PADI INSTRUCTOR SPECIALTY COURSES

If variety is the spice of life, then PADI Specialty Courses are the spice of diving. These courses, and there are over 20 of them, allow you to pursue and teach your own favourite diving. As well, with such a range of courses, you can meet your customer’s needs. A trip to the Antarctic, how about Ice Diving. Traveling to Lake Titicaca, try Altitude Diving. Or perhaps something a little more mainstream like diving on the Great Barrier where Underwater Naturalist would be very handy.

There are numerous benefits to attending a Specialty Instructor Training Seminar…
 
~ Develop the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to immediately teach the course.
~ Reduce the required prerequisites to qualify as a Specialty Instructor
~ Learn through first-hand experience how to conduct the academic, confined water and open water sessions.
~ Gain useful information regarding the promotion and marketing of specialty courses.
 
PADI EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST COURSE

This is a most practical Specialty Course and a real benefit to divers of all levels and experience. The purpose of the PADI Equipment Specialist Course is two-fold:

. To develop the student’s practical knowledge of the theory, principles and operation of diving equipment.
. Enable the student to perform routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures.

You will learn through first-hand experience how to conduct the academic and workshop sessions of this course. As well, you will participate in the Aqua-Lung Technical Orientation Program. This program is a first step for those who wish to repair and service one of the most popular brands of equipment in the world. This course will certainly enhance your own skills and knowledge in the field of equipment maintenance and service.
 
PADI UNDERWATER NATURALIST COURSE

This is the most popular PADI specialty courses in Australia and is one of the most enjoyable courses to teach. Students have a real desire to know more about their aquatic environment. It is also a most important course. And for good reason. As instructors we have an obligation to look after our diving environment. There is no better way to fulfil this obligation than to teach the diving public about the beauty and fragility of the aquatic environment. By providing participants with the basic introductory information about their local aquatic life, you will evoke a sense of responsibility that all divers must respect and protect our aquatic resources.

During the course, you will develop your own skills and knowledge in the following areas:

. History and Formation of the Local Marine Environment
. Marine Animal and Plant Classification and Identification
. Marine Resource management and Best Environment Practices
. Responsible Human Interactions with Marine Life
 
PADI SEARCH AND RECOVERY SPECIALTY COURSE

The PADI Search and Recovery Specialty Course is one of the most popular of all specialties in that it provides the students with very practical skills and knowledge that can be put to good use in any diving environment. The ability to search for lost objects and then recover them once found can even be profitable.

On this course instructors will develop their own skills in underwater search patterns using both compass and ropes, pinpointing and relocating lost objects and recovery procedures including rigging and lifting objects with a lift bag. The course will also show instructors how to teach the skills, knowledge, planning, organisation, techniques, procedures and hazards of search and recovery.

 
PADI UNDERWATER NAVIGATOR COURSE

Few skills distinguish the proficient diver as conspicuously as underwater navigation. Every dive requires some form of navigation. In fact, nearly all dives would be enhanced with advanced navigational skills. You can reduce confusion, avoid long surface swims, conserve energy and air and even find the dive site!

On this course instructors will develop and polish their own skills in underwater navigation using both natural navigation and compass navigation. The course will show instructors how to teach the skills, knowledge, planning, organisation, techniques and procedures of underwater navigation. Some of the skills that you will learn to teach include distance estimation, natural navigation techniques, underwater patterns, compass navigation and dive site relocation
 
PADI UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER

It is hard to imagine a diver specialty more versatile than underwater photography. Whether exploring amid reefs, under ice, at altitude or on wrecks, if there is something worth seeing, there’s something worth photographing. This makes underwater photography a pursuit that mixes well with other specialties and one that permits divers to share the underwater world with nondivers.

With today’s modern equipment, underwater photography has come within the reach and ability of any diver interested it, from the casual to the expert. New camera systems are more affordable and use technology that makes it far easier to take a sharp, properly exposed photo. This course will introduce you to a variety of camera systems, which will allow you to pick the one most appropriate for your personal and teaching needs. The course also covers the following main topics:

. Light underwater
. Cameras, lens and film
. Underwater strobes
. Basic underwater photography technique and composition
. Care and maintenance of photo equipment
 
PADI ENRICHED AIR DIVER COURSE

Enriched air diving has made the transition from technical/research diving to recreational diving and is now a growing market in its own right. Recreational divers now have the opportunity to utilise the latest equipment technology and diving techniques to enhance their own diving adventure and safety. Divers can now alter their breathing mixtures so as to safely increase their bottom times. Divers can cruise silently through the depths with little to no bubbles to disturb the aquatic life. There are new horizons to be explored.

For instructors, this new technology presents a double opportunity. First, you can bring back some of the adventure in your own personal diving as you move up through the field of technical diving. And second, you can enhance your own career by earning instructor qualifications in the various levels of technical diving. There is a growing demand throughout the South Pacific region for instructors who can teach not only the full range of recreational diving but also the more popular aspects of technical diving.

The Enriched Air Specialty Course is specifically designed for the recreational diver and is now PADI’s most popular specialty. PADI instructors can earn the opportunity to teach this course by attending the two-day Enriched Air Diver Instructor Course.




 
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