Dive Courses
PADI Speciality Courses
To view further details on any of the PADI Speciality courses, click on the required link below:
- Altitude Diver Course
- AWARE Fish ID Course
- Boat Diver Course
- Coral Reef Conservation Course
- Deep Diver Course
- Digital Underwater Photographer Course
- Dry Suit Diver Course
- Enriched Air Diver Course
- Equipment Specialist Course
- Night Diver Specialty Course
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Course
- Project AWARE Specialty Course
- Underwater Navigator Course
- Underwater Photographer Course
- Wreck Diver Course
Altitude Diver Course Details
Any time you're diving at 300 to 3000 metres/1000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, you're altitude diving. If you want to explore the hidden world of a mountain lake, the PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course is for you. The PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the rules and procedures necessary for altitude diving, including how to use the Recreational Dive Planner at altitude.
- Altitude dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards
- Recreational Dive Planner procedures for diving at altitude
- Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures at altitude
- Special equipment is necessary for altitude diving
- Two open water training dives
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization). Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
AWARE Fish ID Course Details
Have you ever asked yourself, "What was that?"
The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer.
During two dives you gain hands-on experience in looking for and identifying the fascinating fish you see underwater. You can learn more about Project AWARE by going to www.projectaware.org .
- Covers Project AWARE and aquatic protection worldwide
- Characteristics of local fish families and species will be explained
- Fish survey techniques and strategies
- Fish identification dive planning, organization and procedures will be practiced
- Including the two open water training dives, the course lasts about 12 hours
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Boat Diver Course Details
Whether you've never made a boat dive or you've logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the type boat and the location.
- Covers techniques for diving from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards
- Discusses how dive boats differ from place to place
- Gives you focused experience and training for diving from boats in your local area
- Covers basic boat safety equipment and use
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Coral Reef Conservation Course Details
The AWARE - Coral Reef Conservation Specialty course teaches divers, snorkelers and nondivers about the vital role of coral reefs in the marine environment. The course also familiarizes participants with the current state of the world's coral reefs and how they can help.
There are no dives or age limits. Divers and nondivers alike enjoy learning about the aquatic environment.
- Covers the importance of coral reefs to marine ecosystems and coastal areas
- Coral reef biology, association and competition
- The status of the world's coral reefs
- How participants can help, including responsible diving and snorkeling practices
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Deep Diver Course Details
The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.
In this course you will experience what it's like to dive beyond 60 feet. Down there, it's different. It takes additional training. Here's where you get it.
- Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
- Four open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 60 - 130 feet.
- Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor.
Must be a PADI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Digital Underwater Photographer Course Details
Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm.
Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.
During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course, you learn to use the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine. You not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.
- Choosing and using modern digital cameras and underwater housings
- Using the PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
- Editing and sharing your pictures
- The three primary principles for getting good photos underwater
- The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.
- This is one of PADI's most adaptable specialty courses, and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Diver course
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization) However, you can take the course as a snorkeler and receive a nondiving certification.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Dry Suit Diver Course Details
Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then stay out of the water.
What? Stay out of the water? Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water.
In the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you'll learn how to use a dry suit. And that keeps you warm! Even in very cold water.
- Don and doff techniques specific to your dry suit
- Dry suit buoyancy control skills
- Dry suit maintenance and storage
- Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization) and at least 10 years old
The PADI Dry Suit Diver certification credits toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating .
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Enriched Air Diver Course Details
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 - but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.
Whether you're into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.
- Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
- Safely increase your no stop time.
- Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Equipment Specialist Course Details
Want to know about how your dive gear works?
Then the PADI Equipment Specialist course is for you.
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, the more performance you get from it and the better you can care for it.
- Reviews the theory, principles and operation of dive equipment
- Routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
- Common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
- Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)
- No dives are required, so you can take the Equipment Specialist course any time of the year
- The PADI Equipment Specialist Course is not an equipment repair course, but it provides the foundation you'll want if you're interested in learning equipment repair
Must be a PADI Scuba Diver or Junior Scuba Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Night Diver Specialty Course Details
As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your mask and bite down on your regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat - into the underwater night. Although you've seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.
The adventure, thrill and excitement of night diving can be yours when you complete your PADI Night Diver Specialty course. You learn about night dive planning, equipment and navigation. You practice these on three night dives, plus introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down.
- Dive lights and night diving equipment
- Entries, exits and navigation at night
- Nocturnal aquatic life
- Communication and light handling
- Number of Dives: Three
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating Go night diving and see the underwater world in a whole new light - a dive light.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Peak Performance Buoyancy Course Details
Float effortlessly, drifting over reefs.
Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them.
Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.
- Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
- Streamlining, balance and trim
- Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
- Number of dives: Two
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. Get the buoyancy control great divers have with PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Project AWARE Specialty Course Details
The underwater world needs heroes.
You can be one of them by championing the causes of the world's most fragile and important aquatic ecosystems.
Sign up for the Project AWARE Specialty course to learn about some of the most pressing problems facing these vulnerable 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.
Project AWARE Foundation is the dive industry's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the aquatic environment through education, advocacy and action. Besides completing the Project AWARE Specialty course, you can become a partner in the efforts to preserve the underwater environment. The ocean commons and coastal zone issues
- Fisheries challenges and sustainability
- Coral environment overview and inhabitants
- The role of the diver in protecting aquatic environments
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Underwater Navigator Course Details
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone's buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they're having a great time - until it's time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.
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. You learn to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.
- Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation
- Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
- Dive site relocation
- Number of Dives: Three
Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. Find your way with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Underwater Photographer Course Details
Freeze time with an underwater camera and you tell a story that even nondivers can understand. Not only that, but you have a record and log of your adventures - more than the memories. Reliving a dive is as simple as looking at a photograph.
Whether you're a casual holiday snapper or a consummate photo pro, the PADI Underwater Photographer course teaches you the basics as they apply to taking photos underwater, with a special emphasis on practical techniques.
Number of Dives: Two
Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be 10 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. Freeze time and share it with the PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty course.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
Wreck Diver Course Details
You drift down and pass through a window into the past.
As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet.
Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.
Number of Dives: Four dives over two days
Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.
For details and booking call 01254 82 5555
