Specialties

Most PADI specialties become available to you after completing you PADI Open Water Diver and PADI Advanced Open Water Diver courses. There however is one specialty that requires Rescue Diver Certification. And that is Adaptive Support Diver

Yes you can take some PADI Specialty courses without any prior scuba certification or on snorkeling basis.

Specialties you can take without prior scuba certification

After your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification you can take additional specialties. Ofcourse you can still do any specialties that do not require any certification or that required PADI Open Water Diver Certification.

Whether its to improve your skills, learn about marine life, dive in specific conditions, the use of special equipment, handle emergencies or support for mentally of physically limited divers there is most definitely a specialty that might appeal to you.

Specialties you can take after completing your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification

After your PADI Open Water Diver Certification you can take a whole range of specialties. Ofcourse you can still do any specialties that do not require any certification. Whether its to improve your skills, learn about marine life, dive in specific conditions, the use of special equipment, handle emergencies or support for mentally of physically limited divers there is most definitely a specialty that might appeal to you.

Specialties you can take after completing your PADI Open Water Diver certification

Thrill Seekers Specialties

Conservation-Minded Specialty Divers

Scuba Center Asia is involved in many conservation efforts. For example: weekly beach clean-ups or monthly Clean-up dives. Read more about our citizen scientist actions.

Ocean Lovers Specialists

The Holy Trifecta at Scuba Center Asia Lembongan

Three Specialty courses go well together and are often taken in one trip as a package. They open up new possibilities and dive sites.

Do you see why we call this the holy trifecta and why they fit so well together?

Specialties are a fun way to enhance your diving know-how. You can choose which topic you’d like to become a specialist in, and it will change the way you dive! Whether it’s learning to dive with new gear like Sidemount or full-face mask or correctly identifying new fish, you’ll become more aware of what you’re seeing underwater.

If you’ve fallen in love with scuba diving, obtaining specialty ratings is a great way to work towards your PADI Master Scuba Diver (MSD) certification. This is the highest certification you can achieve as a recreational diver. You need to be a PADI Rescue Diver with 50 logged dives and have 5 PADI specialty ratings. Flashing that Master Scuba Diver card is a sign of a high level of experience to any dive operator you’re looking to book dives with.

Specialties can easily fit into your holiday schedule! You can save precious vacation time by completing the theory section of the course through PADI e-learning before you even hop on the plane. The course dives can typically be completed in 2, 3, or 4 dives, depending on the specialty. Allow for one or two days to obtain your specialist rating—all while diving in paradise!

If you’re already a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver but short on time, you’re in luck! Did you know that the adventure dives you completed during your advanced course count as the first dives of the specialty?

For example, the deep adventure dive during your Advanced Open Water course counts as one of the four dives of your Deep Diver specialty. In that case, you’d only need three more dives to become a PADI Deep Diver. Plus, the opposite is true as well! The first dive of your specialty can also count towards an adventure dive in your Advanced Open Water course.

For some Specialties, you don’t even need to be a certified diver—they’re open to anyone with a love for the ocean. However, most PADI Specialties require a PADI Open Water Diver certification, as they include diving skills. A select number of Specialties are only open to PADI Adventure divers/Advanced Open Water divers or higher, typically involving deeper dives or more technical skills.

At Scuba Center Asia we are all about the PADI system. Let’s explain: we have a few core courses such as the Open Water Diver course, Advanced Open Water Diver course, and the Rescue Diver course. These courses focus on giving you the skills and knowledge for a general area of diving: learning how to dive, becoming a more experienced diver, and becoming a more safety-oriented diver.

Apart from these core courses, we also have many PADI specialties. Specialties are designed to dive deeper into a specific area of diving, allowing you to fine-tune your skills and knowledge in a particular field of interest.