Courses at Coconut Tree

Deep Diver Specialty

Course Price: $200 per person
Materials: Deep Diver Manual
Time: 2 days
Prerequisites: Age 15, PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or other qualifying certification)

Have you ever peered over a wall and wondered what's hiding just a bit deeper? The Deep Diver speciality trains you to handle the increased risks of deep diving while exploring the hidden world that lies down to 40m/130ft. Plus, you can extend your dives by combining it with the Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty.

What will I do?
Over the course of two days, you will make three deep dives with your PADI instructor to maximum depths of 30 meters/100 feet, 24 meters/80 feet, and 40 meters/130 feet respectively. At depth, you will practice various deep diving skills such as narcosis assessment, deep navigation, and proper safety stops. You will also complete knowledge development sessions in which you discuss the risks and procedures for deep diving. At the end, you are certified as a PADI Deep Diver with a maximum depth range of 40 meters/130 feet.

Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty

Course Price: $140 per person
Materials: Peak Performance Buoyancy Manual
Time: 1-2 days
Prerequisites: Age 10, PADI Open Water Diver (or other qualifying certification)

Wind your way through narrow swimthrus. Hang upside down to spot that hidden lobster. Hover effortlessly along a wall. The PPB specialty fine-tunes your ability to control your lung volume, trim your weights, and reduce your air consumption. Excellent when combined with the Underwater Photography specialty.

What will I do?
In as little time as a single afternoon, you will work to enhance your buoyancy control abilities through knowledge development and specific practical skills. Buoyancy skills include proper weight selection, weight distribution, tank positioning, and breathing visualization techniques. You will fine-tune your control using fin pivots, hovering skills, swimming through hoops, and actual coral reef swimthrus. In the end, you will be certified as a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialist, a testament to your improved buoyancy abilities.

Underwater Navigation Specialty

Course Price: $150 per person
Materials: Underwater Navigator Manual
Time: 1-2 days
Prerequisites: Age 10, PADI Open Water Diver (or other qualifying certification)

Nobody likes to get lost; with the Underwater Navigation specialty, you'll never have to worry about it again. Advanced compass and natural navigation techniques are combined with distance estimation in your dive planning, making it easy for you to return to the boat every time.

What will I do?
Between your knowledge development sessions and practical applications in the open water, you will learn advanced compass navigation patterns, various methods of estimating distance underwater, dive site relocation strategies, and natural navigation techniques. You will also help plan the navigation of a dive site with respect to site features and hazards, ultimately leading your buddy team on a dive profile of your choosing. In the end, you will be certified as a PADI Underwater Navigator, a great qualification for future work as a Divemaster.

Underwater Photographer Specialty

Course Price: $150 per person¹
Materials: Underwater Photographer Manual
Time: 1-2 days
Prerequisites: Age 10, PADI Open Water Diver (or other qualifying certification)

Capture your dive experiences on film! The Underwater Photographer specialty introduces you to basic photography techniques and terminology, allowing you to snap the best possible pictures underwater. Since buoyancy is a critical part of good underwater photography, you can enhance your photographs by combining the course with the Peak Performance Buoyancy speciality.

What will I do?
Through knowledge development sessions you will learn the principles of underwater photography including picture composition, film types, flash versus available light photography, and camera-handling techniques. This knowledge is applied on two open water dives where you will work with our in-shop photographer to select and capture your best moments on film. In the end, you will be certified as a PADI Underwater Photographer, a widely accepted sign of your photography training.

¹ Camera rental and film processing fees not included in course cost.

Wreck Diver Specialty

Course Price: $200 per person
Materials: Wreck Diver Manual
Time: 4 days
Prerequisites: Age 15, PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or other qualifying certification)

Discover the mysterious allure of shipwrecks as you explore their watery graves. The Wreck Diver specialty teaches proper wreck navigation, wreck mapping skills, and proper techniques for wreck penetration. Due to the time-intensive activities at depths of 33 meters/110 feet, it is strongly recommended that this course be conducted on Enriched Air Nitrox.

What will I do?
Knowledge development sessions will expand your knowledge of the planning, organization, and potential hazards of wreck diving, including the proper application of dive lights and penetration lines to low-visibility overhead environments. Over the course of four mornings, you will conduct four dives on the El Aguila and Odyssey shipwrecks. During these dives you will focus on the techniques for wreck navigation, wreck mapping, and wreck penetration. In the end, you will be certified as a PADI Wreck Diver, a great certification for exploring the more advanced wreck dives worldwide.

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