Pandan Island Resort

Mariposa Divers Pandan offers the whole range of PADI and SDI courses from Discover Scuba dives until Dive Master as well as specialties like Nitrox (EaNX) and Wreck Diver. We provide you with a high level education, customized schedules and a personal and relaxed environment to help you to get the most out of your dive course.

All our courses are held in either English, French or Tagalog.

 An overview over the courses offered:

 Discover Scuba Diving:

The Discover Scuba Diving program lets you experience the fascination of scuba diving without being a certified diver. After a thorough briefing by one of our instructors are explained the basic principles of scuba diving and all the equipment used during your dive we will show you around our coral gardens.

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Open Water Diver:

Throughout this course, you'll learn fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques. At the end of the course you will be a certified Open Water Diver, a certification that is recognized worldwide.

As a certified Open Water Diver you have the freedom to dive with a buddy independent of a professional.

Virtually anyone who is in good health, reasonably fit, and comfortable in the water can earn a Open Water Diver certification.  If you are between 10 and 14 or have a child between these ages, there is a Junior Open Water Diver program available.

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Advanced Open Water Diver:

The aim of the Advanced Open Water course is to develop your underwater skills and give you a taste of specialty diving activities. As you have probably already discovered in the Open Water course, diving opens the door to a wide range of activities underwater.

The advanced course consists of three 'core' dives or required dives: a navigation dive, a deep dive, a drift dive  and two 'elective' dives, which you are able to choose with the guidance of one of our instructors. Elective dives could be a search and recovery dive, a boat dive, a drift dive, a underwater naturalist dive or a wreck dive.

Rescue Diver:

As a rescue diver training you not only expands your knowledge of diving, increases your level   of diving skill, let's you become more aware of what is happening around you in the diving environment but enables you to care for other divers and prepares you to properly respond to diving emergencies and near emergencies.

The Rescue Diver program covers:

• diving first aid

• emergency management and equipment considerations

• swimming and non-swimming assists

• panicked diver response

• underwater problems

• missing diver procedures

• surfacing the unconscious diver

• in-water artificial respiration

• egress (exits)

• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents

• dive accident scenarios.

Rescue Diver courses on Pandan Island are always conducted in small classes to enhance the learning and to make sure all students can profit the most of this interesting and demanding course.

Dive Master

As a certified Divemaster you will be able to :

• organize , conduct and supervise recreational diving activities both land and boat based

• act as an instructional assistant to a teaching status  Open Water Scuba Instructor

• master theoretical diving knowledge to a level sufficient to become a dive instructor

The course consists of three parts ( modules):

• Module 1: Watermanship and  Diving skills

  • 400 meter swim
  • 15- minute water thread
  • 800 meter snorkel swim
  • 100 meter inert diver tow
  • complete skill evaluation circuit
     
• Module 2: Diving Knowledge
  
  • Dive Planning
  • Dive Management  and Control
  • Supervising Students in Training
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Equipment
  • Skills and Environment
  • Dive Tables
     
• Module 3: Practical Application
  
  • gain experience in guiding divers ( together with an instructor) and with the diver-training process. During this  Module you will be encouraged to log as many dives as your course permits, since we strongly believe that  there is no substitute to  experience. You will have to have minimum 60 logged dives at the end of your course