Kuramathi is an ideal place to learn to dive with warm water (29°C), good visibility, a shallow lagoon for training on one side of the island and stunning reefs teeming with marine life on the other. Each year these near perfect conditions help us to introduce many guests to this incredible world. So if you have watched the breathtaking images of National Geographic or the Blue Planet with divers seemingly suspended in a blue void, surrounded by thousands of shimmering fish pulsating with the energy of a vast ocean and thought, “Wow that looks like an amazing world and I want to explore it too!” Now is your chance. Don’t be intimidated even if you are apprehensive – being a little nervous is totally normal – just stop by and try it. Our “cool, calm and collected” professional instructor team will guide you through the first steps and do everything to help you have an excellent first diving experience. Please read on in the next webpages to discover more information about learning to dive on beautiful Kuramathi!
If you like snorkeling, the chances are you’ll love diving – so why not take your first step into the blue with Rasdhoo Divers!? Ever imagined how would it feel to be immersed in a giant aquarium of color, light and life or even swim eye to eye with a turtle or a huge manta ray? Well – if you’ve dreamt of any of the above, in your mind you’re already a diver!
SSI Try Scuba Diving/Basic Diver are the well-established “try dive” courses for complete beginners and are an easy and fun introduction into diving. The course takes place in the shallow lagoon or on the stunning house reef of Kuramathi and usually with just two participants per instructor. It lasts just two hours, but you will discover the amazing appeal and wonder of scuba diving – the feeling of weightlessness, breathing underwater, swimming with and like a fish!
After your first experience, you have several options if you want to do more: Ideally, you should continue on the Open Water Diver Course (OWD) which only takes four days including the Try Diving. With three dives off the boat on the outside reef (and one in the lagoon) you have a great opportunity to see turtles, rays, sharks, morays and numerous other reef fish.
Have you heard about nitrox? Nitrox is a great safety option for every diver and this is why we offer the Open Water Diver course combined with Nitrox certification. Please ask your instructor for more information about nitrox and its great advantages.
Alternatively, the Scuba Diver is a 2 day course (including the Try Diving) and includes one dive off the boat. This diver certification allows the holder to dive to max. 12m, but always accompanied by a SSI/PADI professional. The course is effectively the first half of the Open Water Diver course and is upgradeable to the OWD any time in the future. This course is perfect for guests who are short of time, but still want to get a certificate so next holiday they do not have to start as a total beginner again. This qualification is valid as a stand-alone certificate without any time restriction and of course the possibility exists to upgrade in two days to the Open Water Diver.
If you just do not have time for a certification course, then you should at least try to do a REPEAT DISCOVER SCUBA DIVE FROM THE BOAT to really experience the fantastic variety of marine life living in this beautiful ocean surrounding Kuramathi. You will see many more fish and will be accompanied by an instructor or a divemaster throughout your dive.
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