- Most Popular Course
- OWD 15+ Qualification OWD 15+
- 3 days Duration 3 days
- 10+ Ages 10+
If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience an underwater adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.
Quick Details
Discover new sunken adventures
- Ships, airplanes and even cars, whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past.
- The Wreck Diver Specialty is a training developed during 4 days of diving, while exploring the best dives site of the Yucatan peninsula. Is a course that offers, during 4 specialty dives, rewarding adventures while observing responsible wreck diving practices.
- If you’re at least 15 years old and have earned a PADI Adventure Diver or higher, you can enroll in the Wreck Diver Specialty course.
- What will you learn?
- There are many different types of wrecks, some of which are protected by laws that guard their historical and cultural significance.
- In this course you’ll learn the rules for researching and respecting wrecks:
• Safety considerations for navigating and exploring wrecks.
• Surveying and mapping a wreck.
• Using penetration lines and reels to guide exploration.
• Techniques to avoid kicking up silt or disturbing the wreck and its inhabitants. - You’ll take the PADI Wreck Diver Manual to prepare the knowledge reviews and, the day before starting the dives, you’ll meet your Instructor for a lesson by which discuss the knowledge reviews and to plan the 4 wrecks you’ll visit during your open water scuba dives.
- Mama Viña wreck, C-56 Juan Escutia, C-53 Felipe Xicotencatl en Cozumel are pieces of history of this peninsula.
Note: If you’re staying at Sandos Caracol or Playacar, you must pay a fee of 50 usd per exit concept of boarding fee and transportation.
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Person: 14,679 MXN pesos (699 USD)
The USD price is approximate, the checkout will be in MXN pesos.
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5 days – 8 dives
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- 15 years old
- PADI Adventure Diver or higher
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Meeting time at Scuba Libre shop at 8.00 locate on the 4th street between the 5th avenue and the beach.
NOTE: for the guest staying at the Sandos Caracol or Playacar the meeting time will be at 8.00 at Scuba libre dive center of the respective hotel -
- Full scuba equipment (BCD, regulator, dive computer, wet suit, fins, mask, weights, tanks)
- A dive light to see into the wreck, a slate and underwater compass for mapping and navigation, Wreck Diver Specialty manual and certification, transportation from Scuba Libre dive centre to Puerto Morelos round trip, water and a snack on board
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- Transfer from/to the hotel
- If you’re staying at Sandos Caracol or Playacar, you must pay a fee of 50 usd per exit concept of boarding fee and transportation