Pro Dive Mexico’s opens new PADI IDC center in the heart of Playa del Carmen!

We are thrilled to announce the official opening of our 7th affiliated PADI dive store! Our brand new PADI IDC center is located right in the heart of Playa del Carmen, and we are looking forward to welcome you with us! Besides offering PADI sponsored courses from beginner to professional level, we also offer dive packages, dive travel products, wildlife safaris, cultural excursions, scuba and snorkel retail articles such as SCUBAPRO and CRESSI dive gear, and of course also our popular apparell articles such as caps, shirts and polo shirts and more. The new dive facility, besides its great, central city location also offers a brandnew, very modern aircon equipped large classroom and a large pool in short walking distance from Playa del Carmens famous 5th avenue.

 
This IDC location offers a great addition to our CDC center facilities in Playa Maroma. The leading CDC center and PADI Instructor training facility in Caribbean / Latin America just got EVEN BETTER!

 
Pro Dive Mexico’s mission is “Excellence through Quality”, and we feel this is just another milestone in keeping the bar high and holding up our mission. We are very proud about our dive center # 7, and hope to be able to welcome there soon!

Pro Dive Mexico. We don’t just certify. We build diving careers.

“10th year celebration Offer” EXTENDED!!

Dear friends, we have had an overwhelming response to the last 3 Instructor Development Courses this year, being run by our new Platinum Course Director Angel Navarro. At this point, we only have a handful of places left on our October and November courses.

Due to this great success and demand, we are pleased to let you know that we have decided the EXTE…

ND the 10% discount promotion for all reservations made by the 31st december 2012!

The 10% special discount therefore will be continued to be available on all GoPro Packages, single programs such as IDC and more, and even on PADI TEC REC programs!

For more information on our Promo, GoPro packages, IDC training programs and internships please visit our website www.idcmexico.com or contact our Course Director at angel@prodivemex.com .

Press Release: 10th Year CELEBRATION Promotions !!

                                                                                                                                          

 

Dear Friends and Divers! 

In May 2012, the 10^th year of our operation has commenced, since the founding of our loved company Pro Dive Mexico! We are proud and happy that we are now in the 10^th year of providing safe, fun and quality scuba diving to our clients!  Now we are keen on making it a full 100 years!

Since our small beginnings in May 2003, today Pro Dive Mexico is regarded as one of the premier PADI Career Development Centers in the Americas, and we are running 6 different 5 Star Dive Centers in the Mayan Riviera & Cozumel, with the help of our multilingual staff from all over the world.

Punctually for this anniversary, we are stepping up the ladder! We appointed ANGEL NAVARRO MOYA as the new leader of our GOPRO ACADEMY division.   Angel brings a wealth of experience to us, being one of the most experienced Platinum Course Director in the industry. He has been awarded the coveted PLATINUM RATING by PADI for 5 consecutive years, which is simply exceptional in this industry!

Because we are delighted to celebrate both our 10^th year milestone, and Angel’s positioning at our GoPro Academy, we are happy to pronounce our mindboggling CELEBRATION OFFERS to pass something back to our clients:

        1)      1% per Year = 10% Discount on all GoPro/TEC!

Applicable for any course from Divemaster to MSDT Prep and TEC courses, we provide an extraordinary discount of 10% on the tuitions, we even extend this offer over full GoPro Packages, in which case the 10% will also apply over the costs of PADI learning materials!

*applies to bookings with initial deposit received by 31^st August 2012

        2)      FREE IAHD Instuctor Course!

We provide additionally a FREE IAHD (International Association of Handicapped Instructors) Instructor Course  at the of value 499 USD, to any IDC candidate! The 3 day course will be conducted after our IDC/MSDT prep programs, and the only cost that needs to be covered is the application fee of aprox. 125 USD, to gain active status with IAHD.

*applies to bookings with initial eposit received by 31^st August 2012

        3)      FREE Instructor internship!

For any reserved MSDT prep program, in the future we will provide the option to enjoy a FREE instructor internship of 3 weeks after graduation in our busy dive centers. This will add valuable real life experience to any “fresh” scuba instructor, providing a head start opportunity to start working in the industry!

        4)      IE Pass Guarantee!

It is highly unlikely, but appreciating that people like to have peace of mind, in the unlikely event that the candidate does not pass the IE, we will pay 100% of all re-exam fees!

Besides all the above new exciting promos, of course all former and current specials stay in place as usual, such as:

1)     FREE Emergency Oxygen Provider Instructor Speciality with every IDC.

2)     FREE IDC prep course with signup for MSDT prep.

3)      FREE Scubapro Technician clinic with every MSDT prep .

4)      FREE repeat IDC, if IE failed, or IE not taken due CD’s recommendation

5)      FREE Cenotes Dive as part of every IDC 

6)      FREE TEK diving intro as part of every IDC 

To conclude we would like to mention that Angel is fluent in English, Spanish, Catalan and French, and together with his German and Italian speaking IDC staff instructors we are now able to offer GoPro and IDC training in all these languages.

We look forward having you with us soon, to become a great PADI Pro with us in amazing Mexico! 

Your Pro Dive Mexico Team.

Angel Navarro-Moya New PADI Platinum Course Director at Pro Dive Mexico

Pro Dive Mexico is thrilled to annouce its future cooperation with Platinum Course Director Angel Navarro!

Angel comes from Spain originally and has been awarded the aclaimed Platinum Course Director Status for 5 consecutive years, an outstanding achievement that makes him one of the top course directors on the globe.

Angel speaks fluent englisch, spanish and french and brings a wealth of experience to Pro Dive Mexico Scuba Academy.

Angel has been working with and leading the worlds most reknown IDC and CDC centers in the past, therefore he is the perfect fit for our academy!

Besides being a PADI Platinum Course Director, Angel is also a PADI TEC REC and Trimix Instructor Trainer, Hyperbaric Chamber Operator and Instructor Trainer for IAHD (International Association for Handicapped Divers).

Angel has trained over 1000 recreational divers and he has additional over 1000 instructor level certifcations under his belt. Being an instructor trainer he also trained many local Course directors and has a great reputation worldwide….

Due to Angels cooperation with Pro Dive Mexico and his multilingual staff we will in the future be able to offer IDC’s and GoPro Training in english, spanish, german, french and italian!

We’d like to say welcome to Angel, and we look forward to a longlasting cooperation for many years to come.


Pro Dive Mexico

Central Office Tel. +52 (984) 802-8387 
Reservations Tel. (045) 984 745-0763 (national) 
Reservations Tel. +52 (1) 984 745-0763 (from abroad)

Skype: pro.dive.mexico

Web: www.prodivemex.com

Web: www.idcmexico.com

Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProDiveMexicoOfficialFanPage

Swim with WHALE SHARKS! from May – Sept

Dive with BULL SHARKS! from Dec – March

Congratulations April Instructors

Pro Dive Mexico CDC congratulates all new OWSI candidates, and wish them a prosper future in the diving industry 🙂


Already a few applied with us and as always with six dive centers, they will have a great start with us and will gain more experience and hands-on during their next months…..


We do as we promise and build diving careers…


Rgds

Pro Dive Mexico Dive Centers

Central Office Tel. +52 (984) 802-8387 
Reservations Tel. (045) 984 745-0763 (national) 
Reservations Tel. +52 (1) 984 745-0763 (from abroad)

Skype: pro.dive.mexico

Web: www.prodivemex.com

Web: www.idcmexico.com

Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProDiveMexicoOfficialFanPage

Swim with WHALE SHARKS! from May – Sept

Dive with BULL SHARKS! from Dec – March

Congratulations to all new March Instructors

Pro Dive Mexico is happy to announce another great bunch of new Instructors!

Note from Platinum Course Director Anders Heegaard

‘You guys made it a fun course and I have some great memories from the almost 3 weeks we spant together. I wish you all the best and success in your new dive carries.

What made this class different was the diversity of everybody. We are all different, but when it comes to diving we are all the same 🙂 Stay in touch and remember to keep diving and keep learning, always’

From left to right: Master Instructor Goretty (Spain), Lisa (Italy), Pál (Norway), Maryse (Canada), Cecile (France), Andy (Australia), Giovanni (Italy), Greg (France), René (Holland), David (Spain), Teresa (Spain), Dirk (Germany).

Visit our booth at BOOT Düsseldorf, the largest diving trade show in the world!

Getting excited about the january BOOT show in Düsseldorf?

Please visit our booth for a chat, and for the option to win a price in our raffle!

We are having prices with value over 10000 USD, including FREE stays at our All Inclusive Hotels, FREE PADI Courses including FREE Divemaster Course and more, even a free IDC & EFRI course!

Amaaaaaazing! See you there!

November and December news from the center..

Since my last blog a lot has happened. As I have been very busy the blog has not been updated as much as I would have liked.

Here is the story of the last months GoPro Training in Maroma.

It all started with the end of Kelsey, Irene’s and Zach’s Divemaster Resort Specialty.

We finished up the program with a great 2 tank dive in Chaac Mol Cenote.

Pictures can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150350961243392.355499.78639723391&type=1&l=87ac435a59

For most of them this was their first Cenote dive and changed a lot about their ideas of cavern diving. Some I am sure we will see back for a cave diving course one day.

In the beginning of November we started the IDC with a full class of 13 candidates.

Students came from Sweden, Mexico, Austria, Spain, Canada, Bahamas, England, France and the United States.

As a special guest in this course we had Simon Page return to audit this IDC and gain experience towards his Mater Instructor rating with PADI. Simon completed the IDC with me same time last year and has since then been working very successfully in Australia as a dive instructor.

The IDC was great and filled with many good moments. The top stories was the fun and creativity in the presentations we saw, the Intro to TEC/CAVE and as a special surprise we has a visit form Poseidon Rebreathers who took everybody for a tryout in the pool.

This was an extra in the IDC, as all candidates had performed so well in the first 10 days of the IDC. See the pictures from this great day here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150414646478392.365368.78639723391&type=1&l=560a2bc898

All IDC candidates passed their exams in the beginning of December with flying colors and Cenote Ponderosa under the Examiners Gary and Gale form PADI.

Tears of joy and smiles all round J Good job.

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After a day off from the celebrations, many of the candidates who wised to further their education continued with us in the popular MSDT course.

4 days of great training included Deep Diving procedures and Punta Maroma, Equipment Specially with Scuba Pro Technician, Search and Recovery where we managed to find Anders’s +1000$ dive computer and the captain cell phone (well the next day!!).

The final day we went to the Canon boat wreck in Puerto Morelos were we completed both the Wreck and Nitrox Instructor course. A great way to finish up the training.

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After 4-5 days of non stop diving we had a few days quite in the center, with only Davide and his 2 Divemaster Students were busy learning the “Italian” way of becoming a PADI pro. Ryan from New Zealand and Tim from Germany I am sure had a great time with Staff Instructor Davide and his jokesJ

Susanne form Austria and Beth from England return last Monday to the center to learn how to become technical divers.

We did 3 days of technical diver training and both became PADI TEC 40 certified at the Cenote “The Pit” which is located inside the Dos Ojos cenote system.

The course was fun and both Beth and Susanne showed that they have what it takes to become a tec diver.

I hope to see you both back for TEC 45 and 50 some day.

Amazing location to finish such a course. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150445986273392.368457.78639723391&type=1&l=c3e014ba8d

Now there is only a few days left before Christmas and most of the students of the November IDC are already working in the area. It’s such a nice feeling to be able to not only teach people how to become diving instructors, but also help them get that first job in the industry.

Our slogan is not without meaning “We don’t just certify! We build diving careers.”

From all of the Go Pro staff at Pro Dive Mexico (Anders, Goretty and Davide) we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New year filled with lots of diving J

Keep diving, Keep learning.

Anders

2011 Platinum Course Director Award for Anders!

Pro Dive Mexico Course Director Anders Heegaard was at DEMA 2011 show once again awarded as a PLATINUM Course Director by PADI. There are only a handful in the world! In the picture you see JAMES MORGAN, PADI Americas Vice President of Training, together with Anders, receiving his award. Congrats Anders, on a job well done!

Instructor Development Award 2011!

DEMA show Orlando has been very successful for us! The first day of the show we have been awarded once again for excellence in instructor development in latin america. In the picture you see our operations manager Maria Jose Lledo Jara, receiving the award from Nick Jenny and Robert Sievens, PADI regional manager of latin america. We are proud to be one of only three latin american IDC centers to receive this 2011 award!