Specialty Courses

The Dive Academy offers a number of PADI Specialty Courses. The purpose of the PADI Specialty Diver Courses is to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge and techniques for their favourite underwater activities:

Minimum Certification Open Water Diver:

Enriched Air (Nitrox) – one of PADI's most popular Specialty Courses. Diving with Enriched Air (Nitrox) allows you to safely extend your no decompression limits, which means more time underwater and shorter surface intervals. So if you are into underwater photography, wreck diving or just like to enjoy leisurely diving for longer the Enriched Air Specialty Course keeps you where you want to be... underwater!!

Ask about the Project AWARE Specialty Courses and help protect the underwater world!!

Aware Fish Identification – introduces you to the most common fish families and species. You also learn basic fish identification and Scientific survey techniques as well as how important personal involvement is in aquatic conservation.

Peak Performance Buoyancy – an opportunity to improve buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level – weight positioning, streamlining and other useful techniques, all of which will make your diving much more safe and enjoyable and will help you to protect the underwater environment at the same time.

Coral Reef Conservation – teaches divers, snorklers and non-divers about the vital role of coral reefs in the marine environment and familiarizes them with the current state of the world's coral reefs and how they can help.
Boat Diver – 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.
Night Diver – 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.
DPV - DPV’s offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They scoot you through the water without kicking. Want to visit that offshore reef from the beach? A DPV may be the way to go.
Multilevel Diver – In this course, you learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. That’s the way you really dive, after all. You’ll learn to use The Wheel^TM version of the RDP for planning multilevel dives, making it a great companion for your dive computer (as well as a way to make multilevel dives if you forget to bring your computer).
Underwater Navigator – 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.
Digital Underwater Photographer – 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.
Minimum Certification Advanced Open Water Diver:
Deep Diver – 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 30 metres. Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it. Teaches the advanced planning required for deep diving, including risks and decompression review, safety stops and emergency decompression procedures, special equipment requirements and an orientation to a Recompression Chamber.
Search and Recovery – In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.
Master Scuba Diver:
the Master Scuba Diver rating is the most prestigious nonprofessional diver rating. To achieve the certification, the diver must be a certified Rescue Diver, have a minimum of 50 logged dives and must have completed 5 PADI Speciality Courses.
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We offer packages from Open Water Diver Course all the way to Divemaster. We can also arrange a package to include the Instructor Development Course.