PADI Speciality Courses

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PADI Speciality Courses

Completed your Open Water or Advanced Open Water and fancy doing some more training? Haven’t got the time or money to commit to the Rescue Diver course? Fancy doing something a bit different? PADI offer stacks of shorter, specialist courses that form part of the Advanced or Master Diver courses, but can also be enjoyed as standalone experiences.

Here are a few of PADI’s most popular Speciality Courses to whet your appetite…

Wreck Diver
From sunken ships and historic relics, to classic cars and fighter-planes, wreck diving opens up a whole new underwater world that requires an upgrade in technique and specialist understanding of potential hazards. Learn how to become a responsible and competent wreck diver by researching and understanding well-known wrecks; learning about wreck-diving equipment and techniques; and planning and completing at least four wreck dives.
Pre requisites: PADI Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water

Enriched air diver
Diving with enriched air nitrox gives a diver more no decompression dive time, allowing more time underwater and more consecutive dives. This course teaches the theory behind enriched air diving; key techniques for using enriched air; and how to set your dive computer and manage equipment: one of PADI’s most popular speciality courses.
Pre requisites: PADI Open Water

Deep Diver
As you start to descend further, the decrease in light and drop in water temperature makes for a dramatically different underwater world than that nearer the surface, with different species lurking in every nook and cranny. As the body becomes affected by increased pressure, divers need to adapt their diving techniques accordingly and understand how their bodies will react differently at greater depths. Introducing you to the techniques and equipment used for diving between 18 and 40 metres, you’ll be involved in the planning and organisation of several deep dives and will be required to complete at least four of these, accompanied by your instructor.
Pre requisites: PADI Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water

Digital Underwater Photography
Whether you’re off on a Red Sea or Maldives liveaboard adventure, or are simply scuba-ing in your local lake, recording your experiences on camera can add an extra dimension to your dives and will enable you to share your experiences with other enthusiasts, as well as non-diving friends. This PADI course enables you to learn easy to remember techniques for achieving great underwater shots, understand how to choose the right underwater camera system for you and find out about the three basic elements of excellent underwater photography.
Pre requisites: Open Water

Drift Diver
Drift dives can be experienced throughout the globe but are more common in certain parts of the world. The Maldives, for example, holds abundant opportunities, with drift diving sites typically accessed via Maldives liveaboards. Your first-ever drift dive can often come as quite a shock, as the controlled composure usually exercised whilst scuba diving can be easily lost. Understanding more about drift diving and being able to control yourself in the current can turn these disorientating rides into some of the best dives you’ll ever experience. You’ll learn how to orientate yourself and stay with your buddy; select dive sites; control your buoyancy and manage hazards; understand how to use drift diving equipment such as floats, lines and reels; and learn how to communicate with the dive boat, so you can always get back to that Maldives liveaboard easily!

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