PADI Specialties

PADI Enriched Air Diver NITROX
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You’re on one of the best dives you have ever had, around every corner you look there is something you have never seen before, then your buddy signals to you, it’s time to go up, you still have lots of gas in your tanks but, your bottom time is running low. If this sounds familiar to you, then it’s time to get your EAN certification. You have to be an open water diver of at least 12 years of age and you can start today with the PADI e-Learning. Once you arrive your PADI Instructor will go through the analyzing and planning of a Nitrox dive and then you can jump right in and enjoy your extra bottom time.

You will learn;
• why diving with higher levels of oxygen gives you more bottom time
• the dangers of diving with higher levels of oxygen
• equipment consideration
• analyzing the oxygen content of a scuba cylinder
• setting your dive computer and planning a Nitrox dive

PADI Deep Diver
It’s human nature to want to push the limits to the maximum. The Deep Diver Course allows you to go to the very limits of recreational diving, and find out what lurks down in the depths below. Learn the proper safe diving techniques to stay safe while diving down to a maximum 40m and figure out what the reason you have to venture on down towards the bottom. PADI Adventure Divers who are at least 15 years old are eligible to enroll in the Deep Specialty Course.

What’s involved?
• 4 deep dives
• the use of specialized diving equipment
• Deep diver planning and buddy contact procedures
• managing gas supply, gas narcosis and other safety considerations

PADI Underwater Navigation
Good buoyancy and good awareness is what makes a good diver. The navigation course works on building your awareness by showing you some easy to use underwater navigational skills and then allowing you to put them into practice during 3 open water dives. So the next time you head out for a dive you can spend more time looking at all the cool stuff and not worrying so much about how to get back to the exit point. You will have to have the Open Water certification and be at least 10 years old to sign up.

What you learn?
• How to estimate distance under water
• how to use a compass underwater
• following natural navigation’s example; water movement, underwater formations and topography
• locating and relocating submerged objects
• under water map making techniques

PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy
Having excellent buoyancy skills is what defines you as a ‘skilled’ scuba diver. Been able to effortless hover in mid water allows you to do an all host of things without using so much energy or gas. Checking out that cool little Nudibranch without accidentally touching the reef is not only a great feeling but also helps protect the environment. You will need to be an Open Water Diver to sign up and at least 10 years old.

What’s involved?
• performing a weight test to find out your exact weights
• adjusting your trim to have a better streamlined position underwater
• proper efficient fin kicks to glide through the water
• hover in many different positions