East Puerto Rico Scuba Diving

How you easily learn to dive with East Puerto Rico Divers

The PADI Open Water Diving Course is your first step to become a certified scuba diver.
Here is a short description on how you will learn to dive in only a few days.
After an introductory briefing, where a qualified and well trained PADI Diving Instructor will explain to you in detail how the diving lessons will be scheduled, you might want to watch the PADI Open Water video. The video is funny and entertaining and will pretty much explain all what awaits you during the PADI Open Water Course.

Your personal diving instructor will than make you familiar with the physics and physiology of your new hobby. Don’t worry, you don’t need a PhD to learn how to dive. Fact is, you are going to explore an entirely different environment than you are used to. You will have to learn certain skills and rules and you will also learn what to do in the unlikely event, something does not go according to plan underwater.

The PADI open water course is built upon repetitive learning. During your scuba diving lessons, you will hear, see, read and experience each important part of your scuba diving course several times. This way, we will make sure, you fully understand all vital aspects of your new hobby.
The PADI open Water book “Go Dive”  is included in the course price. The book will explain everything in detail again. Additionally will your scuba diving instructor explain all you have to know about recreational diving, once more in the classroom.
To finalize the theoretical part of your scuba diving course, you are required to pass an exam of 50 questions. No worries, everybody can do it after a proper diving course and we haven’t failed anybody yet!

Besides the rather dry, theoretical part of your scuba diving lessons, there are the wet parts and they promise to be a lot more fun! The PADI Open Water Course consists out of several shallow water sessions, where you learn how to breathe under water and how to handle your scuba diving equipment, and four so called ‘Open Water Dives’ which we have described in detail below..

Open Water Scuba Diving Lessons

Open Water Dive Lesson One

• Briefing
• Equipment preparation
• Don and adjust equipment
• Pre-Dive safety check ( Buddy Check)
• Entry
• Buoyancy/weight check
• Controlled descent (max. depth
• 12m/40ft)
• Underwater exploration
• Ascent
• Exit the water
• Debrief and log dive

Open Water Dive Lesson Two

• Briefing
• Equipment preparation
• Don and adjust equipment
• Pre dive safety check ( Buddy Check)
• Entry
• Buoyancy/weight check
• (Cramp removal, self and buddy)*
• (25 metre/yard tired diver tow)*
• (Snorkel/regulator exchange)*
• Controlled descent (max. depth 12m/40ft)
• Buoyancy control – fin pivot, low pressure inflator
• Partial and complete mask flood and clear
• Regulator recovery and clearing
• Alternate air source use stationary and AAS assisted ascent
• Underwater exploration and buoyancy control
• Ascent
• Weight removal at surface
• Exit the water
• Debrief and log dive

Open Water Dive Lesson Three

• Briefing
• Equipment preparation
• Don and adjust equipment
• Pre dive safety check ( Buddy Check)
• Entry
• Buoyancy/weight check
• (50 metre/yard straight line surface swim with compass)*
• Free descent with reference to 6-9m/20-30ft (max. depth 18m/60ft)
• Buoyancy control – neutral buoyancy on bottom, fin pivot oral
• Complete mask flood and clear
• CESA (Controlled Emergency Swimming Accent)
• Buddy breathing – stationary and ascent from 6-9m/20-30ft (optional)
• Underwater exploration
• Ascent
• (Remove and replace weight system at surface)*
• (Remove and replace scuba unit at surface)*
• Exit the water
• Debriefing and dive log

Open Water Dive Lesson Four

• Briefing
• Equipment preparation
• Don and adjust equipment
• Pre dive safety check ( Buddy Check)
• Entry
• Buoyancy/weight check
• Free descent without reference no deeper than 18m/60ft
• Buoyancy control – hovering
• Mask removal, replacement and clearing
• (Underwater navigation with compass)*
• Underwater exploration
• Ascent
• Exit the water
• Debriefing and dive log

Once you obtained your diving certification, there are more scuba diving courses available where you learn how to dive deeper and how to navigate under water all by yourself and much more. The next step after the OWD is the so called AOWD or Advanced Open Water Diver. Click on the link to find out more.

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