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PADI Speciality Diver -- The stairway to comfort and knowledge.
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An abundance of courses allow you to select those that will best meet your diving goals and desires!
We offer a wide selection of speciality courses you can take to improve existing skills or to teach you new skills. Some of these courses are exclusive to Pro Scuba Center. These courses provide essential additional training and are great fun! All of the following specialities count towards your Master Scuba Diver rating and your Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
What is a speciality?
Those of you who have completed a PADI Advanced Open Water program will already have been introduced to a number of new and exciting areas of recreational diving such as night diving, deep diving, wreck diving, underwater photography and many more! You may have found that one or more of these experiences left a lasting impression on you and you are now wanting to delve deeper into that specific area. This is when the PADI Speciality program becomes your next step to furthering your diving education. Whatever your interest, the speciality course is designed to give you an in depth look at the academic side and the chance to increase your practical skills with dives specific to your chosen speciality.
Who can enroll?
Although many people are introduced to the various speciality areas during the Advanced Open Water course it is not necessary to have completed this program in order to enroll. Any diver certified as an Open Water diver may enroll in most of the speciality options available. However, we recommend the Advanced Open Water certification prior to virtually all specialties since it will improve your basic skills, it will allow you the opportunity to sample five different specialties and because it makes the specialties more fun. There are a few specialties which require the Advanced Open Water certification as a prerequisite.
When can I start?
The moment you sign up! We don't make you wait for a big class. You may be the only one enrolled in your selected specialty, but your dive buddy may be taking a complimentary specialty. As an example, you may be conducting your Underwater Photographer dives while your buddy is completing their AWARE Fish ID dives.
| PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course |
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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.
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 Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.
Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
Streamlining, balance and trim
Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver ratingand Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
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| PADI Search and Recovery Specialty course |
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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.
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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
Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
Find what you´ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.
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| PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course |
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Other than taking someone diving, there´s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world. It´s underwater videography –motion imaging that allows you to share and document your underwater adventures. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course introduces you to underwater video equipment and videography fundamentals, such as exposure, focus, shot types, moves, story line and shot sequencing. It takes you through the post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece. By the time you complete the course, you´ll have gone through the entire basic video production process. Set the underwater world in motion.
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Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Equipment overview, selection and maintenance
Story planning and organization
Shot sequencing
Basic editing
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
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| PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course |
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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 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. Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.
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Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
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Distinctive Specialties
A Distinctive Specialty is a specialty that was written and designed by an individual instructor. This is usually due to numerous requests for training in a specific area, technique or with a specific piece of equipment. At PSC we offer several Distinctive Specialties:
This course is designed to increase your proficiency in breath hold diving in both depth and time. Techniques for mental and physical preparation will be discussed. Use of these techniques will not only make you a proficient breath hold diver, but will also increase your comfort and proficiency as a scuba diver. Applications for breath hold diver include initial dive site exploration and underwater photography.
Two dives to better breath control
 Increased comfort and proficiency
Relaxation like you have never known before
Certification counts toward Master Scuba Diver and Ultimate Scuba Diver Certification
Are you tired of clearing your mask or looking through fog? Would you like to breathe through your mouth and nose and have a better field of vision? Then full face mask diving is for you! You will learn the pleasures and advantages of full face mask diving, as well as, how to prevent problems and how to correct problems if they do occur. Most importantly, you will learn a whole new way of breathing underwater.
Better vision with no fog.
Easier breathing and equalization
Certification counts toward Master Scuba Diver and Ultimate Scuba Diver Certification
Designed to develop your practical knowledge of weather, tides, currents, surge, waves, marine life and entry/exit techniques this course will enable you to utilize this knowledge and the skills developed to enhance your diving ability and enjoyment of the marine environment.
Learn marine weather and tides
Easy entry and exit techniques
Dive with confidence and comfort
Certification counts toward Master Scuba Diver and Ultimate Scuba Diver Certification
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An abundance of courses allow you to select those that will best meet your diving goals and desires!
We offer a wide selection of speciality courses you can take to improve existing skills or to teach you new skills. Some of these courses are exclusive to Pro Scuba Center. These courses provide essential additional training and are great fun! All of the following specialities count towards your Master Scuba Diver rating and your Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
What is a speciality?
Those of you who have completed a PADI Advanced Open Water program will already have been introduced to a number of new and exciting areas of recreational diving such as night diving, deep diving, wreck diving, underwater photography and many more! You may have found that one or more of these experiences left a lasting impression on you and you are now wanting to delve deeper into that specific area. This is when the PADI Speciality program becomes your next step to furthering your diving education. Whatever your interest, the speciality course is designed to give you an in depth look at the academic side and the chance to increase your practical skills with dives specific to your chosen speciality.
Who can enroll?
Although many people are introduced to the various speciality areas during the Advanced Open Water course it is not necessary to have completed this program in order to enroll. Any diver certified as an Open Water diver may enroll in most of the speciality options available. However, we recommend the Advanced Open Water certification prior to virtually all specialties since it will improve your basic skills, it will allow you the opportunity to sample five different specialties and because it makes the specialties more fun. There are a few specialties which require the Advanced Open Water certification as a prerequisite.
When can I start?
The moment you sign up! We don't make you wait for a big class. You may be the only one enrolled in your selected specialty, but your dive buddy may be taking a complimentary specialty. As an example, you may be conducting your Underwater Photographer dives while your buddy is completing their AWARE Fish ID dives.
| PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course |
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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.
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Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.
Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
Streamlining, balance and trim
Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver ratingand Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
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| PADI Search and Recovery Specialty course |
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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.
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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
Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods
Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
Find what you´ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.
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| PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course |
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Other than taking someone diving, there´s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world. It´s underwater videography –motion imaging that allows you to share and document your underwater adventures. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course introduces you to underwater video equipment and videography fundamentals, such as exposure, focus, shot types, moves, story line and shot sequencing. It takes you through the post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece. By the time you complete the course, you´ll have gone through the entire basic video production process. Set the underwater world in motion.
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Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Equipment overview, selection and maintenance
Story planning and organization
Shot sequencing
Basic editing
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
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| PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course |
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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 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. Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course.
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Must be a PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and be at least 15 years old.
Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating and Ultimate Scuba Diver certification.
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Distinctive Specialties
A Distinctive Specialty is a specialty that was written and designed by an individual instructor. This is usually due to numerous requests for training in a specific area, technique or with a specific piece of equipment. At PSC we offer several Distinctive Specialties:
This course is designed to increase your proficiency in breath hold diving in both depth and time. Techniques for mental and physical preparation will be discussed. Use of these techniques will not only make you a proficient breath hold diver, but will also increase your comfort and proficiency as a scuba diver. Applications for breath hold diver include initial dive site exploration and underwater photography.
Two dives to better breath control
Increased comfort and proficiency
Relaxation like you have never known before
Certification counts toward Master Scuba Diver and Ultimate Scuba Diver Certification
Are you tired of clearing your mask or looking through fog? Would you like to breathe through your mouth and nose and have a better field of vision? Then full face mask diving is for you! You will learn the pleasures and advantages of full face mask diving, as well as, how to prevent problems and how to correct problems if they do occur. Most importantly, you will learn a whole new way of breathing underwater.
Better vision with no fog.
Easier breathing and equalization
Certification counts toward Master Scuba Diver and Ultimate Scuba Diver Certification
Designed to develop your practical knowledge of weather, tides, currents, surge, waves, marine life and entry/exit techniques this course will enable you to utilize this knowledge and the skills developed to enhance your diving ability and enjoyment of the marine environment.
Learn marine weather and tides
Easy entry and exit techniques
Dive with confidence and comfort
Certification counts toward Master Scuba Diver and Ultimate Scuba Diver Certification
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