PADI Specialty Dive Courses
Take your diving to a new level, With YOUR training Adventure! Explore the Solitary Islands and learn more skills.We offer a range of PADI Specialty Dive courses, which we love to share with you, so you can take your diving further!
Click for full details of each PADI Specialty programme.
From Shark Awareness diver to Nitrox Diver, and Peak Performance Buoyancy diving to Deep Diver, we can open new worlds of excitement, experience and adventure with you.
Master Scuba Diver – Take the Challenge!
The PADI Master Scuba Diver rating is awarded when you have 60 logged dives and complete 5 PADI Specialty Courses and the PADI Rescue Diver Course, YES, you’ve reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments. Click PADI Master Scuba Diver to find out more.
PADI Deep Diver Course including 4 dives
The PADI Deep Diver course takes you to a 40m Depth rating, wow! – “The advanced course introduces Deeper Diving, now get serious experience”.
The course includes 4 Dives at the Solitary Islands with depths up to 40 metres (usually 30-32 metres). Learn SMB deployment and Redundant Air skills. Click PADI Deep Diver Course to find out more.
PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Course
Use Nitrox when Wreck diving, Underwater Photography, or a vacation in some tropical paradise. The Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more No Deco time underwater! This can mean you can still dive to a reasonable depth on even dive 3 in a day! Click PADI Enriched Air Diver to find out more
PADI Digital Underwater Photography Course including 2 dives
Digital Cameras have taken the world by storm! Anyone can take photos, but maybe not so good underwater? Learn how to take good underwater photos faster than you imagined! This course we help fine tune the skills from basic buoyancy to positioning to get the best out of your dive with a camera. Click PADI Digital Underwater Photography Course to find out more.
PADI Shark Diver and Shark Awareness Course including 2 dives
An adrenalin filled experience! Learn some correct techniques of Shark Diving, as well as aspects about their behavior and habitat. Exciting and Educational! Click PADI Shark Diver and Shark Awareness Course to find out more
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course including 2 dives
Improving buoyancy skills will make diving easier and more enjoyable! When you are more comfortable and in control you can use less air, giving you more bottom time. Have better position for Photos and Video. Click PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course to find out more!
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course including 2 dives
Find out the different major aquatic life groupings and how they interact – see the aquatic world differently! The Solitary Islands Marine Park has all of the groups and an amazing mix of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Marine Life. Click PADI Underwater Naturalist Course to find out more.
PADI Underwater Videographer Course including 4 dives
Why do some people have great Go Pro Videos? Learn the fundamentals of good videography from equipment setup to shot types and sequencing. Go Pro’s make it much more accessible to produce great U/W Video’s if you get it right. Click PADI Underwater Videographer Course to find out more.
PADI Night Diver Course including 3 dives
The sun sets, as you gear up. Although you’ve seen this reef before in daylight, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. Click PADI Night Diver Course to find out more. We often teach this specialty on Group Dive Holidays in warm tropical water. Our local conditions don’t always allow us to run local Night Dives
PADI Wreck Diver Course
Without Wrecks locally we offer the PADI Wreck Diver specialty on our trips away. Learn the skills, knowledge and procedures to answer that call! Click PADI Wreck Diver Course to find out more.
PADI Aware Fish ID Course including 2 Dives
Will you take the PADI Aware Fish Identification Challenge? This specialty focuses on the vast local fish-life, some are common to this unique region, and some are rare and exciting for us to find.
PADI Sidemount Diver Course
When one tank is just not enough! Dive Sidemount and go beyond air limits of a single tank. Learn the extra skills to become independent of your buddy with two systems. A step towards Tech Diver level if you want too.
PADI Oxygen Provider Course
Learn how to administer Emergency Oxygen First Aid Therapy and gain a statement of Attainment for O2 Provider. Include CPR or Provide First Aid to complete the training.
PADI Self – Reliant Diver Course
For those who want to independently dive, and explore knowing they have the skills and equipment to deal with emergencies on their own, the PADI Self-Reliant Diver Course is the way to go.
Provide First Aid course HLTAID011
PADI RTO workplace accredited HLTAID011 Provide First Aid is the easiest way to do Workplace First Aid Course in Coffs Harbour. Study at home and practical and assessments in our Training centre. Our small groups are ideal to complete the course easily and quickly.
PADI Scientific Diver Course
Work in Marine Sciences? This is YOUR Occupation Diver Rating
PADI Snorkel Instructor Course
Work in Marine Education? – this is YOUR Occupational Snorkel Instructor Rating…
DSAT Gas Blender
When you’ve got your EANx (Nitrox) rating, learn how to blend your own gas
PADI Full Face Mask Course
This course is designed to teach all the extra skills needed to use a Full Face Mask. We teach in Ocean Reef Full Face masks. Courses by appointment only.
