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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. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more 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.

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.

The Fun Part
The fun part about this course is the opportunity to explore the deep. It’s exhilarating.

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.

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.

The Fun Part
Finding your way is not a matter of luck! When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a shipwreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

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.

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.

The Fun Part
The fun part of the PADI Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook. Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognizes that a small hole or open door likely caused the vessel’s demise.

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.

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.

The Fun Part
Find lost items and lift them to the surface. It’s fun to use the lift bag. Not only are these skills fun, but very practical and ultimately useful because eventually, you’ll lose something in the water. As a Search and Recovery Diver, you’ll know how to search for and recover it.

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.

The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

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 PADI Underwater Videographer Course

Other than taking someone diving, there’s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world: video.

The Fun Part
Show your scuba vacation adventures to your friends and family. Use your editing skills to share your clips with the world through YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and more. Use your underwater videos to turn more of your friends into dive buddies.

What You Learn
The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again.

• Selecting, maintaining and caring for your underwater video   equipment.
• Videography fundamentals, such as :
· exposure.
· focus.
· shot types.
· moves.
· story line.
· shot sequencing.
• The post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and   create an underwater masterpiece.

By the time you complete the course, you’ll have gone through the entire basic video production process

The PADI Dry Suit Diver course
Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then dive dry. Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm! Even in surprisingly cold water.

The Fun Part
Dry suits let you dive more challenging dive sites, and extend your dive season. When you have the right cold water scuba diving attire, you can stand up to the elements and take advantage of the generally better visibility offered by winter months—especially at inland dive sites such as quarries, lakes, sinkholes and caves etc. As a dry suit diver, you’re equipped to scuba dive some of the world’s incredible dive sites in the world’s cooler regions that are best enjoyed in a dry suit even in their warmer months.

What You Learn
Gain the knowledge and skills to safely don, dive with, doff and store a dry-suit. Get introduced to the different types of suits so you can make a very informed decision if considering purchasing a dry suit.

You learn
• Dry suit buoyancy control skills.
• Dry suit maintenance, storage and basic repair.
• Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry   suit) options.

Practical skills you’ll master in this course
• Dry Suit Familiarization.
• Safety Checks.
• Entry Techniques.
• Bubble Check.
• Buoyancy Check.
• Descent techniques.
• Fin Pivot.
• Hover.
• Excess gas in feet emergency roll drill.
• Stuck inflator emergency drill.
• Stuck exhaust valve emergency drill.
• Ascent procedure· Remove and replace scuba unit and weight belt   on the surface.
• Exit techniques· Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance.

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.

The Fun Part
The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible.

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.

The PADI Boat Diver Course

Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently.

The Fun Part
Diving from a boat is fun, especially when you look at ease when maneuvering around on it. It’s fun to know what you’re doing.

What You Learn
Learn the tips, tricks and ways to :
• Dive from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards : 
• How they differ from place to place.
• Gain experience and training from diving on boats in your local area.
• Safely enter and exit the water : 
• Sometimes it’s better to hand your gear up to the crew and then   climb in the boat.
• sometimes you just take off your fins and weights and walk up the   ladder.
• Stow your gear in the most appropriate areas.
• Use surface lines to initiate or conclude your dives.
• Locate basic boat safety equipment.

Tec Basics

This speciality is designed to bridge the gap between recreational diving and Technical diving.
It gives you the opportunity to experience tec diving practises and skills without having to make the commitment (in terms of equipment, time and cost) of the PADI Tec Deep course.

Equipment you will use
1. We will provide you with a twin set with manifold, harness, wing and     regs. 
2. Dive Computer.
3. Appropriate Exposure Suit.
4. Weight System.
5. Reel.
6. Knife / cutting device.
7. Slate.
8. Compass.
9. Lift Bag.

We can hire you any equipment that you do not own.

Prerequisites

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying prerequisite certification.
PADI Enriched Air Diver or qualifying prerequisite certification
PADI Rescue Diver is recommended.

Required learning materials
PADI Tec Deep Diver manual

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