Scuba Diving Certification

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Learn to scuba dive with us! On staff at Reef Runner Divers we have full time PADI Dive Instructors offering scuba instruction in every course from Introductory Discover SCUBA through Professional Dive Master certification. Our course details can be found at the bottom of this page.

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Discover Scuba - A quick 2-hour course designed to familiarize a new diver with equipment and safety. Completion of this course allows the diver to participate in diving with Reef Runner Divers during his or her stay in Puerto Viejo for a period of 2 weeks.

Scuba Diver - A short course which certifies the new diver to participate in diving for 1 year. Full certification then becomes available at a discount.

Open Water Referral - An option for the new diver to complete thier pool lessons and classroom work at home, and then complete their final open water dives with us in beautiful, warm Caribbean waters.

Open Water Course - Our open water course is $335.00 (plus the cost of the PADI Manual) and includes all equipment for diving, the diving instructor fee, the boat rides with our captain to the dive sites, lunches and beverages.  The open water book is $40.00, this includes all course work required for your open water certification, the PIC form (the form sent to PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) after completion of the course) and the hologram to authenticate your certification.

The course can be completed in 3-4 days (weather permitting)...the first day is spent watching the open water DVD and working through the corresponding textbook at your own convenience.  There are 5 chapters, all of these have short quizzes, with a final exam at the end of the book.  The quizzes and final exam are all multiple-choice.  If the weather is good, you can start your confined water dives with our instructor in the pool area in front of the dive shop as soon as the second day.  The next two days you will go for two open water dives per day from the boat with our instructor perfecting the skills you have learned from your confined water dives.  During these dives our instructor will show you many of the beautiful fish and other reef life found in our beautiful Caribbean Sea.  After this is completed, our instructor will help you fill out your PIC form and then you will send it to PADI.  You will receive a temporary diving card from us until your official PADI open water diver’s license arrives to your house from California a few weeks later.  This license has no expiration and is valid all over the world, wherever you decide to dive.