Course overview

Earn your SSI Open Water Diver certification in Cancún and Cozumel and gain the freedom to dive to 18 metres worldwide. Your open-water dives take place on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, on Cozumel's drift reefs or at Cancún's MUSA sculptures, among turtles, rays and clouds of tropical fish.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI Open Water Diver free digital materials
  • Confined-water skill circuits (repeatable)
  • Open-water training dives
  • Online knowledge reviews and exam
  • Dive-planning practice
  • SSI Open Water Diver digital certification
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Open Water Diver pathway

SSI Open Water Diver uses free digital materials and a performance-based path where skill circuits can be repeated until mastered. Certification is to 18 m worldwide via an SSI digital card.

Where you'll dive in Cancun Cozumel

SSI open-water dives use Cozumel's gentle Paradise and Cielo reefs and Cancún's Manchones Reef and shallow Underwater Museum, all within 18 m. The warm, clear, low-current Caribbean suits first ocean dives.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Open Water Diver in Cancun Cozumel →

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Getting there

Fly into Cancún (CUN) · 20-22 hours from India.

Where to stay

Hotels and stays near the dive sites, compare rates and book direct.

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