Gain the skills and knowledge that could save the life of someone you care about.

Improve your confidence and become a better dive buddy through fun role-playing and skill practice.

Gain the basic knowledge and experience needed to work as a public safety diver.

Gain experience assembling an oxygen unit, and learn to identify when and how to administer oxygen and aid for diving and water-related injuries.

Increase your awareness of divers' varying abilities, and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.

Many divers wouldn't think of diving without carrying a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB, and in some locations it's considered required safety equipment. Knowing how to properly deploy and manage a DSMB are valuable skills learned in this course.

Extend your bottom time, shorten your surface intervals and dive deeper on repetitive dives.

Share your adventures and learn how to use underwater strobes, reduce backscatter, safely photograph marine life, and choose photo equipment.

Learn how to control the air in your drysuit, buoyancy, common drysuit problems, and basic repairs and maintenance in order to dive more places.

Reach new depths, discover new dive sites, and learn about deep dive planning, dive limits and gas management.

Find the boat without surfacing, learn how to use a diving compass, and improve your navigation and underwater observation skills.

Find the perfect balance: Dive with less weight, and improve your buoyancy control and air consumption.

Learn how to survey and explore wrecks responsibly with special finning techniques, lines and reels, and avoid common problems.

See the underwater world after sundown and learn how to navigate, ascend and descend, and use your dive light to communicate at night.

Help recover lost items, plan a search operation, improve your navigation skills, learn underwater search techniques and how to use a lift bag.

Avoid missing dives and learn how to manage basic gear repairs, fix equipment problems, and clean, maintain and protect your equipment.

See more, conserve air, and learn how to manage your depth, avoid issues and travel faster with a DPV.

Learn boat diving etiquette, terminology, how to properly stow gear, and potentially practice using lines or deploying a surface marker buoy (SMB).

Find the perfect balance: Dive with less weight, and improve your buoyancy control and air consumption.

Find the boat without surfacing, learn how to use a diving compass, and improve your navigation and underwater observation skills.

Reach new depths, discover new dive sites, and learn about deep dive planning, dive limits and gas management.

See the underwater world after sundown and learn how to navigate, ascend and descend, and use your dive light to communicate at night.

Diving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.

Although diving with a buddy is the norm, there are reasons for an experienced diver to develop self-reliance and independence while diving. Learning to carry out dives without a partner can make you a stronger diver in most dive situations.

Gain confidence diving in currents and practice buoyancy control, entries and descents, and using surface signaling equipment.

Learn boat diving etiquette, terminology, how to properly stow gear, and potentially practice using lines or deploying a surface marker buoy (SMB).

Help recover lost items, plan a search operation, improve your navigation skills, learn underwater search techniques and how to use a lift bag.

Learn a different scuba configuration and how to properly assemble and configure sidemount equipment, manage gas, trim your weight, and attach and remove cylinders.

Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites.

Enjoy dives even more when you can recognize and identify fish families and their characteristics.

This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems.

Become a citizen scientist and learn how to properly conduct an underwater survey and marine debris cleanups to keep your favorite dive sites clean.

PADI AWARE™ Specialty brings divers and ocean enthusiasts together to take action and protect the underwater world.

Sharks are an essential part of a healthy ocean. This course explores why they are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them.

Learn basic freediving principles and focus on practicing breathhold techniques in a pool or confined water site.

Your first step toward discovering why freediving is becoming a popular way to explore beneath the waves. No previous freediving course is required.

Designed to refine and improve your freediving skills, allowing you to progress slowly while learning how your body performs during apnea (suspension of breathing).

For advanced freedivers who want to approach elite freediving levels. You'll learn to bring your static apnea, dynamic apnea, free immersion and constant weight skills to the next level.

Turn your freediving passion into a profession. This instructor course is for the avid freediver who spends a lot time thinking about freediving and sharing details of their latest adventures.

This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses.

Consists of seven knowledge development sections, four practical application sessions and four training dives. Designed for the diver transitioning from recreational diving to technical diving.

Extend your depth limit to 45 metres/150 ft. Learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder.

Make extended range dives up to 50 metres/165 ft. Learn how to make dives with multiple decompression stops, using two decompression gases. 

This course turns experienced tec divers into extreme divers. During this course, you'll make dives as deep as 90 metres/300 feet, use multigas trimix computers, & handle up to 4 stage/deco cylinders.

Extend your depth range the right way with a blend of helium, oxygen & nitrogen (trimix). The Tec Trimix 65 course introduces you to using trimix down to a maximum depth of 65 metres/210 feet.

Wearing more than one tank has become increasingly popular for technical diving. With the Tec Sidemount Diver course you can apply what you learn to other TecRec courses.

Being a gas blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort. This course teaches you how to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-based gases using one or more blending methods.

Breathe without exhaling bubbles as a rebreather diver. You'll get longer no stop limits, learn to reuse the gas you exhale by recycling the good part and replenishing it for your next breath.

Get longer no stop limits, reduced gas consumption (reuse most of your exhaled gas), & unmatched wildlife encounters because you don't release annoying bubbles.

Dive in silence and train to dive as deep as 40 metres/130 feet. Learn about scrubbers, oxygen consumption and bailout requirements including how to configure a bailout cylinder system.

The Tec 40 CCR course is your entry into the tec diving realm. Learn the details of proper setup, predive checks, dive planning, failure and problem management and teamwork for CCR diving.

The next step in becoming a tec CCR diver. Learn to complete multiple decompression stops, manage life-support problems, and dive with trimix/heliox as a diluent. It's a considerable challenge.

Significantly more challenging than the Tec 60 CCR Diver course. You'll learn to plan and make dives with hypoxic trimix/heliox using a Type T (technical) CCR to a max depth of 100 metres/330 feet.