Scuba Diving Classes
As a PADI 5-Star IDC facility, Aqua Safari offers a full range of instruction including introductory, advanced, specialty, referrals and refresher courses. Aqua Safari conducts 4 to 5 IDCs per year. What a great place get your instructor certification! Our instructors speak English and Spanish.
The Discover Scuba course is commonly known as the resort course. This is a 4 hour course that allows the student to experience diving in a controlled environment. The course starts at 12:30 PM. We explain the do's and don'ts from our classroom, followed by shallow water work from the beach to learn the very basic water skills. If the student is comfortable, they join a boat trip to Paradise reef, maximum 40 ft. deep, to finish the tank with the instructor. It is a very good value with the boat dive.
PLEASE NOTE: The resort (introduction) course does not enable the diver to join the normal boat trips offered at Aqua Safari. Until certified you are limited to diving to 40 feet under the supervision of a certified scuba instructor.
Classes are limited to 4 students per instructor.
The $70.00 US includes all scuba equipment, the boat trip, and materials.
***This course is ideal for those individuals who are not sure they want to take the complete certification course. If after taking this course they decide to continue with a full certification, we will apply the cost of the introductory course toward the full certification. Minimum age is 12 years.
The PADI certification course takes a minimum of 4 days and costs $350.00 US, including all scuba equipment, textbook and tables, logbook and certification fees. We DO NOT nickel and dime you with separate / additional charges, and the materials are yours to keep.
Each day consists of both theory and two beach dives. There will be quizzes, and of course, the final written exam. Plan to spend about 4 hours with the instructor daily, and you will need to read the manual on your own time. Though we cannot guarantee certification, the instructors will work with students needing extra attention for a reasonable extended period after the 4 days to successfully complete certification. If for some reason (ear problems, illness etc.) a student is unable to complete the course, we will reimburse a portion of the course according to the amount of time student and instructor have been working.
Classes start at 8:30 am and also at 12:30 pm.
***Classes are limited to 4 students per instructor**
Note: Following your certification course, you can use your scuba gear for 2 days on a boat trip with Aqua Safari. You pay only for the boat trip.
The Advanced course takes 2 days and costs $250.00 US. The course includes one day of beach diving and one day of boat diving. (If you prefer to do both days of your advanced course from the boat, add another $60.00 US to the cost of the course). The core dives included in the advanced course are navigation and deep dives.
The 3 elective dives available are peak performance buoyancy, night, search and recovery, drift, photography, underwater naturalist or boat diver. Together with your instructor you decide which electives you would like to take.
NOTE: The advanced course does not include equipment.
Classes start at 8:30 am and also at 12:30 pm.
***Classes are limited to 4 students per instructor***
OPEN WATER TRAINING DIVES (Student Referral)
Aqua Safari does open water training dives for PADI/NAUI/NASDS/SSI universal referrals; meaning you did the academic part prior to Cozumel arrival. The cost of the open water training dives is $150.00 US including scuba equipment if needed. For PADI & NAUI certification, there is an additional charge of $25.00 US for the certification envelope if the student does not bring one. The training dives take 2 days; they cannot all four be done in one day. All training dives are done from the beach. Students must bring a current student referral form, copy of medical filled out when applying for the course, dive tables. A logbook is also needed.
Classes start at 8:30 am and also at 12:30 pm.
***Classes are limited to 4 students per instructor***
Aqua Safari offers a refresher course for $60.00 USD, including equipment if needed. The refresher course starts at either 8:30 AM or 12:30 PM with a review of the theory, followed by a beach dive where the instructor will review water exercises and determine correct buoyancy. The student then joins the one tank boat trip to shallow Paradise reef departing at 2:30 PM, returning about 4:30 PM. Recommended for rusty, nervous and new divers.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Learn to first rescue yourself and also to assist others. There are 12 scenarios to enact which are as much fun as they are educational. This course can be scheduled so as not to interfere with your boat diving.
Prerequisites: current CPR certificate (Medic First Aid fulfills this requirement), Advanced or Jr. Advanced or equivalent certification.
Manual and PIC included.
Time: 3 days
Cost: $350.00 USD
First aid and CPR course. Know what to do when no one else does!
Can be scheduled not to interfere with your boat diving. Materials not included.
Time: 5 hours
Cost: $80.00 USD
This is the highest non-professional rating in PADI. It is an expert diver classification denoting superior achievement and commitment to excellence.
Prerequisites: PADI Advanced and PADI Rescue or PADI Divemaster rating. Includes five specialty certifications: multilevel, boat, drift, u/w naturalist, peak performance buoyancy. Recognition diploma/materials and certification card come directly from PADI headquarters. Time: 5 days
Included: 3 two-tank boat dives and 4 beach dives
Cost: $500.00 US
SPECIALTY COURSES
**PIC certification envelope with temporary card included in all specialties**
Develop your knowledge of theories behind the dive tables, dive computers and multilevel diving. This course will enable a student to plan and organize safe, multilevel, no-decompression dives with RDP, The Wheel or modern dive computers.
Prerequisite: Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 1 day
Included: 1 two tank boat dive
Cost: $150.00 US
Learn the skills necessary to make night diving enjoyable. Witness the changes in creatures' lives after the sun sets.
Prerequisite: Open Water, Jr. Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 2-3 nights
Included: THREE dives FROM SHORE in two days
OPTIONAL: THREE dives by boat. Student must pay the additional fee of the boat dives.
Cost: $150.00 US
Dive effortlessly, extending your bottom time through reduced air consumption. You will have more opportunity for positive interaction with aquatic life and you'll help preserve fragile underwater environments.
Prerequisite: Open Water, Jr. Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 1 day
Includes: 2 shore dives
Cost: $100.00 US
Learn a variety of search patterns and techniques which will allow you to locate objects and recover them using light salvage techniques.
Prerequisite: Advanced Open water and 15 years of age.
Time: 2 days
Includes: 4 beach dives in two days.
Cost: $200.00 US
Increase knowledge of dive boats, proper boat diving etiquette, personal conduct and basic boat terminology. Develop ability to perform boat diving skills: entries, exits, use of emergency equipment.
Prerequisite: Open Water, Jr. Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 1 day
Included: 1 two tank boat dive
Cost: $130.00 US
The goal of this course is to develop your theoretical knowledge of deep diving and increase your diving skills and awareness. Experience the effects of nitrogen narcosis under instructor supervision.
Prerequisite: Advanced Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 2 days
Included: 2 two-tank boat dives
Cost: $280.00 US
Cozumel is the drift diving capital of the world. Develop your practical knowledge of drift diving procedures and increase your diving skills while gaining additional supervised experience.
Prerequisite: Open Water certification or equivalent.
Time: 1 day
Included: 1 two-tank boat dive
Cost: $130.00 US
Develops your knowledge and familiarity with aquatic plants and animals and how to interact responsibly and safely with them. Dispels myths and misconceptions about potentially dangerous aquatic life and helps develop a conservation and preservation ethic.
Prerequisite: Open Water, Jr. Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 1 day
Included: 1 two-tank boat dive
Cost: $150.00 US
Develop your practical knowledge of underwater navigation and increase your skills in planning, organizing and executing dives. Avoid long surface swims and increase your enjoyment and sense of security.
Prerequisite: Open Water, Jr. Open Water or equivalent.
Time: 2 days
Included:
Cost: $150.00 USD
The PADI Nitrox Certification course was recently made simpler, easier and hence less expensive; you no longer have to dive your first two Nitrox tanks under the supervision of an instructor. In a 4 to 6 hour classroom session you will learn to use, label and analyze enriched air mixtures. The course includes the PADI Nitrox crew pack containing text, Nitrox tables, and the PADI PIC form to process your certification. Cost of the course $140 US. If you then choose to use Nitrox on your boat dives with Aqua Safari, your first two Nitrox tanks are "on the house".
Prerequisites: Certified Open Water diver. Must have or rent underwater camera with film
Time: 1 day
Includes: Two shore dives in one day
Cost: $100.00 US
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Candidates will work with the instructor every day in class and water sessions and boat dives assisting with students during training. This is the first leadership level in PADI. Learn to assist instructors with students and guide certified divers on tours.
Prerequisite: 60 logged dives, certified as rescue diver, emergency first response
Time: Minimum one week, about 50 hours.
Includes: Many beach dives and two days of boat diving.
Cost: $850.00 US
Intensive training program to qualify you to teach academic sessions of the open water course, assisting an instructor conduct Discover Scuba classes, certify Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty and Medic First Aid, Equipment Specialist, Oxygen Provider and other non-diving specialties (as qualified). If you don't have the time to commit to teaching full-time, this may be the course for you. Excellent preparation for the Instructor Development Course.
Prerequisite: PADI Divemaster
Time: 14 days
Cost: $750.00 US ($295 can be applied to the cost of the IDC if done within one year)NOTE: All scuba instruction and courses start at the Aqua Safari dive shop at either 8:30 AM or 12:30 PM daily. We limit the courses to 4 students/instructor so classes are small and personalized. Equipment is not included in any of the courses other than the Discover Scuba, PADI certification course and refresher course.
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