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The total drive time from San Juan is about one hour with average traffic.
East Puerto Rico Diving - Your specialist for PADI scuba diving lessons in Puerto Rico
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.
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!
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Every year more people are drawn into the “Fascination of Scuba Diving”. Modern scuba equipment allows us to dive to depths of a hundred feet and more. This would not be advisable without proper scuba diving lessons! There are a few hazards like pressure related injuries, such as decompression sickness or air embolism that could happen to anyone without good training by a certified scuba diving instructor. As a scuba diver you must be able to calculate how long and how deep you can safely stay underwater. You also need to learn the correct descent and ascent rates.
Scuba means “self contained underwater breathing apparatus”. Sounds complicated? It is not half as complicated as it sounds. Your scuba diving instructor will teach you how to use a PADI diving table and how to calculate your dive time and depth under water. And with the right instructions and the right dive gear you will be able to go scuba diving in no time. Now, if you are looking for the ultimate adventure than you might want to get some Scuba Diving Lessons; and Puerto Rico sure is the right place to get started!
Since we are not able to breathe under water just like fish, scuba divers depend heavyly on their scuba diving gear. What we need to feel comfortable under water and to be able to breath in this, for us, strange environment are only a couple of items. It wasn’t always like that as you sure know. Not so long ago, men could only go diving under water with a huge effort on dive gear, a lot of helping hands and a pump that delivered the air through a pipe to the diver down below. Today we have been able to reduce all that to a simple and easily manageable set of dive gear.
Here is what we need to go scuba diving now:
Fact is, that a diver may be more of a threat to aquatic animals than they would be to us. Some corals for example, can be killed by simply touching them. Most aquatic animals don’t pose any risks to divers, there are however, a few marine life forms that may harm or injure a scuba diver. Common accidents include jelly fish stings, fire corals, and crown of thorns. Sharks and poisonous sea animals, can also injure scuba divers, if they behave improperly. Unprovoked attacks on scuba divers by animals are rarely heard of. Animals behave under water much as they do above, they attack only when they are provoked.
“Scuba diving, being a visual underwater experience, doesn’t include altering the underwater habitat in any way. Divers shouldn’t touch anything, be it a plant, a cute animal or even just an object under water, that could easily have become the home of an animal over time.”
You sure have asked yourself by now, how it feels to be submerged 50 feet, surrounded by nothing more than blue water and tropical fish. It is very similar to a space walk. With all your gear on, feeling completely weightless just like flying through space. It’s adventurous!
Once you’ve found out that you actually can breath underwater just as normal as you can breath on the surface, a whole new dimension will open up for the new born scuba diver in you. And after you’ve learned to keep your buoyancy so perfect that you can control your ascent or descent solely by breathing in and out, the real fun begins. You will than be able to fully enjoy the view and your world has just grown by a whole 70%!
Once you had your scuba diving lessons and you have finished your PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Course with East Puerto Rico Divers, you will be certified by your scuba diving instructor as a PADI Open Water Diver and you will be able to enjoy your scuba diving adventures anywhere you want. But first of all enjoy scuba diving here in Puerto Rico, the best kept secret of the Caribbean! See unspoiled and healthy coral reefs, colorful and strange looking tropical fish and dolphins, rays and sharks in all shapes and colors. And it’s not like you would have to stop there; there is always the Advanced Open Water Course or if you want to take it a step further, the Rescue Diver Course…….or even master scuba diver.
If you feel like getting started with your scuba diving lessons right away, please contact us here.
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Enjoy your Scuba Diving Vacations in Puerto Rico
We are a small group of enthusiastic, dedicated scuba divers who are willing to share our favorite dive spots on Puerto Rico with You!
All members of East Puerto Rico Diving are professional PADI Scuba Diving Instructors and well experienced captains who know the area better than anyone else. We are excited about being able to offer you and your friends and family a truly unique and remarkable scuba diving experience.
We offer two tank dive trips in the mornings for our fellow fun divers and afternoon trips for those who would like to discover scuba diving for the first time. We also welcome non diving guests on our afternoon diving tours, where we will bring you the best sites for snorkeling in Puerto Rico and show you the best spots to discover.
We also offer scuba diving lessons for those who would like to take the sport a step further.
East Puerto Rico Diving offers all scuba lessons from PADI Open Water Diver up to Dive Master Level. We accommodate course referrals from most scuba diving training agencies.
In addition to our daytime program we also offer the most exciting night dives!
Enjoy the spectacular star filled sky on our way to the dive site and discover the creatures that hide during the day and find sleepy fish whom won’t mind if you come a bit nearer by than normally.
Our RENTAL DIVE GEAR is high quality, and new. We also offer FULL BOAT CHARTERS for sight seers, snorkeling tours, or larger groups of scuba divers.
The reason we are here is because this is where we want to be!
Please contact us at:
East Puerto Rico Diving
Humacao 00792
Palmas del Mar
Puerto Rico
Call Toll Free: 866-449-0932
Or Call from Abroad: +1 787-774-7510
Or simply use our Contact Form for inquiries and Reservation
