Scuba Diving Courses in Playa del Carmen, Mexico with Beyond Diving
Learn to dive or take another certification course during your vacation in the Riviera Maya and gain more experience and knowledge!
Playa del Carmen is the perfect spot for taking a scuba diving course. It doesn't matter if you are beginner who is just looking at doing a Scuba Discovery program, you want to do your Open Water Diver course, advance on your diver training by doing a diver specialty course.
We have sites that are appropriate for all levels, and our experienced instructors will be more than happy to guide you and teach you to ensure that you have the skill level required to successfully complete your scuba diving course in Playa del Carmen.
Beyond Diving is proud to offer the following Recreational Scuba Diving Courses through SDI (Scuba Diving International).
If you’ve never heard of SDI, let us explain a little bit about them.
SDI is the sister agency of TDI (Technical Diving International). It was started because TDI was only providing training for technical diving. The need for a progressive recreational diving program was filled by creating SDI.
SDI was the first agency to introduce E-Learning.
SDI was also the first agency to have a "Solo Diver" Course.
SDI not only encourages instructors to teach while neutrally buoyant, it is a requirement. Proper buoyancy control is one of the best signs of a well rounded, well trained diver. Over-weighing students and kneeling them on the bottom (especially during open water checkout dives) is a violation of SDI's training standards and philosophy.
In its 20+ years of existence, SDI has been at the forefront of diver education.
The difference between SDI and the other agencies is that SDI is based on the principles of technical diver training. Also, all of the standards for every course were written by actual diving instructors and instructor trainers. Every person who works at SDI-TDI-ERDI is an active scuba diver, scuba instructor and/or instructor trainer.
This means that the courses will be taught at the highest standards available in scuba diver training today and your SDI certification will be recognized by any dive shop, charter or liveaboard worldwide.
At Beyond Diving, we take pride in training all of our students to not just certification card carriers. We do our very best to ensure that our students are safe, qualified, competent and independent divers who will be able to conduct dives within their training, certification and experience level anywhere in the world without the need of an instructor or divemaster to hold their hand.
All of our courses include:
- Learning Materials
- Certification Fees
Equipment rental is not included in continuing education courses unless specified in the description. Equipment can be rented from Beyond Diving for an additional $20/day.


