If you dont't have the opportunity to take a full certification class at home due to time, weather, or access to local dive sites, the PADI Referral Certification is the way to go! After completing your classroom and confined water pool dives back home, come to the warm waters of Puerto Rico where on each of your four check out dives we will take you to a different exciting dive site!

Remember to bring:
  • Your Open Water Referral Form and signed log book from home.
  • Two head and shoulder passport type photo's for your certification card application & student record file.
  • The original copy of your doctor’s consent form (if you have any relevant medical conditions.)

First Day - We review your referral documents, and fill out the required documents for your final certification dives. After introduction to your PADI Instructor, you and your Instructor check over your equipment, and you are provided with any extra equipment required. While on the boat, your instructor reviews the assembly of your equipment and you become completely comfortable and relaxed with your equipment in the water.

Under the supervision of your Instructor, you go on two enchanting dives where you safely experience the sense of wonder and awe shared everyday by scuba divers around the world.

After your dives, your PADI Instructor goes over any questions you might have, reviews your performance, and gives you tips on how to improve certain skills, if necessary.

On the return to the dive shop you properly wash and stow your equipment, then together with your Instructor, log your diving experiences, and your instructor signs your logbook entries and completes your referral form for that day's diving activities.



Second Day - You set up your equipment under the watchful eye of your instructor, review the skills and dive plan for your final two certification dives.

After completing the check out of your open water skills, your PADI Instructor takes you on a colorful tour of Puerto Rico’s coral reefs bursting with marine-life and other intricate marine ecosystems.

After the dives your PADI Instructor goes over any questions you have, critiques your dives and profile, and then signs your completed log entries for that day's dives.

After passing all of the required criteria of the PADI Open Water Certification, you receive your temporary PADI Certification Card while your permanent card is processed and forwarded to you from PADI.


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last minute questions!




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787.342.6952 | 787.315.1813 | 787-821.0505
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