PADI Specialities
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Extend your diver learning experiences and have great fun with Tenerife Dive and PADI Speciality Courses!
Project Aware – Sea Turtle Awareness Distinctive Speciality Course
Tenerife waters are blessed with marine conservation areas brimming with stunning aquatic life, including sea turtles. Want to learn more about these amazing creatures? Then the sea turtle speciality is for you!
The Fun Part
The fun part of this course is familiarising your self with sea turtles, getting up close and personal and learning more about these amazing creatures, their habitat and identifying each species.
What You Learn
- Familiarise yourself with the role of Project Aware in preserving Aquatic environment.
- Discover more about sea turtles species that are common in temperate and tropical waters.
- Knowledge and skill of identifying turtles and recording sightings.
- Understanding of sea turtle decline, importance to marine biodiversity and learn how you can help to reduce the loss of sea turtles worldwide.
The PADI Deep Diver Course
After your first few scuba dives, you’ll soon want to explore a bit deeper…there’s something exciting and mysterious about the deep, that attracts divers!
The Fun Part
The fun part about this course is simply the opportunity to explore the deep. It’s exhilarating!
What You Learn
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Techniques for diving in the deeper range of 18-40 metres/ 60-130 feet.
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Deep scuba diving equipment considerations.
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Experience in planning, organising and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor.
The PADI Wreck Diver Course
Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles irresistible. They are intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.
The Fun Part
The fun part of the PADI Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook. Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognises that a small hole or open door is likely caused the vessel’s demise.
What You Learn
- Techniques for diving and exploring shipwrecks and how to avoid common hazards.
- How to research and learn the background of your favourite wrecks.
- Wreck scuba diving equipment and considerations.
- Considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks.
- Experience in planning and organising wreck dives.
The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course
Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialities and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever! This is why there are actually two PADI underwater photography courses. The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today’s modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros! The PADI Underwater Photographer course is a more traditional photography course designed for conventional film equipment.
The Fun Part
It’s a great way to re-live the adventures you’ve had. Plus capture images to share with your friends and family.
What You Learn
- How to choose the right underwater camera system for you.
- The PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly.
- The three primary principles for good underwater photos.
The PADI Night Diver Course
As the sun sets, and you prepare your dive gear, slip on your scuba mask and bite down on your dive regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light!
The Fun Part
Introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down. See your favourite dive sites from a whole new perspective at night.
What You Learn
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Night dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and avoiding potential problems.
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How to control your buoyancy at night.
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Entries, exits and underwater navigation at night.
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Nocturnal aquatic life, (since many of the plants and animals you’ll see at night are different)
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course
What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who’ve mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a PADI Open Water Diver and elevates them to the next level.
The Fun Part
The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible!
What You Learn
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How to trim your scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.
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Nuances in determining weight so you’re not too light nor too heavy by even a slight degree.
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How to streamline, to save air and move smoothly through the water.
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How to hover effortlessly in both a vertical position and a horizontal position.
The PADI Underwater Navigator Course
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course!
The Fun Part
Finding your way is not a matter of luck! When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a shipwreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat. Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass.
What You Learn
- Navigation patterns.
- Natural navigation (without a compass) and compass navigation.
- How to “mark” or relocate a submerged object or a position from the surface.
- Underwater map making.
- Dive site relocation.
- How to estimate distance underwater.
The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Course
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost “treasure?” The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Speciality course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up!
The Fun Part
Finding lost items and lifting them to the surface. It’s fun to use the lift bag! Not only are these skills fun, but very practical and ultimately useful because eventually, you’ll lose something in the water. As a Search and Recovery Diver, you’ll know how to search for and how to recover it!
What You Learn
- Search and recovery dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems.
- How to locate large and small objects using search patterns.
- How to use a lift bag and other recovery methods.
- Limited visibility search techniques.
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For more information or to book your Tenerife scuba diving and snorkelling activities, either call into the dive centre, email us or call/text us on 0034 690 039 745.
