Specialty Courses

If you’ve never dived from a boat before or want to learn more about how to dive from different types of boats, sign up for a PADI® Boat Diver course. In two dives with an instructor, you will learn nautical terms, how to behave on a boat and how to cast lines and/or set a signal buoy.

During the PADI® Deep Diver course, you’ll learn how to plan deep dives, manage your breathing gas supply, and how to recognize and deal with a deep rush. You will learn how to keep in touch with your buddy and what you need to consider in terms of safety and buoyancy control in depth.

In the PADI® Digital Underwater Photographer course, you’ll learn how to take underwater photos that you’ll be proud to share. Avoid rookie mistakes and shorten the learning curve with pro tips. You’ll learn how to use underwater lights (and strobe lights), avoid scattering effects, and enhance colors.

Diving with the current feels like you’re flying underwater. In the PADI® Drift Diver course, you’ll learn important tips from an experienced instructor and practice your buoyancy skills, navigation, buddy communication and the use of surface signal buoys.  

The Nitrox course is the most popular of all specialty courses. Why? Diving with Nitrox gives you more no-decompression time, especially on repetitive dives, and you can enjoy your underwater adventures for longer. In addition, the body absorbs less nitrogen and you dive healthier. This course is a must for all divers!

Excellent buoyancy control is a good way to recognize good divers. You’ve seen them underwater: they glide along effortlessly, consume hardly any air, float on the spot, and appear to be up and down only by the power of thought. You can observe underwater creatures better because they don’t wave around. You can do that too! With the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you’ll improve your buoyancy skills and take them to the next level.  

In the PADI® Search and Recovery course, you’ll learn how to find lost items underwater. You will practice different underwater search patterns, learn to use a lift bag and plan and execute search and recovery actions.  

You don’t necessarily have to carry the scuba tank on your back to explore the underwater world. Many divers have found that it is more convenient for them to carry their tank(s) on the side. Sidemount diving gives you more flexible options and options to improve your streamlining. Plus, you don’t have to walk around with heavy tanks on your back – just get in the water, attach the tank(s) and you’re good to go. Does this sound interesting to you? Then sign up for a PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty course.

Do you want to be the one everyone wants to follow, because you always know where you are and where you want to go? In the PADI Underwater Navigator course, you’ll improve your observation skills and learn how to use your compass even better. If you like rewarding challenges, take this course and enjoy finding your way.  

Video recordings are best suited to capture observations, sounds and dynamics of the underwater world. If you want to learn how to create excellent video clips and edit them into an exciting underwater story afterwards to share with friends on ScubaEarth® and other social media, then the PADI Underwater Video Specialty course is for you. Learn to create creative underwater videos that are interesting, entertaining and want to be watched again and again.  

Wrecks offer fascinating glimpses into the past, whether they were intentionally sunk as an artificial reef for divers or sunk in an accident. Ships, planes and even cars are fascinating underwater destinations and are often teeming with underwater life. On every wreck dive there is an opportunity to discover something, unravel a mystery or track down something that others have missed. The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course is so popular because it offers exciting adventures while teaching responsible wreck diving practices.