Digital Underwater Photography & Peak Performance Buoyancy Combo
Master buoyancy and underwater photography to capture marine life with better control, comfort, and creativity during every dive adventure.
Price range: $ 1.450.000 through $ 1.540.000
Indicated price only applies to cash payments.
Important
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- 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 underwater photography starts with better buoyancy.
The PADI Digital Underwater Photography & Peak Performance Buoyancy Combo in Taganga combines two specialties that naturally belong together.
First, you’ll improve weighting, trim, breathing and control underwater. Then you’ll use that stability to capture better underwater photos without sacrificing your buoyancy or making unnecessary contact with the reef.
Across four training dives, you’ll develop both your diving technique and your creative underwater photography skills.
Course Itinerary
Duration: 2 days – includes 4 training dives across both specialties.
Peak Performance Buoyancy Training
Develop:
- Correct weighting
- Horizontal trim
- Breath-controlled buoyancy
- Hovering
- Streamlining
- Efficient movement
- Controlled ascents and descents
- Reef-friendly positioning
Underwater Photography Workshop
Learn:
- Camera setup and preparation
- Basic underwater settings
- Composition
- Lighting
- Understanding color loss underwater
- Reducing backscatter
- Approaching marine life responsibly
Underwater Photography Training
Put everything together by maintaining stable buoyancy while working on composition, positioning, light and camera control.
Review your images and receive personalized feedback from your instructor.
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
- PADI Digital Underwater Photography learning materials
- Buoyancy workshop
- Photography workshop
- 4 open-water training dives
- Camera use for photography training when included and available
- PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy certification
- PADI Digital Underwater Photography certification
- Certified PADI Instructor
- Small-group, personalized instruction
- Personalized feedback on both diving technique and underwater images
- 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 of your experience delivered directly via Google Drive. Group discounts available.
Additional Underwater Camera Rental – 65,000 COP/day: Extend your camera use beyond the course setup. All raw photo and video files are delivered directly via Google Drive.
Daily Scuba Diving Insurance – 15,000 COP/day: Available for divers without active specialized dive 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: Stay right beside the dive center and continue practicing your buoyancy and photography on additional dives. Check out our current Dive & Stay packages here.
Flying & Altitude After Diving
Wait at least 18 hours after your final dive before flying or traveling to significant altitude after multiple dives.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Online Deposit: Reserve your combo with an online deposit and pay the remaining balance at check-in.
PADI Digital Materials: Once your personal PADI course materials are assigned, their cost is non-refundable.
Standard Cancellations: Cancellations at least 48 hours before your program 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 ending training are non-refundable.
Ocean Lovers Cancellation: If unsafe conditions or official restrictions prevent diving, we’ll reschedule whenever possible. If completion isn’t reasonably possible, refundable payments will be returned excluding assigned PADI materials.
Health & Fitness to Dive: Last-minute illness cancellations are normally non-refundable, but we’ll assist with rescheduling whenever possible.
Regular Environmental Park Closures – #RespiraTayrona
Courses continue throughout Tayrona’s annual conservation closures at suitable sites around Taganga, Santa Marta and outside the national park boundaries.
Why Book With Ocean Lovers Taganga?
Two Skills That Belong Together
Trying to take photos before mastering buoyancy often leads to frustration. This program develops your diving platform first and your photography from there.
Four Dedicated Training Dives
You have time to improve both skills rather than trying to combine everything into only one or two dives.
Personalized Image & Buoyancy Feedback
Your instructor can work with you on trim, positioning and buoyancy while also reviewing your underwater images.
Better Photos, Less Reef Impact
Stable buoyancy allows you to position yourself for photographs without touching coral or disturbing marine life.
Small Groups
More instructor attention means more individual corrections to your diving and photography technique.
Caribbean Subjects Everywhere
Practice with the reefs and marine life around Taganga and Tayrona as your underwater classroom.
Control First. Creativity Second.
Become a more controlled diver and a better underwater photographer in one focused program.
Book your PADI Digital Underwater Photography & Peak Performance Buoyancy Combo in Taganga.
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