Open Water Diver
Mares-Krista Paasi
Mares
Aqualung-Aaron Okayama

Open Water Diver

Open Water Diver
Open Water Diver
Mares-Krista Paasi
Mares-Krista Paasi
Mares
Mares
Aqualung-Aaron Okayama
Aqualung-Aaron Okayama

Open Water Diver

  • Diving Course

Event description

Includes :

  • 7 sea training dives
  • Full equipment rental (wetsuit included)
  • The SSI digital training kit
  • International certification

At CAP Port-Vendres, we give priority to :

  • Individualized support
  • A friendly, professional atmosphere

Why choose CAP Port-Vendres?

  • Preserved dive sites on the Côte Vermeille
  • Recognized and demanding teaching methods
  • A serious, friendly diving school accessible to all

Because we're all CAP diving!

Included in Offer

Open Water Diver

This world-renowned certification program is the best way to start your adventures of a lifetime as a certified diver. Customized training is combined with in-water practice sessions to give you the skills and experience you need to be truly comfortable underwater. You will obtain the Open Water Diver SSI certification. A la carte program, contact us. Other dates available.

Facts and Training Standards

15 Years Minimum Age for certification
6 Minimum Pool/Confined Sessions during Training
4 Minimum Open Water Dives during Training
18 m / 60 ft Max Depth
See full Training Standards 

Event Location, Dive sites

SSI Service Center France, 38320 Eybens Cedex

Cap Béar (★4.1)

The Cap BEAR site is a sheltered site when there is a tramontana wind, 50 minutes from BARCARES, it allows you to discover the bottom of the VERMEILLE coast in strong winds, with a bottom made up of small drop-offs, faults and coralligenous patates ranging from 5 to 26 metres deep, ideal for walking.
ARCHIPEL PLONGÉE, 66700 Argelès-sur-Mer

Anse de la Mauresque (★3.8)

This site, north of Port-Vendres, is sheltered from the south wind and the Tramontane. Accessible to all levels, you'll find nudibranchs, white gorgonians and lobsters through the faults and coralligenous (18 to 20m).
Scubapro, Stephen Frink

Pytheas, Port-Vendres (★4.3)

This site just outside Port-Vendres is very popular with N1 divers. It allows them to dive a wreck, an arch and rocky faults all in the same dive.
Magellan, 66700 Argelès-sur-Mer

Cap Gros (★4.4)

Cap Gros offers a variety of dives. From two to thirty metres, passing through posidonia, rocks with drop-offs, to finish on the corralligenous...
ARCHIPEL PLONGÉE, 66700 Argelès-sur-Mer

Sec de valenti (★4.3)

Also known as La Llose, it lies just behind Cap Béar, off the coast of the Bay of Paulilles, where you can discover a varied landscape of boulders, faults, overhangs and caves. If you're looking for lobster hotels, this is the place!
ARCHIPEL PLONGÉE, 66700 Argelès-sur-Mer

Les contrebandiers (★4.4)

Just a ten-minute sail from Argelès-sur-Mer, "Les grottes des contrebandiers" lie at the foot of the mythical Cap Béar lighthouse. This dive is accessible to all levels. The site's topography is made up of rocks and large coralligenous canyons.

Available Services in the Dive Center

Programs

Snorkel Diver
Ecology
Scuba
Extended Range (XR)
Emergency Training

Dives

Boat Dives
Wreck Dives
Snorkel Tours

Gas Fills

Air
Nitrox Dive
Trimix
Oxygen

Rental

Dive Computer
Equipment

Payment Method

Credit Card

C.A.P. Port-Vendres

anse Gerbal, 66660 Port-Vendres, France
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€635.00
Contact

Open Water Diver

C.A.P. Port-Vendres

anse Gerbal, 66660 Port-Vendres, France
$723.07
€635.00
Contact

Open Water Diver

$723.07
€635.00

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