As the sun sets, you start preparing your dive gear, defogging your mask, and checking your gauges, as soon as you hit the water and descend down into darkness, you now depend on your torchlight for sight.
The reef will give you a new dimension of diving, as at night, the aquatic life you see during daylight are hiding away, and you have the thrill of exploring the reef all over again.
What will you learn on the Deep Speciality
- organization, procedures techniques.
- problems and hazards of night diving.
- navigation and communication.
- dive lights and buddy-system techniques
- disorientation and emergency procedures
How long will it take?
Three dives normally over three days.
Course Materials
Night Diver manual, DVD and log insert.
Prerequisites:
PADI Open Water (or qualifying certification from another training organization) 12 years old.
This is possibly one of the most overlooked and yet most valuble of all of the PADI courses especialy for newish divers
Get buoyancy right can be a tricky thing. Divers who've mastered 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
What will you learn on the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course
- Trimming 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
- Streamling to save air and move smoothly through the water
- Hovering effortlessly in both vertically position and horizontally
How long will it take?
One day two dives.
Course Materials
PPB Manual and DVD
Prerequisites:
PADI Open Water (or qualifying certification from another training organization) 12 years old.
The PADI equipment specialist gives you the opportunity to learn about the maintenance, repair and upkeep of your scuba equipment.
Whether it's a missing or blown o-ring, wetsuit tear or a broken fin strap, the PADI Equipment Specialist course teaches you how to manage basic repairs and adjustments. Learn how to build your own dive gear maintenance toolkit.
The Equipment Specialist course consists of two main parts:
Knowledge development completed using home study.
Hands on practical exercises working with dive gear.
Who is the course aimed at?
- All dive professionals, including Divemasters and Instructors, or those planning to be one
- Rescue Divers
- Those looking to work in a dive shop or on a dive boat.
- Gear junkies!
How long will it take?
Typically 1 Day and home study.
Prerequisites:
A PADI Open Water (or qualifying certification from another training organization) 10 years old.
We strongly suggest getting the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving and to study the chapter on dive equipment prior to the course.