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PADI Specialty Programs

How far will you take this diving thing? It's up to you. With PADI Specialty Diver Programs you can chart your course for a colourful collection of awesome dives. Sure, your PADI certification opens up the oceans, seas and lakes to you, but the PADI Specialty Dives takes the underwater adventure to depths that will stir your soul and passion. Achieving

PADI Specialty ratings can take anywhere from as little as few hours to a full weekend -but this is all hands-on, so you'll be diving right from the start.

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.

PADI Equipment Specialist

Want to learn more about how your equipment operates and learn valuable care techniques from a dive professional?

You'll need to be at least a PADI Scuba Diver (PADI Junior Scuba Diver or equivalent) and be 12 or older.

During your PADI Equipment Specialist program, you'll familiarize yourself with the operation and maintenance of your own personal equipment. You may also be given the opportunity by your instructor to review new or unfamiliar dive equipment.

The program is not designed to be an extensive equipment-repair program, however, it does provide you with the following:

Theory, principles and operation of dive equipment.

Routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage.

Common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures. (May include a demonstration of repair procedures.)

Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new equipment. (Optional trying of new or unfamiliar equipment in confined water may be included.)

PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course

Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.

During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty 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 with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.

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’s SEA method for getting great shots quickly
Editing and share your pictures
The three main primary principles for getting good underwater photos.
The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.
All materials and Digital Camera is included
PLUS you take all your photos away with you on a FREE PHOTO CD

The PADI Digital Underwater Photography specialty course has a two-level design:

Level 1:
Point-and-shoot cameras and their practicability
White balancing
Colour filters
Taking photographs without external flash

Level 2
Using histograms
File formats
Image resolution
Picture composition
Organization and archiving

*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*

For more information on becoming a PADI Digital Underwater Photographer, please contact us and fill out the form.

PADI Night Diver

Even your local dive site offers a whole new adventure by moonlight! To take advantage of this extraordinary specialty, you'll need to be at least PADI Open Water Diver (PADI Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) and 12 or older.

During your program you'll go on three open water dives. You'll learn to prepare night dive activities and develop your knowledge and techniques for night diving.

Some of the topics covered in PADI Night Diver Manual are:

Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of night diving.

Proper procedures for buoyancy control, navigation and communication.

Use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques.

Disorientation and emergency procedures.

Orientation to nocturnal aquatic life.

The Night Dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this specialty at the discretion of the instructor.

AWARE - Fish Identification Diver

If you'd like to take the AWARE - Fish Identification Diver program, you'll need at least your PADI Open Water Diver (Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) certification and be at least 12 years old.

During the AWARE - Fish Identification Diver program you'll go on two open water dives (which may be completed in one day).

The first dive allows you to practice basic fish identification techniques, while the second dive prompts you to collect fish identification data for submission to the REEF Fish Survey Project (if appropriate).

After the dives, you're required to log the experience in your personal log book.

This program covers the knowledge and techniques for identifying fish common to your local area.

The following is included in your PADI AWARE - Fish Identification Diver program:

The Project AWARE philosophy about protecting worldwide aquatic ecosystems.

Fish family groupings and common characteristics of fish species found in the local area.

Fish surveying techniques and strategies for collecting valid data.

The planning, organization, and procedures for identifying fish families and species while diving.

At the discretion of your instructor, the AWARE - Fish Identification elective dive from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward the certification requirements of this specialty program.

Now that your interest is piqued, contact EASY DIVERS see how you can be identifying local fish this weekend.

PADI's Peak Performance Buoyancy (PPB)

To take advantage of PADI's Peak Performance Buoyancy (PPB) program, you'll need to be a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent and be at least 12 years old.

Your program will include two open water dives, which may be conducted in one day.

Some of the topics covered in your PPB program are as follows:

Peak Performance Buoyancy fundamentals:

Buoyancy check

Fine-tuning buoyancy underwater

Weight position and distribution

Streamlining

Visualization

Use of PADI's Basic Weighting Guidelines.

An opportunity to polish buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level:

Positioning and distributing weight for comfort and desired body position (trim in the water).

Visualization techniques prior to dives

Buoyancy checks

Establishing neutral buoyancy during all segments of a dive

Fine-tuning neutral buoyancy underwater

Hovering

The elective Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may be counted toward this specialty at the instructor's discretion.

To master your buoyancy, contact EASY DIVERS and sign up for the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy program and purchase the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Crew-Pak.

PADI Boat Diver

The PADI Boat Diver program makes diving easy – just take one giant step off the back and you're in the water!

To start the program you'll need at least your PADI Open Water Diver (Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) certification and be at least 12 years old.

During the Boat Diver program you'll go on two open water dives, which must be – you got it – conducted from a boat. (Both dives may be conducted in one day.)

It's a good idea, but not required, that you enrol in this program to learn the techniques and procedures for diving from different types of boats (inflatable boats, hard-hulled day boats, cabin cruisers, live-aboards, sailboats, etc.).

That's a good thing – the more boats you dive from, the more diving you to do!

And, the Elective Boat Dive from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward certification requirements for this specialty at the discretion of the instructor

PADI's Search & Recovery Diver

Accidentally drop something in the water? Looking for lost treasure?

Learn effective ways to locate objects underwater with PADI's Search & Recovery Diver program!

To take the program you'll need to be at least PADI Open Water Diver (or equivalent) with the dive credential of PADI Underwater Navigation (Junior ratings accepted) or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (Junior Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent). You also need to be at least 12.

During your program you'll go on four open water dives, which are conducted over at least a two-day period, with time being equally divided between academic and actual water-training sessions.

Your program will cover techniques and application of a variety of search and recovery methods and includes the following:

The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of search and recovery diving.

Limited-visibility diving and underwater navigation techniques.

Proper techniques and safety considerations for object location, including the use of various search patterns, lines and reels.

Proper techniques and safety considerations for recovery of objects using various lifting devices.

The elective search and recovery dives conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this specialty at the discretion of the instructor.

If you're prone to losing things underwater, search out and contact EASY DIVERS, sign up and purchase your Search and Recovery Crew-Pak to find out what you've been missing.

Dive Propulsion Vehicle

Soaring through the water with a propulsion vehicle is like flying through space - you have to experience it to believe it!

To take your test drive underwater, you'll need at least your PADI Open Water Diver (Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) certification and be at least 12 years old.

Your PADI DPV Diver program will include two open water dives, which may be conducted in one day. The first dive allows you to practice basic vehicle handling skills and the second dive prompts you to plan and execute a typical DPV dive.

During the program, you'll cover the knowledge and techniques used when diving with an underwater propulsion vehicle.

The following will be included in your PADI DPV Diver program:

The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of diving with a DPV.

Equipment considerations including but not limited to battery care, maintenance and precautions.

Proper procedures for:

Determining a turnaround point

Vehicle failure

Runaway motor

Descents and ascents

Avoiding propeller entanglements.

Techniques to avoid harming fragile aquatic life.

Techniques for entering and exiting the water with a DPV.

The DPV elective dive from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may be counted toward the certification requirements of this specialty, at the discretion of the instructor to take off into the wild blue yonder, with EASY DIVERS.

PADI Underwater Naturalist

Interested in sea life? Then this program is for you! You'll need to be a PADI Open Water Diver (Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) and be at least 12.

Your PADI Underwater Naturalist program will include two open water dives, which may be conducted in one day, which will introduce you to different aquatic life and include an overview of responsible human interactions with aquatic life.

Some of the topic covered are:

The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of diving in different aquatic environments.

A basic overview of major aquatic life groupings (kingdoms and phyla).

Factual information that dispels myths of potentially dangerous aquatic life.

An overview of basic aquatic life interactions and associations.

Responsible human interactions with aquatic life.

Diving technique used to help preserve bottom dwelling aquatic life and minimize aquatic life disturbance.

The elective Underwater Naturalist dive from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward the certification requirements for this specialty at the instructor's discretion.

To become more familiar with the underwater environment in your local area, contact us at EASY DIVERS and sign up for this specialty.

PADI Underwater Navigator

Knowing where you are - underwater - and where you're going comes in real handy, especially if you're looking for an object or locating that beautiful reef that you heard about. If you're a PADI Open Water Diver (PADI Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) and at least 12, then this program is for you.

During your PADI Underwater Navigator program you'll go on three open water dives familiarizing yourself with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of underwater navigation.

You'll learn:

Procedures and techniques for planning.

Organizing underwater navigation and problems and hazards associated.

Methods of estimating distances underwater.

Natural navigation techniques.

How to use underwater patterns.

Dive site relocation techniques.

Compass navigation techniques.

The elective Navigation dive conducted during your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this specialty at the discretion of the instructor.

To sign up for this specialty, Navigate to our contact page and ask them for the details. You can also find out more about this topic from information in the PADI Underwater Navigator Crew-Pak.

PADI Underwater Photographer

No photo experience required!

That's what the program is for – showing you how to take award winning pictures underwater.

You'll need to be at least a PADI Open Water Diver (PADI Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) and at least 12 experience the program.

During your PADI Underwater Photographer program you'll go on two open water dives, which may be conducted in one day.

This is where you'll put in to practice the tips and techniques you learned from your instructor and the PADI Underwater Photographer Manual and video.

Your elective Underwater Photography dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this specialty and visa versa at the discretion of your PADI Instructor.

Capture your underwater adventures on film so you can share the thrill of diving with friends and family.

Drop us a line at EASY DIVERS and tell them you want to dive today – with your camera and purchase the Underwater Photographer Crew-Pak!

PADI Underwater Videographer

Want to become the next Hans Haas (he's an underwater motion picture pioneer from long ago)? Then sign up for PADI's Underwater

Videographer program! You'll need to be at least a PADI Open Water Diver (Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent) and at least 12.

During your PADI Underwater Videographer program you'll go on three open water dives and put in to practice the information you learnt from your instructor.

Information covered in your program includes:

The selection, maintenance, care and handling of underwater video equipment.

Safe diving practices while using underwater video equipment.

Exposure, focus, and maintaining colour with video equipment.

Shot types, lengths and camera moves.

Developing a story line and shot sequencing

The planning, organization, procedures, techniques and problems of underwater Videographer.

The elective Underwater Videographer dive your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this certification at your PADI Instructors discretion.

To take your shot at becoming the next world famous underwater Videographer, ask JOEY our instructor at EASY DIVERS, he was an underwater Videographer for 7 years before he became an instructor.

Padi Multilevel Diver

There's so much to see underwater that you'll want to make the most of your stay. So, to maximize your underwater adventure, you should learn how to plan and carry out a multilevel dive.

To experience the Multilevel Diver program, you'll need to be at least a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent and at least 12 years old.

During your Multilevel Diver program, you'll go on two open water dives, both of which may be conducted in one day. You'll also be exposed to a variety of different types of multilevel dive calculators (the Wheel and various types of dive computers).

Topics covered include:

The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of multilevel diving.

Definition and advantages of multilevel diving.

Methods of calculating multilevel dives. (The Wheel and/or dive computers).

Review of decompression sickness theory.

Review of emergency decompression procedures.

Review of PADI's S.A.F.E. Campaign.

Procedures for flying after diving.

Guidelines, rules and procedures for multilevel diving with the Wheel and/or diving computers.

Care and maintenance of dive computers.

The elective Multilevel Dive from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward the certification requirements for this specialty at your PADI Instructor's discretion.

Ready to dive from the deepest depths to the shallows? Ascend to our level at EASY DIVERS to sign up.

PADI's Deep Diver

PADI's Deep Diver program offers you the adventure of a lifetime – going deep to see things others only dream about.

To join the deep diving crowd, you'll need at least your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent) certification and be at least 15 years old.

The program includes four open water dives, which are conducted over at least two days.

The minimum depth for the deep dives is between 18 to 30 metres/60 to 100 feet, with no dive exceeding 40 metres/130 feet. All your dives will be conducted within the no-decompression limits, with deeper dives conducted first. During your program, you'll cover the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to dive deep.

The following is included in the PADI Deep Diver program:

Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving.

Risk factors and decompression-tables review.

Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures.

Special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations.

Procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving.

Orientation to recompression chambers.

The core Deep Dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may be counted toward this specialty at the discretion of the instructor.

To take your diving to new depths, ask EASY DIVERS to check out schedules of our dives and sign up.

PADI Wreck Diver

Want to explore sunken ships, crashed planes and lost treasures beneath the surface?

Then the PADI Wreck Diver program is just want you want. To venture into PADI's Wreck Diver program, you'll need to be at least a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent) and be at least 15.

During your PADI Wreck Diver program you'll go on four open water dives, which may be conducted over at least two days.

This is where you'll put in to practice the information you gained from listening to your instructor and from the PADI Wreck Diving Manual and video.

Information contained in your program includes:

The planning, organization, 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.

The elective wreck dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program may count toward this specialty at the discretion of the instructor.

To explore the treasures hidden beneath the surface or dive the ZENOBIA, one of the best three wrecks dives in the World. To sign up for the Wreck Diver program today.

Wreck penetration-training dives are limited to within the light zone and within 40 metres/130 feet from the surface, vertical and horizontal distance included. If the wreck used for training is located in deep water (over 18 metres/60 feet), the Deep Diver rating is recommended as a prerequisite for the Wreck Diver program.

DSAT Gas Blender

More people are diving with enriched air and this means the demand for enriched air fills is also increasing. However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the DSAT Gas Blender course comes in. It can result in one of two certifications: DSAT Gas Blender or DSAT Trimix Blender.

The DSAT Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers. You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.

To be a DSAT Gas Blender you need to be:

PADI Enriched Air Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

Minimum age: 18 years old

Ready to learn the deepest depths to the shallows of our air the we breath? Ascend to our level at EASY DIVERS to sign up.

PADI Enriched Air Diver

Why PADI Enriched Air Diver?

By diving with enriched air rather than standard air you can extend your no decompression limits. This means more time underwater. For example, if you dive to 15 metres/50 feet on air, your no decompression limit is 80 minutes. But, diving on EANx36 gets you 220 minutes of no decompression time - an increase of 140 minutes.

What do I need to start?

PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

Minimum age is 15 years old

What will I do?

The PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty certification emphasizes the theoretical and operational considerations involved with enriched air diving.

How long will it take?

Recommended Course Hours: 12

Minimum Open Water Training: Two dives over one day

What will I need?

You'll need your PADI Enriched Air Crew-Pak, which also includes an Enriched Air 32 percent Table, Enriched Air 36 percent Table and Equivalent Air Depth/Oxygen Exposure Table.

Last Updated 13th May 2008

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