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Altitude Diver

Boat Diver

Cavern Diver

Deep Diver

Dive Propulsion Vehicle

Drift Diver

Dry Suit Diver

Enriched Air Diver

Equipment Specialist

Ice Diver

Multilevel Diver

Night Diver

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Rocky Mountain Diver

Search and Recovery Diver

Underwater Naturalist

Underwater Navigator

Underwater Photographer

Underwater Videographer

Wreck Diver

Forms:

As with all things, of course there is paperwork to be completed before your course can start. Please note any "Yes" on the medical form requires a doctor sign off prior to you entering the course. Both forms must be completed prior to the start of any course.

Medical Form

Certified Diver Experience Form

PADI Altitude Diver:

Any time you’re diving at 300 to 3000 metres/1000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, you're altitude diving. If you want to explore the hidden world of a mountain lake, the PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course is for you. The PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the rules and procedures necessary for altitude diving, including how to use the Recreational Dive Planner at altitude.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

  1. Altitude dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards
  2. Recreational Dive Planner procedures for diving at altitude
  3. Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures at altitude
  4. Learn what special equipment is necessary for altitude diving
  5. Number of Dives: Two

$119.00 + GST

PADI Boat Diver:

Whether you've never made a boat dive or you've logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the type boat and the location.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

  1. Covers techniques for diving from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards
  2. Discusses how dive boats differ from place to place
  3. Gives you focused experience and training for diving from boats in your local area
  4. Covers basic boat safety equipment and use
  5. Number of Dives: Two

$119.00 + GST

PADI Deep Diver:

In the PADI Deep Diver Specialty Course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old
  2. Experience diving beyond 18 metres/60 feet

What will I do?

  1. earn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
  2. Open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 60 - 130 feet.
  3. Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor
  4. Number of Dives: Four

$169.00 + GST

PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle:

DPV’s offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They scoot you through the water without kicking. Want to visit that offshore reef from the beach? A DPV may be the way to go.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old

What will I do?

  1. Diver propulsion vehicle dive planning organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards
  2. Equipment considerations
  3. Diver etiquette and how to avoid harming fragile aquatic life
  4. Number of Dives: Two
  5. The PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating.

$149.00 + GST

PADI Drift Diver:

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty Course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by “going with the flow,” staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old

What will I do?

  1. Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of drift diving
  2. An introduction to drift diving equipment -- floats, lines, reels
  3. Buoyancy-control, navigation and communication for drift diving
  4. Site selection and overview of aquatic currents – causes and effects
  5. Techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group
  6. Number of Dives: Two

$119.00 + GST

PADI Dry Suit 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.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old

What will I do?

  1. Don and doff techniques specific to your dry suit
  2. Dry suit buoyancy control skills
  3. Dry suit maintenance and storage
  4. Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options
  5. Number of Dives: Two
  6. The PADI Dry Suit Diver certification credits toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

$129.00 + GST

PADI Enriched Air Diver:

PADI eLearning

Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

  1. Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
  2. Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
  3. Safely increase your no stop time.
  4. Number of Dives: Two
  5. Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating

$129.00 + GST

PADI 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.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

  1. Reviews the theory, principles and operation of dive equipment
  2. Routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
  3. Common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
  4. Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)
  5. No dives are required, so you can take the Equipment Specialist course any time of the year
  6. 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

$119.00 + GST

PADI Ice Diver:

If the spirit of adventure and unusual, challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under the ice. Ice diving opens a new and different view of familiar dive sites. During the PADI Ice Diver course, you dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialities recreational diving offers. If you like fun, people and a challenge, you’ll love the PADI Ice Diver Specialty course.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 18 years old

What will I do?

  1. Learn to plan and organize ice dives
  2. Practice the procedures and techniques for handling the problems and hazards of ice diving
  3. Site selection, preparation and hole-cutting procedures
  4. Use specialized ice diving equipment, safety lines, signals, communications, line tending and line-securing techniques
  5. Learn about the effects of cold, emergency procedures and safety-diver procedures
  6. Explore the unique aquascape found only under ice.
  7. Number of Dives: Three
  8. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$219.00 + GST

PADI Multi Level Diver:

The adventure, thrill and excitement of night diving can be yours when you complete your PADI Night Diver Specialty course. You learn about night dive planning, equipment and navigation. You practice these on three night dives, plus introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old

What will I do?

  1. Dive lights and night diving equipment
  2. Entries, exits and navigation at night
  3. Nocturnal aquatic life
  4. Communication and light handling
  5. Materials: You’ll Need a Night-Pak, which includes PADI Night Diver Manual and the award-winning PADI Night Diving video.
  6. Number of Dives: Three
  7. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$129.00 + GST

PADI Night Diver:

The adventure, thrill and excitement of night diving can be yours when you complete your PADI Night Diver Specialty course. You learn about night dive planning, equipment and navigation. You practice these on three night dives, plus introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old

What will I do?

  1. Dive lights and night diving equipment
  2. Entries, exits and navigation at night
  3. Nocturnal aquatic life
  4. Communication and light handling
  5. Materials: You’ll Need a Night-Pak, which includes PADI Night Diver Manual and the award-winning PADI Night Diving video.
  6. Number of Dives: Three
  7. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$139.00 + GST

PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy:

Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old

What will I do?

  1. Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
  2. Streamlining, balance and trim
  3. Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
  4. Materials: You’ll Need Peak Performance Buoyancy video
  5. Number of Dives: Two
  6. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$129.00 + GST

PADI Rocky Mountain Diver:

Info to come

What do I need to start?

  1. Info to come

What will I do?

  1. Info to come

$129.00 + GST

PADI Search and Recovery:

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.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old

What will I do?

  1. Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
  2. Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery
  3. Materials: You’ll Need Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver
  4. Manual and the Search and Recovery video.
  5. Number of Dives: Four
  6. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$149.00 + GST

PADI Underwater Naturalist:

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.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

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

$119.00 + GST

PADI Underwater Navigator:

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.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

  1. Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation
  2. Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
  3. Dive site relocation
  4. Materials: You’ll Need Nav-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Navigator Manual, Underwater Navigation video and the Nav-Finder
  5. Number of Dives: Three
  6. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$149.00 + GST

PADI Digital Underwater Photographer:

Whether you’re a casual holiday snapper or a consummate photo pro, the PADI Underwater Photographer course teaches you the basics as they apply to taking photos underwater, with a special emphasis on practical techniques.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be 10 years old.

What will I do?

  1. You’ll Need Photo-Pak, which includes the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Manual and Underwater Photography video.
  2. Number of Dives: Two
  3. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$129.00 + GST

PADI Underwater Videographer:

The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course introduces you to underwater video equipment and videography fundamentals, such as exposure, focus, shot types, moves, story line and shot sequencing. It takes you through the post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece. By the time you complete the course, you’ll have gone through the entire basic video production process.

What do I need to start?

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

What will I do?

  1. equipment overview, selection and maintenance
  2. Story planning and organization
  3. Shot sequencing
  4. Basic editing
  5. Number of Dives: Two
  6. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$149.00 + GST

PADI Wreck Diver:

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.

What do I need to start?

  1. Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.

What will I do?

  1. Materials You’ll Need: Wreck-Pak, which includes the PADI Wreck Diver Manual and Wreck Diving video.
  2. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.
  3. Number of Dives: Four
  4. Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

$149.00 + GST