Experience Required: PADI Adventure Diver (or equivalent)

Minimum Age: 15 Years

Features: Online Theory Session, 4 Sidemount Dives

A Sidemount configuration (scuba tanks alongside of the diver) offers more flexibility and better streamlining options. Learn about the many benefits of diving with a Sidemount configuration.

Having scuba tanks on your back isn’t a requirement for exploring the underwater world. Many scuba divers have discovered the joy of mounting cylinders on their sides. Sidemount diving gives you flexibility and streamlining options. Plus, you don’t have to walk with heavy cylinders on your back – just enter the water, clip them on and go. Sound interesting? Sign up for the PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty course.

Along with learning about the many benefits of diving with a sidemount configuration, during one confined water and three open water scuba dives you’ll learn how to:

Properly assemble and configure sidemount scuba diving equipment.
Trim your weight system and sidemount gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.
Manage gas by switching second stages as planned, if wearing two cylinders.
Respond correctly to potential problems when sidemount diving.
Equipment
We will provide the Sidemount equipment you’ll need, such as a BCD and harness configured for Sidemount diving along with cylinders, each with a regulator and SPG.

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Experience Required: PADI Adventure Diver (or equivalent)

Minimum Age: 15 Years

Features: Online Theory Session, 4 Deep Dives

After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There’s something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts dives.

The fun part about this course is the opportunity to explore the deep. It’s exhilarating.

During this course you will learn about:
Techniques for diving in the deeper range of 18-40 meters
Deep scuba diving equipment considerations
Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor

Your Deep Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver / Adventure Diver course credits (at your instructor’s discretion) as the first dive in the PADI Deep Diver course.
The learning materials you need:
PADI Deep Diver e-Learning provides a thorough overview of the principles and techniques needed to complete the PADI Deep Diver specialty. In addition to previewing skills you’ll practice with your instructor, the e-Learning serve as a reference guide for deep diving in a variety of conditions and environments. You’ll also find the answers to common questions such as:

Is it true that ascending no faster than your bubbles is a good ascent rate?

Can a slow ascent replace a safety stop?

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Experience Required: PADI Open Water (or equivalent)

Dive Gear Included: Full Dive Gear

Minimum Age: 12 Years

Features: Online Theory session, 2 Nitrox Dives

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time.

This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives. You can typically stay down longer and get back the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.

During this course you will learn about:
Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox

Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations

Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what’s in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer
PADI Enriched Air Diver

The learning materials you need:
PADI Enriched Air Diver e-Learning includes  required materials to complete PADI’s Enriched Air Diver specialty. The e-Learning covers the procedures for diving with Enriched Air (up to 40%) and also demonstrates step-by-step how to plan a dive using multiple dive tables.

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Experience Required: PADI Advanced Open Water (or equivalent)

Dive Gear Included: Full Dive Gear

Minimum Age: 12 Years

Features: Online Theory, 4 Training Dives

Have you ever dropped something in the water?

Are you looking for lost “treasure”? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.

Find lost items and lift them to the surface. It’s fun to use the lift bag. Not only are these skills fun, but very practical and ultimately useful because eventually, you’ll lose something in the water. As a Search and Recovery Diver, you’ll know how to search for and recover it.

During this course you’ll learn about:

Search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems
How to locate large and small objects using search patterns
How to use a lift bag and other recovery methods
Limited visibility search techniques

The learning materials you need:
The PADI Search and Recovery e-Learning includes everything needed to prepare for the PADI Search and Recovery Specialty course. The e-Learning includes a search pattern reference guide, knot-tying diagrams and an overview of how to organize a search.

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Experience Required: PADI Adventure Diver (or equivalent)

Dive Gear Included: Full Dive Gear

Minimum Age: 15 Years

Features: Online Theory Lesson, 4 Wreck Dives

Wrecks open fascinating windows to the past.

Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they’re intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life.
The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.

The fun part of the PADI Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook. Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognizes that a small hole or open door likely caused the vessel’s demise.

During this course you’ll learn about:
Techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards
How to research and learn the background of your favourite wrecks
Wreck scuba diving equipment considerations
Considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks
Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four wreck dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor

The learning materials you need:
Prepare for the exciting and specialized world of wreck diving with PADI Wreck Diver e-Learning. Preview the skills you’ll practice during your open water dives, become familiar with wreck diving etiquette, and take in breath-taking images from wreck diving hotspots around the world.

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Experience Required: PADI Open Water (or equivalent)

Minimum Age: 10 Years

Features: Online Theory, 2 Dives

What is neutral buoyancy?
Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who’ve mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You’ve seen them underwater.

They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a PADI Open Water Diver and elevates them to the next level.

The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible.

During this course you’ll learn about:
How to trim your scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water
Nuances in determining weight so you’re not too light nor too heavy by even a slight degree
How to streamline to save air and move smoothly through the water
How to hover effortlessly in both a vertical position and a horizontal position

Your Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver /Adventure Diver course credits (at your instructor’s discretion) as the first dive in the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course

The learning materials you need:
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy e-Learning includes a buoyancy assessment questionnaire and basic weighting guidelines – useful whenever you purchase new gear or dive in a new environment. It also provides an overview of the skills you’ll practice with your PADI Instructor.

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Experience Required: PADI Advanced Open Water (or equivalent)

Minimum Age: 12 Years

Features: Online Theory Session, 10 Rescue Exercises, 2 Rescue Scenarios

“Challenging” and “rewarding” best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course
Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur.

The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them. Most divers find this course both demanding and rewarding, and at the end, say it’s the best course they’ve ever taken.

Rescue divers learn to look beyond themselves to consider the safety and well-being of other divers. This is why the PADI Rescue Diver rating is a prerequisite for all PADI leadership training (Divemaster, Assistant Instructor, and Open Water Scuba Instructor).

Before you can get certified as a Rescue Diver you need to have completed an EFR course within the past 2 years. If not you can attend an EFR course within the same PADI Rescue Course.

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Experience Required: PADI Open Water (or equivalent)

Dive Gear Included: Full Dive Gear

Minimum Age: 12 Years

Features: Online Theory, 5 Adventure Dives

You are now a qualified Open Water Diver and you realize that you are just at the tip of the iceberg. Diving is so diverse that every new dive poses unexpected challenges and this makes specialized training a must. This is were the Advanced Diver course kicks in.

The course is based on 5 Adventure dives of which two (Deep & U/W Navigation) are compulsory. The other 3 dives can be chosen from the vast selection that PADI program offers however the most recommended and preferred by all divers are the Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck Diver, Underwater Photographer or Night Diver.

This course requires between 2  days to be completed.

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Experience Required: PADI Open Water Diver (or equivalent)

Dive Gear Included: Full Dive Gear

Minimum Age: 10 Years

Features: Online Theory, 3 Adventure Dives

This is a shortened version of the Advanced Diver course and is ideal for persons with limited time.

In fact there are 3 adventure dives as part of the program in order to be certified as an Adventure diver. Each adventure dive may count as the first dive of the related PADI Specialty Diver course.

As part of the course you will be required to have PADI Advanced Open Water e-Learning.

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