Costa Rica to study Spanish & Surf is one hot spot! Not only is the weather always warm but with 750 miles (1200 km) of coastline on two oceans, Costa Rica has more breaks than you can shake a stick at! The country's selection of surf spots range from stunning beach breaks to coral platforms where the waves tube like a miniature Pipeline.

The country's surf is complemented by its great water temperatures - you can leave that wet suit at home – there’s also beautiful scenery, and the convenience of a variety of accommodations, restaurants and facilities near most breaks.

Manual Antonio is perfect for beginners, and intermediate surfers. Tamarindo is great for intermediate and advanced surfers.

Spanish + Diving
Available: Manual Antonio; Tamarindo

There are many activities to do here – but one of the best is Diving. Costa Rica is renowned for diving. The waters of the Pacific off the coast of Costa Rica are teeming with exotic marine life. Throughout the region one has a choice of a variety of excellent dive spots. In these teeming waters you will have the chance to see an amazing variety of marine life including: roosterfish, manta rays, red snapper, puffer fish, schools of bait fish, live corals, star fish, and much more! It is the numbers and variety of marine life that make this area special.

You will find Playa Tamarindo and Manual Antonio great places to dive or to learn how to dive. The atmosphere is friendly and relaxed. Some of the courses available include certification courses of all levels, open water diver, advanced open water diver, dive master and more. If you don't want a full certification you can also take what is known as a resort course which includes some theory, a pool lesson and 1-2 dives.

Spanish and become qualified as a Diving Professional
Available: Manual Antonio
 
Whether you're new to diving or you've already dived before, you can become qualified to become a Dive master (the first level of diving instructor). You may have just finished school,  university, want a break from work or a change in career; working your way round the world as a professional dive guide or instructor is pretty good!
We offer professional courses up to Divemaster at one of our diving centres. This is the first qualification to becoming a dive professional and can qualify you to commercially lead Dive trips. The next step is to become a Dive Instructor where you can teach others to dive (ie become an instructor of Open water courses!)
After English, Spanish is the next biggest employer of Dive instructors in the world!  Think of all the Spanish countries in the Caribbean, Central America and South America! By learning to speak and instruct in Spanish you are increasing your range of where you can instruct, and also your employability!

Open Water to Divemaster- 2 MONTHS
This 2 month package is the recommended Dive Master package. It combines all the PADI recreational courses and the PADI Divemaster Internship in one, and also 80 Spanish lessons. It is extremely comprehensive and also includes your own equipment and all the land based activities.

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