Padi Boat Diver speciality course
Learn all proper procedures during your PADI Boat Diver Speciality. Diving from a boat is much easier than from shore.
Additionally, you can reach more dive sites.
Boat Diver Speciality Course
The PADI Boat Diver Speciality programme makes scuba diving easy – just take a giant step off or a Roll off the Dive boat and you’re in the water!
Dive boats and diving fit together like hands in gloves.
However, you can reach some of the best dive sites only by boat.
The Boat Diver Speciality makes boat access easier and adds value for many trips.
Explore More By Boat during Boat diver Speciality
While diving from a boat isn’t difficult, there are some special procedures that make boat dives more fun.
Moreover, the lines you use when diving in currents can make an easy dive exciting.
Using current lines effectively may make the difference between an easy and exciting dive.
It can prevent a tiring and not-much-fun undertaking.
On most dive boats, the trip leader usually explains the procedures you’ll be using in the Boat Diver Speciality.
The Boat Diver Speciality shows the broad procedures used when diving from boats. Additionally, You learn about current lines, entry and exit procedures, and getting kitted up for the dive. Furthermore, besides these procedures, you learn information on packing for boat diving, avoiding seasickness, boating basics and emergencies.
What You Will Learn
In the Boat Diver course, you learn essential skills for planning dives and staying safe. Additionally, you explore buoyancy control, entry techniques, and emergency procedures.
- During the programme you’ll go on 2 open water dives, which must be (you got it) conducted from a boat. Both dives may be conducted in 1 day. It’s a good idea, but not required, that you enrol in this programme to learn the techniques and procedures for scuba diving from different types of boats (inflatable boats, hard-hulled day boats, cabin cruisers, liveaboards, sailboats, etc). That’s a good thing – the more boats you dive from, the more diving you do too!
- The PADI Boat Diver course teaches you about the advantages and ease of diving from a boat. You’ll practice boat diving techniques and learn:
- Boat terminology.
- Boat diving procedures and etiquette, including how to enter and exit, and where to stow your gear.
- Boating safety, including how to locate safety equipment.
- Get credit! The first dive of this PADI Specialty Diver course may credit as an Adventure Dive toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification – ask your instructor about earning credit.
Boat Diver Speciality Prerequisites & Requirements
Firstly, age requirement: 10 years or older.
Moreover, PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification).
Additionally, time commitment is approximately 2–4 hours.
Furthermore, you should have a surface signalling device, such as an inflatable signal tube.
Finally, it is wise to carry a complete spare parts kit.
Get started by booking online today, and we will send the PADI E-learning pack. Next, start learning now with PADI’s home-study materials—the Boat Diver Speciality eLearning. Read and watch videos about boat diving, then interact with knowledge checks. That will prepare you to meet your PADI Instructor and schedule your two boat dives. Stop by our shop to enrol in the course and speak with your instructor if you have questions about content.
