As one of Mexico's PADI 5-star Gold Palm Instructor Development Center, Aquanauts Dive Center offers all levels of PADI certification. Courses are taught by our highly trained and experienced staff of Instructors using state of the art equipment and teaching materials. All open water training programs are conducted in the warm waters of the Caribbean, which makes Aquanauts Dive Center a perfect place to learn.

PADI Scuba Diver 

The PADI Scuba Diver program is a pre-entry level certification that enables you to dive anytime, anywhere, under the supervision of a PADI professional. It is the first part of the PADI Open Water Course so you can easily upgrade to full Open Water Diver at a later date. If you've been thinking of getting certified it's an excellent way to get started on your full certification. This course takes only two days! You complete the first three modules of academics and confined water and the first two open water dives and you will obtain a lifetime certification to a max depth of 40ft. (Minimum age of 10 years.)

PADI Open Water Diver 

The PADI Open Water Course is the most popular diver program in the world. It is the first level PADI Scuba Certification, your ticket to exciting adventure in the underwater world. This course takes 3-4 days and includes 5 modules of academics, skill practice in confined water and actual scuba diving in the open water. This is all under the guidance of a PADI Instructor. Because it's performance based, you get as much time as you need to practice you new skills prior to certification. (Minimum age of 10 years.)

PADI Referral Program

Complete your diver certification through the PADI referral program. Do the class work and pool sessions at home and bring us a referral letter from any recognized certification agency. The process takes as little as two days while on your vacation to complete your Open Water Certification.

Advanced Open Water

Sample diving's most popular specialties and expand your diving skills. The two core dives are under water navigation and deep diving. Three additional elective dives may include boat diving, drift diving, multilevel diving, or wreck diving. PADI Advanced Open Water certification may be completed in as little as two days. 

Rescue Diver 

The PADI Rescue Diver program makes the subject of accident prevention and management not only fun but extremely rewarding! Until now the emphasis of your training has been on basic accident prevention and safe diving. The PADI Rescue Diver program takes you to the next level, expanding this to include accident management and rescue techniques. You'll learn how to anticipate, prevent and manage potential dive accidents. From assisting a tired diver to handling emergency scenarios, you'll practice applying the knowledge and skills that can make the difference in the unlikely event problems do arise.

SPECIALTIES

AWARE Fish Identification

One of Project Aware’s most visible and successful efforts has been tying with REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation) to develop a system whereby divers gather data about the diversity and abundance of fish. Whether you’re diving in the tropics or temperate waters, most of the fish you see belong to the same few families. Fish watching emphasizes identifying common characteristics which give you the foundation you need to classify most fish you see.

Boat Diving

Boat diving is fun because it puts you with others who share your love of adventure and the diving lifestyle, giving you the opportunity to become friends, dive with them and learn from their experiences. One of the best reasons for diving from a boat is that boating -like diving- is fun and a great way to spend time near the water. Also there’s no long surface swim or entries through surf!

Deep Diver 

Deep diving gives you access to new dive sites that lie below 18metres/60feet, and allows you to extend some of the activities you enjoy to new depths. Through deep diving you can observe aquatic life that doesn’t live in shallower water, visit wrecks that rest in deeper water, as well as shoot photographs. You may even collect or recover objects that were lost in greater depths…

Divemaster

The Divemaster Certification is your first step on the path to becoming a diving professional. If you are interested in becoming a more competent diver the Divemaster course will hone your skills and expand your knowledge of diving. Divemaster training develops your diving leadership abilities by expanding your knowledge to a professional level, and by training you to supervise diving activities and assist with divers in training.

DPV

Top gun? Not exactly, more of a cruise on your DPV (a.k.a. scooter). DPV’s rate a top-adventure ride in diving- they take you farther and faster so you see more. It’s like riding a motorcycle, flying a plane and steering an astronaut jet pack on a space walk, all in one. That’s all the reason you need to get one!

Drift Diving

Drift diving can give you a real adrenaline pump. At some drift sites, the current rips you along far faster than you could swim or even cruise with a DPV. When you drift dive the current works for you instead of against you. Some divers compare drift diving in clear water to hang gliding or horizontal sky diving- but no airplane needed and you don’t have to worry about your chute opening.

Dry Suit

Depending on where you are, a dry suit may mean the difference between diving or missing the fun, between a long comfortable dive and a short shivering one, or between diving year round versus only a few months in the warm seasons. While it offers more insulation, it does require you to learn special techniques and the first time you try it, diving without getting wet is pretty cool. Well, warm. You know what we mean…

Emergency First Response

For both divers and non-divers! This revolutionary six to eight hour classroom course teaches CPR and first aid. Emergency First Response provides hands on training in simple first aid techniques and fulfills the First Aid and CPR requirements for all PADI courses and for the US Coast Guard Captains License.

Night Diver

Visiting a favorite, familiar site at night can be like visiting a whole new dive site. As you explore, employing the techniques you’ll learn in this specialty, you’ll find curiosity and excitement replacing any hesitation or anxiety. Chances are before the dive ends you’ll be fascinated with night diving, all ready for your next!

Wreck Diver 

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of diving a wreck for the first time. You may find sunken ships nearly intact after more than a hundred years underwater, or what might appear to be nothing more than a mound of old jars from a ship that sank when the Roman Empire dominated the West. While most dive sites are natural habitats, a wreck is a work of mankind. Because of this, wrecks offer diversity, attractions and opportunities not found in ‘natural’ dive environments. Nature encroaches and changes it into an artificial reef teeming with life. As a result, diving wrecks is an adventure in exploring humanity’s loss and nature’s gain.

Multilevel and Computer Diving

Whether you favor coral reefs or inland lakes, most dive sites have opportunities to multilevel dive. Any place you find a sloping reef, wall or other topography that allows you to start deep and move to shallower depths, you can plan a multilevel dive with your computer or wheel. Multilevel diving is your ticket to more of what you got into divingfor--time underwater.

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Ask any dive professional what skill separates the upper and lower echelons of dive proficiency, and you’ll almost always get the same answer: buoyancy control. Few skills can do as much for you as peak performance buoyancy. It’s a skill that reaches into every dive, no matter where or what you’re doing. It saves you air, it saves you energy and it makes your diving more fun. It helps you avoid damage to the environment and it distinguishes you as a diver. If you could make only one Adventure Dive, many instructors would suggest that this is the one.

Search & Recovery

This really describes two closely related activities; searching for a specific object that you know someone lost and “bottom combing” searching for no specific object. You either know there is something to find or more exciting, in the case of non-specific objects, you never know what you’ll find. The recovery skills you practice in this Adventure Dive help you get what you find to the surface, whatever search you make.

Underwater Naturalist

Whether you’ve made only a few dives or hundreds, in salt water or in fresh, you’ve seen and become familiar with aquatic organisms and some of their characteristics. Even if you don’t know them by name, you know how they behave or where they ‘belong’, so that you recognize where to expect them. This specialty takes your experiences and builds upon them. You’ll understand more about the animals and plants you see underwater and learn how the environment dictates their form and behavior.

Underwater Navigation

This is one of those things that you don’t recognize the benefits of until you really need it, or until you’ve followed a navigation ace who takes you straight from one place to the next with no wasted effort. Almost any diver can wander around in a general direction and eventually end up in the right place, but you’ll find greater precision brings with it major advantages. Your rudimentary skills will be expanded to increase accuracy in a variety of circumstances.

U/W Photography

If there’s something worth seeing, there’s something worth photographing. This is a pursuit that mixes well with your other diving activities and one that permits you to share the underwater world with non-divers. Today, with new cameras and systems and easier technology the world of underwater photography is wide open- all you have to do is start!

DAN SPECIALTIES

DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba diving Injuries

This Oxygen Provider course has already taught thousands of students how to provide Oxygen first aid to injured divers. The skills taught in this course should be known by every diver. Can you help your buddy when a dive accident happens?

DAN Advanced Oxygen First Aid

This course is designed to teach Oxygen Providers the skills and knowledge needed to supplement Basic Life Support and CPR skills, with advanced resuscitation techniques to assist any diver who is not breathing.

DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries