Specialty Courses

For Beginners (no experience required)

PADI offers a range of specialty courses to enhance your scuba diving skills. Peak Performance Buoyancy helps you perfect control to move effortlessly and conserve air—available to divers 10 years and older. Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) extends bottom time and reduces nitrogen exposure through quick online theory and optional dives (note: practical components cost extra). Improve your underwater navigation with the Underwater Navigator course, available from age 10. Dive deeper safely with the Deep Diver course, allowing exploration down to 40m/130ft for divers 15+ with Adventure Diver certification.

Explore new environments and skills with other specialty courses. Night Diver opens up a whole new world of marine life after dark (age 12+). The Boat Diver course teaches techniques for diving from boats worldwide, starting from age 10. Finally, the Search & Recovery Diver course trains you to locate and lift lost items effectively—ideal for Advanced Open Water Divers age 12+, or Open Water Divers with the Underwater Navigator certification.

What to expect

Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.

Your first breath underwater is something you will never forget! During this course, you learn the skills and knowledge needed to become a certified diver, get an understanding of how to use your equipment and care for it, how to manoeuvre underwater with all the gear, to dive with a buddy and understand safe diving practices, dive planning, and get comfortable with your buoyancy while respecting the environment you are surrounded. The course consists of 5 confined water sessions and 4 dives at local spots under the supervision of a PADI Dive Instructor.

Specialty Courses