Specialty Courses

​Much of the world’s best scuba diving is accessible only by boat.

The lure of the deep. There’s something exciting and mysterious about exploring deeper dive sites while scuba diving.

PADI Dive Theory eLearning contains comprehensive explanations and examples to help you learn about dive physics, physiology, skills, equipment, environmental considerations, decompression theory and the Recreational Dive Planner (RDP).

​Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPVs) offer a thrilling way for scuba divers to see a lot of underwater territory in a short amount of time.

​The PADI Drift Diver Specialty course teaches you how to enjoy going with the flow as you scuba dive down rivers and use ocean currents to glide along.

​ ​The Course Want to stay warm? Want to extend your scuba diving season? Then dive dry. A dry suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.

Surface marker buoys (SMBs) and 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.

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is our most popular specialty scuba course. Why? Because scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

Don’t miss a dive due to minor issues with your scuba diving equipment.

​Instead of asking yourself, “Why dive using a full face or integrated mask”, perhaps you should be asking: Why not? Sometimes conservativism can obscure advantages that would substantially improve our activities. We are resistant to change.

​The thought of dipping below the surface at night seems mysterious, yet so alluring.

​Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought.

​It happens: People accidentally drop things from docks, off boats or even while scuba diving.

Although diving with a buddy is the norm, there are reasons for an experienced diver to develop self-reliance and independence while diving.

When one tank isn’t enough, sidemount--once a very specialized tool of extreme cave exploration--has become a fun, mainstream gear configuration.

Our PADI Tec Gas Blender courses will teach you how to blend enriched air nitrox using partial pressure blending. We will also explain the other methods which can be used for gas blending.

​Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you’re going. The PADI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater.

​Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and with so many underwater cameras to choose from, it has become easier and more fun than ever to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.

Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past.