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PADI Specialties available on Koh Tao with Davy Jones Locker Diving
The Davy Jones Locker Specialities allow divers to fully enhance their diving skills and knowledge within specific areas of the sport. If you’ve always enjoyed photography then we can teach you the finer points of using an underwater strobe and how to overcome the difficulties associated; if you fancy going deep then we’ll teach you how to safely dive deeper. As well as perfecting your dive skills, the specialties you gain can count towards other qualifications such as Advanced Open Water, if not yet reached, or Master Scuba Diver, the highest recognition attainable as a recreational diver.
As you can see there are PADI Specialties that will make you a better diver, some that will expand your mind a little and others that are just fun or the right thing to do if your an environmentally concious member of the population who wants to help preserve the planet for furture generations as we all should.
The specialities we offer are listed below:
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Boat Diver
Original price was: ฿5,000.00.฿4,500.00Current price is: ฿4,500.00.Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarises you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the type boat and the location. The PADI Boat Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating and is run over 2 open water dives with your instructor.
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Deep Diver
฿7,500.00Let’ go deeper! The Deep Diver course consists of 4 dives between 18m and 40m with your instructor. You will be shown specific protocols and safety procedures that make this course a real learning experience while boosting your confidence in the water. Combine the Enriched Air specialty with this course to give you a well-rounded knowledge of deeper diving with mixed gases. The PADI Deep Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating.
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Digital Photography
Original price was: ฿7,500.00.฿7,125.00Current price is: ฿7,125.00.Whether you have a DSLR, compact or action camera, digital photography has become a lot more accessible for everyone in the digital age. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and learn to edit on your computer like a pro.
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Dive Against Debris
Original price was: ฿4,000.00.฿3,000.00Current price is: ฿3,000.00.Local action makes a global impact!
Make every dive count by always diving against debris! With the Dive Against Debris Specialty Course, you will learn how documentation plays a major role in cleaning up our oceans. Conduct a survey for your dives and discover the impact you can make on every single dive.
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Enriched Air (Nitrox)
Original price was: ฿7,500.00.฿6,500.00Current price is: ฿6,500.00.Extend your no-decompression limits by diving with Enriched Air Nitrox, and spend more time deeper underwater. The PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty certification emphasizes the theoretical and operational considerations involved with Enriched Air diving, and how to correctly analyze it.
PADI’s most POPULAR specialty!
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Equipment Specialist
Original price was: ฿5,000.00.฿4,750.00Current price is: ฿4,750.00.Whether it’s a regulator problem, a wet suit tear or a broken mask strap, the Equipment Specialist course can help.
This Specialty course prepares you for the basic equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you’ll encounter every day. In addition, you’ll get the valuable background on equipment repair and purchase, making you better able to protect your investment.
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Multilevel Diver
Original price was: ฿6,500.00.฿5,000.00Current price is: ฿5,000.00.Learn or review decompression theory as it applies to multilevel diving and dive computer models, and plan multilevel dives using the eRDPML. During the first of your two multilevel dives, you will plan and execute a two-level dive, and then on your second dive, complete a three-level scuba dive.
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Night Diver
฿7,500.00The Night Diving specialty is held on three evenings.
When you go night diving you’ll see a whole new world. Even your local dive site takes on a new personality at night, as many underwater creatures and plant life (different from those you see during the day) are active at night.
You’ll learn night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You’ll also learn how to control your buoyancy, navigate and communicate at night. Since many of the plants and animals you’ll see are different, you’ll also get an introduction to nocturnal aquatic life.
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O2 Provider
Original price was: ฿4,000.00.฿3,800.00Current price is: ฿3,800.00.Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider. Breathe easy knowing that you know how to recognize illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. Being the best buddy you can be requires being prepared, especially in a time of need.
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
Original price was: ฿7,000.00.฿6,650.00Current price is: ฿6,650.00.PPB speciality is usually held on one day, but can be spread over two days if required.
If you want to fine-tune your buoyancy and soar over reefs, extend bottom time by reducing air consumption and prolong the life of your dive equipment, the Peak Performance Buoyancy[PPB] Specialty course is for you.
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Recreational Sidemount
Original price was: ฿20,000.00.฿14,000.00Current price is: ฿14,000.00.The PADI Sidemount courses are suitable for recreational divers and technical divers. Students will practice valve drills, gas management, out of air scenarios and buoyancy control. Learning to dive this configuration with the cylinder below the shoulders and along the hips, provides more maneuverability which can be useful in tight spaces.
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Search and Recovery
Original price was: ฿8,000.00.฿7,000.00Current price is: ฿7,000.00.Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost treasure? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface.
You will learn search and recovery dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You’ll also cover limited visibility, search patterns and safe object recovery using lift bags.
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Underwater Naturalist
Original price was: ฿5,500.00.฿5,000.00Current price is: ฿5,000.00.If you’re interested in aquatic life then the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course is for you. This course is an introduction to the underwater aquatic environment and will help develop safe and responsible aquatic life interaction techniques.
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Underwater Navigation
Original price was: ฿7,000.00.฿6,000.00Current price is: ฿6,000.00.Improve your navigation skills both on land and underwater. Knowing where you entered and where you will exit is crucial to a successful dive. With the PADI Underwater Navigation course, you will be able to navigate like a pro as we teach you the skills necessary to find your way around underwater.
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Wreck Diver
฿7,500.00For those seeking more adventurous diving environments, the Wreck Diver course will give you skills and confidence. The course consists of 4 dives with your instructor, building your skillset with each progressing dive. You will be shown specific protocols and safety procedures specific to diving shipwrecks. Combine the Enriched Air specialty and Deep Specialty with this course to give you a well-rounded knowledge of deeper diving with mixed gases. The PADI Wreck Diver certification counts toward your Master Scuba Diver rating.
