Day 1 – PADI IDC Costa Rica, Are you ready to start presenting?

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Officially our first PADI IDC in a little while (maybe a year!!) after the brief hiatus which is super exciting! With 4 budding instructor candidates and an enthusiastic Course Director it’s going to be fun! I shook it up a bit now as with everyone arriving early and wanting to get some diving in we [...]

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Divemaster Course – Scuba review and Skin diver practice

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So the busy week continued, after the CPR, then exploring Uvita diving and today we headed to the pool for some pre-IDC skill circuit practice and Divemaster course skin diver and scuba review practice.As part of the PADI Divemaster program our budding candidates have to be able to conduct a scuba review program and run [...]

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CPR training and EFR instructor training – Beach style

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It has been a busy week at Go Pro Costa Rica. First call at the end of last week we decided to give back to the community and offered a FREE CPR demo on the beach. With updated guidelines at the beginning of the year, we felt it was important to share this important skills [...]

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Divemasters and PADI Instructor candidates – Hard at work

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The christmas rush is over and we things have slowed down just a fraction but our divemaster and instructor programs here at Go Pro keep moving forward. A couple of weeks ago we had the chance to explore some offshore pinnacles which was a great opportunity to get some experience deep diving. There were some [...]

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Deep diving and Divemaster training…..with some humpbacks as well!

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End to the first week of the new year and what a great week it has been! We have had beautiful waters, great diving and to finish it off this week we thought we would go deep diving. With some of our PADI divemaster trainees on the morning trip we decided to hit a couple [...]

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Skill Circuit practice – Divemaster and Instructor Training in Costa Rica

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With the super crazy busy xmas week almost over we are well into high season Yeah!!! Water is looking nice, and warm, rays and sharks are out and about, turtles have been spotted and even the elusive guitar fish has made an appearance, so what do we work on with the divemaster and instructor trainees, [...]

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Scuba diving divemaster internship – Grazing turtles and Crazy canyons

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As an important part of the PADI Divemaster internship you need to practice your dive briefings. And who better to practice on at Go Pro Costa Rica than me! So finally the sun shone down on us today and some abnormally grey days for this time of year and we headed out to Canyon reef, [...]

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PADI Tec Rec Center – Costa Rica

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Congratulations to Oceans Unlimited and Go Pro Costa Rica! We are officially the the only PADI Tec Rec Diving center in all of Costa Rica! We offer a wide range of technical dive courses, from basic nitrox , advanced Nitrox, Tec 40, 45 and 50 and Tec Rec Gas Blending certification. We even can certify up to Tec Deep instructor [...]

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