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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

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Key info

  • 2 days (approx.)
  • Incl. 5 dives
  • Dive site(s) determined on the dive day
  • English, Spanish
  • Max. 4 students / instructor
  • Meet at given location
  • Free Cancellation - 24hrs notice
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Highlights

Advance your diving skills! After having taken this course, you will be allowed to dive down to 30 metres/100 feet and will have learnt invaluable skills such as underwater navigation, night diving or wreck diving. The course includes 5 adventure.

  • Make five dives with an instructor and practice something different on each dive (deep diving, navigation, buoyancy, photography, etc.).
  • Gain experience and improve your scuba skills.

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PADI 5 Star Dive Center

PADI 5 STAR DIVE CENTER IN CARTAGENA AND THE ROSARIO ISLANDS

With our DIVING TOURS AND PADI COURSES you will visit a National Park of Coral Reefs an hour by boat from Cartagena. Because the distance from the city, in this natural reserve, you will find the best conditions, visibility and the greatest diversity of reefs and tropical fish. You will not only enjoy the adventure with a PADI 5 STAR dive center in the best place for diving, you will also enjoy the surface intervals and lunch in one of the "must see" places in Cartagena: The Rosario Islands.

You also can find us in our office in the old city: Plaza de San Diego - Calle 39 No. 8-24

PADI 5 Star Dive Resort Wi-Fi (FREE) 4 PADI Instructors Max. 7.0 divers / guide

Address: 3758 Km from your location
Calle 39 #8-24, Plaza De San Diego, Cartagena, Colombia

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Package description

Inclusive of

  • 5 open water dives
  • Mask/snorkel
  • Lunch
  • Wetsuit (shorty)
  • Fins (open heel)
  • Flashlight (torch)
  • BCD
  • Regulator
  • Weights/Weight Belt/Tank(s)
  • National Park Fees/Marine Park Fees
  • Scuba equipment rental (full set)

Not inclusive of

  • Dive computer
  • Nitrox  ( USD 50 )
  • Wetsuit (5mm)
  • Wetsuit (7mm)
  • Wetsuit (3mm)
  • Drysuit

Requirements

  • Minimum age: 10+
  • Min. certification: Open Water Certification required
  • Min logged dives: None

What to expect

You can start your theory today by downloading the course to your computer, phone or tablet. Once you finish your theory, which shouldn’t take more than two days, you will continue your course by completing five dives: Deep and navigation dive are mandatory, the other options are:  night, wreck, multilevel, naturalist, peak performance buoyancy among others.

With this plan you have to stay one night at one of the hotels on the island.

FIRST DAY:

- The meeting point is in the marina at 8:00 a.m.

-  We leave for the Rosario Islands in a one-hour trip enjoying the marine landscapes of Cartagena.

- We arrive at one of the hotels in the islands where the diving instructors wait to deliver the necessary equipment.

- Two certification dives in open water, in the company of an instructor and between dives, a surface interval in the hotel.

- Lunch

- One night dive. 

- Transfer to the selected hotel in the Rosario Islands (HOTEL NOT INCLUDED).


SECOND DAY

Two certification dives and return to Cartagena around 3:00 p.m. arriving in Cartagena around 4:00 p.m. to register the certification as an open water diver.

WHAT IS INCLUDED 

- Entry fee to the national park

- Mandatory dive insurance

- Transport to the island first day and back to Cartagena second day.

- Company of a PADI professional during your dives

- All necessary equipment is also free.

- Surface interval at one of the best hotels on the island.

- Lunch on the first day

- PADI Certification.

WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED 

- Voluntary tips.

- Other unspecified costs 

- Hotel and meals on Second Day not included in the plan.

Important information before making your reservation:

- If you do two or more dives a day you have to wait at least 18 hours before flying.

- You must present the results of your course that will be sent to your mail, once you finish the course.

- To take this plan, you must stay one night in one of the hotels in the islands. Hotel is not included. 

- Bring repellent, sun block, cap, sandals and swimsuit.

Other Information

Confirmation

  • We’ll send you a final Booking Confirmation Email on average within 24 hours. We advise you to not make any other travel arrangements before that
  • In the event that you do not receive an email from us, please check your Spam folder or notify us via email

How to get there

our meeting point will be the MUELLE DE LA BODEGUITA, at 8:00 a.m., in the entrance number 3. Please do not forget to bring sunscreen and your “covid face mask”. This is the location: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Muelle+de+la+Bodeguita/@10.4205603,-75.5525986,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8ef62f753729822d:0x1bbcdd8224d0eaaf!8m2!3d10.4205603!4d-75.5504046?hl=es

Address: MUELLE DE LA BODEGUITA, Blas De Lezo, El Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

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Cancellation policy

  • Full refunds will be issued for cancellations made at least 24 hours prior to the activity
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