Scuba Diving Certification Courses

Sand Dollar Sports is one of only a few truly 5-Star PADI Facilities on Cozumel Island

Our dive shop is located on the beach looking over the beautiful Caribbean.  Our location has its own pier for OW skills practice entering and exiting the water. Our equipment is all new Aqualung dive equipment.  We have in house staff that are certified to provide service and maintenance to all of our dive equipment. We also have our own compressor fill station that has been recognized by DAN as meeting all requirements for providing clean “Grade E” air fills for our scuba tanks. These are just a few of the benefits we provide along with our 37 years of experience in the waters sports and diving industry. 

OPEN WATER CERTIFICATION COURSE

Course Description

Your class will begin at our beach side dive facility where you’ll meet your instructor. Each student will receive either their E-learning information or their Dive Book, which ever is preferred. The E-Learning material can be provided so that your lessons can be read prior to arrival. This allows for spending more time on vacation doing what you came to do. GO DIVING!!

Your 4 Open Water dives will take place at our Cozumel Coral Reef Restoration area. After finishing the in water skill sessions, your dive for pleasure will be over and around our Coral sanctuary.

As a PADI Open Water Diver, you’ll be trained to a maximum depth of 18 metres/60 feet, and are qualified to dive in conditions as good as, or better than, those in which you trained. It’s just the beginning of a lifetime filled with dive adventures.

Our location also has a restaurant and bar (Sunset Beach) where you’ll have access to some of the best food and drinks on the island купить постельное белье. Daily Happy Hour for celebrating after you’ve completed another fun filled day of diving. A 20% discount is provided for clients doing any certification work with Sand Dollar Sports.

Your certification includes

  • PADI Open Water manual (digital or print)
  • Agua lung dive equipment for all certification dives (4 dives
  • Mask, snorkel, fins and weights
  • PADI certified instructor
  • Daily access to our dive facilities and coral restoration area
  • Approximately 3 days to complete certification
  • 20% discount at “Sunset Beach”

 

NO HIDDEN FEES.

Wet suits are available for rental (10usd per day)

REFRESHER

If you haven’t scuba dive for more than two years or you don’t feel confident enough about your skills and knowledge you can do a refresher with us. You will do a brief review of all the fundamentals plus a practice of all the safety exercises required for a boat dive.

All equipment included

Price

$450

Minimum Age

10 Years Old

Duration

3 Days

ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE

Course Description

Getting your PADI Open Water Certification doesn’t just mean you’ll get to dive in Cozumel — it means you’ll be able to participate in guided open water dives anywhere in the world. With your PADI Advanced Open Water Certification, you’ll gain a new level of expertise that will allow you to be more comfortable on your dives and familiar with safety protocol should complications arise in the open water.

For maximizing safety and the overall diving experience, both serious and recreational scuba divers should enroll in the PADI Advanced Open Water Certification.

One reason you’ll love the Advanced Open Water course is that you and your instructor choose 5 types of adventure dives in order to complete your course.

The knowledge and skills you get in the Advanced Open Water Diver Course vary with your interest and the adventures you have, but include:

  • Practical aspects of deep diving
  • Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving
  • More ways to use your underwater compass
  • How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time
  • How to better use your dive computer and electronic Recreational Dive Planner (eRDP)
  • And much, much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose

Your certification includes

  • 5 Adventure Dives (2 of them done by boat)
  • PADI certified Dive Instructor
  • PADI e-learning
  • PADI certification & fees
  • Agua lung dive equipment for all certification dives
  • All Scuba equipment and wetsuit
  • Daily access to our dive facilities and coral restoration area
  • 20% discount at “Sunset Beach”

NO HIDDEN FEES.

Advance OW

$425

Minimum Age

10 Years Old

Duration

2 Days

Refresher

$100

Minimum Age

10 Years Old

Duration

2 Hrs