Diving Courses – Specialties
Specialty Courses give you the tools and experiences to enhance your exploration of diving and discover your unique diving aptitude.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course.
Coral Reef Conservation
This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these complex and vital systems.
Anyone who has an interest in the underwater world can take this course. There are no prerequisites or age restrictions and no water sessions are required to earn this non-diving certification.
The Coral Reef Conservation course references information in the digital manual – AWARE – Our World, Our Water – downloadable for free on the PADI Aware Foundation website.
Underwater Navigator
Be the diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you’re going. The PADI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way.
Fish Identification
“What was that fish?” is a common question heard after a dive. If you want to be the scuba diver with the answers, instead of the one asking the questions, then take the Fish Identification Specialty course. You’ll enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures that you see and can identify the main fish families and their characteristics.
If you’re at least 10 years old and a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher, you can enroll in the PADI – Fish Identification course.
Search & Recovery
The next time someone loses an item underwater, you can be the hero that finds the missing object.
In the PADI® Search and Recovery course, you’ll learn how to find lost objects underwater. You’ll practice different types of underwater search patterns and learn how to use a lift bag as you plan and execute mock search operations.
Underwater Naturalist
Take the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course and you’ll see new things, even on the most familiar scuba diving sites. Why? Because when know more about symbioses, underwater ecology, and aquatic plant and animal habitats, you notice behaviors and see creatures you may have previously missed. Learn more about the local ecosystem and take a closer look on your next scuba diving adventure.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 10 years old are eligible to take the Underwater Naturalist Specialty course.
Dive Against Debris
Make a difference on every dive by activating your inner citizen scientist. During the Dive Against Debris® Diver Specialty course, you’ll learn how ocean plastic and trash cleanups not only keep your local dive sites healthier, but also how to contribute to a global database that documents our planet’s marine debris problem. Under the guidance of your instructor, you’ll participate in a Dive Against Debris survey and turn your passion for the underwater world into real action.
Join the PADI Torchbearer™ movement of divers protecting our ocean planet and making every dive count.
Shark Conservation
Sharks are an essential part of a healthy ocean. This course explores why they are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them.
Love sharks? Scared of sharks? Or do you just want to know more about them? Enroll in an AWARE Shark Conservation Specialty course and discover the value of sharks to marine ecosystems and economies.
If you’re a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enroll in the AWARE Shark Conservation Diver Specialty course.
Download and read the AWARE Shark Conservation Diver Study Guide from the PADI AWARE Foundation website.
Master SCUBA Diver
The Master Scuba Diver rating is the pinnacle of recreational diving, a recognition earned through experience and advanced training. Fewer than two percent of divers achieve it.
You will have achieved;
50 logged dives.
PADI Open Water Diver certification,
followed by PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and
PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications).
Plus
Five PADI Specialty Diver certifications
Fitness to Dive
You must be in reasonable health to go SCUBA Diving. You can check the basic requirements here;
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