Scuba Diving School

Whether you are already a certified Scuba Diver and want to continue your Scuba Diver education here in Cozumel or want to join the excitement that divers experience every time they enter the water, Blue Magic Scuba has a Scuba course just for you. We offer all PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diving to PADI Divemaster as well as Emergency First Response training and numerous specialty diver courses. Diver safety and personal attention are our commitments to you. All instruction is private or semi-private upon request if you want to take a Scuba course with your friends or family.

Discover Scuba Diving (3 to 4 hours) - $75

No previous scuba diving experience is required. Minimum age is 12 years.

Not a certified scuba diver but want to see what the excitement is all about? This 3 or 4 hour course will introduce you to Scuba Diving in the crystal blue waters of Cozumel, Mexico. You will watch a short video after which your Scuba Diving instructor will offer more explanation as well as show you the equipment and how to use it before you hit the water. You and your Scuba Diving instructor will head to the beach where you will learn and practice the basic skills of Scuba diving in shallow water before going on an exciting private underwater tour with your Scuba Diving instructor.

Once you complete the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience, you will be able to make subsequent dives during your vacation with qualified PADI professionals. This scuba course is not a Scuba Diving Certification but may be credited towards your PADI Open Water Certification within one year at your instructor's discretion.

Price includes:

• Private Instruction
• Equipment
• One-tank shore dive
• Transportation from our shop to the dive site

Upon successful completion of this program, you may dive under the supervision of an instructor to a maximum depth of 40 feet for the remainder of your trip.

• $125 USD for a two-tank boat dive with private instructor and equipment

PADI Open Water Certification (3 to 4 days) - $425

No previous diving experience required. Strong swimming skills are recommended. Minimum age required is12 years.

This is the first step to entering the underwater world, but be prepared... you might end up owning a dive shop in Cozumel someday!

This course will teach you the core elements and skills of scuba diving. You will do pool or confined water sessions with your instructor where you will learn and practice the required skills. Once you and your instructor are comfortable with your skill performance, you will move to the open water where you will apply the skills you have learned and practiced. There is also classroom session where your instructor will teach you the theories, procedures, and safety of scuba diving. There will be chapter quizzes and a final exam.

The course fee includes:

• Student study materials
• Private Instruction
• Scuba Equipment
• Confined water dives
• Open water dives from the boat
• PADI certification fee

Open Water Referral (2 days) - $250

Classroom and pool sessions are required prior to arrival. Minimum age is 12 years.

This course is for you if you have completed your classroom session, exams, and pool sessions back home and wish to complete your certification in the crystal blue warm waters of Cozumel.

Our course fee includes:

• Private Instruction
• 2 beach certification dives
• 2 boat certification dives
• Equipment rental
• PADI Certification fee

Advanced Open Water (2 to 3 days) - $400

Open Water Certification from any agency is required.

This course provides a great opportunity to improve the skills you learned in your basic open water course under the supervision of a PADI Instructor. You will be introduced to five different specialties. The dives you complete in your PADI AOW course can be credited to each respective specialty at the discretion of your instructor. This course is not skill intensive and there are no exams involved. You will complete a required Deep Dive (100 feet maximum), a Navigation Dive and you can select your remaining three dives from the following which are available in Cozumel:

• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Boat Diving
• Drift Diving
• Night Diving
• Multi-level and computer diving
• Reef Fish Identification
• Underwater naturalist

This course can be worked into a normal dive schedule so that you can dive with your travel companions and not miss out on any of the wonderful boat diving!

The course fee includes:

• Private instruction
• Five boat dives over 2 days
• PADI student manual & shipping to your home prior to arrival
• PADI certification fee

Stress & Rescue Diver (4 to 5 days) - $400

Advanced certification and CPR (Medic First Aid) are required.

This is one of the best PADI courses around. You will learn self-rescue techniques as well as rescue techniques for assisting divers in distress or trouble. You will participate in several different rescue scenarios with your instructor and fellow students if applicable. Most scenarios are done from the shore although two boat dives (1 day) are included.

The course fee includes:

• Private Instruction (semi-private if taking with friends or family)
• Student Manuals sent to you in advance
• Two-tank boat dive
• Tanks, weights and necessary rescue equipment
• PADI Certification fee

Divemaster (15 days - at least 50 hours) - $900

Rescue diver, Emergency First Response/CPR, 60 logged dives, full set of equipment. Minimum age is 18 years.

This is the first professional level PADI Course and is the most intense course. You will gain more in depth knowledge of the physics of diving, equipment care and maintenance, diving physiology, decompression theory, dive planning, dive leadership, and safety standards.

In addition to your class work, you will shadow and assist the divemasters, instructors, and shop assistants as appropriate to fulfill the Scuba Internship portion of this course. Three boat dives are included in the price of the course where you will be expected to help out on the boat as if you were part of the crew, including loading tanks, assembling weight belts, setting up equipment, washing equipment, leading some dives, and all of the normal duties of a divemaster. You will also do numerous shore dives with your instructor(s) to practice skills, techniques, rescue scenarios, mapping, and water skills assessments.

The course fee includes:

• Instruction
• Divemaster Student Manual
• Class time
• Three days of boat diving
• Several days of shore diving

You will also be required to purchase the Encycolpedia of Recreational Diving, and the Diving Knowledge Workbook, not included in the course fee.

Refresher Course (5 hours) - $125

You must be a certified diver.

This course is recommended for those divers who have not been diving in more than a year or two, nervous divers, or new divers who have no ocean or drift diving experience.

You will review basic and essential skills such as mask clearing, equalization, BCD inflation, buoyancy control, regulator recovery, alternate air source use and gauge/computer use.

The course fee includes:

• Instructor
• Two tank boat dive
• Equipment if needed

Enriched Air Diver Nitrox (4 to 6 hours) - $225

You must have your Open Water Certification and be at least 15 years old.

This course will teach you how to safely and effectively dive with Oxygen Enriched Air between 22% and 40% which allows longer no decompression limits for extended bottom times. You will learn dive planning, how to calculate your maximum depth for any given percentage of oxygen, safety protocols, hazards, and risks of diving with Oxygen enriched air.

PADI no longer requires actual dives for this certification. Nitrox dives with/beyond certification are optional for the normal price of a two-tank dive and the price of Nitrox fills.

The course fee includes:

• Private instruction
• Student materials sent to you in advance
• Enriched Air and Oxygen Exposure tables
• PADI certification fee