OPEN WATER DIVING COURSE

About the Open Water Diving Course

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has welcomed many people to the submarine world of diving. Doing this course in the Galapagos may give your a higher level of experience due to the slightly challenging currents and will give the opportunity to new divers to see marine creatures such as sharks, turtles, rays, invertebrates and many others.

We can offer the open water train dives in the dive site Academy Bay just 10 minutes away from Puerto Ayora, giving students a flexible schedule to start in the morning or afternoon, or on our normal Day Trips out of the Bay.

Ask your sales agents for more details about Academy Bay or Day Trips.

The course consists of three main parts:

Knowledge Development in a classroom or online to understand the basic principles of scuba diving
Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
Open Water Dives to review your skills and explore!

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.

Itinerary of the Open Water Diving Course

DAY 1 (14:30 – 18:00)

Participants must complete their online theory course before arriving to the Galapagos
Complete your liability and information forms and review the theory with your assigned instructor
Try dive gear in preparation for the coming days activity
A video study session on Chapters 1-3

DAY 2 (08:00 – 15:00)

A review session at Scuba Iguana
A swimming pool session to practice scuba exercises
A video study session at Scuba Iguana on Chapters 4 and 5
We review previous learning
Take the final exam!

DAYS 3 and 4 (07:45 – 16:00)

Travel to our dive site and prepare for diving
Complete 2 dives (to max depth 12m) to practice exercises and open water diving
Have a one hour surface interval between dives for rest, review and refreshments
Enjoy lunch onboard, return to dive center and debrief.
Get certified!

Course Requirements

Be minimum 10 years old
Know how to swim
Present a medical certificate declaring any health issues that may affect diving.
Complete the PADI course and liability release form

What’s Included?

An English and Spanish speaking PADI Instructor
Knowledge Development Theory
- Note: All divers are responsible for complete the online theory with PADI E-tool (PADI Lite)
Practice: A confined water session (4 hours in the swimming pool) and 4 open water dives (across Days 3 and 4)
Your Open Water manual and logbook
Full equipment: (wetsuit, regulator, BCD, mask, fins, boots, hoods, gloves, tanks)
Towels, refreshments and lunch on board (Days 3 and 4)
Transport between dive and practice sites and Scuba Iguana
First aid and emergency equipment (including 80% coverage any hyperbaric chamber treatment).

Your International PADI Open Water Diver Certification

Useful Information

COST:	1 student $ 1,305 2 students $ 990 per person
DURATION:	3-4 Days
REQUERIMENTS:	10 years + adequate swimming skills, good physical health
SKILL GAINED:	Dive to 18m
CERTIFICATION:	Globally recognized Open Water

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