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Discover Scuba Diving in Cabo San Lucas
If you are over the age of 10 and are medically fit to dive then you can sign up for our private PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience program. This is not a license! Just an opportunity to learn some skills and techniques needed for diving down to 40ft.
Here in Cabo San Lucas, we have the perfect reef for this activity! The descent is on a shallow sandy bottom in an area roped off from boat traffic. The sloping sandy bottom gradually deepens where fish schools naturally congregate on one of two sides of a pinnacle and it’s possible just to sit in the sand at 25 feet and enjoy. If you are feeling adventurous, we can swim a little way around the reef and enjoy the deeper side to 40ft.
If you have younger children, 8 or 9 years old, we can adapt this experience and conduct a PADI Bubblemaker to a depth of 2m/6ft with 1 to 1 supervision. Contact separately for avaiaibility.
Tour details Price & booking
Tour Outlines
Cabo San Lucas is very accessible for beginner divers because the reef is only 5 minutes by boat and the wildlife is plentiful.
Snorkel/Scuba Trip Mix are all available.
What's included
- PADI Elite PRIVATE Instructor
- Full Presentation & Skills Practice
- Shared or Private boat Boat upgrade
- All diving equipment
- Refreshments and light snacks
Schedule
Every day
SHARED BOATS AM : 7.30 am | PM : 12.45 pm
PRIVATE BOATS AM: 7 - 9 AM | PM : 12 - 2 PM
Departure
From Cabo San Lucas Marina
Duration
2 dives : 4 hours
(Shorter 1 dive option is possible, contact us)
Price & Booking
Cabo San Lucas
Price in USD | Cash discount availableDiscover Scuba Diver
$ 195 pp
10 years +
2 Dive Price
Private Instructor | Shared Boat
Dive 1: Practice | Dive 2: Pure enjoyment!
Minimum age 10 years old
Private Boat 1 - 2 people
$ 460 per boat
We prepare for 2 dives, but the boat can return after just 1.
Mix Diver/Snorkeler/Passenger
Up to 2 locations
Minimum 8 years old
(8+9yrs = Bubblemaker 6ft | 10yrs + = Discovery Diver 40ft)
Private Boat 3 - 6 People
$ 795 per boat
We prepare for 2 dives, but the boat can return after just 1.
Mix Diver/Snorkeler/Passenger
Up to 2 locations
Minimum 8 years old
(8+9yrs = Bubblemaker 6ft | 10yrs + = Discovery Diver 40ft)
Additional divers $100 extra (max 12)
Boat upgrade : See option
PADI Bubblemaker
$ 195 pp
8 + 9 yrs old
2 Different Locations
Confined Water Only
Contact us for availibility
2 locations $195 | 1 location $150.
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Medical Form
All participants must be over the age of 10 for the 40ft dive and 8 for the 6ft dive AND be medically fit: See the PADI Medical Form
Passengers and Snorkelers
A mix of divers, snorkelers and passengers are welcome on the same boat
Transportation & hotel pick up
Add private transportation during the booking process
Professional photographer
Book a professional dive photographer to take photos of your first breaths underwater.
E-Learning : PADI Discover Scuba Diving
Once the deposit is received, you will be invited to register all participants to access to our interactive eLearning platform and complete the Discover Scuba Diving knowledge development.
What you will see on a beginner dive in Los Cabos
Once you have had your briefing and you don your equipment, the diving instructor will help you into the water where you will find a shallow spot/descent line for skills practice.
After you have completed the necessary skills, as outlined below, we will start our dive. You can immediately expect to see lots of puffer fish because they like to swim over the sandy area where we descend. With them we often see Mexican hogfish hanging around hoping for a bit of mollusk kicked up by your fins as we travel to the main pinnacle.
Once at the pinnacle, it’s common to see eels, octopus, brightly coloured sea slugs, small crustaceans, and California cup coral brightening up the pinnacle wall. Tropical fish include the Cortez angelfish which likes to come and say hello as close to your nose as possible and the king angelfish which eats your exhaled bubbles above your head.
Other crowd-pleasers include the long trumpetfish and the big schools of snapper, goatfish and grunts. We have had some larger surprises such as sea lions, large rays, schooling mobula rays, small reef sharks, and turtles!
Try scuba diving in Cabo before starting your certification
A beginner scuba dive incorporates some of the skills needed for the PADI Open Water course. You can actually count one introduction dive towards your license – as long as you continue your scuba journey with us!
These skills are performed after a detailed briefing and knowledge theory review with your instructor. To make sure you understand some basic concepts of the science of diving as well as learning hand signals and other necessary information required to the PADI standards.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving Skills
The skills you should complete on this dive are as follows:
- Clearing water from the mouth piece with the purge and blast method
- Recovering and replacing a mouthpiece hose from behind the shoulder
- Clearing some water out of a mask
- Hand signals
- Equalization techniques
- Demonstrate how to use your buoyancy control device (the flotation jacket attached to the tank).
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