Specialty Courses
Below is a menu of the numerous specialty certifications. Get five specialty ratings and you're on your way to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver:
- Deep Diver
- Drysuit Diver
- DSMB Diver
- Night Diver
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Search & Recovery
- Sidemount Diver
- Tec Basics
- Underwater Navigator
- Underwater Photographer
- Wreck Diver
- Project AWARE
- Enriched Air Nitrox
- Equipment Specialist
- Emergency Oxygen Provider
Click here for the specialty courses price list
PADI Deep Diver
Why PADI Deep Diver?
The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see thing others can only dream about.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Advanced Openwater Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 15 years old
What will I do?
- You'll learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards.
You'll also put this knowledge to the test as you go on four open water dives that range from 18-30 metres/60-100 feet.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 24
- Minimum Open Water Training: four dives over two days
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Deep Diver eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£195
PADI Dry Suit Diver
Why PADI Dry Suit Diver?
If you want to see the spectacular and prolific aquatic life often found in colder water climates you'll need to stay warm and that means a dry suit. But, you want to be trained in proper techniques and this is where PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course comes in.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 12 years old
What will I do?
During your PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you'll not only cover the background knowledge related to dry suit diving, you'll get into confined water to put that theory into practice. Then, once you've mastered confined water, it's time for two open water dives and applying that knowledge, including dive planning, organization, techniques, problems and buoyancy control.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 24
- Minimum Open Water Training: as little as one day
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Drysuit eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£145
PADI DSMB Diver
Delayed surface marker buoys (DSMBs) allow scuba divers to mark boundaries for mapping or search and recovery, alert boat traffic, or provide a line as a visual reference for ascending divers.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 12 years old
What will I do?
During your course you will learn the proper techniques and protocols for using surface marker buoys and delayed surface marker buoys (DSMBs). Practice deploying DSMBs from the bottom and while hovering.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 12
- Minimum Open Water Training: two dives over one day
What is included?
- Air fills
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£145
PADI Night Diver
Why PADI Night Diver?
The thought of dipping below the surface at night seems mysterious, yet so alluring. Although you’ve been scuba diving at a site many times before, at night you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge. If you’ve wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 12 years old)
What will I do?
Scuba diving at night teaches you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, on controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your buddy and on paying attention to details you may overlook during the day. During three night dives, you’ll practice:
- Light handling and communication techniques.
- Entering, exiting and navigating in the dark.
- Identifying how plants and animals differ or change behavior at night.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 12
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Night Diver eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£175
Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Course
Why Peak Performance Buoyancy?
If you want to fine-tune your buoyancy and soar over reefs, extend bottom time by reducing air consumption and prolong the life of your dive equipment, the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course is for you.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
- Minimum age: 10 years old
What will I do?
During your Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you'll use PADI's Basic Weighting Guidelines to determine the correct amount of weight. Then you'll practice the fundamentals of peak performance buoyancy during two open water dives, including the buoyancy check, fine-tuning buoyancy underwater, weight positioning for trim, streamlining and visualisation.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: five
- Minimum Open Water Training: two dives over one day
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£145
PADI Search and Recovery Diver
Why PADI Search and Recovery Diver?
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.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation) OR
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver AND PADI Underwater Navigation certifications (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 12 years old
What will I do?
You'll learn search and recovery dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also cover limited visibility, search patterns and safe object recovery using lift devices.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 24 hours
- Minimum Open Water Training: four dives over two days
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Search and Recovery eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£195
PADI Sidemount Diver
A sidemount configuration (scuba tanks alongside of the diver) offers more flexibility and better streamlining options. Learn about the many benefits of diving with a sidemount configuration.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 15 years old
What will I do?
You'll learn to properly assemble and configure sidemount scuba diving equipment, trim your weight system and sidemount gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water, manage gas by switching second stages as planned, if wearing two cylinders and respond correctly to potential problems when sidemount diving.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 24 hours over 3 days
- Minimum Confined Water Training: one dives over one day
- Minimum Open Water Training: 3 dives over one day
What is included?
- Air fills
- PADI Sidemount manual
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£300
Tec Basics
The PADI Tec Basics course is a bridge from recreational to technical diving. It exposes recreational divers to tec diving and entry level tec diving skills and equips them with the information they need to decide whether or not to accept the additional risk and commitment that PADI Tec courses demand.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- PADI Rescue Diver reccomended (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 15 years old
What will I do?
Technical diving uses extensive methodologies, technologies and training to manage added risks associated with it. Typically, this means using complex or highly specialized equipment in situations where direct access to the surface is inaccessible due to a ceiling imposed by decompression or by a physical barrier such as found inside cave or wreck diving environments.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 12 hours over 2 days
- Minimum Confined Water Training: two dives over one day
- Minimum Open Water Training: two dives over one day
What is included?
- TEC equipment hire, Twinset and Wing
- Air fills
- PADI Tec Deep Diver Manual
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£250
PADI Underwater Navigator
When you're underwater, knowing where you are and where you're going comes in handy, especially if you're looking for that beautiful reef that you've heard all about. The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course will help you become a pro at finding your way underwater.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certified (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 10 years old
What will I do?
During your PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you'll learn underwater navigation dive procedures, techniques, planning, organisation and potential problems. You'll also be introduced to natural navigation, underwater patterns, distance estimation and further your compass navigation skills. You'll put these into practice during your three open water dives.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 12
- Minimum Open Water Training: three dives over one day
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Underwater Navigator eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£150
PADI Underwater Photographer
Why PADI Digital Underwater Photographer?
The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course can help you learn how to take your fist underwater photographs or fine tune your existing skills to produce photographs that will stun your friends.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
- Minimum age: 10 years old
What will I do?
You'll learn the basics of underwater photography such as composition, film type and camera handling, with special emphasis on practical techniques. You'll learn underwater photography dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also learn how to care for and maintain your camera equipment.
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 12
- Minimum Open Water Training: two dives over one day
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Digital Underwater Photographer eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£175
PADI Wreck Diver
Why PADI Wreck Diver?
The lure of exploring sunken vessels, airplanes and automobiles is something most divers can't resist. The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course introduces you to wreck diving and helps you develop the skills and knowledge necessary for safe and fun wreck diving.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
- Minimum age: 15 years old
What will I do?
Information contained in your wreck diver program includes:
- The planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of wreck diving
- The preparation and use of lights, air supplies, special equipment, penetration lines and reels
- Limited-visibility diving techniques and emergency procedures
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 24
- Minimum Open Water Training: four dives over two days
What is included?
- All Scuba equipment
- Air fills
- PADI Wreck Diver eLearning
- Logbook endorsements
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£195
Project AWARE Specialty Course
Why Project AWARE Specialty course?
If you want to learn about the plight of worldwide aquatic ecosystems and how you can protect them, this Specialty course is for you. This non-diving Specialty course may also be conducted in conjunction with other PADI Specialty Diver courses.
What do I need to start?
- No dive certification required
- No minimum age limit
What will I do?
You'll learn about aquatic ecosystem degradation and the conservation measures protecting aquatic resources. This includes:
- The Project AWARE philosophy
- The importance and interdependence of worldwide aquatic ecosystems
- Current issues regarding fisheries, coastal zone management and marine pollution
- The status of several critically degraded marine environments
- How you can help
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: four
What is included?
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£60
PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver Course
Why PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver Course?
Diving with nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive dives thereby allowing you to stay underwater longer and get back into the water sooner.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Open Water Diver
- Minimum age: 15 years old
What will I do?
You'll learn why diving with air with higher oxygen and lower nitrogen extends your bottom time, and about procedures involved with enriched air diving
How long will it take?
- Recommended Course Hours: 4 hours
What is included?
- PADI Enriched Air eLearning
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£95
EnrollPADI Equipment Specialist
Why PADI Equipment Specialist course?
The PADI Equipment Specialist Touch will help you to understand how (and why) certain pieces of scuba equipment work. It is a fully interactive and comprehensive digital product for iOS and Android tablet devices. This valuable tool provides a beautifully immersive look into scuba equipment through short video clips and 3D rotating images to help you get a more realistic insight into how things work.
What do I need to start?
- Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
- 10 years old
What will I do?
You’ll learn about routine care and maintenance procedures as well as scuba equipment storage recommendations. Your instructor will show you how to overcome some common equipment problems and offer equipment configuration suggestions.
How long will it take?
- Self paced eLearning
- Short practical session
What is included?
-
eLearning access Key
- The PADI Equipment Specialty Course Interactive Materials
-
Practical Session
- Overcoming common equipment problems
- Equipment configuration suggestions
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£95
EnrollEmergency Oxygen Provider
Oxygen first aid in dive accidents (and use of Automated External Defibrillator).
The course is designed to train the general diving public ( and non diving public) to recognise signs and symptoms of major Dive accidents. It will cover how to provide oxygen to injured scuba divers at the highest possible concentration whilst alerting the relevant local emergency services effectively.
The course introduces the use of non rebreather masks, pocket masks and non resuscitator demand valve oxygen units as well as going into the physiology of AGE, decompression sickness and secondary drowning. It also looks at the stats for delay to calling emergency services and also delay to receiving recompression. It is classroom based with dry practical sessions with one or more O2 units. We have started teaching the use of the RescuEAN unit which is useful before an Oxygen Administration kit is available or if there is no O2 kit at all as it can be used in combination with a standard Nitrox set up and any Oxygen on the dive site can be used above 21 percent.
We will provide all the student notes in an A4 page format as well as all the following Powerpoint presentations:
- 2 hour Automated External Defibrillation course if taught separately from main oxygen course £15
What is included?
- PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider eLearning
- PADI Certification eCARD
Price£75