Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Course
Perfect your buoyancy in Tayrona, improve air consumption, and glide over coral reefs while protecting fragile marine life on every beautiful dive you make.
Price range: $ 735.000 through $ 825.000
Indicated price only applies to cash payments.
Important
Indicated price is our promotion price which only applies when paying in cash. For card payments, original price applies. To be eligible for the cash discount:
- Reserve your spot with a deposit online
- Upon arriving, pay with cash at the counter
VAT: Colombian residents +19% (not included in price). Foreign tourists are exempt. Cash discount available.
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Overview
Better buoyancy makes almost every part of scuba diving better.
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Course in Taganga helps you become smoother, more efficient and more controlled underwater.
Through two focused training dives, you’ll fine-tune weighting, trim, breathing and hovering so you can move with less effort, potentially improve your air consumption and avoid accidental contact with the reef.
Whether you’re newly certified or already experienced, buoyancy is one of the most valuable skills you can improve.
Course Itinerary
Duration: 1 day – includes 2 focused buoyancy training dives.
Buoyancy Workshop
Review buoyancy principles with your instructor and evaluate your weighting, equipment setup and body position.
Two Buoyancy Training Dives
Practice and refine:
- Correct weighting
- Horizontal trim
- Breath-controlled buoyancy
- Hovering
- Efficient movement and finning
- Streamlining
- Controlled ascents and descents
- Positioning close to the reef without touching it
Requirements
- PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or qualifying equivalent
- Minimum age: 10 years
- Medically fit for diving
What’s Included
- PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy learning materials
- 2 focused buoyancy training dives
- PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy certification
- Certified PADI Instructor
- Small-group, personalized instruction
- Personalized feedback on weighting, trim and buoyancy throughout your training
- High-quality full scuba equipment throughout the course
- Boat transportation
- Tayrona National Park diving when open and conditions allow
- Drinking water and fresh seasonal fruit
Add-Ons & Extras
Underwater Photographer – 110,000 COP/person: Professional, fully edited high-resolution photos and videos delivered via Google Drive. Group discounts available.
Underwater Camera Rental – 65,000 COP/day: Available on request. We recommend focusing first on your buoyancy exercises before adding a camera task load. All raw files are delivered via Google Drive.
Daily Scuba Diving Insurance – 15,000 COP/day: Available for divers without active specialized diving insurance. Coverage is subject to policy terms.
15L / 100 cu ft Large Tank Upgrade – 10,000 COP/tank: Additional gas capacity for higher-air-consumption divers. Subject to availability.
Dive & Stay: Combine your training with accommodation at our ocean-themed hostel just steps from the beach. Check out our Dive & Stay packages here.
Flying & Altitude After Diving
After multiple dives, wait at least 18 hours after your final dive before flying or traveling to significant altitude.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Online Deposit: Reserve with an online deposit and pay the balance at check-in.
PADI Digital Materials: Once assigned to your personal account, the PADI material portion is non-refundable.
Standard Cancellations: Cancellations at least 48 hours before your course may receive a refund of the remaining refundable deposit.
Late Cancellations / No-Shows: Cancellations within 48 hours, no-shows, late arrivals preventing participation and voluntarily stopping the course are non-refundable.
Ocean Lovers Cancellation: Unsafe weather, port closures or other safety issues may require rescheduling. If completion is impossible, refundable payments will be returned excluding assigned PADI materials.
Health & Fitness to Dive: Last-minute illness cancellations are normally non-refundable; however, we’ll help reschedule whenever reasonably possible.
Regular Environmental Park Closures – #RespiraTayrona
Tayrona closes February 1–15, June 1–15 and October 19–November 2.
Diving continues at appropriate sites around Taganga, Santa Marta and outside the official park boundaries.
Why Book With Ocean Lovers Taganga?
Individual Feedback Makes the Difference
Buoyancy isn’t something you improve by reading about it. Your instructor will observe your actual diving and help adjust weighting, breathing, body position and movement.
Small-Group Training
More instructor attention means more opportunity to identify exactly what’s preventing you from achieving effortless neutral buoyancy.
Learn in Real Caribbean Conditions
Practice directly over Caribbean dive sites where precise control has a real purpose — allowing you to enjoy the reef without touching or damaging it.
PADI 5-Star IDC Dive Resort
Train in an environment where strong foundational skills are central to every level of diver development.
Better Buoyancy, Better Diving
Improved buoyancy can make photography, deeper diving, conservation dives and almost every future course easier and more enjoyable.
Dive & Stay
Stay right beside the dive center and keep practicing your new skills on additional dives.
Less Effort. More Control. Better Diving.
Improve one of the most important skills in scuba diving.
Book your PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty in Taganga.
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