PADI Open water Diver course - (3 day) + Marine Conservation
Make sure that your Open Water Diver course is not a simple underwater course or Program, but rather an experience of cultural enrichment and integration with the marine environment. One of our priorities at Coral Point is that students not only receive quality training but also understand environmental issues and conservation. For this reason all our courses are extensively enriched with information on how to interact with the reef environment, on how to identify the species that live in it and which scientific monitoring techniques are the most useful in the study of its marine creatures.
The PADI Open Water Diver course is by far the most popular diving certification course in the world. Millions of people have started diving as certified PADI Open Water divers. Learning to dive requires both the development of knowledge (facts, principles, concepts) and diving skills (techniques, methods). We offer it all at Coral Point Diving. You can get PADI certification from us in just a few days. All Diving courses with Coral Point Diving include all PADI educational materials and free equipment rentals.
The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:
-. Knowledge Development - available now either online (recommended) by independent study or in a classroom, to understand the basics and fundamentals of scuba diving
- 5 Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
- 4 Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!
Description
Minimum age required 10 years
Duration: 3 days
Price: The price of the PADI Open Water Diver Course is US $ 390 and includes your book, all dives, including boat dives, equipment, certification fees and logbook.
Theoretical Part
With the new PADI digital products available from PADI, you can immediately receive the digital version of the Open Water manual. We just need a deposit of $ 150 that will be deducted from the total amount due when the course is completed here in the DR. More and more students are opting for this option because it is also environmentally friendly. Let us know. If necessary, a tablet will be given to the student for the duration of the course and with which he can view the videos of the Open Water course comfortably in his Hotel, on the beach or where he feels more comfortable without having to stay at the diving center.
Practical Part
Day 1 - 8.30am - 1pm - it starts with a brief orientation of the course including a short theoretical session followed by exercises in confined waters. Orientation session, paperwork, equipment review, and practical training in the Confined Waters in front of Coral Point. Confined Water are divided into 5 dives (combined in 1 or 2 sessions) where we will practice mask, regulator, buoyancy, safety and surface exercises. By overcoming the confined water skills we will be ready to move on to the open water.
Day 2 - 8.30am - 1pm, Open Water Dives 1 and 2 from the boat (maximum depth 12 meters) visiting reefs and possibly shipwrecks in the local area of Bayahibe. We are proud to say that here in Bayahibe, we offer beautiful reefs, spectacular walls and mysterious shipwrecks like the Atlantic Princess whose exploration is always part of our Open Water course.
Day 3 - 8.30am - 1pm Open Water Dives 3 and 4 from the boat, maximum depth 18 meters). During these dives, the student will be able to improve important skills such as buoyancy and, in addition, they will begin to learn to plan dives that will make them a complete diver at the end of the course. Not far from Coral Point is a large main reef that stretches out into the sand like fingers reaching for shore. This reef is a magical place to find fish big and small. Swimming above are parrotfish and wrasse. In and out of the holes you can find sea eels, drumfish and squirrelfish. Sheltering in the soft corals you can find trumpet fish and lime fish.
1.00 pm Graduation ceremony and awarding of diplomas
NOTE. This program is not fixed but can undergo variations depending on the time, the theoretical, practical ability of the students and the size of the class. Furthermore, the three days may not be consecutive.The logistics of the course also may vary depending on the weather conditions as well. Depending on the abilities of the students, the instructor can decide to add sessions of confined water, theory and dives in the sea (at NO additional cost) so that the student can achieve the objectives of the course and a level of confidence that allows him to dive safely and in a relaxed manner.