FULL course
$400 (including 13% VAT) REFERRAL course (see below)
Pool session + 4 ocean dives
Three day course
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. Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognised scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.
To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course or Junior Open Water Diver course, you must be 10 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
Academics
PADI's Open Water Elearning program is designed so that you can learn the academics at your own pace when it is convenient for you. By registering with this link, Iguana Divers can keep track of your progress and agree on the best time to start the pool and Open Water training. Open Water Elearning
Confined open water pool training
Once you have completed the online learning you can begin the confined water pool training. Your instructor will put into practice the techniques you learned in the academics program. The pool session is usually completed in one day. Then, depending on how comfortable you and your instructor feel with your skills, we might program a second session or continue to the open water dives.
If you are staying in accommodation with a private pool we would be more than happy to come to you to complete the confined water sessions. The pool dimensions must be a minimum of: length 5 meters x width 3 meters x depth 2 meters.
Open water training
Get ready to experience everything you've learned with the freedom of open water. There are four open water dives included in your certification process and they are so much fun! What we do is simply practice a few of the skills you learned in the pool and then go off exploring the dive site, finding all kinds of creatures in the rocks and sand. As soon as your open water training dives are approved by your instructor you will be a certified diver. PADI Open Water Diver certification is recognized worldwide so your diving experiences will be limitless.
Breakdown of price
The whole certification process is $700 ($230 to PADI for the elearning, and $470 to Iguana Divers for instruction and dives) and it includes all of the above (personal online learning materials, instruction, use of diving gear, one day of pool sessions, two days diving plus of course your international certification).
READY TO START? ENROL! OPEN WATER ELEARNING
Open Water Diver Course Referral Program
$400 (including 13% VAT)
Pool session + 4 ocean dives
Two day course
You can also plan to start your course at home, conduct your confined water sessions in your local dive centre and then come to Santa Teresa to complete the open water dives with us. How do you do it?
Send us the referral form signed off by your current PADI instructor, so that we can see where exactly to take off from.
Quick written review: When you arrive we will give you a short exam so that we can see how much you have learned about the theory and answer any questions you may have.
Pool review: Before jumping in the open ocean of course we must get to know you underwater, so we will meet prior to your open water dives to review a few of the skills that we will be assessing in open water. This usually takes about one hour, since your instructor has already signed you off and this practice is only for you and your new instructor to fine-tune what is needed before going to the ocean.
Open Water Dives: There are four open water dives included in your certification process and they are so much fun! What we do is practice a few of the skills you learned and then explore the dive sites. For the open water dives you must set aside two 5-hour days, because we do two dives each day.