Scuba Diving Courses | Specialty Courses

Adventure Diver

The PADI Adventure Diver course helps you get more out of diving by introducing you to new types of scuba diving adventures. It’s a great opportunity to work with your instructor to build your scuba diving skills and gain more confidence.

The Fun Part

Have you always wanted to try underwater photography? How about wreck diving? Here's your chance because you can sample three dives of your choice, get a taste of what you like, and feel more at ease in the water, strengthening your underwater skills and letting you enjoy scuba diving more than ever.

• Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may be credited toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty course. This means you can be well on your path to becoming a Master Scuba Diver.

What You Learn

You can choose what you’re most interested in learning. Need to work on your buoyancy skills? Try the Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Dive. Want to know what you’re looking at down there? Try the AWARE-Fish Identification Adventure Dive. Choose any three of the following Adventure Dives:

Adventure Dives available to scuba divers 10 years old and older:

• Altitude Diver 
• AWARE-Fish Identification 
• Boat Diver 
• Dry Suit Diver 
• Peak Performance Buoyancy 
• Underwater Naturalist 
• Underwater Navigator 
• Digital Underwater Photography 

Additional Adventure Dives available to scuba divers 12 years old and older:

• Deep Diver 
• Diver Propulsion Vehicle 
• Drift Diver 
• Multilevel and Computer Diver 
• Night Diver 
• Search and Recovery Diver 
• Underwater Videography 
• Wreck Diver 

The Scuba Gear You Use

You use all your basic scuba gear  including your underwater compass. Depending on which three adventure dives you pick, you may also try out underwater photography equipment , DPVs (underwater scooters), a dive light , a dry suit, lift bags, a dive flag/float or other specialty gear.

The Learning Materials You Need

PADI’s Adventures in Diving Manual and video on DVD provide information on more than 16 types of specialty diving. You’ll use them as a guidebook to improve your diving skills and prepare for new experiences and adventures.

Prerequisites

To take the Adventure Diver course, you must be

• A PADI Open Water Diver or o certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 years old (10 years old for PADI Junior Adventure Diver)

• Instruction fees
• Classes
• Confine water training
• Use of BCD, regulator, weights and tanks for the four certification dives and during confine water training
• PADI diver's certification card (C-card)
• PADI wall cert.