Description

Learn Spanish and Dive! We want you to have the best Spanish experience you possibly can. To best way to enjoy yourself in Spain, is to speak some Spanish! Our school has been open since 1996, and continually gets great feedback that our teachers are very professional, caring, and friendly. Our classes are small and you will be in a class with people of similar ability to maximise your learning. The Spanish and diving courses or Dive trips incorporates 20 hours of Spanish each week (4 hours per day), followed by diving in the afternoons.

Our School is located in La Herradura in Southern Spain right by the beach which is also known as one of Spain's best Diving locations. With a number of sheltered bays there is always a good place to dive, and usually very good visibility, and good fish life. For Good reason this area is called "Costa Tropical" (and is 5 KM from the resort town of Almunecar, 7 Km. from Nerja, 80 Km from Malaga. It is a small village situated in a large beautiful bay, with over a mile of beaches. In Spanish La Herrudaura means 'horse shoe' and this is exactly what the bay looks like as it is enclosed by two huge rocky points at either end.

Highlights

The La Herradura/Costa Tropical area of Spain is renown as one of the best dive sports in Spain. The reasons for this are simple - as well as good soft corals and marine life - there is is a multiple of dive spots of many protected coves. This means that we can almost always dive in good conditions. In fact we can normally dive for 350 plus days a year. Our schools works with two of the best qualified diving schools in this very well known dive area - La Herradura: Buceo La Herradura and CaboSur.

This combined team will give classes, offering teaching quality, modern and personalized teaching methods, so that... anyone can learn how to dive and safely enjoy the sea. The classrooms equipped with advanced audiovisual systems. we have courses ar every level. Most importantly, both companies have an excellent safely record and international recognised qualifications.

The courses: In every course we take care of every student personally, because we want you to learn, but we also want you to have a great deal of fun.

Our courses go from the most basic, the Open Water Diver, to the instructor course.

Full equipments for every student. All of them checked and in perfect conditions. Practical learning, since the first day.

And if you're not a diver yet, but wish to know how it feels in this fascinating world, get your dive baptism. Let you go with one of our expert instructors, with complete safety. As easy as that !!
We offer Padi open water, advance diver, Rescue Diver, First Aid Provider and Divemaster or we can take one and two tank dives

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The dives

The excellent location makes us reach the remoter dive point in no more than 20 minutes. We reach all the rest in around 10 minutes.

We start all our dives from our boats, moored at 20 meters of the centre's door, in order to bring you all the possible comforts in our hands.

Different dive options:

* Marina del Este: rock, finishing in sand
* Marina del Este Punta de la Mona: cliff, finishing in sand
* La Higuera: horizontal rock, separate from the coast
* Piedras altas: chaos of big rocks, separate from the coast
* Cuva del Jarro: cliff, finishing in sand
* La Calita: cliff, finishing in sand
* Piedra del Hombre: horizontal rock, separate from the coast
* Cerro Gordo: the walls of Cerro Gordo offer us a great number of different dives.

Among the most spectacular and interesting we have:

* Cerro Gordo-The Cave: Cliff, finishing in sand. It is possible to visit a submarine cave (15m.).
* Cerro Gordo-The Huerta: Horizontal rock, separate from the coast.
* Cerro Gordo-Calaiza: Cliff, finishing in sand.

Travel Types

• Scuba

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Languages

• Spanish

Languages Used as a Medium of Teaching

• Spanish
• English

Subject Areas

• Spanish

Cost in US$:

from 300 per week

Program Fees Include:

20 hours Spanish and accommodation and diving options

Credit Available

yes

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Home-stays
• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 2-6

Application Process Involves

• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is

1 week

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Year Founded

1992