Search & Recovery

Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.

In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.

• Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organization)
• Must be at least 12 years old
• Number of Dives: Four
• Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
• Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.

Course Cost: $175.00

Reccomended Materials:

PADI Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual and the Search and Recovery video

Night Diver

Deep Diver

The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.

In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.

Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.

• Must be a PADI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old
• Experience diving beyond 18 metres/60 feet
• Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
• Four open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 60 - 130 feet.
• Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Course Cost: $175.00
Course Text & Materials: $54.00

Peak Performance Bouyancy

Wreck Diver

You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet.

Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.

• Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.
• Number of Dives: Four dives over two days
• Materials You’ll Need: Wreck-Pak, which includes the PADI Wreck Diver Manual and Wreck Diving video.
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.

Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.

Course Cost: $175.00
Course Text & Materials: $54.00
Charter Fees: $180.00

Underwater Naturalist

Are you fascinated with aquatic life? Always wondering what that fish is and why it always dances under a coral head whenever you get close? If you’re engrossed with life under the surface, the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course is especially for you.

In your journey to underwater naturalist, the course teaches you about the different major aquatic life groupings and how they interact so that you understand what you observe in the underwater environment. With the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course under your belt, you see the aquatic world differently. You don’t see “fish,” but individual species with distinct strategies for surviving in a complex, interactive ecosystem.

Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)

• Overview of aquatic life groupings and interrelations
• The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships
• Responsible interactions with aquatic life
• Number of Dives: Two
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Explore life in the underwater world.

Course Cost: $125.00

Equipment Specialist

Want to know about how your dive gear works? Then the PADI Equipment Specialist course is for you. This course familiarizes you with the operation and maintenance of your dive equipment. The more you know about how your gear works, the more comfortable you are with it, the more performance you get from it and the better you can care for it.

• Must be a PADI Scuba Diver or Junior Scuba Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Reviews the 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 gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)
• No dives are required, so you can take the Equipment Specialist course any time of the year
• The PADI Equipment Specialist Course is not an equipment repair course, but it provides the foundation you’ll want if you’re interested in learning equipment repair
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Course Cost: $90.00

Underwater Navigator

Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, 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.

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 to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Number of Dives: Three
• Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation
• Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
• Dive site relocation
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Find your way with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.

Course Cost: $125

Reccomended Materials: PADI Nav-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Navigator Manual, Underwater Navigation video and the Nav-Finder

Drysuit Diver

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then stay out of the water. What? Stay out of the water? Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water. In the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you’ll learn how to use a dry suit. And that keeps you warm! Even in very cold water.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization) and at least 10 years old
• Don and doff techniques specific to your dry suit
• Dry suit buoyancy control skills
• Dry suit maintenance and storage
• Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options 
• The PADI Dry Suit Diver certification credits toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

Course Cost: $125.00

Boat Diver

Course Cost: $90.00 (Does not include charter fees)

Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty

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 nondiving certification.  Not a diver yet? Start today with PADI eLearning.
• Choosing and using modern digital cameras and underwater housings
• Using the PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
• Editing and sharing your pictures
• The three primary principles for getting good photos underwater
• The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.
• 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

Course Cost: $125.00

Emergency First Response

Emergency First Response (EFR) is the fastest-growing international CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and First Aid training organization. Dedicated to training the lay rescuer, EFR courses encompasses adult, child and infant CPR skills, provides AED and First Aid training, and feature an outstanding First Aid at Work component. The company’s award-winning programs and state-of-the-art training materials make it a favorite among divers around the world.

Many divers take the Emergency First Response courses to meet program prerequisites, such as PADI Rescue Diver, or as preparation for becoming a PADI Divemaster. However, most have also found the EFR program to be important in every day life. They have taken a significant step in emergency preparedness, and feel confident that they can provide care should an emergency situation arise.

The Emergency First Response program meets requirements for CPR and First Aid in the workplace (OSHA Guideline 29 CFR 1910.151), and incorporates the latest procedures for emergency patient care. Other organizations that recognize EFR as meeting their requirements are United States Coast Guard, The Boy Scouts of America, and the American Council on Exercise (ACE), to name a few.

What do I need to start?

• No dive certification required
• No minimum age limit

What will I do?

The course incorporates independent study to prepare you for a classroom and hands-on skill development session with your instructor. You will learn the same patient care techniques used by medical professionals, but at a lay person level.

How long will it take?

• Depending on the amount of independent study and the class size, the Primary Care and Secondary Care courses may be completed in as little as four hours to six hours

What will I need?

• Participant Manual
• Participant Video (VHS or DVD).

Course Cost: $90.00 (including all course materials)