Specialties

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Altitude

Any time you’re diving at 300 to 3000 metres/1000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, you’re altitude diving. You’ll learn the effects of pressure at higher altitudes and how to adjust your dive plan accordingly.

AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Specialty

The AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation Specialty course teaches you about the vital role of coral reefs in the marine environment. The course also familiarizes you with the current state of the world’s coral reefs and how you can help.

Boat

Through the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course, you can learn the techniques and procedures for diving from different types of boats. The more boats you’re diving from, the more diving you’re doing.

Digital Underwater Photography

You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer. Remember leave only bubbles and take only pictures.

Diver Propulsion Vehicle

Scoot through the water without kicking. DPV’s offer an exciting way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time, with minimum effort.

Deep

In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet. Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training.

Dry Suit

Dry suit divers dive more. Why limit when you can dive?

Equipment Specialist

This course familiarizes you with the operation and maintenance of your dive equipment. The more you know about how your gear works, the more comfortable you are with it and the better you can care for it.

Night Diver

Why stop diving when the sun goes down? Although you’ve seen the reef many times, at night it is a whole new world.

Nitrox-Enriched Air Diver

PADI’s most popular specialty. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater.

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Good buoyancy skills separate a good divers from a great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance.

Project Aware

Learn about some of the most pressing problems facing the underwater environments and everyday actions you can take to help conserve them. It’s informative, interesting and most importantly, you learn how to make a difference.

Search & Recovery

It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface. In the Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems.

Underwater Navigator

Be the diver everyone wants to follow. Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass.

Wreck

Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.