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The PADI Master Scuba Diver - The famous BLACK BELT of Scuba Diving
Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving it, writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that set you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.
With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you've reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.
* Minimum Number of Logged Dives: 50
* Minimum qualifications: PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization), 12 years old, five PADI Specialty Diver certifications.
Want it. Live it. Dive it. Master Scuba Diver.
THE PADI SPECIALTY DIVER COURSES:
Peak Performance Buoyancy Course
Float effortlessly, drifting over reefs. Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them.
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.
* Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.
* Number of dives: Two
* Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
* Streamlining, balance and trim
* Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
* Materials: You’ll Need the Peak Performance Buoyancy video
* Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Get the buoyancy control great divers have with PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy.
PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver
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.
* Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).
* Learn to analyze cylinder contents.
* Plan enriched air dives using tables and dive computers.
* Safely increase your no stop time.
* Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating
PADI Deep Diver
The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.
In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.
Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.
* Must be a PADI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 15 years old
* Experience diving beyond 18 metres/60 feet
* Learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards
* Four open water dives that range from 18 - 40 metres / 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.
PADI Underwater Navigator
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.
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.
* Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
* Number of Dives: Three
* Navigation patterns, natural and compass navigation
* Following irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
* Dive site relocation
* Materials: You’ll Need Nav-Pak, which includes the PADI Underwater Navigator Manual, Underwater Navigation video and the Nav-Finder
* Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
Find your way with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.
PADI (Digital) Underwater Photographer
Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.
During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course, you learn to use the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine. You not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.
* Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization) However, you can take the course as a snorkeler and receive a nondiving certification. Not a diver yet? Start today with PADI eLearning.
* Choosing and using modern digital cameras and underwater housings
* Using the PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
* Editing and sharing your pictures
* The three primary principles for getting good photos underwater
* The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer certifications credits toward the Master Scuba Diver rating.
* This is one of PADI’s most adaptable specialty courses, and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Diver course
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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.
* Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization) and at least 10 years old
* Don and doff techniques specific to your dry suit
* Dry suit buoyancy control skills
* Dry suit maintenance and storage
* Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options
* The PADI Dry Suit Diver certification credits toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating
If you would like to participate in a PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty Course, please contact us in advance to make sure we have a dry suit in stock that will fit you!
PADI Search and Recovery Diver
Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.
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.
* Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organization)
* Must be at least 12 years old
* Number of Dives: Four
* Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
* Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery
* Materials: You’ll Need Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual and the Search and Recovery video.
* Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
PADI Night Diver
As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your mask and bite down on your regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.
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.
* Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 12 years old
* Number of Dives: Three
* Dive lights and night diving equipment
* Entries, exits and navigation at night
* Nocturnal aquatic life
* Communication and light handling
* Materials: You’ll Need a Night-Pak, which includes PADI Night Diver Manual and the award-winning PADI Night Diving video.
* Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
PADI Wreck Diver
You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet.
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.
* Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.
* Number of Dives: Four dives over two days
* Materials You’ll Need: Wreck-Pak, which includes the PADI Wreck Diver Manual and Wreck Diving video.
* Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating. The underwater world needs heroes. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.
Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.
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