San Andrés Island: Personalized Mini Scuba Diving Course

The mini diving course is a service for beginners or sea lovers, it is not necessary to have previous experience, you just need to have the desire to learn and confidence to get rid of your fears.

For this experience you do not need previous experience, since it is oriented to offer you an accompaniment all the time with qualified personnel, in which you will carry out this instruction process:

- Knowledge Development: Here we will give you the theoretical bases so that you can discover our sea with the security that Sea Pride Diving School offers you. We have four skills necessary to be able to develop the activity which we will give you in this initial procedure.

These are: Compensation ⁃ Mask Emptying ⁃ Regulator Emptying ⁃ Breathing.

-Practice in Shallow Confined Water: After passing the Knowledge Development we will go to the sea at a depth of 2 meters to practice our main skills to be able to perform a dive and practice underwater. After successfully making the descent at this depth we will move on to the next stage.

- Diving Immersion: After practicing in the 2 meters depth we will make a gradual descent between 6 and 12 meters of final depth where we will enjoy the ecosystem between 30 to 45 minutes of underwater time, enough to cover between 200 to 300 meters. With this last stage you will enjoy a pleasant journey with our diving professionals where you will feel comfortable and calm in our activity.

It is important before proceeding to dive, to verify that none of the participants have any medical contraindication that may prevent them from diving. For that reason read carefully each one of these medical conditions:

-Heart problems.

-Hearing loss.

-Hypertension.

-Diabetes.

-Respiratory problems.

-Surgeries in the last year.

-Pregnancy or suspected pregnancy.

Weight-bearing problems.

-Epilepsy.

-Ear or lung infections.

-Daily or frequent medical use.

In case you have any of these contraindications, it is important to know beforehand. Having any of these conditions is not a definitive condition to NOT dive, since each case is unique and can be evaluated in order not to present any type of risk when diving.

If you have any condition not listed above, feel free to let us know in order to avoid any safety problem.