There are multiple PADI speciality courses you can choose from to help you become a master scuba diver.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: 2
Maximum Training Depth: Depends on diver's age
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
The ocean is filled with dive sites, but many of them cannot be reached from shore. This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely dive from a boat, allowing you to get the most from your underwater opportunities. You will earn the PADI Boat Diving Specialty certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 16
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver if in-water training is included
Academic Sessions: Onsite learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: Optional
Maximum Training Depth: Optional
Suggested Duration: 3 - 4 hours
Specialized Equipment: Knowledge Program
This program provides an in-depth and detailed study of decompression theory, Dry diving is also designed to familiarise divers to the hyperbaric facilities available, the procedures, knowledge, problems and hazards associated with a recompression chamber.
Minimum Age: 15
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: 1
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: 3
Maximum Training Depth: 40 meters / 130 feet
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
Many exciting dive sites are located in deeper water. Without proper training, this kind of diving puts you at risk. The PADI Deep Diving Specialty will give you the ability to safely and comfortably plan and conduct dives beyond 18 meters, and is a prerequisite for some advanced training. You will earn the PADI Deep Diving Specialty certification. after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 1+
Open Water Dives: Optional
Maximum Training Depth: Varies
Suggested Duration: Varies
This program teaches you the skills needed to dive with an underwater camera, and provides the in-depth knowledge and experience required to properly use, maintain and store your equipment. Our goal is help you capture your amazing underwater experiences. You will earn the PADI Photo Specialty certification.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: 1 Day
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.
Minimum Age: 12
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: 1
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: 1-2
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
Diving in a current can feel like flying underwater. In the PADI® Drift Diver course, you’ll learn drift diving tips from an experienced instructor and practice buoyancy control, navigation, use of surface signaling equipment and buddy communication.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: 6
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 1 mandatory before Open Water Dive
Open Water Dives: 2
Maximum Training Depth: 30 meters / 100 feet (12-14 year-old: 18 meters
This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive while using a dry suit. You will learn the special requirements for dry suit diving, how to use your new equipment, the benefits of a dry suit, and how to deal with emergency situations that are unique to dry suit diving. You will earn the PADI Dry Suit Diving Specialty certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 12
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Open Water Dives: 2
Boats and currents are two common factors associated with many dive sites. Boaters don't always recognize that divers are in the area and current can carry you further than expected. Launching a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB) before you surface can alert others to your location in advance of your ascent. Adding another layer of safety, you can also use the DSMB line to complete your safety stop, which is advantageous in a current or when there are no other visual references. Take this course to learn about all the beneficial uses of a DSMB.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver if in-water training is included
Academic Sessions: Online learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: Optional
Maximum Training Depth: Optional
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
Specialized Equipment: Knowledge Program
The Enriched Air Nitrox program will teach you how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen. Diving with enriched air can increase your no-decompression limits, increase your safety, and reduce the required length of your surface intervals when compared to air. You will earn the Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Referral Diver if in-water training is included
Academic Sessions: Online learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: Optional
Maximum Training Depth: Optional
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
Specialized Equipment: Knowledge Program
The PADI Equipment Techniques teaches you how to choose, maintain and store your Total Diving System. This ensures performance and increases the longevity of your equipment. You will earn the Padi Equipment Techniques Specialty certification.
Minimum Age: 12
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 1
Open Water Dives: 2
Working divers, such as public safety divers, use full face masks because they protect the eyes and nose from contaminants in the water, provide comfort in cold water, and allow for communication. If you're interested public safety diving, scientific diving, or venturing into extremely cold-water, then learning to dive with a full face mask is definitely for you. Because full face masks allow you to breathe from your nose, they are also beneficial for those who have difficulty using standard scuba masks. Diving with a full face mask offers a different experience and that alone may be reason to give it a try.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online Learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: 2
Maximum Training Depth: Varies with age
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably navigate underwater during a dive. You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, basic navigation patterns and how to leave and return to a designated point. You will earn the PADI Navigation Specialty certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: 2
Maximum Training Depth: Varies by age
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions. Some of the ocean's most amazing creatures only come out at night, so your dive doesn't have to end when the sun goes down. You will learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate and dive with a buddy at night or in limited visibility. You will earn the PADI Night Diving and Limited Visibility Specialty certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver if in-water training is included
Academic Sessions: Workbook
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Optional
Open Water Dives: Optional
Maximum Training Depth: Optional
Suggested Duration: 4 - 6 hours
Specialised Equipment: Knowledge Program
This program provides an Knowing how and when to use emergency oxygen is a great skill to have and means you’re ready to help others should the need arise. Becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider lets you breathe easy knowing that you can recognise scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen, and are prepared to offer aid.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online Learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 1+
Open Water Dives: Optional
Maximum Training Depth: Optional
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
Do you want to increase your buoyancy control, minimise your breathing gas consumption, or move effortlessly above the ocean floor? The Perfect Buoyancy program teaches you the skills and techniques needed to maximise your dive experience, increase your comfort in the water, and get the most from your equipment. You will earn the PADI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certification.
Minimum Age: 12
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Open Water Dives: 2
The PADI RNLI Diver Sea Survival Specialty Course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to deal with unexpected emergency situations whilst diving. You will also learn how to initiate a faster and more effective rescue. Mastering sea survival skills will give you additional confidence if you find yourself in an unwanted situation whilst diving.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: 1 Day
Make a difference for yourself and others by learning and applying tips to save the ocean. The PADI AWARE Specialty course equips you with tangible actions and opportunities to bring about positive ocean change.
Minimum Age: 12
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online learning
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 1 mandatory before open water dive
Open Water Dives: 2
Maximum Training Depth: Varies with age
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely plan and conduct search and recovery dives. You will learn about search patterns, specialized dive plans, underwater communication, and how to recover small to medium-sized objects using specialized equipment like lift bags. You will earn the PADI Search and Recovery Specialty certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
Academic Sessions: Online training
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 1 Optional
Open Water Dives: 2
Maximum Training Depth: Varies with age
Suggested Duration: 6 - 10 hours
Many of the ocean's best dive sites have artificial reefs, or wrecks that have sunk through the ages. This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely scuba dive above and around these underwater treasures. You will earn the PADI Wreck Diving certification after completing this program.
Minimum Age: 10
Certification Prerequisites: Prerequisite for this program is the Open Water Diver certification or its equivalent.
See individual program descriptions for further information.
Academic Sessions: Varies
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Varies
Open Water Dives: 12
Maximum Training Depth: Varies
Suggested Duration: Varies
Specialty Diver is your first step toward becoming a Master Scuba Diver, and can begin as soon as you complete your Open Water Diver training. Then completing any five Specialty programs that interest you, Then automatically receive the Master Scuba Diver recognition rating along with Specialty program certifications.
By completing Speciality Courses and Dives you earn the Recognition Levels and can become a Master Scuba Diver. Why not ask us for more details on the Master Scuba Diver Programme at in the shop?