PADI Specialty Certifications

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  The Emergency First Response® Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course combines flexible online self-study and in-person training. It's your course at your pace. Practice a skill until you feel confident before moving on to the next one.

Online training makes it easy to fit a CPR and first aid course into a busy schedule. Watch videos of different first aid techniques and learn what steps to take in an emergency. Study online or offline, using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor if you have questions.

• eLearning time commitment: 2-4 hours

Learn eight essential skills for helping others in an emergency. Get hands-on experience administering CPR using a special manikin, practice bandaging and splinting, and apply your new skills in a role-playing scenario.

• Prerequisites: Desire to help others
• Total time commitment: 4-8 hours
• Minimum age: None

With proper training, equipment and the right attitude to accept the risks involved in independent diving, an experience diver can responsibly engage in dives without a buddy. Self-reliant diving is an adventure activity that is not for everyone, but does have its place. If you have the mental discipline and commitment to learn and follow self-reliant diving techniques, you'll bolster your skills and confidence when diving alone, in a dive pair or as part of a team.

You need to be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver who is at least 18 years old and has 100 logged dives to enroll in the Self-Reliant Diver course. You'll also complete a skills assessment with your PADI Self-Reliant Diver Instructor before diving into the course.

Learning how to compensate for situations you would normally handle with a buddy is the focus of the Self-Reliant Diver course. This includes proper dive planning using air consumption rate calculations, life support system redundancy, and independent management of dive emergencies. During three self-reliant training dives, you'll practice:

• Performing an air consumption rate swim to gather information for later calculation.
• Switching to a redundant air supply system during simulated emergency situations.
• Swimming without a mask.
• Navigating to various points, including your exit.
• Using a DSMB

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
• Minimum of 100 logged dives
• At least 18 years old

• DSMB
• Redundant gas source, dive computer (depth, gauge/time)
• Surface signaling devices
• Knife/cutting tool
• Slate and pencil

Want to learn how to find lost items underwater and bring them back to the surface? The PADI Search & Recovery Diver Specialty will teach you what you need to know!

We promise that not only will you have loads of fun learning how to use the lift bag, you'll also be gaining useful skills. You never know when you or someone else may lose something in the water, and as a certified PADI Search & Recovery Diver, you'll know how to search for it and recover it! 

In this course, you'll improve your underwater navigation skills while learning different techniques for running search patterns. Learn how to plan a search operation from start to finish, including how to use a lift bag to safely return objects to the surface. 

Have you ever wanted to explore the underwater world after the sun goes down? Learn how to do just that with the PADI Night Diver Specialty course! 

A night dive is a dive that occurs without the presence of ambient sunlight. You will learn night dive planning, light use and selection, night navigation techniques, communications, and emergency procedures. 

Introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that come out after the sun goes down, and see your favorite dive sites from a whole new perspective at night.
You will learn how to use a dive light, how to navigate underwater at night, and how to safely ascend and descend at night.

Don't miss out on this adventure of a course!

Do you feel the lure of the deep calling you further down below the surface? Follow the call — take the PADI Deep Diver Course and learn how to dive to new depths with safety and confidence!

There’s just something exciting and mysterious about exploring deeper dive sites while scuba diving. Sometimes, it’s a wreck that attracts you below 18 metres/60 feet. On wall dives, it may be a giant fan or sponge. Whatever it is that's calling you further below the surface, the PADI Deep Diver Specialty course is the key to going deeper on your next dive. 

During this course, you'll learn what nitrogen narcosis is and how to avoid it while deep diving. You'll learn how to manage your gas supply as you go deeper, as well as how to recognize your own personal limits while diving. By the end of the course, you'll be certified to scuba dive with confidence at depths down to 40 meters (130 feet). 

Prerequisites:

• PADI Adventure Diver rating or higher
• Minimum age 15 years 

What good is scuba diving if you can’t share your underwater experiences with your non-diving friends? The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer specialty course will teach you how to do just that!  

Learn how to capture stunning images of your underwater encounters that you will then be able to share with friends or retain as memory keepsakes. 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. 

Learn how to use today's modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros. You'll also learn how to use underwater photography lights (known as strobes), how to reduce backscatter and enhance color in your underwater photos, and how to choose the right photo equipment for the most beautiful underwater pictures possible.