🤔 What's the perfect specialty for you? Find out here
This is the fastest and most effective way to improve your underwater skills 🌊🤿
What is it about?
PADI specialties are the key to unlocking new mental resources and delving deeper into the environments, activities, or skills that interest you most in diving .
Each specialty allows you to multiply your advanced knowledge and skillfully master a specific type of dive, providing you with the training and technique necessary to apply what you have learned in future dives.
✔️ Maximize your investment of time and money by ensuring that every dive is a worthwhile experience.
✔️ Strengthen the foundations of what you learned in the Adventure course or the Advanced Open Water course, taking it to a more technical and professional level.
✔️ If you are an Open Water Diver, a world of new expectations and challenges opens up before you, allowing you to explore unique environments and improve your skills in specific conditions.
Why do diving specialties?
✔️✔️ Dives completed in a specialty are eligible for PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and Adventure Diver courses, which means that instead of doing individual adventures, you can complete a specialty and that dive will count towards your advanced certification.
✔️ Expand your opportunities: Access new diving sites and live unique experiences.
✔️ Greater confidence and security: Master key skills for more challenging dives.
✔️ Personalize your learning: Focus on what you are most passionate about, whether it's deep diving, shipwrecks, advanced buoyancy, or marine life identification.
✔️ Prepare for advanced certifications: Specialties are the foundation for becoming a PADI Rescue Diver, Divemaster, or Instructor.
✔️ Enjoy every dive more : With more knowledge and control underwater, your experience will be more comfortable, fun and safe.
The certification courses are structured as follows👨🏽💻
💻 Development of e-learning skills on the PADI platform: independent study prior to arrival
🌟Option A) E-learning video: contains related reading and videos plus great resources; you read and see graphically what you have just learned
😒Option B) E-learning without video: contains only reading, the videos must be viewed at our facilities (6 additional hours in the classroom before or after the dives), it is more study time here.
🌊 Open water: sessions to apply what you've learned in the sea
📝 Itinerary
🐟 Knowledge development :
Individual e-learning study
🐟 Practice
🤿Day 1: 7 am to 1:30 pm ➡️ 2 dives in the sea
🤿Day 2: 7 am to 1:30 pm ➡️ 2 dives in the sea
P.S.: The days do not necessarily have to be consecutive.
🕛 Schedule and meeting point
All diving trips start at 7:30 am ⏰ at our operational facilities in El Rodadero and we return around 1:30 pm
🤿Diving destination
We have more than 30 diving spots between the southern area of Tayrona Park, Santa Marta Bay, Gaira, and Taganga.
We choose the dive site daily according to sea conditions and other plans booked on the boat.
⏱️Schedule of activities
🗓️We have departures every day except Wednesdays, just check the availability of the dates that suit you best.
🚫✈️Remember that you cannot fly on a plane the same day after diving.
🩺You must be in good health (no flu, no recent surgeries, etc.)
🤿 What specializations can you do according to your level? ❤️
From Open Water Diver you can get certified in:
✅ Buoyancy control – Improve your posture, reduce air consumption and enjoy a more relaxed dive.
✅ Fish identification – Learn to recognize the most fascinating marine species.
✅ Underwater Naturalist – Discover how marine ecosystems interact.
✅ Oxygen provider – Become a more prepared diver for emergencies.
✅ Reef conservation – Learn about the environmental impact and how to protect the oceans.
✅ Night diving – Experience the magic of the sea at night and discover amazing creatures.
✅ Nitrox (enriched air) – Extends your bottom time and reduces post-dive fatigue.
✅ Underwater navigation – Learn to navigate underwater like a pro.
✅ Buoy deployment – Master a key tool for safety and communication at sea.
✅ Diving in currents – Learn to navigate safely in moving waters.
From Advanced Open Water Diver or Adventure Diver onwards, you can do:
✅ Deep diving (up to 40 m) – Access exclusive sites and train to manage depth and air consumption.
✅ Wreck diving – Explore sunken ships and discover their hidden history.
✅ Search and retrieval - Find what others can't.
What's the perfect specialty for you? Think about the type of diving that excites you, the environment where you want to feel most comfortable, and the skills you'd like to hone.⬇️⬇️
ID
of fish
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From age 10
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You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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2 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount voucher for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Naturalist
underwater
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From age 10
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You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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2 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount voucher for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Conservation
of reefs
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From age 10
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You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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2 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Diving against garbage
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From age 12
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You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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2 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Buoyancy control
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From age 10
------------------------------- You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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2 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Deep Diving
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From age 15
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You must be Adventures / Advanced
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2nd practical day
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4 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Diving in Corrientes
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From age 10
------------------------------- You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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2 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Shipwreck diving
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From age 15
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You must be Adventures / Advanced
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4th practical day
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4 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Night diving
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From age 12
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You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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3 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Search and Recovery
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From age 15
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You must be Advanced
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4th practical day
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4 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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Underwater Navigation
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From age 10
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You must be an Open Water Diver
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1 practical day
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3 Open water dives
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✔️ Online knowledge development
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✔️1 PADI International Certifications
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✔️$50,000 discount bonus for Advanced or Adventure courses
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