The Underwater Navigation Specialty as part of the PADI Advanced Open Water course is designed to enhance your navigational skills under the water. You'll learn how to navigate using a compass, natural landmarks and by estimating distances underwater. This training involves exercises to familiarize you with the challenges and peculiarities of underwater orientation, like learning to estimate distance underwater, navigate different search patterns, find your way to marking points, and return to the exit point. The course promotes the mastery of advanced navigation techniques, enabling you to increase your confidence, improve your underwater orientation skills and enhance your overall diving experience. By the end of this course, you'll feel more in control and confident in your diving explorations, adding more fun and safety to your dives.

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty as part of the Advanced Open Water course is an exciting foray into the experience of riding along with ocean currents. This course introduces you to the magic of drifting with the current, feeling the sensation of flying underwater while the sea's motion does the work. You will learn about drift dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques, and potential hazards, as well as how to use and maintain specialized drift diving equipment like floats, lines, and reels. You'll also learn proper procedures for buoyancy-control, navigation and communication, and techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group as you float with the current. This unique form of diving allows you to cover a large area without expending much energy and offers a sense of exhilaration and adventure as you explore underwater landscapes in a dynamic way.

The PADI Night Diver Specialty, as part of the Advanced Open Water course, opens a new window into the underwater world, allowing divers to experience the ocean's nocturnal life. This course equips you with the skills and knowledge needed to safely plan and execute night dives. You learn about the equipment and techniques unique to night diving, including the use of dive lights, understanding changes in aquatic life behavior after dark, and managing your buoyancy and navigation at night. The training also covers communication and safety procedures specific to night diving, like emergency protocols and entry and exit techniques. Night diving offers a unique perspective, as many marine species are nocturnal, providing a different experience and revealing a different side of the sites you may have visited during the day. This specialty allows divers to explore the unseen, nocturnal side of the ocean, turning familiar dive sites into new, mysterious underwater landscapes.

The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty, a part of the Advanced Open Water course, is designed to enhance divers' control in the water, leading to safer, more comfortable and more enjoyable dives. This course hones your buoyancy skills to a fine edge, with specific focus on minimizing your effort, reducing air consumption, and gracefully maneuvering underwater. Through practical exercises, you learn how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise, and balance, and how to streamline to save air and move smoothly through the water. You also learn how to hover effortlessly in both vertical and horizontal positions. Good buoyancy control is also a key environmental responsibility for divers, as it helps avoid harming the underwater environment. This specialty course empowers you with the skills to glide effortlessly, use less air, and ascend, descend, or hover almost as if by thought.

The PADI Fish Identification Specialty, as part of the Advanced Open Water course, is a fascinating dive into the world of marine life, offering you an exciting opportunity to learn about the wonderful aquatic creatures you encounter while diving. This course focuses on teaching you how to identify common fish families and species, understand their behaviors, and record what you observe during your dives. You learn the techniques and strategies for fish identification, including the use of fish identification slates and underwater whiteboards. This course also emphasizes the importance of species protection and encourages responsible human interactions with marine life. By the end of this specialty, you'll be able to enjoy your dives even more, gaining a deeper appreciation for the biodiversity of the underwater world and becoming a more knowledgeable and responsible diver.