Other Speciality Courses Available
Contact Living Underwater for current pricing. Please ask about the specialty you are interested in if we haven’t listed it here.
Deep Diver Specialty
Experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet. Deep diving requires you to consider new variables and takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.
- Experience diving beyond 18 meters/60 feet
- Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
- Four open water dives that range from 18 – 40 meters / 60 – 130 feet.
- Gain experience with diving deep under the direct, professional supervision of a PADI Instructor
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Multi-level Diver Specialty
Learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. You’ll learn to use The WheelTM version of the RDP for planning multi-level dives, making it a great companion for your dive computer.
- Plan and execute multi-level dives (different depths on the same dive)
- Back up your dive computer and plan multi-level dives with The WheelTM
- Maximize your no stop time
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Drift Diver Specialty
This course shows you how to enjoy currents by “going with the flow,” staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.
- Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of drift diving
- An introduction to drift diving equipment — floats, lines, reels
- Buoyancy-control, navigation and communication for drift diving
- Site selection and overview of aquatic currents – causes and effects
- Techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers! By mastering these skills you’ll move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully.
- Requires two dives
- Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
- Streamlining, balance and trim
- Fine-tune buoyancy and mastering hovering
- Materials: You’ll Need Peak Performance Buoyancy video
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Underwater Naturalist
This 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.
- Overview of aquatic life groupings and interrelations
- The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships
- Responsible interactions with aquatic life
- Requires two dives
- Certification counts toward the PADI Master SCUBA Diver rating
Prerequisite: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)