PADI Courses
The way the world learns to dive
Fantasy Island Beach Resort Dive & Marina is an authorized PADI Center. In our Dive Center you will enjoy with this modern educative system and acquire experience and security in diving. Once you have completed the courses, and according with your experience you will have access to the certification by PADI. The courses available at Fantasy Island are:
PADI Experience Program
- Discover Snorkeling Certification. $35.00
It's a program for every one big and small, kids and adults. This program is also an encouragement and fist step to the underwater world of scuba diving. This first step scenario is conducted by our dive masters, assistant instructor and instructor.
- Skin Diver Certification. $150.00
It's a program a little differences than the discover snorkeling and is that you gets the chance to submerge a little deeper to explore a little more of the underwater world. This program is also conducted by our dive masters, assistant instructor, and instructor with a full equipment at our dive center.
- Padi Bubblemaker Certification. $100.00
It's a program just for kids at age of 8 year old or older, and what we do is we star our first session in a artificial pool, then we take them next to our beach front confine water for a relationship with their confident. This exciting program is something all kids love for their first time with a full equipment and instructor to go
- Discover Scuba Certification. $75.00
It's a first time experience of breathing compress air underwater, just an image of what will take place if you agreed to become a scuba diver after this experience. It all happened in our artificial pool were you will be with your instructor indicatin a few water skills for the time of one hour, this course does not have a certification, but it does have the principal of continuing education and credit towards your other courses that you will be taken. And this first time experience come with a full equipment and instructor to go.
- Discover Scuba Diving Certification. $140.00
It entails one confined water session and one dive on either the ship wreck or on one our spectacular walls located in the lagoon adjacent to the Resort. The course includes all necessary equipment and the instructor for the 2 dives
- Padi Seal Team Certification. $75.00
It's also a program for kis at age 3 to 8 years old so as you can see we mostly have program for every one in the family. This special program takes you kids to a swimming pool only for a 1 ½ hour
- Refresh Course
- PADI Open water dive Referral Course. $150
This option is for people who complete their Open Water Diver pool and academic work before coming to Fantasy Island and want to complete their Open Water Certification dives at our resort. You'll need to bring your logbook and a referral letter from your instructor verifying your successful course completion and readiness for your open water dives. You'll then spend two days with our instructor completing the four open water certification dives required to complete your PADI Open Water Diver Certification. Many of our guests choose this option so they can enjoy their open water dives in the warm Caribbean Sea and minimize the instruction time required while on vacation.
PADI Recreational Programs
- OPEN WATER COURSE Certification. $350.00
It's the course were you learn more about diving from the courses above mentioned, you gets a better description and understanding, you start to believe in yourself and you feel free to plan diving vacation trips on your own. This Padi certification gives you an advantage of diving anywhere around the world for best choices and to see other part of our underwater world.
To enroll in this adventure the student must be 15 years old for and OWD or 12 years old for JOWD. What this course does is prepare student with best ability to trust, and be responsible for any diving experience. This course takes a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of 5 days prior to certification with 5 confine water session, 4 open water dives, knowledge review and final exams.
- ADVANCE OPEN WATER Certification. $210.00
Is were you learn more of you OWD, about depths, navigation, wrecks, and a few more experience including self control Underwater and little of buoyancy it also gives you more advantage of trying our specialty courses and also our continuing education for the upper level of certification. This course takes approximate 2 to 3 days depending on the student's abilities. Course evaluation 3 electives Dive and 2 core Dive and fill out knowledge review.
- RESCUE DIVER COURSE Certification. $330.00
Is where you learn the best technique for a support of a rescue, and also learn about DCS decompression sickness and other, this course open your mind a little bigger so that you can and your buddy will Dive under all safety guidelines and to help other Dive safe. This course is fully equipped for the purpose of your evaluation duration is 4 to 5 days prior to certification.
- DIVEMASTER COURSE Certification. $600.00
It's where for the first time you well take leadership in the Padi education system, it also give you the advantage to be part of the training programs and also assist instructor on their training grounds. To enroll in the Padi Dive master course you must have 18 years old, have 20 or more logged dives, have an advanced, rescue and medic first aid certification. The course has a time of 3 to 4 weeks prior to certification.
PADI Specialties Programs
- ENRICHED AIR DIVER Certification. $185.00
In this course is where you learn how to Dive with mixed air, which is oxygen and compressed air from 21% to 32%. The course will take One and a half day, one Dive and two hours lecture and the final test.
- UNDERWATER NAVIGATION Certification. $120.00
This dives takes you to the navigation with compass, which is more intense than the open watercourse. It shows you the advanced techniques in how to navigate your Dive when there's not good visibility and how to understand better a compass, this course takes three dives which last two to three days and for a certification you have to take a final test comprehending a written and practice test.
- UNDERWATER NATURALIST Certification. $150.00
In this course you will have the opportunity to discover the different shapes and variety of fish and you will have to distinguish each one of them. Then you will learn about the marine vertebrates and you will have to recognize each one of them as well as the marine invertebrates. The courses have two phases, fist you will have to do two dives, then the lecture and the final test. The course will take 2 days.
- NIGHT DIVER Certification. $130.00
In this course we will learn the advanced techniques on night Dive. What to do in case of emergency, whom to look for in a case of an emergency and whom to look for in a case of a problem. The course has two phases. Firs you have three nights Dive and after you will have the lectures, and a final test. The course will take 2 days.
- WRECK DIVER Certification. $160.00
In this course you will learn advanced techniques in the ships wreck dives. You will learn different techniques in how to emerge in the shipwreck, how to find you path, and guide to know more about the shipwreck. The course has four dives, after that you will have the lecture, and a final test. The course will take 3 days.
- PEAK PERFORMANCE BUOYANCY Certification. $135.00
If you think there is not a better way of improving you buoyancy down and up the surface or you just want to regulate a better floating, well there is not another course that can help you on all the techniques to improve your buoyancy and also to retain energy and environment where we live. With only doing two dives we can improve the buoyancy. This course takes two days with underwater sessions, lecture and a final test.
- SEARCH AND RECOVERY Certification. $170.00
This course will teach you the best ways to look and find anything Underwater and learn important technique. You will do four dives and will take about 3 or 4 days, lecture, knowledge and a final test.
- MULTILEVEL DIVER Certification. $150.00
This course has the options to do multilevel dives. Some people will wonder what multilevel dives are? This are dives two or three dives that a person do without coming up to the surface following the Dive tables. In this course you will do two dives, knowledge and the final test. This course will take 2 or 3 days.
- DEEP DIVER Certification. $160.00
This course gives you the oportunity and thecniques of how a deep dive should be done, what to expect, the type of equipment, and most of all for the big experience of life; the course includes classroom, gear up and two dives which happend in two or 2 1/2 day
- FISH IDENTIFICATION Certification.$150.00
This course evaluate you to know your sea creatures, fish coral and others, which lets you feel better about diving and exploring the u/w world that we have to show you