CorazónColombia

Diving · San Andrés

Discover Scuba on the Barrier Reef

3 hoursMax 4ModerateFamily friendly

Before you book this one

DO NOT FLY FOR AT LEAST 12 HOURS after a single no-decompression dive, and 18 hours after multiple dives (DAN guidance). We schedule diving early in your stay so this never conflicts with your flight home. A medical questionnaire is required; asthma, heart conditions, recent surgery, pregnancy and some medications may rule out diving, and the instructor’s decision is final.

Your first ever breath underwater, on the third-largest barrier reef in the world. Pool skills first, then one supervised open-water dive to around twelve metres with an instructor beside you throughout.

What you do

  • No certification or experience required
  • Confined-water skills before you go anywhere near the reef
  • One supervised reef dive to roughly 12 m
  • Instructor ratio kept low — this is your first time

As a private booking

One instructor to one diver, a private boat, and photographs taken throughout by a second diver.

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Practical notes for San Andrés

  • You need a tourist card to fly here. Every visitor buys a Tarjeta de Turismo at the departure airport before boarding — Colombians included. Keep it; you need it to leave. Budget roughly US$30 and confirm the current price when you book.
  • This is Raizal land. The islands have their own Afro-Caribbean Raizal people, language and Baptist church tradition, distinct from mainland Colombia. Residency is legally restricted to protect it. Learn the difference — it is the most interesting thing about the place.
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