Advanced & Speciality Courses

After you have finished your PADI Open Water course you will feel a great sense of satisfaction when you receive your Open Water Certificate and start to feel the excitement as you imagine your first dives as a PADI Open Water diver.

You may wish to continue to develop your diving skills by joining further courses either in the UK or overseas. Course are available in a huge variety of subjects that cover types of diving such as photography, wreck or deep diving allowing you both to further enjoy your diving experience. As always safety is of paramount importance to the diver and participation in courses such as Rescue Diver and Emergency First Responder will offer an invaluable depth of knowledge.

We recommend your next steps to increase your knowledge by becoming an Advanced Diver. This will allow you to participate in the full range of specialist courses available at our partner centres around the world like Drift Diving in the Maldives, Wreck Diving in Truk or Shark Diving in Mexico or Sud Africa. You will also be able to dive over 18 meters depths giving you access to some of the most spectacular sites, all the while building your confidence and skill in the water. It all adds up to a better diving experience.

PADI Advanced Open Water (2 days) from £115

This course has been designed for divers who have completed the PADI Open Water course or any other entry level dive course. The course focuses on expanding your dive knowledge from the Open Water course and consists of five dives over two days. It will include a deep water dive between 18-30 metres and the planning needed for this and navigating an underwater course. The remaining 3 dives can be selected by you with help from your instructor and allow you to explore different types of diving such as night, drift or wreck diving through to photography or buoyancy control. Each dive will be credited as the first dive in any subsequent PADI Speciality dive course you make take in the future. To qualify for this course you will need to ave completed the PADI Open Water course and be a minimum of 15 years of age.

Speciality Courses

PADI and the other training agencies offer a vast range of speciality courses to develop your skills and knowledge. See below for a selection available in our resorts.

PADI

There are a variety of courses available to take depending on your level of diving.

With the exception of Ice Diving, Cavern Diver and Semiclosed Rebreather all our dive center can teach these PADI specialities. Cavern diving is available only in Mexico and Palau. Rebreather are available where technical diving is available in Egypt, Micronesia, Thailand, Philippines to name few.

PADI Nitrox - Enriched Air Diver Course

This is PADI's most popular speciality course with the advantage of being able to dive for longer with more no decompression time - a great advantage to have particularly on repetitive dives and on our many Liveaboard options. You learn how to manage the extended dive time by using Enriched Air Nitrox with a better understanding of your scuba equipment and enriched air consideration, including managing oxygen exposure and maximum depth. It now a "dry course" meaning you do not need to dive to be certified.

You must be a minimum of 15 years old and have the PADI Open Water Qualification.

BSAC Courses

BSAC doesn’t have a system of separate speciality courses as they are learnt by the diver as an integral part of the training during his/her progression through the diving levels. This includes such disciplines as decompression, mixed gas diving, boat handling through to advanced safety procedures such as CPR and rescue techniques. For more information on BSAC courses see here >

Red Sea BSAC Dive Centres

Ocean College in Sharm El Sheik and Pharoah Dive Club in El Quesir both offer BSAC courses. For details of other centres offering BSAC courses please call one of our specialist Dive Consultants who will be happy to talk you through the options.

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