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PUERTO VALLARTA SCUBA DIVING
Puerto Vallarta Mexico offer’s many scuba diving sites for all levels of experience.  So whether you want to try diving for the first time or have been diving for years, PV has something to offer. Take a look at the following scuba diving sites, Los Arcos, Mismaloya, Majahuitas, Islas Marietas, El Morro, El Chimo, for more information about Puerto Vallarta scuba diving.
 
PUERTO VALLARTA SCUBA DIVING COURSES
PV Sea Dive is a Padi Dive Resort No 22262 and we teach Padi scuba diving courses.  There are many ways to learn scuba diving. You can do the whole course in Puerto Vallarta, or you can complete the book work at home or even complete your pool training as well. To complete your study online click padi.com and register for your required course.  To complete your study and confined water training at home contact your local dive shop bring your referral form and do the openwater training here in Mexico.  We also offer a try scuba diving experience, if you do not want to get certified. If you are interested in taking a diving course check out what we have to offer, scuba diver, openwater diver, adventure diver, advanced diver, rescue diver and specialties.  

PUERTO VALLARTA DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP
Ever thought of scuba diving as a career?  You can with PV Sea Dive. We offer an all inclusive divemaster internship.  Whether you have no scuba diving certification or are highly experienced, we have a package to suit you.  All of the divemaster packages include 5 specialities, so after your pro dive training, you will have additional qualifications over and above the standard divemaster course.  Our instructors have extensive experience in teaching divemasters as they previously worked at a career development center (CDC). Take a look at what we have to offer on our divemaster internship pages.
PUERTO VALLARTA SNORKELING
Snorkeling in Mexico around the islands off the coast of Puerto Vallarta offers a great day out for the family. There is a vast amount of tropical fish and coral for you to be amazed at.
PUERTO VALLARTA WHALE WATCHING
If you don’t fancy scuba diving or snorkeling then why not take a cruise around the coast of PV and search for the humpback whales. Banderas Bay here in Puerto Vallarta is where these beautiful creatures come to stay for the winter months, between December and March.

PUERTO VALLARTA SEA DIVE
PV Sea Dive is the newest dive shop in Puerto Vallarta. This means all of our scuba diving equipment is in fantastic condition and the service will be fresh and dynamic as we will go that extra mile to make your time with us memorable.
All scuba diving activities will be taken by either a Padi Staff Instructor or a Padi Master Instructor. We are a registered Padi dive resort, # 22262, so meet their safety requirements and teach to Padi standards.  This means worldwide recognition of your training and scuba certification. All of our instructors have worldwide experience, are trained to the highest standards and have a passion and knowledge for the ocean and the strange creatures that live in it. So, diving with them will be safe, informative and fun.

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Enjoy a HD nature film shot at amazing Panglao Island in the Philippines with Bohol Beach Club.

When you have just a week or 2 at the most for a vacation, why not make it a spectacular yet affordable one in the World’s center of marine bio-diversity and bio-density. And that’s just underwater, wait till you see the same bio-diversty and culture on land!

Significantly exceeding even the Great Barrier Reef, the Philippines has 6 time more fish species and 10 times more hard and soft coral varieties than the Caribbean, earning the Philippines the slogan; The Mount Everest of macro critter photography”.

We call the Philippines “Macro without the Muck™” although the Philippines boasts regions where large pelagic encounters like whale sharks and thresher sharks are all but guaranteed.

Eco, dive and tourist travel is not only far safer in any Philippines destination than any major U.S. city, but it is also far less expensive than the Caribbean too.

The Philippines is the 3rd largest English speaking Country with 7,107 Islands to choose from, and has a great road, air and fast ferry infrastructure and a huge Internet social and scuba community. Because of that, the Philippines is really easy find out about and network with locals online, and really easy and inexpensive to travel to and explore.

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What is required to scuba dive at a resort?

We’re going on a vacation to Riviera Maya, Mexico and we want to learn to scuba dive while there. Our travel agent told us we have to be PADI certified before we go, but said we wouldn’t have enough time before we go in April. However, a resort we are looking into says that they have a scuba diving course (PADI) and also a scuba diving course in the pool. What’s the difference and do we need to complete a course before going?

Provided that there is a qualified diving instructor working at or near your chosen resort, you don’t need to be a certified diver before you go on vacation — you should be able to do the course while you’re out there. So your travel agent is either being ignorant or mendacious.

The PADI Open Water Diver course (which is a fairly typical ‘entry-level’ scuba certification) requires approx. 25-30 hours of tuition, split into approx. 6-8 hours’ diving theory (including a multi-choice exam) which can mostly be completed online, 6-8 hours’ practical (pool) training, and 8-10 hours to complete all 4 qualifying open-water dives.

It is very common for people to learn to scuba dive while on vacation, but you would need to commit 3-4 full days of vacation time to the course (and you would need to be able to finish the course at least 24 hours before flying home, for safety reasons). Not everybody wants to do this.

If you wanted to get certified before April, you would have plenty of time to do so, provided that there is a dive centre in your local area which can schedule the course. However, if you live in one of the colder parts of North America, this would mean having to do your qualifying dives in Feb/March, probably in (very) cold water.

If you don’t fancy either of those ideas, a middle-ground option is the ‘referral’ course, where you do the pool & theory training in your hometown (again, only possible if there is a dive centre near you), and then do the 4 qualifying dives on vacation. This would require you to commit only 2 full days of your vacation to diving — but these would be spent diving in the sea, rather than sitting in a classroom. Any pool training would probably be restricted to a short (<1 hour) ‘refresher’ session prior to going for the open-water dives, if the receiving instructor feels it’s necessary.

Bear in mind that when resorts advertise ‘free scuba diving’, 9 times out of 10 they actually mean ‘free try-dives in the hotel pool’. This will be a 5-minute swim round the pool with a mask, fins (maybe), and a scuba unit, but will not qualify you to do anything after that.

The pool-dives will be run by the resort diving/ watersports centre in order to entice guests into paying for a proper ‘intro-dive’ in the sea (which also does not result in any kind of a diving qualification), or even a full (3-4 day) certification course (which does). Make sure you know exactly what you’re signing up for, and what you’ll get out of it, before you hand over any cash. Contact the dive centre directly, if you can.

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Scuba Diver Girls Snorkel the Cook Islands!!!

The girls had the opportunity to snorkel two of the Cook Islands. First they head out at 6am to do a early morning snorkel in Rarotonga and then they head over to Aitutaki and take the One Foot Island Lagoon Cruise with Bishops Cruises http://www.bishopscruises.com/cruise.htm and were literally blown away by the beauty found above and below the ocean.

Thank you to the Tourism Board of Cook Islands http://www.cookislands.travel/USA for making this trip possible.

Thank you to Aqualung http://www.aqualung.com/ for providing all the travel dive gear for this trip.

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