All specialty certifications count towards the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

AWARE Fish Identification

The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer. During two dives you gain hands-on experience in looking for and identifying the fascinating fish you see underwater.

Course requirements and information:

  • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation) 
  • Covers Project AWARE and aquatic protection worldwide
  • Characteristics of local fish families and species will be explained
  • Fish survey techniques and strategies
  • Fish identification dive planning, organisation and procedures will be practiced
  • Including the two open water training dives, the course lasts about 12 hours

Boat

The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarises 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.

Course requirements and information:  

  • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation)
  • Covers techniques for diving from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards
  • Discusses how dive boats differ from place to place
  • Gives you focused experience and training for diving from boats in your local area
  • Covers basic boat safety equipment and use

Deep

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 18 metres (60 feet). Down there, it's different. It takes additional training.

Course requirements and information: 

  •  Must be a PADI Advance Open Water/Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation) and a minimum of 15 years of age
  • Experience diving beyond 18 metres (60 feet)
  • Learn deep dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and hazards
  • Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor
  • Four open water dives that range from 18-40 metres (60-130 feet)

Digital Underwater Photographer

The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course enables you to quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.

During the 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 via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.

Course requirements and information:

Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization) However, you can take the course as a snorkeler and receive a non-diving certification.

• Choosing and using modern digital cameras and underwater housings

• Using the PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly

• Editing and sharing your pictures

• The three primary principles for getting good photos underwater

• The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.

• This is one of PADI's most adaptable specialty courses, and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Diver course

 

Diver Propulsion Vehicle (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.

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation) and 12 years old

• Diver propulsion vehicle dive planning organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards

• Equipment considerations

• Diver etiquette and how to avoid harming fragile aquatic life

 

Drift

 

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by "going with the flow," staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation) and be at least 12 years old

• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of drift diving

• An introduction to drift diving equipment -- floats, lines, reels

• Buoyancy-control, navigation and communication for drift diving

• Site selection and overview of aquatic currents - causes and effects

• Techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group

Enriched Air Nitrox Diver (EANx)

 

Welome to one of PADI's most popular specialties - the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater - but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation).

• Learn to analyse cylinder contents.

• Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.

• Safely increase your no stop time.

 

Multilevel and Computer

 

During the PADI Multilevel Diver Specialty 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. You'll learn to use The WheelTM 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).

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation) and 12 years old

• Plan and execute multilevel dives (different depths on the same dive)

• Back up your dive computer and plan multi-level dives with The WheelTM

• Maximize your no stop time

 

Night

 

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.

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation) and 12 years old

• Dive lights and night diving equipment

• Entries, exits and navigation at night

• Nocturnal aquatic life

• Communication and light handling

• Materials: You'll Need a Night-Pak, which includes PADI Night Diver Manual and the award-winning PADI Night Diving video.

• Number of dives: three

 

Peak Performance Buoyancy (PPB)

 

Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them. Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.

• Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments

• Streamlining, balance and trim

• Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering

• Materials: You'll Need Peak Performance Buoyancy DVD/video

• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

• Number of dives: Two

 

Search & Recovery

 

In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organisation, 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.

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organisation)

• Must be at least 12 years old

• Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods

• Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery

• Materials: You'll Need Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual and the Search and Recovery video.

• Number of dives: four

 

Underwater Naturalist

 

The PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course teaches you about the different major aquatic life groupings and how they interact so that you understand what you observe in the underwater environment. You see the aquatic world differently. You don't see "fish," but individual species with distinct strategies for surviving in a complex, interactive ecosystem.

 

Course requirements and information:

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation)

• Overview of aquatic life groupings and interrelations

• The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships

• Responsible interactions with aquatic life

• Number of dives: two

 

Underwater Navigator

 

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 to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation)

• Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation

• Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder

• Dive site relocation

• Materials: You'll Need Nav-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Navigator Manual, Underwater Navigation video and the Nav-Finder

• Number of dives: three

Underwater Photographer

 

Reliving a dive is as simple as looking at a photograph. Whether you're a casual holiday snapper or a consummate photo pro, the PADI Underwater Photographer course teaches you the basics as they apply to taking photos underwater, with a special emphasis on practical techniques.

• Course requirements and information: PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organisation) and be 10 years old.

• Materials: You'll Need Photo-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Photographer Manual and Underwater Photography video.

• Number of dives: two

 

Important note

All Specialty course students are required to sign a PADI Medical Statement, Divers Medical Questionnaire, Standard Safe Diving Practices Statement of Understanding and Statement of Risks and Liability. Additionally students are required to sign the Another World Diving Learning Agreement and Terms and Conditions.

If the student has any of the medical conditions listed on the Medical Questionnaire then signed clearance from a doctor, valid within 12 months, will be required.

All students *under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian when undertaking the course. Additionally the parent/guardian is required to complete and sign the above-mentioned forms.

 

Please contact Another World Diving for further information and prices.