PADI Specialty courses let you focus on the diving that interests you while building new skills and experience.
From wreck and deep diving to buoyancy, night diving, and marine life, Key Largo is a great place to expand your skills and become a more well-rounded diver.
PADI Specialty Courses let you focus on the type of diving that interests you while building new skills and experience. From wreck and deep diving to night diving, drift diving, buoyancy, and fish identification, there’s always something new to learn. Key Largo is the perfect training ground, with shallow coral reefs, deep wrecks, abundant marine life, and a variety of dive conditions to put those skills into practice.
Great buoyancy control can completely change the way you dive. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty helps improve your control, air efficiency, and overall diving experience.
Fine-tune your weighting, trim, hovering, and controlled ascents and descents so you can move efficiently through the water and avoid disturbing the reef.
Minimum age: 10
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 2 open-water training dives
The PADI Deep Diver Specialty prepares you to safely explore deeper dive sites up to 130 feet (40 meters) while building your dive planning, safety, and deep diving skills.
Learn how to plan deep dives, manage your gas supply, recognize and manage narcosis, maintain buddy contact, and understand important safety and buoyancy considerations at depth.
Minimum age: 15
Prerequisite: PADI Adventure Diver or higher
Course: 4 open-water training dives
With so many wrecks to explore, Key Largo is an incredible place to become a PADI Wreck Diver. Wrecks offer a fascinating look into the past while also becoming impressive artificial reefs filled with marine life.
The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty teaches you how to safely and responsibly explore wrecks, including wreck surveying, navigation, line and reel use, and proper wreck diving procedures.
Minimum age: 15
Prerequisite: PADI Adventure Diver or higher
Course: 4 open-water training dives
Knowing where you are underwater—and how to get back—is an important skill for every diver. The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty helps you become more confident and self-reliant by improving your ability to navigate underwater.
Learn compass navigation, natural references, distance estimation, and techniques for accurately finding your way around a dive site.
Minimum age: 10
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 3 open-water training dives
The PADI Drift Diver Specialty teaches you how to safely and comfortably dive with the current. Over two open water dives, you’ll practice buoyancy control, buddy communication, navigation, and surface signaling techniques.
Minimum age: 12
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 2 open-water training dives
The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course helps you capture better underwater photos and make the most of every shot.
Learn techniques for composition, lighting, reducing backscatter, and bringing out natural color underwater. You’ll also learn how to use underwater strobes and avoid common photography mistakes so you can capture images you’ll be proud to share.
Minimum age: 10
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 2 open-water training dives
The PADI Boat Diver Specialty helps you become more comfortable and confident diving from different types of boats.
During two dives with your instructor, you’ll learn boat diving procedures, nautical terminology, proper entry and exit techniques, boat etiquette, and how to use lines and surface marker buoys (SMBs).
Minimum age: 10
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 2 open-water training dives
The PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty helps you better understand the underwater world and the relationships between its plants, animals, and habitats.
Learn how to identify aquatic life, recognize common behaviors, and gain a greater appreciation for the marine environment around you.
Minimum age: 10
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 2 open-water training dives
Diving after dark reveals a completely different side of the underwater world. The PADI Night Diver Specialty builds the skills and confidence to safely explore at night while discovering marine life and behaviors you may not see during the day.
Learn night dive planning, underwater navigation, dive light communication, and proper night diving procedures.
Minimum age: 12
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 3 open-water training dives
The PADI Self-Reliant Diver Specialty is about becoming a more prepared, capable, and self-sufficient diver. You’ll develop advanced dive planning and problem-solving skills while learning how to manage situations without relying solely on your buddy.
Learn redundant equipment configurations, precise gas management, self-rescue techniques, and independent dive planning.
Minimum age: 18
Prerequisite: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or higher + 100 logged dives
Course: 3 open-water training dives
The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty teaches you how to locate and safely recover lost objects underwater.
Learn different underwater search patterns, navigation techniques, and how to use a lift bag as you plan and complete search and recovery dives.
Minimum age: 12
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Advanced Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 4 open-water training dives
The PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty teaches you to dive with cylinders positioned alongside your body rather than on your back, providing a streamlined and flexible configuration with easy access to your equipment.
Learn proper equipment setup, cylinder management, trim, buoyancy, and gas management.
Minimum age: 15
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 3 open-water training dives
The PADI Fish Identification Specialty helps you recognize and identify the fish you encounter underwater and better understand the marine life around you.
Learn common fish families, identification techniques, and how to observe fish characteristics and behaviors during your dives.
Minimum age: 10
Prerequisite: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
Course: 2 open-water training dives
Course Requirements: Minimum ages, prerequisite certifications, and training-dive requirements listed on this page are based on current PADI training standards and course requirements. Requirements are reviewed and updated as PADI standards change.
Course Requirements: Minimum ages, prerequisite certifications, and training-dive requirements listed on this page are based on current PADI training standards and course requirements. Requirements are reviewed and updated as PADI standards change.