PADI specialty diver courses give you the opportunity to get more in-depth knowledge in various special-interest areas of diving. During your course you learn how to plan and conduct dives in that area of diving and many technicalities and skills related to the type of diving.

The Specialty Diver Courses are

• Altitude Diver
• Boat Diver
• Cavern Diver
• AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation
• Deep Diver
• Digital Underwater Photography
• Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)
• Drift Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Digital Underwater Photographer
• Enriched Air Diver
• Equipment Specialist
• AWARE – Fish Identification
• Ice Diver
• Multilevel Diver
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Project AWARE Specialty Program
• Search and Recovery Diver
• Semi Closed Rebreather Course – Dolphin/Atlantis
• Semi Closed Rebreather Course – Ray
• Underwater Naturalist
• Underwater Navigator
• Underwater Photographer
• Underwater Videographer
• Wreck Diver

Where can I go from there?

The first dive of each Specialty Course may count towards you Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water Diver Course.

If you do 5 or more Specialties, have 50 logged dives and holds a Rescue Diver Certification (or have qualifying certification from another organization) you can get to become a Master Scuba Diver.