PADI Skin Diver training, courses and certification in Placencia, Belize
More closer encounters with Belize’s reef and aquatic life
The PADI Skin Diver certification is a half day course that trains and teaches participants to go below to get closer to the creatures on a coral reef. This really facilitates more enjoyable aquatic interactions. After this PADI course with our Instructors, you’ll be amazed at how much longer you can safely hold your breath. You will get much closer to the fish fish and other marine life.
There are no pre-requisites to enroll in this course. It is open for anyone from the ages of 8-80 years old in good medical health with no adverse conditions.
In this course you’ll learn basic physiology, pressure and water, skin diver equipment. snorkel skills and the aquatic environment. The theory will teach you about safety and improve your confidence both on the surface and underwater as a free diver.
Once you’ve sat through the theory with our PADI Instructors, we’ll take you for a confined water training session. There you’ll learn how to blast clear a snorkel, make a safe descent and ascent underwater on one breathe, swim 15 meters/50ft underwater, and basic hand signal communication. Then we’ll take you for an skin dive on the coral reef systems of Placencia where you apply these newly acquired skin diving skills on a coral reef and interact with aquatic life.
This course results in a PADI Skin Diver certification, and we can also integrate this with the PADI Digital Photography course. Take great photos of the creatures and corals you see from your trip to Placencia and Belize. Collect memories!
Every trip you make, hether a coral reef or other aquatic environment, will open a whole new world to you.