Advanced Open Water Diver
You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification.
The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives.
Rescue Diver
Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken.
Why? Because you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed.
Divemaster
Be a leader who mentors and motivates others, and become a role model to divers around the world.
The PADI Divemaster course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, like perfecting the effortless hover, and refine your rescue skills so you anticipate and easily solve common problems. You’ll gain dive knowledge, management, and supervision abilities so you become a role model to divers everywhere.
Enriched Air Nitrox
Enriched air, also known as nitrox or EANx, contains less nitrogen than regular air. Breathing less nitrogen means you can enjoy longer dives and shorter surface intervals. No wonder Enriched Air Diver is the most popular PADI® specialty.
Deep Diver
When you dive below 60 feet, there are special safety considerations. If you’re ready to expand your boundaries, a PADI Instructor will help you gain the skills and confidence to explore to a maximum depth of 130 feet.
Drysuit Diver
Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often. This suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.
Boat Diver
Learn the tips, tricks, and ways to dive on any boat.
Gain experience and training from diving on boats in your local area. Learn how each boat differs from place to place. You’ll also learn how to safely enter and exit the water, stow your gear in the most appropriate places, use surface lines to initiate or conclude your dives and locate boat safety equipment.
Drift Diver
Glide along and enjoy the rush of flying underwater while the current does the work.
This course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by going with the flow, staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat, and knowing where you are the whole time.
Ice Diver
You can be one of the few that have ever dove under a solid ceiling of ice.
Ice diving is one of the most adventurous scuba specialties because you confront conditions and see beauty few others ever experience.
Night Diver
The thought of dipping below the surface at night seems mysterious, yet so alluring. Although you’ve been scuba diving at a site many times before, at night you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge. If you’ve wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend, or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.
Underwater Navigator
It’s easy to get disoriented underwater if you don’t know how to use a compass or natural navigation clues. Learn how to easily find your way back to the boat or shore without returning to the surface and avoid long, exhausting swims.