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Specialties
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Improve your existing skills or learn new techniques by taking a PADI Specialty course. Do you like wrecks? Deep wall dives? Do you want to be able to find your own way back to the boat, and not have to always follow the Dive Master? Do you want to know the names of the critters you see underwater? Do you want to improve your underwater photos? Then take a PADI Specialty Course!
These courses provide essential training for your continued development as a scuba diver. All of the following specialties count toward your Master Scuba Diver rating, but more importantly to your overall safety and enjoyment as a diver.
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PADI Specialties
Non-Diving Specialties
Two Dive Specialties
Three Dive Specialties
Four Dive Specialties
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TDI Specialties
Non-Diving Specialties
Diving Specialties
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Non-diving specialties
Enriched Air Diver
 Enriched Air Diver is PADI's most popular specialty course, and it's easy to understand why. By diving enriched air, you can extend your bottom time and reduce your nitrogen loading. If you like wreck diving, deep diving, love underwater photography, or just love being under water, this is the specialty course for you.
- Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
- Minimum age: 15
- No dives required!
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Emergency First Response
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Emergency Oxygen Provider
 Diving is a relatively safe activity but accidents still occur. Learn how to properly respond to a injured diver requiring emergency oxygen therapy. The prompt treatment of an injured diver with oxygen is extremely important for a diver suffering from a decompression illness. Learn and practice the techniques to help a fellow diver out in their time of need.
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Two-dive specialties
Boat Diver
 Some of the best dives sites can only be reached by boat, whether they be small inflatable boats, or luxurious liveaboards. Learn techniques, tips, and tricks to be able to more comfortably and safely dive from different types of boats. What are the best places to stow your gear? What is the best way to enter the water? Where can you locate boat safety equipment? Find out the answers to these questions by taking the Boat Diver specialty course.
- Prerequisites: (Jr. ) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Digital Underwater Photographer
 Digital cameras have made underwater photography easier and more fun! Capture those colorful underwater scenes and bring up “proof” of spotting that rare critter. Learn basic techniques for taking better and more interesting photos. Also get tips on choosing an underwater camera system.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Diver Propulsion Vehicle
This is a blast! Zip through the water and cover a lot of territory. These can be used for wreck and cave penetration, and are great for wall dives!
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 12
- Two dives
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Drift Diver
Drift diving is exciting and relaxing all at the same time. On drift dives, divers actually want a current, so they can just “go with the flow.” Learn how to stay with your dive buddy or team, and how to signal your location to the boat so they know where you are and can pick you up at the end of your dive. You will be introduced to the gear needed for drift diving, and learn how to plan and properly conduct a drift dive.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 12
- Two dives
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Dry Suit Diver
 Nobody likes to be cold while diving. Your dives are much more enjoyable when you are warm! Diving dry allows you to extend your dive season..even dive year-round if you want! Dry suit diving is not only for local diving in inland lakes and quarries, or for long technical dives—it is perfect for warmer climates in the cooler winter months, and for repetitive dives over multiple days on dive vacations and dive liveaboards.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
 Divers want to be neutrally buoyant underwater. Glide through the water effortlessly, and conserve energy and your air supply. Your dives will be more enjoyable and relaxing.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Underwater Naturalist
 Diving is more fun and interesting when you know what you're looking at! Start learning the names of the fish, invertebrates, and corals that you see on your dives. Learn about symbiotic relationships, too.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Underwater Photographer
 If you prefer conventional film cameras, then take the underwater photographer specialty.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Three-dive specialties
Ice Diver
Dive in one of the most extreme underwater environments. Learn how to dive in an overhead environment under a sheet of solid ice. Learn how to plan and organize an ice dive with the proper safety precautions and surface support. You will be introduced to specialized equipment, procedures, and techniques for ice diving.
- Prerequisites: Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent)
- Minimum age: 18
- Three dives
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Night Diver
 Dives are just different at night. Critters that are normally tucked away or sleeping during the day are out and about at night. Watch octopus creep along the reef, see abundance of lobster, look at coral polyps extended at night to feed. You might come across lacy basket stars perched atop coral heads or sea fans to feed. The same site you dived earlier in the day is a whole new world at night.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver (or equivalent)
- Minimum age: 12
- Three dives
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Underwater Navigator
Don’t be the one asking, “Where’s the boat?” You don’t have to be dependent on the divemaster to get you back. Become confident navigating your dives with and without a compass. Learn how to use a compass, and learn natural navigation techniques.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver (or equivalent)
- Minimum age: 10
- Three dives
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Underwater Videographer
 Video is the next best thing to witnessing the underwater realm in person. Learn how to capture quality video footage, then edit it to create an interesting and fun masterpiece. Share clips with friends and family, on YouTube or Facebook, or create a DVD movie!
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 10
- Two dives
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Four-dive specialties
Deep Diver
 Do you want to explore a bit deeper? Do you want to swim along a sheer wall, or explore a deeper wreck? Take the Deep Diver Specialty and learn techniques and considerations for diving in the 60-130 ft. range. Make at least four dives under the supervision of your instructor, and learn how to properly plan and conduct deep dives.
- Prerequisites: Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 15
- Four dives
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Search and Recovery Diver
Learn how to find objects underwater, and how to bring them to the surface. In the Search and Recovery course, you will learn how to organize a search and recovery dive, how to conduct search patterns and use lift bag, and techniques for searching in limited visibility conditions. This course is challenging and fun.
- Prerequisites: (Jr.) Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent – OR – ( Jr.) Open Water Diver and Underwater Navigator or equivalent from another organization
- Minimum age: 12
- Four dives
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Wreck Diver
 Wreck dives are exciting and intriguing. They may be sunk on purpose for an artificial reef, or natural wrecks of ships that met their demise long ago. Wrecks are also full of marine life that have made it their home. Learn techniques for exploring wrecks and how to identify and avoid hazards. Learn how penetrate intact wrecks, and the gear and procedures for wreck penetrations.
- Prerequisites: Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age: 15
- Four dives
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