What should a dive centre in Colombia run on?

Cartagena and the Rosario Islands

The Corales del Rosario y de San Bernardo National Natural Park, declared in 1977, protects the largest coral platform on Colombia's continental Caribbean coast, and is one of the most visited parks in the country. Cartagena centres run boats to the Rosario Islands and the wrecks off Tierra Bomba and Barú, with a mix of first-timers and certified divers on most days.

DiveOps builds each boat's trip sheet from the bookings, keeps first-timers and certified divers in their own groups with their own guide, and holds each diver's certification and medical form on the booking, filled in on their phone before they arrive.

Santa Marta, San Andrés and Providencia

Santa Marta and nearby Taganga, beside Tayrona National Natural Park, are known for low-cost training. San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina sit inside the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, declared by UNESCO in 2000, with diving all year and stronger winds from November to January.

DiveOps tracks every student from the first pool session to sign-off, whichever agency you teach under, from SSI and PADI to CMAS, and payroll works out each instructor's course commission on their own rate.

Puentes, holiday peaks and the Pacific

Colombia moves many public holidays to a Monday, so the year is full of three-day weekends, and those, with Semana Santa and the December to January holidays, fill the boats fast. On the Pacific, Gorgona, Bahía Solano and Nuquí draw divers and whale watchers, and Malpelo's hammerheads are reached only on liveaboard trips.

DiveOps shows live spaces on your booking page, so a busy weekend is never oversold, and a centre that books divers onto a Malpelo trip can list each one as a dated trip with its own spaces and price.

A WhatsApp front desk in Spanish

Colombian divers ask about everything on WhatsApp, and foreign visitors write in English, German, French and more. DiveOps' WhatsApp AI answers on your centre's own number through the official Meta Business API, in the diver's language. It replies in under 2 minutes, handles around 92% of routine questions itself and sends your booking link. A person at the centre confirms every booking and takes over any chat that needs one, with the whole conversation in view.

Your currency and one plan

DiveOps runs each centre in one currency, set when you join. You can price in US dollars or euros today; if you price in Colombian pesos, ask us about it on your demo. Payments can be taken by payment link with PayPal where available, or recorded at the desk, and centres get roughly 8 hours a week of admin back.

DiveOps is one plan with every feature, priced by the number of divers you run through the year. Book a demo and see it set up against your own boats, courses and sites.