Scuba Diving with Enriched Air Nitrox

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Enriched Air Nitrox scuba tanks have a higher percentage of Oxygen in them than regular air, so diving with Enriched Air Nitrox increases your no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.


What You Learn
• 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.

Prerequisites
To enroll in the PADI Enriched Air Diver course, you must
• Be 15 years or older
• Have a PADI Open Water Diver certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

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The PADI Wreck Diver Course

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.


What You Learn
• Techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards
• How to research and learn the background of your favorite 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


Prerequisites
To enroll in the PADI Wreck Diver course, you must
• Be 15 years or older
• Have a PADI Adventure Diver (not yet on site map) certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

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The PADI Deep Diver Course

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.


What You Learn
• Techniques for diving in the deeper range of 18-40 metres/ 60-130 feet
• Deep scuba diving equipment considerations
• Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor


Prerequisites
To enroll in the PADI Deep Diver course, you must:
• Be 15 years or older
• Have a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

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The PADI Night Diver Course

As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your scuba mask and bite down on your dive regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.


What You Learn
• Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems
• How to control your buoyancy at night
• Entries, exits and underwater navigation at night
• Nocturnal aquatic life, since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different

Prerequisites
You must be:
• A PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization).
• At least 12 years old.

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The PADI Underwater Navigator Course
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.


What You Learn
Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass. You learn:
• Navigation patterns
• Natural navigation (without a compass)
• Compass navigation
• How to “mark” or relocate a submerged object or position from the surface
• Underwater map making
• How to follow irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
• Dive site relocation
• How to estimate distance underwater

Prerequisites
You must be:
• A PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• At least 10 years old

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The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course

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.



What You Learn
• 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


Prerequisites
To enroll in the PADI Peak Performance Diver course, you must
• Have a PADI Open Water Diver certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

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The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Course

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.


What You Learn
• 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

Prerequisites
To take the PADI Search and Recovery Diver course, you must be:
• A certified PADI (junior) Advanced Open Water Diver
• A PADI (junior) Open Water Diver and a PADI Underwater Navigator (or equivalent certification from another organization)
• At least 12 years old

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The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer and Underwater Photographer Courses

Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever. This is why there are actually two PADI underwater photography courses. The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros. The PADI Underwater Photographer course is a more traditional photography course designed for conventional film equipment.


What You Learn
• How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
• The PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
• The three primary principles for good underwater photos

The Prerequisites for This Course
To enroll, you must:
• Have a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)