PADI Specialties
Deep Diver.
This course is designed to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge,
planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and hazards of diving between
the depths of 18 and 40 metres. It includes details of special equipment
considerations setting proper objectives for a deep dive and a review
of the physiology of deep diving. The prerequisite for the course is PADI
Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of one
lecture and four open water dives.
Cost £150.00 inc. VAT
Underwater Navigator
This course is designed to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge
and practical methods for navigating underwater. It includes the estimation
of distance underwater, using underwater patterns, dive site relocation
and compass navigation techniques.
The prerequisite for the course is PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent.
The course is composed of one lecture and three open water dives.
Cost £125 inc. VAT
Night Diver
This course is designed to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge
and practical techniques of diving at night. It includes the appeal
of night diving, an orientation to nocturnal aquatic life, specialised
equipment for night dives and develops the skills needed to plan, conduct
and enjoy safe night diving. The prerequisite for the course is PADI
Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of one lecture
and three open water dives.
Cost £125 inc. VAT
Multi-level Diver
This course is designed to develop the divers knowledge of the theories
behind dive tables, dive computers and multi-level diving and enable
the diver to plan, organise and make safe multi-level no-decompression
dives with The Wheel and/or modern dive computers. It also details the
most state of the art recommendations for flying after diving, omitted
decompression and the S.A.F.E. Diver program. The prerequisite for the
course is PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed
of one lecture and two open water dives.
Price £130 including VAT
Dry Suit Diver
This course is designed to develop the divers knowledge of dry suits
including when to use them, the different types available and the various
dry suit accessories. It also includes techniques for dry suit maintenance,
how to make minor repairs and develops the divers ability to perform
important dry suit skills. The prerequisite for the course is PADI Open
Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of one lecture, one
pool session and two open water dives. Price £130 including VAT
Search and Recovery Diver
This course is designed to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge,
planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards, equipment
and fun of search and recovery diving for small to medium sized objects
lost underwater. The prerequisite for the course is PADI Advanced Open
Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of one lecture and
four open water dives.
Price £145 including VAT.
Wreck Diver
This course is designed to familiarise divers with the wreck environment
and raise their awareness of the historical value of wrecks and the
social and legal issues surrounding them. It includes practical techniques
to enable the diver to safely and enjoyably dive on wreck sites. The
prerequisite for the course is PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent.
The course is composed of one lecture and four open water dives.
Price £150
Drift Diver
This course is designed to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge
and practical techniques for drift diving. This includes developing
the divers knowledge of currents and their characteristics, types of
drift diving, drift diving equipment, surface supervision and the use
of dive boats. The prerequisite for the course is PADI Open Water Diver
or equivalent. The course is composed of one lecture and two open water
dives.
Price £125.
Boat Diver
This course is designed to develop the divers knowledge of proper boat
diving etiquette, personal conduct, basic boat terminology, local boat
diving laws and/or ordinances. It will also develop the divers practical
skills of boat diving entry and exits, use of emergency and safety equipment
aboard a dive boat and enable the diver to plan and organise safe dives
from a boat. The prerequisite for the course is PADI Open Water Diver
or equivalent. The course is composed of one lecture and two open water
dives.
Price £115.
Equipment Specialist
This course is designed to develop the divers practical knowledge of
the theory, principles and operation of diving equipment. It will enable
the diver to perform routine care and maintenance procedures. Teach
the correct methods for storing various pieces of equipment and provide
divers with simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations
and introduce them to new equipment. This course is not designed as
an equipment repair course. The prerequisite for the course is PADI
Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of two lecture
sessions.
Price: £110.00
Underwater Photographer
This course is designed to develop the divers practical knowledge of
photographic principles, composition, film types, strobes and available
light photography and camera handling techniques. This includes the
correct preparation, care and maintenance of photographic equipment.
This will enable the diver to take underwater photographs that are properly
composed, focused and exposed. The prerequisite for the course is PADI
Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of one lecture
and two open water dives.
Price £130.
Underwater Naturalist
This course is designed to create an awareness of the unique opportunities
that divers have in being able to observe and interact with organisms
entirely different from those on land. It develops a sense of responsibility
that recreational divers must have for the aquatic realm around them.
Topics include the aquatic mythology and human perceptions of aquatic
life, and the relationships between them, and how humans can interact
responsibly with aquatic life. The prerequisite for the course is PADI
Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course is composed of two lecture
sessions and two open water dives.
Price £120.
PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Speciality Course
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to familiarise divers with, safety protocols;
hazards, risks, benefits and theory of no-decompression diving with
oxygen enriched air containing 22% to 44% oxygen.
The course is divided into knowledge development, practical application
and open water training. The diver will accomplish the knowledge development
portion by watching the PADI Enriched Air Diving video, by reading the
PADI Enriched Air Diver manual and by reviewing important information
with a certified PADI Enriched Air instructor. The practical application
session includes practising analysis of enriched air and going through
the protocols required when a diver rents an enriched air cylinder or
has one filled, and will be conducted at an actual enriched air filling
station. Finally, the diver will make two enriched air dives under the
instructors supervision. These allow the diver to put into practice
what has been learnt, with an instructor on hand to answer questions,
confirm the steps the diver should take and assist should any problems
arise.
Prerequisites.
The prerequisite certification level is PADI Advanced Open Water Diver,
or equivalent; or PADI Open Water Diver, or equivalent with proof of
ten dives logged beyond training dives for certification.
The minimum age for the course is 15 years old.
As this course applies Recreational Dive Planner use and skills extensively,
the students should familiarise themselves with it prior to the course.
Please ask your instructor prior to the start of the course if a refresher
session is needed.
Cost
The course is comprised of three lecture sessions, each of two hours
duration and two open water training dives. The diver will receive the
PADI Enriched Air Diver Speciality certification on successful completion
of the course. The cost includes all course materials, open water dives,
Nitrox tanks and fills.
£185 inc. VAT
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