Chucuy Diving School offers the best scuba diving courses in Lima and Callao with international certification. Learn to dive from scratch with certified instructors and discover the stunning biodiversity of the Peruvian sea, considered one of the richest in the world.
With more than 3,000 km of coastline, Peru offers unique ecosystems: cold waters in the south, tropical seas in the north, and an incredible variety of marine life right in front of Lima. Our dive center in Chucuito – Callao lets you train without leaving the city, with modern equipment and full amenities. Experience recreational diving in Lima and fall in love with the ocean.
Scuba Diving in Lima: Courses
With us, you can obtain an international SSI license in a few days of training. As a SSI diver, you can dive worldwide and rent diving equipment by presenting your license only.
The first level of the license is called: Open Water Scuba Diver . This is obtained after taking a course that takes between 3 to 5 days. It is worth mentioning that this course is quite simple and not at all complicated. What’s more is an extremely fun and safe course.
After completing the Open Water course, you can dive without the need of an instructor up to 18 meters deep. If you want to learn to dive deeper and improve the techniques learned, we recommend you take the second course: Advance Open Water.
In the Advance Open Water course, you do 5 adventure dives. In each of these adventures you will discover different diving modalities or specialties. Specialties such as wreck diving, night diving, deep diving, among others. At the end of this course, you can dive to depths of 40 meters, without the need for an instructor’s guide.
Finally, if you want to consolidate all the lessons learned in the previous two courses, the third course called Rescue Diver will give you valuable knowledge about diving and water rescue.
Advantages of Scuba diving in Lima
While there is a belief that Lima is not a good place to dive, this city has great advantages for divers.
- Visibility in Pucusana is pretty good almost every day of the year.
- Chucuito Beach is in Callao, less than 15 minutes from anywhere along the Costa Verde.
- The temperature is not so cold, it is possible to dive only with a thick wet suit. It is not necessary to wear a dry suit
Scuba diving in Lima Prices
- Open Water (first course): 1600 soles. We have a 50% discount for our opening month.
- Advance Open Water (second course): 1600 soles
- Rescue Diver (third course): 1600 soles
- One day course: 250 soles
