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We offer a range of specialty courses aimed to extended your knowledge, skill level and ultimately your diving
Each specialty course is supported by a manual/DVD that works through the subject. You will then work through a series of dives improving your skills and polishing your technique.
Deep Diver Specialty
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 divers
What You Learn
Number of Dives 4
COST £150
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Underwater Navigator
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.
What 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
Number of dives 3 COST £120
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Night Diver Specialty
Although you’ve seen the reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.
What You Learn
- Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems
- How to control your buoyancy at night
- Entries, exits and underwater navigation at night
- Nocturnal aquatic life, since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different
Number of dives 3 COST £135
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Peak Performance Bouyancy
Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as an Open water diver and elevates them to the next level.
What You Learn
- How to trim your scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water
- Knowledge 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
Number of dives 2 COST £65
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Search and Recovery Diver
This 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.
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
Number of dives 4 COST £150
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Wreck Diver
The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.
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
Number of dives 4 COST £150
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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. 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.
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
Level 1 pool only
COST £65
Level 2 Pool and 2 open water Dives
COST £110
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Project AWARE
The underwater world needs heroes. You can be one of them by championing the causes of the world’s most fragile and important aquatic ecosystems.
What You Learn
- The ocean commons and coastal zone issues
- Fisheries challenges and sustainability
- Coral environment overview and inhabitants
- The role of the scuba diver in protecting aquatic environments
No dives COST £40
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Emergency Oxygen Provider
Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider.
What You Learn
- Recognize diving illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen
- Properly setup equipment
- Administer emergency oxygen
No dives
COST£65
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Enriched Air Diver
This is the most popular specialty course, why you ask? Simple diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time which means more time underwater doing what we love!
What you learn
- Techniques for getting more dive time using EAN
- Enriched air nitrox equipment considerations
- Other skills including managing your oxygen exposure, how to tell whats in your tank and how to set you computer
Cost £80 classroom only £135 including 2 dives
