Diver Education
Learn to Dive ... The Living Underwater Way!
Living Underwater can provide all your PADI SCUBA training needs. We can take you from your first Discover SCUBA experience right through to your Divemaster Certification.
Why Choose Living Underwater for Your PADI Training?
- Personal attention
- Private Instruction
- Our courses can take you from your first dive to your Divemaster Certification
PADI Training by Living Underwater
Course fees include:
- Personal instruction
- Dive Equipment
Course material is not included.
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Diver Education Courses
Discover Scuba Diving (MX$3150)
If you’re looking for a convenient way to try SCUBA, look to a PADI Discover SCUBA Diving experience to broaden your horizons. Give it a try. Diving can change your life.
- Learn the basic skills and theory required to complete a safe introductory dive.
- SCUBA Diving skills may be credited toward the PADI Open Water Diver certification.
Certified Diver Refresher (MX$3150)
If you are an Open Water Diver but it’s been awhile since you “got wet,” consider starting your Cozumel diving vacation with a Refresher Course.
- Review the diving theory you learned in your Open Water Diver course
- Work with an instructor to brush up on your skills
Open Water Diver (MX$9450)
In the PADI Open Water Diver course, you will learn the basic skills and theory needed to SCUBA dive. You start in pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean), acquiring the skills and knowledge you’ll need to be a safe, confident diver.
- Four to five days with afternoon boat dives
- Number of Dives: Five Confined Water Dives and Four Open Water Dives
- Knowledge Development: Five sessions
- Materials You’ll Need: PADI Open Water Crew-Pak, PADI Open Water Video or DVD, Log Book
Prerequisites: 15 years of age for Open Water Diver, 12 years of age for Junior Open Water Diver, good health, reasonable fitness and comfort in the water.
Advanced Open Water Diver (MX$7200)
With your instructor you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. You will select three additional Adventure Dives with your instructor to complete your course.
- Five dives completed over 2 1/2 days
- Discuss and determine your optional Adventure Dives with your instructor
- Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course
- Materials You’ll Need: Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak, Adventures in Diving manual and video and logbook
Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years of age, 12 years of age for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver
Open Water Referral (MX$7200 Boat Dives)
Complete your Open Water Diver classroom and confined water (pool) training at home with your local PADI dive shop. Upon successful completion of the written exam and skills sessions, your instructor will provide you with a Referral. Bring your Referral paperwork with you to Cozumel where you will complete your Open Water Diver certification in our warm Caribbean waters!
- Complete four dives, usually over two days on afternoon boat dives
- On each dive you will demonstrate required skills to your instructor
- Upon successful completion of four dives and all required skills, you will be issued a temporary PADI Open Water Diver
- Certification card that will allow you to dive as a certified diver!
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the required classroom, confined water and written exam prior to arrival in Cozumel
Enriched Air Diver/Nitrox (MX$3600)
Diving with enriched air means less nitrogen. This translates to allowing you to safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air.
Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in a tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.
- Learn to analyze cylinder contents
- Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers
- Safely increase your no stop time
- Certification counts toward the Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Divemaster
During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership. You’ll complete the reading and all required paperwork independently prior to your arrival in Cozumel. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises.
- The course can be completed in two weeks, 12-14 hr days, every day (contact us for further details)
- Knowledge Development: 12 topics ranging from dive theory to assisting student divers in training
- In-water skills, training, and stamina exercises
Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 20 logged dives, minimum 18 years of age
Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 60 for certification as PADI Divemaster
Materials You’ll Need:
- PADI Divemaster Manual
- Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel and eRDP, including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
- The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
- Diving Knowledge Workbook
- Divemaster Slates
- PADI Divemaster Video
- Instructor Guides for the programs that PADI Divemasters may conduct
Rescue Diver (MX$7650)
Possibly the most challenging and rewarding dive training you will ever complete. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence and skill. Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken.
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- Emergency management and equipment
- Panicked diver response
- In-water rescue breathing protocols
- Egress (exits)
- Dive accident scenarios
Prerequisites: EMERGENCY FIRST-RESPONSE (or equivalent), CPR for adults, children and infants or first aid for adults, children and infants, automated External Defibrillator (AED) training
Diver Specialty Courses
Contact Living Underwater for current pricing. Please ask about the specialty you are interested in if we haven't listed it here.
Deep Diver Specialty
Experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet. Deep diving requires you to consider new variables and takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.
- Experience diving beyond 18 meters/60 feet
- Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
- Four open water dives that range from 18 – 40 meters / 60 – 130 feet.
- Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Multi-Level Diver Specialty
Learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. You’ll learn to use The WheelTM version of the RDP for planning multi-level dives, making it a great companion for your dive computer.
- Plan and execute multi-level dives (different depths on the same dive)
- Back up your dive computer and plan multi-level dives with The WheelTM
- Maximize your no stop time
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Drift Diver Specialty
This course shows you how to enjoy currents by “going with the flow,” staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.
- Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of drift diving
- An introduction to drift diving equipment — floats, lines, reels
- Buoyancy-control, navigation and communication for drift diving
- Site selection and overview of aquatic currents – causes and effects
- Techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Peak Performance Bouyancy
Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers! By mastering these skills you’ll move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully.
- Requires two dives
- Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
- Streamlining, balance and trim
- Fine-tune buoyancy and mastering hovering
- Materials: You’ll Need Peak Performance Buoyancy video
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Underwater Naturalist
This course teaches you about the different major aquatic life groupings and how they interact so that you understand what you observe in the underwater environment.
- Overview of aquatic life groupings and interrelations
- The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships
- Responsible interactions with aquatic life
- Requires two dives
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
