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.

Rescue Diving Lessons in Puerto Rico

Buddy System

Since the very beginning of your scuba diving career you have learned the scuba diving is a buddy sport. The reason is obvious; in case something happens to you or to your buddy, assistance will never be far away! Like everybody else, we hope to never come in to a dangerous situation, but what if…? Do you feel confident enough to help your buddy if he/she gets tangled up in seaweed and starts to panic? Do you know what to do if your buddy suddenly looses consciousness under water? The worst case scenario in an underwater accident is if the buddy is near a panic attack himself and therefor is unable to think clear and offer the appropriate help!

PADI Rescue Diver Course

In the series of scuba diving lessons of all diving organizations worldwide, the Rescue Diver Course is considered to be the most valuable course to avoid diving accidents. Once a student has passed his rescue diver lessons he becomes a most valuable member of the diving community. Equipped with self confidence above and under water, ready to help other divers at any time, he will be welcomed into any group of scuba divers.
In the PADI Rescue Diver Course you will learn to look beyond yourself. You will learn to consider the safety and well-being of other scuba divers and value them as much as your own and most important, you will learn what to do and how to help in almost any perilous situation. You will also learn to manage more complex dive emergencies and to apply direct intervention techniques to assist others in case of an emergency. 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 your confidence.

Prerequisites

A medical first aid course is prerequisite to become a certified PADI Rescue Diver. If you have taken medic first aid lessons within the past 24 month (e.g. driving license, fire department, school or hospital) please bring your certification. If you don’t have a medical first aid certification you can become a PADI Emergency First Responder (EFR). The EFR Course will take one day only and is conducted by a certified PADI EFR Instructor at the East Puerto Rico Diving Center in Palmas del Mar.
The PADI Rescue Diver certification and a valid medic first aid certification are also a prerequisite for all PADI leadership-level training such as PADI Dive Master and Scuba Diving Instructor.

We are located at the new Palmas del Mar Yacht Club

Driving Directions from San Juan:

• Take Highway 52 south to Caguas,
• Look for Highway 30 to Humacao.
• Near Humacao,watch out for the Palmas Del Mar signs.
• Merge with Highway 53 for a short distance.
• Take the exit to Highway 906 East (the 2nd exit past the tollbooth)
• The main gate of Palmas del Mar Yacht Club is just up the road.
• Ask the guards how to find East Puerto Rico Divers – it’s easy.

The total drive time from San Juan is about one hour with average traffic.

East Puerto Rico Diving – Your specialist for PADI in Puerto Rico

PADI eLearning, the faster way to learn to dive

In some cases a short trip to Puerto Rico over a prolonged weekend can be more rewarding as a two week holiday on a crowded beach in Florida. Especially if you love the underwater world! Here on ther east coast of Puerto Rico, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Caribbean Sea we find an unseen, colorful biodiversity of sea life, like nowhere else in the world. 

If you have never been scuba diving before, come and have a look underwater with “East Puerto Rico Diving”. If your time is too short for the complete scuba diving lessons of the PADI Open Water Course, you can already get started with studying your first diving lessons at home or wherever you are! This means, that you will only have to do the “water work” here in Puerto Rico. All the accademics can be done at home, using PADI eLearning! This simple way of electronic study allows participants for Open Water and Advanced Diving Lessons to have their theoretical part of their Diving Course done before they even get here. Read more about PADI eLearning and how to participate here.

Our PADI Scuba Diving Courses

Open Water Diver

Learn to dive in Puerto Rico 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 about the PADI Open Water Diving Course and what you can expect in your scuba diving course. Your instructor will show you how easy you can learn to dive if you find yourself in the right surroundings and get 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 to be able to orientate yourself! The deep dive experience and the navigation course are the two mandatory diving lessons of the PADI AOWD. The advanced diver course persists of 5 parts, respectively five dives. Besides the two mandatory dives you can select three more dives 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 Diving 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.

Scuba Diving Tours

Our dive trips start in the Yacht Club Marina in Palmas del Mar. Our spacious dive boat easily accommodates up to 22 divers and / or snorkelers. The boat can reach up to 20 mph and runs extremely smooth and quit. This purpose-built dive boat will bring you to any of the beautiful dive sites on the east coast of Puerto Rico in a very short time! Our boat has an extra wide swim platform and a custom built, extra deep dive ladder. Getting back on the boat is easy, even in choppy seas. Explore the sensational coral reefs of Puerto Rico with East Puerto Rico Divers. Enjoy a ride on this boat and a couple of dives on our healthy coral reefs and you might get addicted to Puerto Rico. Some call it the “Best kept secret of the Caribbean”, and they are right!

Our dive boat is most of the times the only boat on the dive site and you can explore a coral reef all by yourself, accompanied only by your dive buddy and our professional staff, who will be eager to show you the best spots on each dive site. Diving in Puerto Rico is an experience that no serious scuba diver should miss. You never know what kind of surprise is waiting for you and you might well end up diving with dolphins or manatees! On many of our diving tours we also encounter whales and end up whale watching for quite a while. Since we are always trying to give our clients the best possible dive tour you will not find us in a hurry, except if weather changes demands it.

Scuba Diving Lessons

For those who have not been scuba diving yet, Puerto Rico also offers an unique chance to learn to dive. Because of the space on board and the large diving platform at the rear, our dive boat is also ideal for scuba diving lessons. The warm waters of Puerto Rico are inviting for beginners and the many possibilities our coral reefs have to offer are ideal to go a step further and get your PADI Advanced Diver Certification. Here at East Puerto Rico Divers in Palmas del Mar, we offer all scuba diving courses from beginner to PADI Divemaster. If you don’t have much time at hand and still would love to see what Puerto Rico has to offer underwater, you could sign in for a so called “Discover Scuba Dive”, this is great fun! Call us toll free to make an appointment for your scuba diving lessons at 866-449-0932 or contact us by following this link.