Scuba Dive Costa Rica

by Tristan Paylado · Published November 15, 2016 · Updated November 16, 2016

8664904 Located in Playa Flamingo in Guanacaste, Scuba Dive Costa Rica is a PADI Dive Center that services the areas of Tamarindo, Langosta, Grande, Conchal, Brasilito, Potrero, Flamingo and Las Catalinas. Headed by their In-house PADI Course Director, this dive shop is operated by a team of PADI Professionals that can speak different languages like English, French and Spanish.

At this early stage, we would like to inform you that the influx of tourist starts this coming Black Friday and Thanksgiving then peaks on December that last up to April. With this, we highly suggest to have an early booking to avoid the rush and disappointment. You can choose from their tour packages and scuba certification programs which can make your vacation an awesome experience.

Dive Tours and Packages

For certified divers, Scuba Dive Costa Rica offers daily dive tours to Catalina Island. Their Discover Scuba Diving Program and Snorkeling tours is a great package for non-divers who can still get the chance to see the underwater beauty of Catalina Island.

Diving in Las Catalinas Islands

Price for a 2-tank dive: $90 - $100
8201518 Their dive boat usually leaves everyday at 8:30 am for the morning trip to Catalina Island. Since there are several dive sites in Catalina Island, we are sure that there’s always one site fitted to your scuba certification. What to expect to see underwater are manta rays, whitetip reef sharks, eagle rays, sea turtles, moray eels and schools of jacks or grunts. They also offer nitrox diving but see to it that you have a pre-arranged booking with this type of diving.

Chartered Diving in Bat Island

Price for a 2-tank dive: $200 ($1,600 for a full charter)
scuba-dive-costa-rica-shuger2_1 Diving in Bat Islands requires an advanced certification where you will be doing a deep dive. In some instances, mild currents are expected depending on the lunar phase of the moon. What divers are excited about diving in Bat Island are the Bull Sharks as well as other species of sharks. Make sure to have a reservation with this tour since this is a chartered trip.

Scuba Certification

The good thing with Scuba Dive Costa Rica is they can make a schedule around your visit to Costa Rica in taking up your certification course. You can choose in all their PADI certification programs from Open Water up to becoming a Scuba Instructor.

Open Water Scuba Diver

Price: $450
5544330 Your scuba diving adventures starts here. The PADI Open Water Course is the world’s most popular scuba course for beginners. This 3-day training requires you to be at least 10 years old and attend classroom lectures, swimming pool session and perform an actual open water dive. This course, however, does not require you to have a previous scuba diving experience.

Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver

Price: $450

The PADI Advanced Open Water Certification is all about exploration, excitement and experience. You can have the option to start the advance course right after the completion of your Open Water Diver course. For a span of 2 days, you will be taught in this course advanced diving skills like deep diving, night diving, search and recovery, underwater navigation and multi-level diving.

Rescue Diver

Price: $450

This 3-day certification course allows you to learn how to prevent and manage problems both underwater and at the surface. In return, this will build up your confidence knowing that you have the capability to help others. Most divers who took this course said it is one of the most challenging yet the most rewarding of all the certification courses. Further, you have the option to incorporate the Emergency First Response Training course in case you are not previously trained on it.

Divemaster

Price: $750 excluding Materials and Professional Application Fee
725254 The PADI Divemaster certification is a 1-month training course where you will be closely working with instructors. This first level of professional training will fine tune your diving skills as well as perfecting some advanced and specialty skills you learned in the Advance and Rescue Diver course.

Dive Instructor

Price: $1,000 excluding Materials and Professional Application Fee

The PADI Instructor Development Course will cover 8 consecutive days of training where half of it will be spent in the classroom refining your skills on how to teach scuba diving. The instructor’s course teaches you how to conduct all the certification courses form Open Water to Divemaster in all the knowledge development, confined water and necessary diving skills.