Diving under the darkness of the night offers a mysterious and captivating experience in the world of diving. The PADI Night Dive course Diver Specialty invites you to explore this fascinating underwater realm, where the light from your flashlight reveals new marine life and unique behaviors.
Designed for PADI (Junior) Open Water divers Divers or above, who are at least 12 years old. This course teaches you key skills such as flashlight handling and communication techniques, night navigation and identifying differences in the behavior of marine creatures at night.
The first dive of this course can even count as an Adventure Dive towards your Advanced Open Water certification. Diver : Ask your instructor about earning credit.
Prerequisites and Requirements
Age requirement: 12 years or older
Course prerequisites: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or initiation level certification)
Phases of the course
To begin this phase, the student must purchase the online theoretical course through the PADI website: https://www.padi.com/es/cursos/night-diver . The eLearning time commitment is 2-4 hours.
Training using Open Water (Sea) diving equipment.
Equipment and logistics
Time required: 2-4 hours in open water.
Training
In addition to the swimming pool, the following marine sites are available for diving instruction on Santa Cruz Island: Caamaño, Punta Estrada, El Bajo and El Barranco. The choice of location will depend on the sea conditions and the decision of the diving instructor.
$200
The PADI Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver, and Discover Scuba Diving courses include materials/eLearning and certification processing.
For the PADI Divemaster, Rescue Diver, and Emergency First Response (EFR) courses, students must purchase the official PADI materials and eLearning separately.
Some courses require prior certifications and a minimum number of logged dives.
PADI DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING
$300 Discover Scuba Diving
$370 Discover Scuba Diving for a single passenger
PADI OPEN WATER DIVER
$1150 Open Water
$1220 Open Water for a single passenger
$900 Open Water Referido1
$1020 Open Water Referido1 for a single passenger
$600 Open Water Referido2
$650 Open Water Referido2 for a single passenger
$850 Scuba Diver
$900 Scuba Diver for a single passenger
PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER
$1100 Advanced Open Water Diver
$1195 Advanced Open Water Diver for a single passenger
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