Summer Salt Dive Center - Playas Del Coco, Costa RicaContact InformationPLAYAS DEL COCO, Costa Rica
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Facts / Features
- PADI Dive Resort
- Courses
- Small Groups
- Bilingual
- Whale and Dolphin Watching
The Summer-Salt Dive Center is a full service dive operator and member of the PADI International Resort and Retailer Association. We are located in the centre of Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. As a professional and modern dive center, we respond to all the certified diver's needs and offer an optimal environment for beginners and all who wish to continue their diving education. We encourage everybody to join us for the fun of diving, snorkeling, Whale-Watching and exploring the Gulf of Papagayo on Costa Rica's North Pacific coast!
As a PADI Dive Resort we make sure you can count on the world's most renouned and safe diving standards that make SCUBA diving accessible to just about everybody! With professional support for training and high standards for safe exploring you can be assured to be in good hands! But as a small family dive center, we'll make the difference for your experience enjoying your diving adventures in small groups and as personal as you can imagine where ever and when ever you like!
When we think of diving, our slogan is "to have a good time", our passion "to share experiences" and our motivation "to meet people and make friends".
Join our "pura vida" life-style of Scuba diving in Costa Rica and take a lazy start of the day, hang out in our dive-shop and wake up with chilling sounds, amazing Scuba diving and under-water documentaries and a fresh cup of coffee or juice.
Get ready for your dive trip with impressions and comments from Costa Rica's underwater-world and choose the dive sites with the crew, depending on what you’d like to discover, while the boat gets prepared on the beach of Playas del Coco– just a few steps away - for another amazing dive excursion in the Gulf of Papagayo!
Jump on the dive boat, relax in the morning sun and enjoy the wind and the smooth waves during the ride along the coast on the way to one of the numerous dive sites in the North Pacific of Costa Rica!
Ready to dive? Gear up and jump in a world of weightlessness where you hover across the reefs watching giant mantas, elegant white tip sharks, friendly turtles and millions of schooling fish…and eventually you will be enchanted by the singing of the whales during your safety stop in the blue, thinking of the most amazing dive of your life with the Summer-Salt Dive Center.
We offer dive trips to local destinations as well as the Catalina- and Bat Islands. As member of the 'Aggressor Fleet' we are also an authorized reseller for trips to the famous Coco Islands.
To make sure everything will be perfect for you, here are some answers to the most frequent questions:
What to bring?
We are a full service PADI Dive Resort which means we can offer you everything it takes to go dive starting with full gear, breathing air-fillings, dive equipped boats and professional guides! But it will be helpful to us and maybe more convenient for you to bring some things along:
- Dive Certification Card: to take you dive, we will need a prove for dive training, no matter if it's with PADI, SSI, CMAS, NAUI or any other recognized dive organization. If for some reason you have forgotten or lost your card, we can only check PADI certifications on-line and it will be a pleasure to order a new one if needed for a replacement fee.
- Log-book: for certain dive trips or certification courses we need to know about your experiences. We will ask you to pass a refresher course for divers who have not been diving for more than a year.
- Dive gear: In case you come to Costa Rica exclusively to dive, it might be worth it to bring along your own equipment. Check with your flight company about extra charges for additional sports gear and make your figures. We will take professional care of your gear during your whole stay with us. We rent full 3mm wet-suits which are fine all year round but if you get cold quickly or plan to dive over several days you might consider to bring a full 5mm wet-suit. Remember we only have int. tank-connections, if you happen to dive with a DIN first stage don't forgett your adaptor.
- Referral Forms: In case you plan to use your stay with us to complete a dive course, don't forget to bring the filled out forms with signature and member number of your dive center at home. In case you have chosen to start your course with PADI e-learning, just print your results or send them to us by e-mail.
When to come diving?
The Summer-Salt Dive Center is operating all year round, 365 days to explore the Gulf of Papagayo! Seasonal changings add to the variety of marine life during the year and it's interesting to dive at any moment of the year! For those who define "good diving" as diving in clear (>15m/45ft), calm and warm water (>25C/80F), the best time to come is from April to September. This is also the time to visit the famous Bat Islands and dive with the Bull-Sharks. For those who don't worry about lower viz (<15m/45ft) and water-temperature (<25C/80F), they will be rewarded with a generally richer marine life from November through to April when the Manta Rays visit the Catalina Islands.
But from diver to diver: isn't any day good for diving anyway?
watch our whale video!!
