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5.2.7.  PADI "Specialities" Tauchkurse

Extending your fun and develop your diving skills !
As a certified diver, you have discovered that diving is a very varied sport with many areas to explore and new feelings to experience : diving at night to see a completely different kind of life, diving on an old wreck with its strange feeling of history, taking pictures of amazing plants and animals ... The PADI "Speciality" courses will allow you to extend your skills to cover special diving techniques and activities. They will familiarise you with the knowledge, planning, procedures, techniques, problem handlings and possible hazards for the special areas you are interested in.

We offer you the following courses :
 
  +  Prerequisites :  none
 
   - Projekt Aware ( vgl. projectaware.org ) :  Dives: none ;   This is a non-dive course, but nevertheless extremely valuable. Your Instructor will guide you through the "Project Aware" philosophy about protecting worldwide aquatic ecosystems and issues concerning environmental matters such as pollution, global warming and over-fishing.
 
  +  Prerequisites :  PADI "Open Water Diver" (5.2.2.)
 
   - Underwater Navigator :  2 boat dives, 1 beach dive ;   Have you ever marveled at your dive master's skill of always finding the boat ? This course will show you different techniques for measuring distances and finding your bearings, using both natural navigation techniques and compass navigation. It is a three-day course that can be conducted during the day or for an extra challenge at night.
 
   - Multi-Level Diver :  2 boat dives ;   Particularly in recreational diving the destinations of a dive often are in different depths. Through an appropriate planning you can extend the duration of your stays, avoid decompression periods and intermediate stops, and gain more security. And that means : maximizing your enjoyment factor !
The Multi-Level Diver is a one-day course during which you will learn to use the "wheel", a certain form of dive planner. You will gain valuable knowledge, which will allow you to better plan your dive.
 
   - Peak Performance Buoyancy :  2 boat dives ;   Ever wondered at how your dive guide had covered the double distance with the same amount of oxygen, apparently floating effortlessly ? In this course you will polish your buoyancy skills, and get to know more techniques to fine-tune your buoyancy. You'll learn more about weight positioning and correct weighting and the importance of this during diving. A definite must do course !
 
   - Boat Diver :  2 boat dives ;   During this fun one-day course, you will learn basic boat terminology, planning and procedures for boat diving, emergency procedures and much more. You will be able to practice different types of entries for all types and sizes of boats and learn more about these boats.
 
   - Night Diver :  ??? dives ;   Diving at night - there you can experience a special kind of thrill and beauty. However, it also requires particular knowledge and skills - e.g. orientation, navigation, and communication in the dark - and a extra lighting equipment. In this course, you will get familiar with all that stuff - and learn a lot about the underwater world at night.
 
   - Underwater Naturalist :  2 boat dives ;   This course teaches you all about marine life, how to identify different species and more about their natural habitat and how to help protect it. You will learn how to responsibly interact with aquatic life and learn different dive techniques to help minimise aquatic life disturbances. An extremely valuable course, which every passionate diver should do.
 
   - Underwater Photographer :  2 boat dives ;   In this one-day course, your Instructor will teach you about lighting, depth of field, position of objects and everything you need to know to take a great shot under water. A fantastic way of taking home your memories !
 
  +  Prerequisites :  PADI "Advanced Open Water Diver" (5.2.3.)
 
   - Deep Diver :  4 boat dives :   The Deep Diver course is an intense adventure two-day course. A PADI Instructor will take you to a maximum depth of forty metres. During this exciting course, you will learn the special procedures for planning and participating in deep dives whilst exploring some of our deeper sites. You will discover a whole new world of marine life at these new depths.
 
   - Search and Recovery :  2 boat dives, 2 beach dives ;   How many times have you or a friend lost a pair of sunglasses in the sea ? During this course you will learn different techniques of locating and surfacing various size objects. After this two-day course, you will have gained another certification and a whole new perspective to diving.
 
   - Wreck Diver :  ??? dives ;   Did you ever want to disclose the secrets of sunk boats and planes ? However, it is as amazing and thrilling as ambitious. Poor visibility, tight and sharp-edged surroundings, difficult orientation - in this course you will learn to cope responsibly and reliably with those challenges.