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PADI Courses

PADI dive courses in Valparaíso

Find here the full range of SubmarValpo PADI courses, from your first certification to professional preparation to lead dives.

PADI Open Water Diver

Your first big step to breathing underwater, mastering weightlessness and starting to explore the ocean safely and confidently.

  • Beginner level, no previous experience
  • Minimum age: 10 (Junior)
  • Theory, confined water and open sea
  • International PADI certification
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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

A course designed to build experience, confidence and depth, with new adventures and dive sites to keep growing.

  • Requires PADI Open Water
  • Includes 5 adventure dives
  • Depth up to 30 meters
  • Includes deep diving and navigation
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PADI Rescue Diver

Intense, transformative training to prevent, assist and respond to emergencies on the surface and underwater.

  • Requires Advanced Open Water and EFR
  • Intermediate-advanced level
  • Emergency prevention and response
  • Surface and underwater scenarios
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Emergency First Response

First aid and CPR to act calmly and effectively in medical emergencies inside or outside the diving environment.

  • No prerequisites
  • CPR and first aid
  • International certification
  • Requirement for PADI Rescue Diver
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PADI Divemaster

Take the leap to the professional level and learn to lead activities, refine technique and manage dive center operations.

  • Professional level
  • Requires PADI Rescue Diver
  • Dive leadership and supervision
  • Minimum 40 logged dives
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CMAS Scientific Diving

Training for divers with intermediate or divemaster experience for work in AMERB areas, benthic sampling and technical instruments.

  • For intermediate or Divemaster level
  • Work in AMERB areas
  • Benthic sampling
  • Use of technical instruments
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Specialties

Specialties you can also take with us.

Complement your training with programs focused on control, technique and experience in specific environments.

Buoyancy control

Perfect your control, stability and air consumption to move more precisely underwater.

Dry suit

Learn to dive with greater thermal comfort and better gear handling in cold water.

Underwater navigation

Improve orientation, reading the environment and a safe return to the planned point.

Deep diving

Develop technique and judgment for deeper dives safely.

Night diving

Explore the marine environment in low visibility with proper procedures and communication.

Wreck diving

Learn techniques and considerations to visit shipwrecks in a controlled way.

Search and recovery

Practice search patterns and maneuvers to locate and recover objects.