The PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water Certification can seem like the end goal but this is only the beginning. There is a full range of specialty courses which will take your diving skills to the next level. You will get more experience and explore a range of new skills, customized to your interests in the PADI Specialty courses. They will prepare you to dive specific places in the world. From drift diving, wreck diving and many more. Every PADI Specialty Diver course expands your skill set and your experience, opening doors to new diving opportunities. PADI offers a vast lineup of continuing-education courses that provide experience and training. Here in Manta Dive Phuket we offer a wide range of these specialties.
Specialty Courses
The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Nitrox allows you to extend your ‘no-deco’ limits. You can spend more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives. You can stay down longer and return to the water sooner.
Digital underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties. Nowadays there are so many underwater cameras to choose from. It has become easier and more fun than ever to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course. Hovering in any position! You can do it. Sign up for this specialty course and become a better diver. Improve your air consumption and get your weight down.
The specialty course that can give you a real adrenaline pump! Some divers compare the drift diving to skydiving or hang gliding… As a drift diver specialist, the currents work for you and not against you. When some currents discourage most of the divers, you will fully enjoy your drift dives.
The lure of the deep. There’s 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, and on wall dives it may be a giant fan or sponge. Whatever it is, to scuba dive with confidence at depths down to 40 metres/130 feet, you should take the PADI Deep Diver Specialty course.
You have already seen cave or wreck divers carrying their cylinders mounted alongside them, below their shoulders and along the hips. Having scuba tanks on your back isn’t a requirement. Sidemount configuration gives you flexibility, freedom and streamlining.
Wreck Diver Specialty Course
Mystery, Adventure, Discovery, Photography… It’s no wonder wreck diving is so attractive scuba diving activity. Diving wreck is an adventure in exploring humanity’s loss and nature’s gain. But you feel that your conscious dictates you to be careful and be well trained before entering the wreck. It’s here that your PADI Wreck Specialty course start.
Multilevel scuba diving is your ticket to more of what you got – time underwater. No wonder more and more divers consider their dive computers as essential as their masks. Today, in most parts of the world it is more unusual to find someone scuba diving without a computer than with one.
How can i go to the wreck? How can i back to the boat? With the PADI specialty course, you will learn the basics of the underwater navigation. You will not disoriented or lost. Navigation can be one of those things that you don’t recognize the benefits of until you really, really need it.