Diving Course: Open Water Scuba Diver
The Open Water diving course is the most important course in sport diving, because the student is instructed to breathe underwater and to use the diving equipment correctly.
In addition, the diving student will learn other important topics such as physiology, gases that are breathed under pressure, diving medicine, underwater environment, decompression tables and others.
Requirements for the diving course:
Medical restrictions:
You should not practice scuba diving if you have diabetes, have cardiac issues, uncontrolled hypertension, any cardiopulmonary pathology or are pregnant.
Does not include:
Schedule
To agree the schedule with the diving students. They must complete 9 hours of theory.
Intensive option is also offered which is given all the theory on a single Saturday, or the E-Learning option which is given a password for take theory from your home or office and be presented at our class only to evacuate doubts and present the exam.
We will make a dive practices at the pool.
We will make 2 beach dives. After the dives, the instructor will give a brief speech about ecology and all students will do their ecological work by cleaning the beach, until completing a bag with garbage.
We will make 2 boat dives in open water.
Additional Information
The dive license does not expire. In case of robbery or lost, contact your instructor to process a new license for an additional cost of $ 50.
Mundo Acuático will be kept in the database to continue participating in this amazing sport. We make tours to different scuba points inside and outside of Costa Rica, like Guanacaste, Punarenas, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Belize, and others.
We always recommend that you dive at least 2 times a year so that you won’t lose the skills acquired during the Open Water Scuba Diver course, however, for different circumstances a diver could spend time without diving and forget relevant aspects about this activity.
