Your underwater adventure starts here
Dive center in Taganga: beginner mini courses, fun dives and certifications in Tayrona National Park.
- +15years taking divers to Tayrona
- SDIinstructors and certifications
There's a dive for you, whether you've dived or not
Try the Mini Course
A briefing on safety and underwater communication, practice at shallow depth and the dive in Tayrona National Park with your instructor at your side the whole time.
- No experience needed
- Gear, boat, refreshment, photos and insurance included
- Small groups
Dive in with the Fun Dives
Join our trip and discover the magical realism of Tayrona Park under the guidance of our certified instructors and divemasters.
- Open Water certification required
- Different sites in Tayrona
- Out of the water for a while? We'll help you refresh
Get certified with SDI
Your first international certification is Open Water Diver, valid all over the planet. Then come Advanced and Rescue.
- Open Water: theory, confined water and four dives
- Advanced: navigation, currents, buoyancy and a night dive
- Rescue: help yourself and others in an emergency
Divemaster
The first professional level of diving: you learn to lead divers and attend to their needs, and become an example for students and other divers.
- How a dive operation works
- Equipment and basic maintenance
- With the Barracuda staff in Taganga
Your first day of diving, step by step
Briefing at the dive shop
We check that you are in good health and our instructors brief you on underwater communication, safety rules and procedures.
Boat ride to Tayrona
From Taganga we take the boat to the dive sites of Tayrona National Natural Park.
Skills and the dive with your instructor
Once on site you practice basic safety skills with your instructor at your side. You head into open water with the instructor next to you the whole time, among the colorful fish and reefs of Tayrona.
Refreshment and photos
There is a refreshment between dives, and you take home the underwater photos of the day.
From your first dive to the professional level
Prices in Colombian pesos. All include equipment rental, boat transportation and refreshment.
- of Colombians and foreigners underwater
- 1,000s
- dives in the Mini Course and the Fun Dives
- 2
- is the Open Water certification depth
- 18 m
- is how deep the Advanced course goes
- 30 m
The diving capital of Colombia
Santa Marta is the diving capital of Colombia, and the paradise of Tayrona National Natural Park is where we dive: we take the boat from Taganga to its dive sites, among colourful fish and incredible reefs.
Colombians and foreigners have discovered with us why Barracuda Dive Center is the best option to dive in these waters.
Certified instructors and international certifications
Before you book
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