PADI Double Speciality Weekend

Open Water, Adventure or Advanced Open Water Diver? Want to carry on learning and growing as a diver. Take the Master Scuba Diver challenge with out our double specialty packages

Speciality course choices: Nitrox (min 15 years old), Digital Underwater Photography, 'Old School' Underwater Photography, Dry Suit, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Underwater Naturalist, Equipment*, Project Aware*, Emergency Oxygen Provider*, Emergency First Response (EFR)*.

* minimum 2 clients required to run course.

Please look at the descriptions of the different specialities we offer with brief summaries of what you will learn if you choose that course.

The Digital Underwater Photography and traditional Underwater Photography courses

Underwater Photography is one of the most popular diving specialities, and the rise of Digital Underwater Photography has made it easier and more fun than ever. It's a great way to relive the adventures you've experienced and capture images to share with your friends and family.

What You Learn:-
* How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
* SEA method for getting great shots quickly
* The three primary principles for good underwater photos

Dry Suit Diver course:-

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then dive dry. Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm! Even in surprisingly cold water.
Dry suits let you dive more challenging dive sites, and extend your dive season. When you have the right cold water scuba diving attire, you can stand up to the elements and take advantage of the generally better visibility offered by winter months especially at inland dive sites such as quarries, lakes, sinkholes and caves etc. As a dry suit diver, you're equipped to scuba dive some of the world's incredible dive sites in the world's cooler regions that are best enjoyed in a dry suit even in their warmer months.

What You Learn:-
* Dry Suit buoyancy control skills
* Dry Suit maintenance, storage and basic repair
* Undergarment (fleece or overall-type garments worn under the dry suit) options

The Peak Performance Buoyancy Course

What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who've mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally. The Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a Open Water Diver and elevates them to the next level.
The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible.

What You Learn:-
* How to trim your scuba gear so you're perfectly balanced in the water
* Nuances in determining weight so you're not too light nor too heavy by even a slight degree
* How to streamline to save air and move smoothly through the water
* How to hover effortlessly in both a vertical position and a horizontal position

Scuba Diving with Enriched Air Nitrox (minimum 15 years old)

The Enriched Air Diver course is most popular speciality scuba diving course, and it's easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.
You can typically stay down longer and get back in the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first speciality.

What You Learn
* Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox
* Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations
* Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what's in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer

Equipment Specialist Course

Don't miss a dive due to a scuba gear issue.
Whether it's a blown o-ring, regulator problem, wetsuit tear or a broken fin strap, you can learn how to manage basic scuba equipment adjustments. As a Equipment Specialist, you are prepared for basic scuba equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. In addition, you'll learn interesting background information about how your gear works, how it gets repaired and other information that helps you with your equipment investment.

What You Learn:
* Review the theory, principles and operation of scuba diving equipment
* Learn about routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
* How to overcome common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
* Gain simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)

Underwater Naturalist Course

Look closer to see more on your next dive. Look for symbiosis, predator/prey, and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life. Learn not just what fish and animals are, but how they interact with each other and their environment.
Learn about why some creatures behave the way they do and what their role is in the aquatic ecosystem.

What You Learn:-
* The major aquatic life groupings, interactions and factual information that dispels negative myths.
* The role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships
* Responsible interactions with aquatic life
* The underwater naturalist's view of organisms and their roles in the environment
You put this information into practice during your two open water dives.

Project AWARE Speciality

The underwater world needs heroes. You can be one of them by championing the causes of the world's most fragile and important aquatic ecosystems. Learn about some of the most pressing problems facing these vulnerable environments and everyday actions you can take to help conserve them. It's informative, interesting and most importantly, you learn how to make a difference.

What You Learn
Project AWARE Foundation is the scuba diving industry's leading non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conserving the aquatic environment through education, advocacy and action. Besides completing the Project AWARE Speciality course, you can become a partner in the efforts to preserve the underwater environment.

You learn about:
The ocean commons and coastal zone issues
* Fisheries challenges and sustainability
* Coral environment overview and inhabitants
* The role of the scuba diver in protecting aquatic environments

Emergency Oxygen Provider Course

Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a Emergency Oxygen Provider.
Breathe easy knowing that you know how to recognize illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. Being the best buddy you can be means being prepared & especially in a time of need.

What You Learn:-

You learn how to
* Recognize diving illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen
* Properly setup equipment
* Administer emergency oxygen

CPR and First Aid: Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care

First Aid and CPR are good skills for anyone involved in adventure sports & just in case. And you need these skills for the Rescue Diver course.

Emergency First Response is a affiliate that specializes in teaching these lifesaving skills & and they're for anyone, not just divers.

Instructors are also Emergency First Response Instructors!
The fun part about Emergency First Response training is learning serious medical emergency response skills in an upbeat, positive environment. You gain the confidence that you are prepared to help in an emergency.

What You Learn in the EFR Primary and Secondary Care Courses:-
* BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
* AED (automated external defibrillator) use (optional)
* Preventing and caring for shock
* Spinal injury management
* Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk
* Basic first aid and first aid kit considerations

Each first dive of a speciality course counts as one of the dives for the Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water certifications. After this you only need three more other dives & knowledge reviews to become an Advanced Open Water Diver or one dive & knowledge review to become an Adventure Diver. If you decide to continue with us and get the Advanced Open Water certification the price is €200, for Adventure Diver €115.

+33 615305223

Itinerary / Highlights

Day 1: Transfer from Nice airport to your hotel

Day 2: 1 'shake down' dive + 1 speciality dive & knowledge review

Day 3: 2 speciality dives & knowledge reviews

Day 4: 1 speciality dive + knowledge review

Day 5: Transfer to Nice airport

At the end of the day we usually grab a drink at a local bar to discuss the day's diving and debrief you in a relaxed atmosphere, completing logbooks and paperwork. This is also a great way to learn more about diving by discussing things with our other clients.

You will stay in a very good and reasonable one or two star hotel in the centre of Juan Les Pins, where you are close enough to enjoy all that Antibes/Juan Les Pins have to offer. Very close to the beaches if you (or non-divers) fancy a bit of sunbathing or if you prefer more action you can take the train to Cannes (10 minutes), Nice (15 minutes) or to Monaco (30 minutes) to visit this famous Principality and the excellent Oceanographic Museum. We will be pleased to give you advice if you want to enjoy a good traditional French meal in one of the many restaurants in Antibes old town or just have a drink in a good pub to relax after the day's efforts.

Other Details

Accommodation Details

We offer a choice of either a very good one or two star hotel both of which are based near the centre of Juan Les Pins. This is a classic Cote d´Aur resort town with many excellent restaurants, and beautiful scenery around the Cap d'Antibes. Antibes old town is very close by. You are a five minute walk from the beaches (both public and private) with easy access to the train station to explore the rest of the coast.

All our accommodation partners are chosen on the basis of a number of factors including location, service, friendliness, atmosphere, quality of rooms and facilities and value for money.

Departure Dates, Options & Prices

From E515 staying in a one star hotel (bed and breakfast) in central Juan Les Pins.

From E575 staying in a very nice two star hotel (bed and breakfast) just outside central of Juan Les Pins.

Prices rise to a maximum of E650 staying in the two star hotel in high season.

All prices assume two people sharing either a double or twin room.

+33 615305223