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West End Divers offers a full range of PADI courses, taught by a team of dedicated professionals. For your first experience with Scuba diving, we have introductory and beginner courses. For the certified diver, we offer advanced training — from the Advanced Open Water Course through the Divemaster program. If you are interested in developing a particular skill we offer specialty classes. West End Divers is a fully accredited PADI Resort and is dedicated to providing you with a safe and enjoyable diving experience.

Discover SCUBA Diving

If you are not a certified diver or have limited time and want to experience the wonders of the underwater world, then the Discover Scuba Diving course may be for you. This fun, safe program will give you a taste of the scuba experience. The course includes a classroom session, dockside equipment orientation, a shallow-water practice dive, and a real dive over the coral reef, all guided by a PADI Instructor.

Cost: $ 100
Time: 2 to 3 hours
Maximum Depth: 40 ft/12 m

Open Water Dive Course

Accepted worldwide as the highest standard in diver training, PADI’s Open Water Course will teach you the skills and knowledge for diving in the open ocean. The course involves: several academic classroom sessions, with manuals and videos; confined water training, where you can familiarize yourself with your equipment; review and practice of all safety procedures and underwater communication; and, several training dives under the guidance of your instructor, where you actually dive over Roatan’s magnificent reef.

Cost: $ 280
Student Manual $ 35
Time: 3 to 4 days
Maximum Depth: 60 ft/18 m

Advanced Open Water Diver

For those desiring to improve their underwater skills, experience a wider range of diving, and go deeper, the Advance Open Water Course will provide you with the knowledge and proficiency necessary to reach this next step of your diving. For this course there are two required diving skills— a deep dive and underwater navigation. In addition, there are three elective dive skills, and you can choose a dive from any of the specialty courses.

Cost: $ 280
Manual: $ 30
Time: 2 to 3 Days
Maximum Depth: 100 ft/33 m

eLearning Course

An option, for both the Open Water and Advanced Open Water Courses, is to enroll in the PADI eLearning program. As everything is done online, your study is controlled by you rather than others, and will give you more time to spend your vacation underwater rather than in a classroom. PADI’s eLearning is interactive and presents you with audio information, videos, graphic representations, and reading material. After you have taken the quizzes, you are ready to visit West End Divers to finish your certification with your open water dives.

To register click on the eLearning link and follow the registration instructions. In addition to the cost charged by PADI, our cost to complete the program is $ 230.

Emergency First Responder

Learn to manage accidents and emergencies in this internationally accredited first-aid course. Although diving accidents are rare, this program will prepare you to manage not only diving emergencies but also, the basics of treating injuries, coordinating rescues, administering CPR, and more.

Cost: $ 100
Manual: $ 16
Time: 1 Day

Rescue Diver

With the Rescue Diver Course you will take your skills, confidence, and dive awareness to a new level. This course will help you anticipate, identify, and respond to a variety of dive safety situations. You will improve the control of your buoyancy, and your comfort level, as you learn to help other divers in and out of the water. The course includes classroom and surface classes, as well as, in-the-water training.

Cost: $ 330
Manual: $ 30
Time: 3 to 4 days
Maximum Depth: 130 ft/40 m

The Divemaster Internship

The first step on your path to becoming a PADI Professional Diver, the Divemaster Course is the foundation for your diving career. This is an intensive program, where you will be immersed in all aspects of the dive industry. You will learn to lead dives, repair and maintain equipment, operate both Nitrox and standard compressors, and be exposed to seamanship skills. There is an intensive academic section with exams on subjects as diverse as dive physics, physiology, the underwater world, dive management, and more. Most of our Divemaster candidates, rent an apartment in West End, as it takes a couple of months to work through the complete program. You will add many dives to your log book, gain valuable experience, and be well prepared should you decide to go onto an Instructor Development Course.

Cost: $ 700
Divemaster Crewpak: $ 200

   Crewpak includes:
      PADI Divemaster manual
      Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving (paperback version)
      Diving Knowledge Workbook
      Divemaster slates
      2010 PADI Instructor manual

Time: 6 to 8 weeks
Maximum Depth: 130 ft/40 m

Prices are subject to change without notice
For private charters and groups please contact us

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West End Divers, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras
Phone: 011 504 445 4289
USA: (786) 623-5627

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