Open Water Diver
Take the PADI Open Water Diver Course, the most famous diving course in the world
Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI® Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course.
We offer you a diving course with five theory modules, a day of practice in the pool, four dives in open waters and a final exam with which you will get the PADI Open Water Diver certification.
To enroll in a PADI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you must be 13 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
Are you ready? Get it!
Learn the parts that make up a scuba gear, such as putting together, taking apart and caring for a scuba gear, safety guidelines, and the skills needed to dive in open water to a depth of 18 meters.
- Underwater pressure concepts
- Safety diving (what to do and what not to do)
- What diving equipment you will use
- How easy it is to move underwater
- Arm and Disarm a Scuba team
- How much ballast to use
- Entrance with giant step
- Equip yourself in the water
- Five point drop
- Equalize the ears
- Recover a regulator
- Clean a regulator
- Clean a flooded mask
- Breathe underwater without a mask
- Share air tank
- Navigation with compass
- Plan a dive
- Buoyant output
- Neutral buoyancy
After you get your Open Water certification you can continue your Diving Training with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.
Or if you are not looking to get certified you can also get an adventure with Discover Scuba Diver
Get ready to the adventure!
Open Water Diver Course
- Theory Classes (5 modules)
- Material
- Confined water practices
- Open water dives (4)
- PADI Open Water Diver certification
Scuba equipment
- Scuba Mask
- Snorkel
- Scuba Fins
- Wetsuit
- Scuba Regulator
- Dive Vest
- Air Tank
- Diving Ballast
Immersions in open waters (4 immersions)
- Transportation
- Scuba Equipment
- Certified instructor
- Security equipment
- Emergency oxygen tank
- Snacks and beverage

The equipment you are going to use
We lend you the scuba equipment you will use including a dive mask, tube, scuba fins, regulator, buoyancy control device (BCD), diving instruments and scuba tanks
As soon as you conclude your certification you will be able rent the scuba equipment with special price in Diving Mahahual. Visit our Dive Shop
Dive in Banco Chinchorro
Banco Chinchorro is the western hemisphere’s largest coral atoll, but the 2.5 hour boat ride to reach it and the scarcity of permits, means that those who have visited its reefs form an exclusive club.
Continue your training
Take aditional courses to complete your training.

Calle Liza entre Malecón y Calle Sardina, Manzana 20, Lote 9, 77940 Mahahual, Q.R.