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What are PADI Specialty Courses

Scuba specialty courses are designed to enhance your diving skills and knowledge beyond the basic diver certification. They allow you to specialize in specific areas of diving, such as deep diving, wreck diving, night diving, or underwater photography.

These are just a few examples, PADI offers many other specialty courses to cater to different interests and skill levels. Expand your diving horizons and become a more knowledgeable and skilled diver.

Best-selling PADI Specialty Courses

Enriched Air Nitrox

Enriched air (nitrox) has less nitrogen than regular air which means longer dives and shorter surface intervals. Nitrox dives are complimentary for certified divers at Atmosphere Resorts & Spa!

Drift Diving

Dive in a current and feel like flying underwater. Learn drift-diving tips from an experienced instructor and practice buoyancy, navigation, surface signaling, and buddy communication with this specialty course.

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Glide effortlessly, use less air, and ascend, descend, or hover almost as if by thought. This course improves your buoyancy skills and air consumption and your trim will also improve significantly.

Night Diver

Dive into a new world at night. Watch creatures come alive under your dive light. Learn about marine life behaviors and diver considerations for safe night dives with the night diver specialty course.

Deep Diver

Learn to plan deep dives, manage gas supply, and identify narcosis in the Deep diver course. Practice buddy contact, safety procedures, and buoyancy at depth. Increase your depth limit to 40m.

Other must-have PADI Specialty Courses

Underwater navigation

Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow with our specialty courses. Know where you are and where you’re going. Improve your observation skills and learn to use your compass accurately underwater. Explore new dive sites confidently and safely.

Search & Recovery Diver

Become an underwater hero and find lost objects. Learn underwater search patterns and use a lift bag. Plan and execute mock search operations. This course teaches you how to locate underwater items and assist in recovery efforts.
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Critters of Dauin specialist

This specialty is unique to Atmosphere Resorts dive our marine biologist and discover Dauin’s unique marine life. Learn about local biodiversity and enhance your diving skills with two critter hunt dives.

Underwater photographer or videographer

This course will help you capture stunning underwater images learn to take underwater photos and videos you’ll love. Avoid beginner mistakes and learn from the pros. Discover simple editing techniques.

Fish Identification

Want to know what that fish was? Take the Fish ID course. Enjoy your dives more by recognizing creatures and identifying main fish families and their characteristics.

PADI Aware Specialty Courses

PADI Aware

Join the PADI AWARE course to protect our oceans. Learn about coral reef health, marine species protection, and other vital issues. Gain skills to make a difference. Become an ocean conservation advocate.
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PADI AWARE Dive Against Debris

Make every dive count! Join AWARE dive against debris to protect our oceans. Learn how to clean up dive sites and contribute to a global database on marine debris. Be a citizen scientist and help protect our planet.

PADI AWARE Shark Conservation

Sharks need you! Join the AWARE shark conservation course. Learn about the value of sharks and the causes of population decline. Become a knowledgeable shark defender and help dispel misconceptions. Protect sharks!sharkconservation

PADI Enriched Air Nitrox

Enriched air, also known as nitrox or EANx, contains less nitrogen than regular air. Breathing less nitrogen allows for longer dives and shorter surface intervals. And with tmosphere Resorts & Spa, nitrox dives are complimentary for certified nitrox divers! 

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver

Age:
Minimum 12 years old

Number of dives:
None

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PADI Drift Diving

Diving in a current can feel like flying underwater. In this Drift diver specialty course, you’ll learn drift-diving tips from an experienced instructor and get to practise buoyancy control, navigation, use of surface signalling equipment and buddy communication.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver

Age:
Minimum 12 years old

Number of dives:
Two

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PADI Peak performance buoyancy

Glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. This course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level. Your buoyancy and trim, as well as your air consumption, will improve considerably during a fun course with lots of games and play.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver

Age:
Minimum 10 years old

Number of dives:
Two

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PADI Deep Diver

During the Deep diver course, you’ll learn how to plan deep dives, manage your gas supply and identify and manage narcosis. The instructor will teach you about buddy contact procedures, safety considerations and buoyancy control at depth. Your new maximum depth limit will be 40m.

Pre-requisite:
PADI Adventure diver

Age:
Minimum 15 years old

Number of dives:
Three

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PADI Night Diver

At night, you dive into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge. Learn about new marine life behaviours and diver considerations and safety during night dives.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver

Age:
Minimum 12 years old

Number of dives:
Three

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PADI Critters of Dauin specialist

This specialty is unique to Atmosphere Resorts & Spa and taught by our in-house marine biologist. The Critters of Dauin course begins with an engaging presentation, followed by two exciting critter hunt dives. You’ll enhance your diving skills and also learn about the incredible biodiversity that thrives in our local waters.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver

Age:
Minimum 10 years old

Number of dives:
Two

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PADI Underwater navigation

Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you’re going. You get to fine-tune your observation skills and learn to more accurately use your compass underwater, empowering you to explore new dive sites confidently and safely.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver

Age:
Minimum 10 years old

Number of dives:
Three

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PADI Search & recovery diver

The next time someone loses an item underwater, you can be the hero who finds the missing object. You’ll learn how to find lost objects underwater and practise different types of underwater search patterns. You will also learn how to use a lift bag as you plan and execute mock search operations in this specialty course.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Advanced open water diver or PADI (Junior) Open water diver with a PADI Underwater navigation certification.

Age:
Minimum 12 years old

Number of dives:
Four

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PADI Digital underwater photographer or videographer

During these specialty courses you’ll learn how to take underwater photos or videos you’ll be proud to share with others. You learn to avoid beginner mistakes and you will shorten the learning curve with tips from the pros. You will also discover simple techniques for editing your photos and videos.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver.

Age:
Minimum 12 years old

Number of dives:
Two or three

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PADI Fish Identification

“What was that fish?” is a common question heard after a dive. If you want to be the scuba diver with the answers, instead of the one asking the questions, then the Fish ID specialty course is the course for you. You’ll enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures that you see and can identify the main fish families and their characteristics.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver.

Age:
Minimum 10 years old

Number of dives:
Two

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PADI Aware

Join the PADI AWARE specialty course and empower yourself to protect our oceans. Designed for everyone, this course focuses on marine conservation and environmental awareness. You’ll learn about vital issues facing our oceans, like coral reef health and marine species protection, while gaining the skills to make a difference. With engaging activities and a passion for the underwater world, you’ll become an advocate for ocean conservation.

Pre-requisite:
None

Age:
None

Number of dives:
None

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PADI AWARE Dive Against Debris

Make every dive count by activating your inner citizen scientist and be one of the divers protecting our ocean. During AWARE dive against debris specialty course, you’ll learn how ocean plastic and trash cleanups not only keep your local dive sites healthier but also how to contribute to a global database that documents our planet’s marine debris problem.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher.

Age:
Minimum 10 years old

Number of dives:
One

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PADI AWARE Shark Conservation

Sharks need you! Enrol in the AWARE shark conservation specialty course and discover the value of sharks to marine ecosystems and economies. You’ll learn more about the causes of declining shark populations and the actions you can take to become a knowledgeable and passionate shark defender. By being informed, you can dispel misconceptions and act to protect sharks.

Pre-requisite:
PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher.

Age:
Minimum 12 years old

Number of dives:
Two

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