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I fell in love with Utila and Utila Dive Centre back in 2006 and trained from Rescue to Instructor here and now work full time for UDC. The passion from the team here raises your instruction to another level.

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Professional Dive Training at Utila Dive Centre, see what sets us apart.....

Your Dive Career starts here.....

From this moment on, the Utila Dive Centre can lead you through your career in diving and scuba education. As the premier PADI Career Development Center in the Caribbean and Central America, and also a 5 Star Gold Palm Resort, we have the highest rating awarded to an Instructor Development Center. Our resident Course Directors and staff instructors can provide expert guidance and professional instruction from all levels, from beginner to technical Instructor, and we offer the broadest range of specialty training than any other facility in the Bay Islands.

New for 2010: Preferred Partners

Our upgraded preferred partner prestige card, UDC is a member of the Central America TrekCATS program, and you'll receive reduced rates and preferential treatment at members throughout Central America, and also with our preferred partners in Thailand, Indonesia and Australia. You get the Prestige card to prove it!

Our team of staff is the most experienced in the region, and there is no substitute for experience at the level of becoming a dive professional. Through our ongoing support many of our former candidates have progressed to become resort managers, Captains of live aboards and SuperYacht personnel, even PADI staff, and several have even graduated from our Instructor courses and gone on to become Course Directors, both locally and afar.

New for 2010: Coral Watch

Integrated with our 4 week Divemaster internship is the PADI Project Aware Coral Watch program. You'll leant to assess the condition of corals and record their health, and upload to a scientific database. This valuable program will improve your understanding of Coral Reefs and you'll give back a valuable contribution to the Coral Watch program and to the understandiong of the condition of reef systems in the Caribbean.

You'll also get the opportunities to participate in our 'Dolphin Survey' specialty, written by our team of environmentalists, approved by PADI and used by the University of Mississippi's 'Marine Mammal Cognitive & Psychology Behavioral department'. This program, along with our Beautiful Oceans Science Diver courses, UCME specialties and Whale shark awareness specialty, from PADI's Project Aware, are now available to all our professionals in training. This training is unique to Utila Dive Centre and we'd love for you to join us in our weekly Dolphin and Whale shark surveys and research, and help make the environment around Utila, a better place for divers today and in the future.

New for 2010: IDC Online learning

For candidates who are already certified as PADI Divemaster prior to arriving on Utila for your IDC there have been changes to the curriculum, that from January 2010, now allow you to;

1) Study and pre-assess your dive theory online.

2) Study 9 of the course presentations online which can be used to save time from the course and start 3 days later than our 'Live delivery' IDC with the start date on the Saturday evening at 5pm.

The course will then end one week later on the Sunday (with EFR Instructor course) and then a day's fun diving on Monday prior to the IE on the Tuesday/Wednesday, allowing you to leave on the Thursday am flights. This takes just 13 days for the complete Instructor course, EFR Instructor and 2 day PADI Exams, and even less if you arrive on Utila already certified as a PADI Assistant Instructor.

There is an additional charge for this each of these options, that deliver convenience and value enhancement to the IDC, and this is paid to PADI. Please contact us for more information to register for this option or click here PADI Scuba Instructor course to learn more about our IDC.

New for 2010: Tec Specialty

As a DSAT Technical diving facility, the Utila Dive Centre, runs monthly technical diving courses. You'll get the opportunity to be trained as a DSAT Tec Support diver, and learn about the logistics of technical dive mission, and provide valuable support and assistant to our technical diving Instructors and students. We're the only facility in the Bay Islands with an approved Tec Support diver specialty (we wrote the course)!!!!

Whilst our courses and programs, philosophies, and teaching techniques are often attempted to be imitated, they are never matched or surpassed, read on to learn more abaout our great programs and then 'Contact Us' for more details.