PADI Specialty Courses

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Take Your Diving to the Next Level!

PADI Specialty Courses are designed to help certified divers expand their skills, explore new interests, and gain more confidence underwater. Whether you want to dive deeper, improve your buoyancy, explore shipwrecks, or learn underwater photography, there’s a specialty course for you.

Each course focuses on a specific area of diving, combining knowledge development with hands-on practice to give you real-world experience in your chosen specialty.

Why Take a PADI Specialty Course?
  • Build specific skills for different diving environments
  • Boost your confidence and safety underwater
  • Add variety and adventure to your dives
  • Learn from experienced PADI Instructors
  • Work toward your personal dive goals

Whether you're looking to explore deeper waters, dive in unique conditions, or just try something new, PADI Specialty Courses let you tailor your diving experience to match your interests and aspirations.

  • PADI Boat Diver

    If your students are new to boat diving, or they want to learn more about diving from different types of boats, enroll them in the PADI® Boat Diver course. They can learn nautical terminology and boat diving etiquette and may also practice using lines and/or deploy a surface marker buoy (SMB)!

  • PADI Deep Diver

    Reach new depths, discover new dive sites, and learn about deep dive planning, dive limits and gas management on the PADI Deep Diver course! You'll also learn about buddy contact procedures, safety considerations and buoyancy control at depth.

  • PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

    Share your adventures and learn how to use underwater strobes, reduce backscatter, safely photograph marine life, and choose photo equipment to enable you to take underwater photos you'll be proud to share with others!

  • PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)

    Also known as underwater scooters, A Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) allows you to see more, conserve air and get from one place to another faster - with a huge smile on your face! If scuba diving is like taking a scenic stroll around a park, a DPV is like exploring a neighborhood on an electric bicycle!

  • PADI Drift Diver

    Diving in a current can feel like flying underwater! In the PADI Drift Diver course, you'll learn drift diving tips and practice buoyancy control, navigation, use of surface signaling equipment, and buddy communication.

  • PADI Dry Suit Diver

    Learn how to control the air in your drysuit along with your buoyancy. You'll also learn about different types of drysuits, basic drysuit repairs and maintenance, allowing you to dive more places!

  • PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider

    Knowing how and when to administer emergency oxygen is a valuable skill to have in a dive emergency! The PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Specialty course prepares you to offer aid and teaches you to recognize scuba diving injuries and illnesses requiring emergency oxygen.

  • PADI Enriched Air Diver

    Extend your bottom time, shorten your surface intervals and dive deeper on repetitive dives. No wonder Enriched Air Diver is the most popular PADI specialty!

  • PADI Equipment Specialist

    Don't miss a dive due to minor issues with your scuba diving equipment! Learn how to manage basic gear repairs, fix equipment problems, and clean, maintain and protect your equipment, making you more comfortable with it and better prepared to take care of your investment.

  • PADI Night Diver

    If you have ever wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course and see this incredible world as you've never seen it before! Learn how to navigate, ascend and descend, and use your dive light to communicate at night.

  • PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy

    Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. Find your perfect balance, dive with less weight, and improve your buoyancy control and air consumption. Move more easily, observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings, and elevate the skills you learned as a new diver to the next level!

  • PADI Public Safety Diver

    Learn the fundamental skills required to work as a public safety diver or assist local authorities. Through scenario practice in real-world environments, gain experience as the primary diver, safety diver, dive supervisor and in a surface support role.

  • PADI Search & Recovery Diver

    Help recover lost items, plan a search operation, improve your navigation skills, learn underwater search techniques, and how to use a lift bag on the PADI Search & Recovery Diver Specialty course!

  • PADI Sidemount Diver

    Discover the balance and efficiency of sidemount scuba diving on the PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty course! You'll learn a different scuba configuration and how to properly assemble and configure sidemount equipment, manage gas, trim your weight, and attach and remove cylinders.

  • PADI Underwater Naturalist

    Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. Take the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course and you'll see new things, even on the most familiar scuba diving sites!

  • PADI Underwater Navigator

    Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you're going. The PADI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way!

  • PADI Wreck Diver

    Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Learn how to survey and explore wrecks responsibly with special finning techniques, lines and reels, and avoid common problems.