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Diving in Bonaire
Multi-Level Bonaire Diving Instruction & Packages
Plaza Resort Bonaire proudly offers its guests the opportunity to experience the infinitely colourful underwater world of Bonaire.
Divers of all skill levels - from absolute beginners to highly advanced, from children to adult - will feel right at home at Toucan Diving: a five-star PADI diving centre at the Plaza Resort Bonaire. Courses are also offered from SDI, SSI and the Dutch diving association WOSD. Experienced divers who want to expand their diving skills can also take a TDI Tec course. Guests with handicaps who are interested in diving can also earn their full certification here. Our PADI-certified instructors meet the diving industry's highest standards with regard to training, safety and service.
Toucan Diving has the swimming pool at its disposal for confined water lessons and the knowledge development sessions are offered in an air-conditioned classroom.
Classes are given in Dutch or in English.
Course offerings
PADI Open Water Diver
The PADI Open Water Diver certification is the world's most popular dive programme and is intended for the novice diver who wants to learn the fundamentals of scuba diving. The course consists of knowledge development sessions and practical training exercises. The PADI Open Water Diver certification can be use worldwide as proof that an individual is capable of diving in a safe and responsible manner. A certified PADI Open Water diver can dive with a buddy, unsupervised, to a maximum depth of 18 m. The student begins in confined water and then puts what they have learned in the knowledge development sessions into practice in the magnificent open waters of Bonaire. The course fee includes equipment, materials, a logbook and a deluxe binder.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
This course is a continuation of the PADI Open Water Diver course, in which the student's diving skills are further developed and broadened and the student's dive experience is expanded with practical training exercises in the glistening waters around Bonaire.
Open Water Referral
Those who have successfully completed the knowledge development sessions and the confined-water exercises of the PADI Open Water Diver Course can complete the open-water portion of the certification in the waters around Bonaire.
Adventure Diver
Adventure Dives count as part of the Advanced Diver certification. You can earn a PADI Adventure Diver certification by selecting three of the dives from the following list and then conduct these dives with Toucan Diving.
- navigation diver
- fish identification
- boat diver
- deep diver
- digital underwater photographer
- night diver
- peak performance buoyancy
- underwater naturalist
- wreck diver
Rescue Diving
In this course, you learn how to deal with problems that can arise while diving.
Emergency First Response and Oxygen provider (also for non-divers)
In this course, you learn what to do during life-threatening emergencies. Participants concentrate on first aid in knowledge development sessions, skills training and training in realistic scenarios.
Divemaster
With the Divemaster certification, you take the first step towards earning your instructor certification. As a Divemaster, you are qualified to repeat exercises and to act as a tour leader for students.
Assistant Instructor
A further extension of your Divemaster level and the first step towards instructor certification.
Scuba Diving (including equipment and materials)
If you are not certain if scuba diving is for you, you can take an introductory dive in the Scuba Diving course. Under the supervision of a PADI instructor, you learn the fundamentals of scuba diving in a sheltered environment, such as the swimming pool.
Scuba Review
Scuba Review is for those who have tried diving before, but who would like to have a refresher to sharpen their skills. Before making an open-water dive, you will review safety information under the instruction of a certified PADI instructor. You then participate in a swimming pool session with a PADI instructor, during which you practice the fundamentals of diving techniques, buoyancy techniques and breathing techniques. Then there is the option for an open water dive under the supervision of an instructor, during which you will rediscover the beauty of the underwater world.
Specialised PADI courses
Along with the general courses described above, Toucan Diving also offers specialised PADI courses, such as:
- Fish identification
- Boat diver
- Coral reef conservation
- Deep diver
- Digital underwater photographer
- Diver propulsion vehicle
- Drift diver
- Enriched air diver
- Equipment specialist
- Multilevel diver
- Night diver
- Peak performance buoyancy
- Search and recovery diver
- Semiclosed rebreather
- Underwater naturalist
- Underwater navigator
- Underwater photographer
- Underwater videographer
- Wreck diver
TDI Technical Courses
For advanced divers, we also offer the TDI Technical courses, including:
- Intro to Tec: for the diver who wants to give diving in a full Tec suit a try;
- Advanced Nitrox: the continuation of the Nitrox course. Here, you will learn how to work with oxygen percentages up to 100%.
- Decompression Procedures: In this course, you learn to deal with materials and how to prepare for a decompression dive to a maximum depth of 45 m. / 135 feet
- Extended range: In this course, you learn how to plan and prepare for a dive using air of up to a maximum of 55 m / 165 feet.
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