{"id":451,"date":"2012-03-29T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T10:11:08","slug":"padi-boat-diver-speciality-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/padi-boat-diver-speciality-course\/","title":{"rendered":"PADI Boat Diver Speciality Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from your Open Water, or beginner\u2019s diving certification, you don\u2019t need any special qualifications in order to start boat diving but, if you\u2019ve splashed out on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/egypt\/egy\">Red Sea<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/maldives\/mdv\">Maldives Liveaboard<\/a> adventure this year, for example, and don\u2019t feel confident about diving from a boat, you could consider taking <a title=\"PADI Boat Diving Speciality\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/diving-holidays\/boat-diving\" target=\"_blank\">PADI\u2019s Boat Diver speciality course<\/a> before you leave.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This one-day course is primarily aimed at divers who have had plenty of lake or shore-diving but limited boat-diving experience, as well as sailors and boat drivers who want to learn how to dive safely from their vessels. I wouldn\u2019t recommend this course to anyone with prior boat diving experience, unless you really feel the need to refresh your skills, ready to make the most out of your Caribbean or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/maldives\/mdv\">Maldives Liveaboard holiday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As well as helping you master the techniques required for liveaboard diving, you\u2019ll also learn how to conduct yourself safely and effectively on smaller vessels, such as RIBs (rigid inflatable boats) or \u2018Zodiacs\u2019. The course helps you to recognise and understand the differences and similarities between a range of boat types, and how they differ around the world. You\u2019ll learn skills such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to enter and exit the water<\/li>\n<li>Best practice for handling your equipment<\/li>\n<li>Where to stow your kit on board<\/li>\n<li>How to use surface lines to initiate or conclude each dive<\/li>\n<li>Where to locate safety equipment on board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Divers will be required to read and digest the <a title=\"PADI Boat Diver Speciality\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/diving-holidays\/boat-diving\">PADI Boat Diver Speciality manual<\/a>, participate in theory and discussion, successfully complete two knowledge reviews and conduct two or more supervised boat dives.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible to take the course in coastal areas of the UK, such as Brighton and Portland, and a day\u2019s training will typically cost around \u00a3120, plus boat fees.<\/p>\n<p>To enrol, you need to be at least 10 years of age and have a minimum of a PADI Open Water or PADI junior certification (or equivalent from an alternative diving body).<\/p>\n<p>On successful completion of the course, each diver will be classified as a certified PADI Boat Diver Specialist and be ready to really make the most of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/maldives\/mdv\">Maldives Liveaboard<\/a> holiday, from day one!<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a title=\"Red Sea Liveaboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/egypt\/egy\">Red Sea Liveaboards<\/a>, <a title=\"Red Sea Live Aboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/egypt\/egy\">Red Sea Live Aboards<\/a>, <a title=\"Maldives Liveaboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/maldives\/mdv\">Maldives Liveaboards<\/a>, <a title=\"Maldives Live Aboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/itineraries\/maldives\/mdv\">Maldives Live Aboards<\/a>, <a title=\"Red Sea Diving\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/egypt\/egy\">Red Sea Diving<\/a>, <a title=\"Maldives Diving\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/maldives\/mdv\">Maldives Diving<\/a>, <a title=\"Egypt Diving\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/egypt\/egy\">Egypt Diving<\/a>, <a title=\"Egypt Dive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/egypt\/egy\">Egypt Dive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apart from your Open Water, or beginner\u2019s diving certification, you don\u2019t need any special qualifications in order to&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,187],"tags":[66,101,102,105,74,108,109,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liveaboard","8":"category-maldives","9":"tag-maldives-diving","10":"tag-maldives-diving-holiday","11":"tag-maldives-live-aboard","12":"tag-maldives-liveaboard","13":"tag-maldives-liveaboards","14":"tag-padi","15":"tag-padi-boat-diver-speciality-course","16":"tag-padi-speciality-courses","17":"cs-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}