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Continuing your Diver Education

There are many exciting adventure dives, specialties and courses you may participate in after achieving this qualification. Continuing your diver education will fine tune your skills, give you extra confidence, increase your experience and introduce you to many exciting new underwater hobbies.



PADI Scuba Review

Age:
Pre-requisites: Medical fitness
Course Duration: 1/2 Day

This course is aimed at divers who may need to brush up on their diving skills having not dived for a while. It assesses many core diving skill and theory enabling the participant to start diving again with confidence and safety.
It is often also used to assess referral students before continuation of their training.

Further information on these and all other courses can be found on the PADI website.



PADI Adventure Diver

Age: 10+
Pre-requisites: Medical fitness
Course Duration: 1 Day

This course gives the participant a taste in one or more of many exciting diving activities. Adventure dives add to the confidence and skill level of divers who participate as well as giving them skills to further their enjoyment of the underwater world. A diver becomes an adventure diver when they have completed three adventure dives of their choice.
An adventure dive is the first dive of the corresponding specialty and can be counted towards that specialty or the advanced diver certification.

  • AWARE - Fish Identification
  • Dive
  • Boat Dive
  • Deep Dive*
  • Drift Dive*
  • Enriched Air Dive**
  • Night Dive*
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive
  • Search and Recovery Dive*
  • Underwater Naturalist Dive
  • Underwater Navigation Dive
  • Underwater Photography Dive
  • Wreck Dive*

* These adventure dives have a 12+ age limit
** This adventure dive has a 15+ age limit
See our specialty section for more information.

Further information on these and all other courses can be found on the PADI website.


PADI Advanced Diver

Age: 12+
Pre-requisites: Open Water Diver Certification or Junior Open Water Diver Certification or equivalent.
Course Duration: 2-3 Days

An Advanced diver is a diver that has completed three adventure dives of their choice plus the deep and navigation adventure dive. This course concentrates on skill development in the open water environment, theory is minimal and there are numerous exciting skills that can be learnt. This is an extremely popular course not just because it is so much fun but because the Advanced Diver certification opens up to divers a whole new range of sites that would have been prohibited to them as Open Wate Diver.r

  • AWARE - Fish Identification
  • Dive
  • Boat Dive
  • Deep Dive (compulsory)
  • Drift Dive
  • Enriched Air Dive*
  • Night Dive
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive
  • Search and Recovery Dive
  • Underwater Naturalist Dive
  • Underwater Navigation Dive (compulsory)
  • Underwater Photography Dive
  • Wreck Dive

This adventure dive has a 15+ age limit
See our specialty section for more information.

Further information on these and all other courses can be found on the PADI website.



PADI Emergency First Response

Pre-requisites: No diving certification is required for this course
Course Duration: 1-2 Days

This course teaches the lay person what steps to take when they are first on the scene of a medical emergency. The skills taught are applicable to both diving and non-diving emergencies.

This course or an equivalent. course is required for the rescue diver course and for all professional level PADI courses.



PADI Rescue Diver

Age: 12+
Pre-requisites: Advanced Open Water or equivalent., 20+ logged dives.
Course Duration: 4-5 Days

This course greatly increases diver competence and confidence. Although challenging it is also enjoyable and very rewarding.
You will learn problem anticipation, accident evaluation and management plus techniques for both self rescue and the rescue of other divers.
The course is a combination of theory, pool sessions and open water sessions culminating in open water rescue scenarios where students get to demonstrate their acquired skills. First aid and CPR certification are required early in the course, the PADI Emergency First Response course fulfills this requirement and can be taken in conjunction with the Rescue Diver Course.

Further information on these and all other courses can be found on the PADI website.