Training · After your certification
Certified. Now what?
Your Open Water card is the start. Here’s how divers in Puerto Rico keep diving, build their skills and put together their own gear, one step at a time.
First: keep diving
The best thing you can do after a course is dive again soon, while the skills are fresh. Every dive makes the next one easier.
- Shore dives and night dives for certified divers. Ask about dates.
- Boat trips from Fajardo on Four Points, when the boat is running. About our trips.
- Been a while? A Scuba Refresher gets you comfortable again before your next dive.
Log every dive
Write down each dive: date, site, depth and time. Your logged dives count toward later ratings (Master Scuba Diver needs 50), and they help an instructor see where you are.
Planning your air? Try the air use calculator. Not sure about weight? Start with the weight calculator.
Your training path
The usual order for divers who want to keep learning. Take it at your own pace. Prices and dates are on the courses page.
PADI Advanced Open Water
Five adventure dives, including deep and underwater navigation, each introducing a new kind of diving. The step most divers take next.
Price and detailsPADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
Longer no-decompression times, and you learn to analyze your own cylinder. Taught at the Bayamón shop. We blend nitrox midweek, so give us notice before your dives.
Price and detailsSpecialties you’ll use here
Peak Performance Buoyancy for better trim and lower air use, Night Diver, Diver Propulsion Vehicle (scooter), Sidemount and Full Face Mask. The first dive of many specialties can also count toward Advanced Open Water.
All specialtiesEmergency First Response and PADI Rescue Diver
Learn to prevent and handle problems in the water, from a tired diver at the surface to an unresponsive diver underwater. Rescue needs Advanced Open Water (or Adventure Diver with the navigation dive) and first aid and CPR training within the past 24 months, such as Emergency First Response. Emergency Oxygen Provider is a good addition.
Rescue Diver · Emergency First Response · Emergency Oxygen ProviderPADI Master Scuba Diver
The highest non-professional rating: Rescue Diver, five PADI specialty certifications and 50 logged dives. Ask us and we’ll map out your path.
Details
Build your own kit
Owning gear that fits makes diving more comfortable, and you get to know it. A sensible order for divers here:
Mask, snorkel and fins
The gear that touches you the most. A mask that seals on your face matters more than the brand, so we fit them in the shop.
Mask fit · Fins · Fin size finderA wetsuit for Puerto Rico’s water
The right thickness keeps you warm and comfortable on longer and repeat dives.
Wetsuit guide · What should I wear today?A dive computer
Tracks your depth and time and keeps you inside your limits. We help you choose one and learn to use it.
Dive computer guideRegulator and BCD
We fit your BCD, set up your regulator with you, and service both at our bench.
BCD guide · The dive shopKeep it serviced
Regulators and BCDs on the schedule in their manual, and tanks inspected every year. Air fills are same day.
Is my gear due? · Service & fills
Not sure what’s next for you? Come by the shop, call or WhatsApp (787) 436-7047, and we’ll help you plan it.