Scuba Diving Courses in Roatan
Start your scuba training or take your skills further with personalized scuba diving courses in Roatan. Small groups, flexible scheduling, equipment, digital learning materials and certification are included. PADI training is also available on request.
Choose Your Scuba Diving Course in Roatan
Start with your first certification or continue your training with an advanced course or specialty. All courses are taught in small groups with personalized instructor support.
Main Certifications
Open Water Diver
$410*
Become a certified diver with the complete beginner course that combines online theory, confined-water training and open water dives.
- Usually 3 days after online theory
- Minimum age: 10
- Basic swimming skills required
- No previous certification needed
Advanced Open Water Diver
$400*
Build confidence and expand your diving experience through five adventure dives. Deep diving, navigation and specialty skills.
- Usually 2 days
- Minimum age: 12
- Open Water certification required
- 5 adventure dives
Specialties
Enriched Air Nitrox
$130*
Learn how to use enriched air safely, extend your no-deco limits and become more confident planning dives with Nitrox.
- 1 day
- Minimum age: 10
- Open Water Diver required
- No dives required
Deep Diving Specialty
$300*
Learn to plan and manage deeper dives safely while improving gas awareness, computer use and confidence at greater depths.
- 2 days
- Minimum age: 15
- Open Water Diver required
- Minimum 3 training dives
Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
$200*
Improve buoyancy control, trim and movement underwater while becoming more relaxed, efficient and precise throughout your dives.
- 2 days
- Minimum age: 10
- Open Water Diver required
- 2 in-water training sessions
Open Water Diver
Your Open Water course is designed to take you from complete beginner to confident certified diver without rushing the learning process. After completing the online theory, your instructor will guide you step by step through pool sessions, where you can practice and repeat the essential skills in a controlled environment before taking them into Roatan’s warm, generally calm Caribbean waters.
We keep our training groups small, with plenty of personal attention and private instruction when appropriate.
All the scuba equipment you need is provided, including a dive computer, so you can concentrate on learning, gaining confidence and enjoying your first open water dives. At the end of the course, you’ll earn a globally recognized SSI Open Water Diver certification with a lifetime certification record.
What You’ll Learn
- Essential scuba skills, safety procedures and buddy techniques
- Buoyancy control, trim, breathing and efficient movement underwater
- How to plan dives and use your dive computer safely
- How to recognize and respond to common diving situations
- Basic awareness of Roatan’s marine life and reef ecosystem
- How to dive responsibly, avoid damaging coral and respect the underwater environment
What You’ll Achieve
- Earn your SSI Open Water Diver certification, recognized worldwide and valid for life
- Become qualified to dive with a certified buddy within the limits of your training and experience
- Dive to a recommended maximum depth of 18 m / 60 ft
- Gain the foundation to continue with Advanced Adventurer and specialty courses
- Build the confidence and skills to keep diving in Roatan and around the world
Junior depth limits apply to younger divers.
Advanced Open Water Diver
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is about gaining real experience and becoming a more capable, confident diver. Across five instructor-led dives, you’ll explore different types of diving and develop skills in new environments. Deep Diving and Navigation are part of every course, while the remaining dives can be selected from options such as wreck, buoyancy, currents, ecology-focused diving and night diving, depending on conditions and availability.
Roatan is an ideal place to take that next step, with clear Caribbean water, walls, wrecks and varied reef sites within easy reach. Your instructor will brief and guide you throughout each dive, helping you refine buoyancy, navigation, dive planning and underwater awareness rather than simply completing five dives. We keep groups small, provide all required equipment including a dive computer, and adapt the training to your experience and confidence level.
What You’ll Learn
- Plan and manage dives to greater depths
- Navigate underwater more confidently using both natural references and a compass
- Improve buoyancy, trim and control in different diving conditions
- Adapt your diving skills to different environments
- Strengthen dive planning & buddy communication
- Develop better awareness of Reefs environment and how to dive responsibly around marine life and coral
What You’ll Achieve
- Earn your SSI Advanced Open Water Diver certification
- Extend your maximum depth to 30 m / 100 ft
- Gain experience across five different adventure dives
- Improve navigation, buoyancy, dive planning and confidence in varied conditions
- Build the skills to take on more challenging dive environments and future specialty training
*Junior depth limits apply to younger divers.
Enriched Air Nitrox
Nitrox is a practical specialty for divers who want more flexibility in their dive planning, especially on trips with multiple dives or repetitive diving days. By using a breathing gas with a higher oxygen percentage than regular air, you can reduce nitrogen exposure and, depending on the dive profile, increase your no-decompression limits.
The course is completed in one day and does not require training dives, making it an easy addition to an existing certification. Your instructor will focus on the practical side of using Nitrox safely, so you leave knowing how to check your gas, understand its limits and use it confidently wherever you dive.
What You’ll Learn
- How Nitrox changes nitrogen exposure and no-decompression limits
- How to calculate and respect maximum operating depth (MOD)
- How oxygen exposure affects safe dive planning
- How to analyze a cylinder and verify the oxygen percentage
- How to label and document Nitrox cylinders correctly
- How to configure your dive computer for enriched air
What You’ll Achieve
- Earn your SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 40 certification
- Become qualified to use Nitrox mixtures containing up to 40% oxygen
- Gain the confidence to verify and use Nitrox independently
- Add a valuable certification for dive travel, liveaboards and repetitive diving
- Apply Nitrox safely to suitable dive profiles around the world
Deep Diving Specialty
The Deep Diving Specialty is designed for certified divers who want to explore beyond the usual recreational depth range with better planning, control and awareness. Your instructor will guide you through deeper dive procedures, helping you understand how depth changes gas consumption, no-decompression limits, buoyancy, communication and overall dive management.
Across three open water training dives, you’ll build experience progressively and learn how to approach deeper dives with more confidence and discipline. Roatan’s walls and deeper reef sites provide an excellent environment for this training, while small groups and close instructor supervision keep the focus on safe decision-making, practical skills and controlled progression toward a maximum training depth of 40 m / 130 ft.
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What You’ll Learn
- How to calculate and monitor your gas consumption for deeper dives
- How to use your dive computer to manage depth, no-decompression limits and ascent planning
- How to recognize and respond to the effects of nitrogen narcosis
- How to maintain precise buoyancy and control at depth
- How to complete deeper descents and ascents with proper buddy contact and communication
- How to use a safety cylinder / alternate gas source during deeper-dive trainin
What You’ll Achieve
- Earn your SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification
- Extend your recommended recreational diving depth to 40 m / 130 ft
- Gain practical experience planning and conducting deeper dives with better gas awareness and contro
- Improve your ability to manage narcosis, buoyancy and no-decompression limits at greater depth
- Build the confidence and discipline needed for more advanced dive environments
- Create a stronger foundation for future advanced and specialty training
Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
Perfect Buoyancy is designed for certified divers who want to feel more relaxed, controlled and efficient underwater. Your instructor will help you refine weighting, trim, body position and breathing so you can hover more easily, move with less effort and maintain better control throughout the dive.
The course focuses on practical improvement rather than simply completing dives. Through focused in-water training, you’ll work on reducing unnecessary movement, improving finning and position, and becoming more aware of how your body affects buoyancy. Better control can also help reduce gas consumption and makes it easier to dive close to the reef without touching or damaging the environment.
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What You’ll Learn
- How to fine-tune your weighting and buoyancy control
- How to improve trim and body position underwater
- How breathing affects buoyancy and stability
- How to hover more comfortably and make smaller, more controlled adjustments
- How to use more efficient finning and movement techniques
- How better buoyancy helps reduce gas use and protect coral and marine life by avoiding unnecessary contact
What You’ll Achieve
- Earn your SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certification
- Improve your overall comfort, control and stability underwater
- Develop more efficient trim, finning and body positioning
- Reduce unnecessary movement and potentially improve gas consumption
- Gain better control when diving close to reefs, walls and sensitive marine environments
- Build stronger buoyancy skills that support almost every other type of recreational diving
What’s Included
Everything you need for your training is included, so you can focus on learning and enjoying the course.
- Digital learning materials
- Instructor guidance and training
- Certification fee
- All required scuba equipment
- Dive computer
- Water and snacks
- Pickup from West Bay, West End and Sandy Bay
Not included: Meals and photos
*Prices are subject to 15% Honduran Sales Tax.
Medical & Booking Information
Medical
- A medical questionnaire is required for all courses
- If your answers require medical clearance, approval from a doctor is needed before training
Booking
- A 25% deposit is required to reserve your course
- The remaining balance is paid after the activity
Cancellation & Conditions
- Deposit refundable at least 48 hours before the activity
- Late cancellations/no-shows: deposit non-refundable
- Unsafe conditions: we reschedule or cancel; if we cancel, the deposit is refunded
Frequently Asked Questions
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