East Puerto Rico Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving Lessons in Palmas del Mar

If you haven’t been diving Puerto Rico, it’s just about time to give it a thought, but if you have never been scuba diving at all, you are missing out on the greater part of the world! 70% of your possible holiday destinations are under water. And within this 70% you can find the most beautiful and unspoiled parts of mother nature. Have you ever been snorkeling above a colorful coral reef and you wished you could go down to have a closer look and take as much time as you like? If so, you certainly need some scuba diving lessons! Think about swimming with dolphins in the warm Caribbean sea, and discovering a whole new world full of strange lifeforms and incredible colors.

Diving Courses with East Puerto Rico Divers

East Puerto Rico Divers offers you the chance to learn scuba diving in only a few days with ease. We conduct PADI scuba diving lessons from beginner to divemaster here in Palmas del Mar. Our diving courses are held by professional PADI scuba diving instructors. Our well trained staff will teach you all you need to know about the underwater world and how you can safely enjoy your new hobby. Excitement guaranteed!

Open Water Diver Certification

We all started once with the PADI Open Water Diving Course, the beginner course. Within only four days you will learn the basics of scuba diving. You will learn about the PADI buddy system and how to handle your diving equipment, you will learn that you can breathe under water just like you can breathe on the surface and and you will also learn how to plan your own dives. After your exam, you will be a certified PADI Open Water Diver.

Advanced Open Water Diver Certification

With an additional five dives, where you learn how to navigate under water and how to dive deeper than your Open Water certification allows you. The Advanced Open Water Diver Course consists of five parts. Two are mandatory dives, deep and navigation, and three more dives are for you to select, pretty much according to your interests. Each dive has a theoretical part to it, which will be explained in detail, by your diving instructor.

Rescue Diver Certification

After you have been certified as an PADI Advanced Diver, you might want to make some fun dives, to train the skills you have learned so far and to gain some confidence. PADI requires you to have 20 dives logged by the time you start the Rescue Diver Course. If you have just finished your OWD and your AOWD you should have at least nine logged dives, four from the open water dives in your first course and five from your advanced lessons. The Rescue Diving Course is a bit demanding, because you will learn how to assist a fellow diver in case of an emergancy, so we take it serious. The course still offers a lot of fun for everybody though.

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.

Our PADI Scuba Diving Courses

Open Water Diver

Learn to dive with well trained and certified PADI Scuba Diving Instructors in Palmas del Mar. East Puerto Rico Diving offers Scuba Diving Lessons for beginners and advanced divers. Read in this article an accurate description of what you can expect in your PADI open water course. We will show you how easy you can learn to dive if you have the right instructions and supervision. Up until today, worldwide more than 12 million people, have learned to dive with PADI . Join in and explore the underwater world of Puerto Rico and Viequez accompanied by our team of scuba diving experts.

Advanced Open Water Diver

Learn to dive deeper and learn how to navigate underwater all by yourself! These are the two mandatory lessons of the PADI AOWD. The advanced diver course persists of 5 parts where from you can freely select three parts according to your personal interests. Find in this section a list of possible diving lessons to become a certified Advanced Open Water Diver. Your scuba diving instructor will explain all the possibilities to you in detail once you have arrived at our dive center in Palmas del Mar.

Rescue Diving Lessons

Learn to dive with more confidence and learn how to help other fellow divers if they come in to a dangerous situation. In the PADI Rescue Diver Course you will learn to look beyond yourself.
The Rescue lessons are demanding, though realistic in its conduct, content and approach. Although the nature and context in which rescue training may be used is serious, the course will be an enjoyable challenge that builds up your confidence not only as a scuba diver.