White Sands Dive Shop

White Sands Dive Shop welcomes you to Belize diving and our Barrier Reef. We are located 100 yards from the Barrier Reef on the island of Ambergris Caye in a small town named San Pedro on the beach. This tropical paradise is a safe tranquil town, overlooking the largest barrier reef in this hemisphere and is only a 15-minute flight from the Belize International Airport. Belize is a world-class scuba diving destination with abundant marine life and healthy corals.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Samuel Lin Newiest Assistant Instructor In the World

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Free Student insurance with Divers Alert Network

We sign up students with this program as they enroll and it is truly free. No request for credit card numbers, no gimicks DAN will contact you about being a paid member after your certified.
Its a good thing that we are glad to have and never use.
DAN EMERGENCY CONTACT NUMBERS
DAN 24 Hr. Emergency 001-919-684-8111
DAN Travel Assist: 001-202-296-9620
DAN Member services 001-919-684-2948 Ext. 333
San Pedro Recompression Chamber 226 2851

Monday, May 18, 2009

Our Boats

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Entire White Sands Staff Does the PADI Deep Diving Specialty Course

The purpose of the PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course is to familiarize divers with the skills, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of diving between the depths of 18 meters and 40 meters. The Staff learned the correct use of Delayed Surface Marker Buoys, free water ascents and mandatory safety stops.
They where instructed for the planning and organizing of Deep Dives, Deep Diving Activities, Depth Limits, Specific Equipment Requirements, Deep Diving Techniques, Nitrogen Narcosis, Decompression Sickness, Travelling to Altitude after Diving, Recreational Dive Planner Review, Emergency Equipment Considerations, post dive procedures and the practical applications.
Tatoos are opitional :-)

PADI Enriched Air Diver Course – Nitrox

PADI Enriched Air Diver Course –Nitrox The PADI Enriched Air Diver course online includes all the knowledge development requirements for the course. You'll also have unlimited access to the PADI Enriched Air Diver manual online for reference after you have completed the course. You need to be a certified diver and at least 12 years old and fit for diving to be certified as a PADI Enriched Air Diver After enrolling, PADI's eLearning® system presents you with interactive presentations that include videos, audio, graphics and reading. Short quizzes let you gauge your progress, and review and correct anything you might happen to miss. Prior to certification as a PADI Enriched Air Diver, you must complete a Quick Review, a Practical Application session with one of our instructors at White Sands Dive Shop. The eLearning course will be available for one year from the time of course registration. You will have perpetual access to an online version of the PADI Enriched Air Diver manual. The PADI Enriched Air Diver Course online will take approximately 3 hours to complete. Once you finish the eLearning portion of the course, White Sands Dive Shop is notified that you have completed it and that you are ready for the practical phase of the program. At the end of the eLearning program, you can print out your eRecord and bring a copy of it with you to the dive shop. sign up link http://e-learntodive.blogspot.com/

THE GREAT BLUE HOLE

Approximately 45 miles from Ambergris Caye, the almost perfectly circular Blue Hole is more than 1,000 feet (305 meters) across and some 400 feet (123 meters) deep. The hole is the opening to what was a dry cave system during the Ice Age. When the ice melted and the sea level rose, the caves were flooded, creating what is now a magnet for intrepid divers. Today the Blue Hole is famed for its sponges, barracuda, corals, angelfish—and a school of sharks often seen patrolling the hole’s edge.